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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



of the valley. It is estimated that 

 the development will cost approxi- 

 mately $1,726,000. The irrigation of 

 the 36,000 acres of land lying on both 

 sides of the White river, a short dis- 

 tance above its junction with the 

 Deschutes, it is estimated will cost 

 $1,300,000. The project, in addition 

 to using the waters of White river, 

 will be supplemented by the storage 

 of 18,000 acre feet in Clear lake, and 

 also with the waters of Gate, Rock 

 and Three Mile creeks. 



The Thompson Cattle Co., of Here- 

 ford, proposes to construct a private 

 irrigation project on the upper Burnt 

 river. The company has an excellent 

 reservoir site and will impound water 

 from several small streams. 



Petitions are being signed for the 

 formation of an irrigation district in 

 order to bond 12,000 acres under the 

 Western Land & Irrigation Com- 

 pany's system. The plan is to build a 

 reservoir in Alkali canyon with a ca-' 

 pacity of about 12,000 acre feet of 

 water and a feed canal from the Uma- 

 tilla river, with a diversion point near 

 the Furnish reservoir. 



Miscellaneous 



By a unanimous vote of ranchers' 

 whose farms will be covered by the 

 system, an irrigation district was 

 formed in the Underwood fruit section 

 in Washington recently. Approxi- 

 mately 400 acres of orchard land will 

 be irrigated by the proposed system, 

 the water to be pumped from the 

 White Salmon river. 



The Selah "irrigation district in 

 Washington has applied to the recla- 



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Two parties of Eastern fanners saw Cal- 

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It was not a land-selling trip it was 

 solely for investigation. 



We were guests of over forty local com- 

 munities. Their Chambers of Commerce 

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We saw irrigated fruit farms. We saw 

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 We saw diversified fanning with its sure 

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mation service for the purchase of 20 

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Gov. Emmet D. Boyle of Nevada 

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 divide water for irrigation purposes 



among the farmers. Times of low 

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 water in the streams in the past have 

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