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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



California 



Cape Horn Tunnel, designed to 

 convey water for the irrigation of 10,- 

 000 acres of land around Oakdale, in 

 Stanislaus county, has been completed. 

 This land is in addition to the area 

 already under irrigation in the Oak- 

 dale district. 



the rolling foothill type and is ad- 

 mirably adapted to olives. 



Jas. Kennedy, of Los Angeles, has 

 been awarded the contract to con- 

 struct the proposed Lindsay Irriga- 

 tion District. Work on the district 

 will be begun in the near future and 

 will be rushed to completion within 

 the shortest time possible. An office 

 will be maintained at Lindsay with 

 John P. Kennedy personally in 

 charge. The project will supply water 

 to 15,000 acres of choice orange land. 



At a special election held recently 

 at Terra Bella, the Terra Bella Irri- 

 gation District bonds carried by a 

 vote of 59 to 1. The bonds call for 

 an issue of over $1,000,000. The pro- 

 posed irrigation district embraces a 

 wide area, taking in Terra Bella and 

 the land on every side of it to the ex- 

 tent of 13,000 acres. 



At a recent meeting held at Herald 

 an irrigation district, comprising about 

 40,000 acres in the southwestern part 

 of Sacramento county, was organized. 

 E. R. Walker, representing the Ho- 

 bart-Hayward-Lane interests, of Sac- 

 ramento, has been promoting the proj- 

 ect for years, and as soon as the ap- 

 proval of the state engineering 

 department has been secured and the 

 bonds sold, construction will be com- 

 menced. Water will be taken from 

 the Cosumnes river. The land is of 



Application for permission to appro- 

 priate 20,000 cubjc feet per second of 

 the waters of Kings river for the ir- 

 rigation of 1.200,000 acres in Fresno, 

 Tulare and Kings counties has been 

 made to the State Water Commis- 

 sion by M. F. Tarpey, E. R. Reed, J. 

 W. Beall and Geo. E. Rice, of Fresno 

 county, and Chas. King, of Kings 

 county. The petitioners are irriga- 

 tion district trustees and state they 

 intend erecting a concrete dam 300 

 feet high and 1,200 feet wide on top 

 to store 600,000 acre feet of water for 

 irrigation. 



of the minimum charge from 8,000 to 

 24,000 acres. The reasons given are 

 that the company is losing money, 

 that the 115 pumping plants of the 

 region are lowering the ground water 

 level and are taking the water bought 

 by the canal company from the soil 

 without compensation, and that the 

 company has been compelled to spend 

 $50,000 in litigation to protect the 

 rights of the people in the district. 

 The company seeks to double its 

 rates. 



Colorado 



The bondholders of the Orchard 

 Mesa Irrigation district in the east 

 have deposited the $5,000 required 

 by the government for the proposed 

 survey and investigation of the Or- 

 chard Mesa system prior to the gov- 

 ernment consideration of including 

 the system under government control 

 in Grand Vally. 



The Madera Canal and Irrigation 

 Co., with headquarters at Fresno, has 

 filed a petition with the State Railroad 

 Commission for permission to raise 

 its water rates and extend the area 



The irrigation project which the 

 farmers living about twelve miles 

 from Mortrose are building is 

 half completed. When finished it will 

 cost about $40,000 and will irrigate 

 about 4,000 acres. The main feature 

 of the project consists of a ditch about 

 six mjles in length, tapping the Roubi- 

 deau creek. It is expected to have 



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