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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



(Continued from page 27) 

 pany composed of M. V. Helwick, 

 William Gregg and M. L. Hazzard of 

 San Dimas. In April an application 

 was made to the State Water Com- 

 mission for permission to appropriate 

 2,000 second feet of water in San 

 Dimas canyon, tributary to the San 

 Gabriel river, for irrigation purposes. 

 It was planned to construct an arched 

 concrete diversion dam 130 feet high 

 to form a reservoir with a storage 

 capacity of about 17,000 acre feet. 

 This will be located in the Pudding- 

 stone Canyon district. The cost of 

 the dam and the reservoir is esti- 

 mated at about $350,000. There will 

 also be a canal four miles long, a 

 tunnel 6,000 feet long through the 

 mountains separating San Dimas and 

 San Gabriel Canyons, and a pipe line 

 or flume from the mouth of the tun- 

 nel to the reservoir. The irrigating 

 will be done in the vicinity of Bald- 

 win Park and Covina. 



The first contract for work on the 

 Waterford Irrigation District Canals 

 was let recently to G. W. Price & 

 Company of San Francisco, who will 

 build part of the canals for $30,000. 

 The district has now disposed of all 

 its bonds, the Union Savings Bank 

 of Modesto taking $100,000 worth at 

 97 and H. M. . McDannold of San 

 Francisco buying the remaining $365,- 

 000 at 97.1. The district received one 

 bid of par, but this bid was rejected, 

 as it carried with it the right of the 

 bidder to dictate to whom the con- 

 tract for work should be given. 



Colorado 



The Grand Valley Irrigation Com- 

 pany, with offices in Grand Junction, 

 made public recently a splendid re- 

 port of its financial condition. The 

 company has an ample fund on hand 

 for payment of its bonded indebted- 

 ness and will close 1916 with a sur- 

 plus in the general fund. 



Twenty thousand acres of land in 

 the Routt National Forest has been 

 thrown open to settlement through 

 an order issued bv President Wilson 

 recently. The land is located in the 

 northeast corner of Routt county, 

 about twenty-five miles north and 

 west of Steamboat Springs, and is 

 known as the Ham creek basin. It is 

 described as high rolling land, con- 

 sisting chiefly of grass land and scat- 

 tered woodland and is easily adapted 

 to short season agriculture. This 

 land may be taken up under the en- 

 larged homestead act in 320-acre 

 tracts or as desert land, or under the 

 stone and timber act. The area 

 comes under the jurisdiction of the 

 land office located at Glenwood 

 Springs, where filing may be made. 



jority of the stockholders in order to 

 levy the assessment. 



Idaho 



The Ontario-Nyssa Irrigation Com- 

 pany, owners of what is known as the 

 Shoestring Ditch, have recently in- 

 stalled a fourth pump at the big 

 pumping plant. This plant now has 

 a battery of three pumps, each 18 

 inches in size. The one recently in- 

 stalled is a 20-inch pump. The new 

 pump was found necessary because 

 much new land is being cleared and 

 put under cultivation. 



In a report filed recently with the 

 state land board, State Engineer 

 Smith protested against the state's 

 permitting the Birch Creek Irrigation 

 Company to segregate 15,000 acres of 

 land in Fremont county under the 

 Carey Act. The engineer states that 

 the irrigation company has only a 

 sufficient water supply to care for 

 12,000 acres, questioned the titles to 

 the water rights and declared the 

 dam site was not feasible. 



At the next regular meeting of the 

 stockholders of the St. Vrain and 

 Denver Municipal Irrigation Com- 

 pany, a proposition will be voted up- 

 on to assess the shareholders to pay 

 the bonds of the company, or at least 

 the interest on the bonds. The board 

 of directors has already decided that 

 this should be done, but it is neces- 

 sary to have the consent of the ma- 



J. Jester of Caldwell, who for six 

 years has acted as secretary of the 

 Pioneer Irrigation District, has re- 

 signed, and Mr. F. L. Evans of 

 Greenleaf has been selected as his 

 successor. 



The Gem Irrigation District of 

 Owyhee county has asked the state 

 land board to authorize a contract 

 between the state of Idaho and the ir- 

 rigation district for the construction 

 ' (Continued on page 29) 



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