THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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water available for irrigation by next 

 season. It is estimated that the proj- 

 ect will cost $10 uer acre. 



Idaho 



The state land board has taken un- 

 der advisement the question of for- 

 feiting the contract of the Twin Falls- 

 Salmon River Land & Irrigation Com- 

 pany to irrigate the lands within the 

 Salmon River project. The project 

 originally covered 40,000 acres. The 

 irrigation and drainage commission 

 created by the last legislature recom- 

 mended that it be reduced to 26,000 

 acres. The settlers contend that the 

 water supply is short; that (hey con- 

 tracted for 3J4 acre feet and secured 

 less than one foot, and that because 

 of the lack of water most of the crops 

 have been a failure. The land board 

 is considering calling for the ap- 

 pointment of a receiver to take charge 

 of the -project. The company is 

 fighting the proposal. 



The conference committee on the 

 agricultural bill struck out Senator 

 Borah's recent amendment appropri- 

 ating $10,000 for the examination of 

 the Black Canyon irrigation project. 

 The house refused to accept the sen- 

 ate's amendment, saying that such an 

 appropriation should come out of the 

 reclamation fund and not out of the 

 treasury. 



Through the conveyance of irriga- 

 tion water from Wilson creek across 

 the Boise river through pipes some 

 5,000 acres of land will immediately 

 be added to Canyon county's agricul- 

 tural area. The section which is to 

 be irrigated lies immediately above 

 the Sebree canal and is owned by H. 

 A. Griffith, county attorney, and other 

 citizens of the county. Water from 

 Wilson creek, by which the land is 

 to be irrigated, was tiled upon by 

 Mr. Griffith, and from him the other 

 owners of the land will purchase their 

 water for irrigation. 



A committee of three prominent en- 

 gineers has examined the site of the 

 Mackay dam and the work done on 

 the present dam structure, and state 

 that a safe and serviceable dam can 

 be built on the Big Lost River near 

 Mackay, and as a result of this report 

 the Utah Construction Company will 

 at once commence the work of re- 

 construction and will complete the 

 project, which will ultimately reclaim 

 70,000 acres of land. 



The Reynolds creek irrigation proj- 

 ect, located at Wilson, in Owyhee 

 county, is being pushed rapidly to 

 completion. The length of the main 

 canals is about five miles each. The 

 land to be irrigated lies about 20 

 miles south of Nampa and 30 miles 

 .southwest of Boise. 



The Lewiston Bear Lake Irrigation 

 Company has just awarded to the Salt 

 Lake Hardware Company the con- 

 tract for the installation of four 

 pumping units of 45,000 gallons per 

 minute total capacity, to be installed 

 on the Bear river, about two miles 

 west of Fairview, Ida. The entire in- 



stallation, including the pumping sta- 

 tion, diversion canal, pipe line, will 

 involve an expenditure of close to 

 $70,000. the pumping equipment cost- 

 ing a little less than two-thirds of the 

 total cost. 



The Utah Power & Light Company 

 is to supply the electric powe.r re- 

 quired for driving the 350 horsepower 

 motors, each of which drives an 18- 

 inch centrifugal pump. The power 

 will be supplied from the New Grace 

 and the Oneida plants on the Bear 

 river, a short distance north of the 

 site of the pumping plant. 



receive 14,000 acres of the Las Vegas 

 land grant for building the project. 



The sum of $75,000 is to be raised 

 on 7,500 acres under the Springer res- 

 ervoir system in Colfax county, of 

 which $65,000 is to be expended on 

 the new reservoir, for which the sur- 

 veys have been completed, and $5,000 

 to enlarge the present ditches. The 

 new reservoir will have a capacity of 

 two acre feet for every acre under it, 

 or storage for two irrigations for the 

 7,500 acres. In the future the water 

 is to be measured out to the farmers. 



New Mexico 



R. C. Storrie, of San Francisco, Cal., 

 has signed a contract to complete the 

 irrigation project at Las Vegas, N. M., 

 undertaken some years ago by the 

 Campfield Company, but abandoned 

 on account of lack of capital. The 

 project will reclaim land on the Las 

 Vegas mesa and water will be taken 

 from the Gallinas river. It is expected 

 that the reservoir will be ready to re- 

 ceive water next spring, but the whole 

 project will not be completed until 

 January, 1918. The contractor will 



Oregon 



State Engineer Lewis, in co-opera- 

 tion with J. T. Whistler, of the United 

 States Reclamation Service, has just 

 completed the preparation of plans 

 and estimates of cost for the reclama- 

 tion of 60,000 acres of land in Warner 

 county and of 36,000 acres along the 

 White river in Wasco county. Under 

 the Warner Valley project it is pro- 

 posed to drain a large area of swamp 

 lands in that section so that 33,000 acres 

 can be irrigated by gravity and 27,000 

 acres by pumping in the south end 



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