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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



California 



Examiner Myron Westover of the 

 railroad commission presided recently 

 at the hearing of the application of 

 E. J. Hopson for leave to exercise a 

 franchise to operate an irrigation sys- 

 tem in Shasta county. If Mr. Hop- 

 son's plan receives the approval of 

 the commission he will erect a dam 

 on the north fork of Cow Creek and 

 operate the Cow Creek irrigation 

 canal with a flow of 40 feet of water 

 per second. This water will be con- 

 ducted by the canal to Stillwater 

 plains, which lie two miles from An- 

 derson and about six miles east of 

 Redding. The water from the canal 

 will be used to irrigate 3,000 acres, 

 which is to be planted in fruit and 

 alfalfa. 



Owing to the increased acreage of 

 rice in Glenn county, a movement has 

 been started for the enlargement of 

 the Central Irrigation Canal, the de- 

 mand for water for next year being 

 larger than ever before. 



The Cheney Slough Irrigation Com- 

 pany, having holdings near Colusa, 

 will plant 6,000 acres to rice and 4,000 

 acres to beets in 1917. 



Men prominent in the organization 

 or irrigation districts and engineer- 

 ing work met in Dixon recently to 

 discuss the proposed irrigation dis- 

 trict to be organized in that section 

 of Solano county. It is proposed to 

 build a large storage reservoir in the 

 Putah Creek canyon to furnish water 

 for the irrigation of 20,000 acres. 

 Farmers have already signed up over 

 10,000 acres. A gravity system of irri- 

 gation is strongly favored by the 

 small farmers, who are put to a great 

 expense pumping, but the grain farm- 

 ers are not enthusiastic for irrigation, 

 and this meeting was held with the 

 hope that the arguments advanced 

 would show the advantages that all 

 will receive from the formation of a 

 district. 



Following differences between James 

 Willison, contractor, and the directors 

 of the Anderson-Cottonwood Irriga- 

 tion District, all construction work on 

 the project was suspended recently, 

 and three hundred men employed in 

 the construction of the ditches quit, 

 stating that they have not received 

 their pay. Contractor Willison claims 

 that the district owes him $40,000 in 

 back payments for the work already 

 completed, but this is denied by the 

 directors of the district. Charges to 

 the effect that the $480,000 bond issue 

 has been entirely exhausted are also 

 denied by the directors, who claim 

 that $110,000 is still on hand with 

 which to complete the project. The 

 Anderson-Cottonwood project is the 

 largest irrigation enterprise under 

 way in the state north of Glenn 

 county. 



Colorado 



A meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Welton Ditch Company, which 

 irrigates lands in Orchard Park, was 

 held in the offices of the Pueblo Land 

 and Irrigation Company recently. 

 The meeting was for the purpose of 

 considering means of purchasing more 

 water rights to better the irrigation 

 possibilities in the district. 



At the annual election of the Gree- 

 ley-Poudre Irrigation District, held re- 

 cently at the various voting precincts 

 for the election of one director for 

 District No. 2 to serve three years, 

 there was no contest and Dr. J. N. 

 Agan of Pierce was elected unani- 

 mously. 



The Redlands Power and Irrigation 

 Company has filed suit in district 

 court for $18,225 against Harold Ford 

 Platt, formerly of Grand Junction, but 

 now a resident of Lansing, Mich. To 

 the principal sum is added interest at 

 8 per cent, since 1912, making a suit 

 of approximately $25,000, when costs 

 are added. The plaintiff declares the 

 defendant had title to 192 acres of 

 land on the Redlands in 1910 and that 

 a contract was made to provide for the 

 construction of canals and presenta- 

 tion of water rights, which the Red- 

 lands company completed as per 

 agreement. They claim that Platt 

 paid a small sum, $975, and no more. 



After having served the Loveland 

 irrigation system for fifteen years as 

 president, W. C. Levis has announced 

 that he will retire at the annual meet- 

 ing of the directors early in January. 

 When the Greeley-Loveland people 

 purchased the present reservoir and 

 ditch system from the old English 

 company fifteen years ago, Mr. Levis 

 was made president of the company 

 and has been reelected at each suc- 

 ceeding annual meeting since. Since 

 Mr. Levis has had the management of 

 the company, Lake Loveland, the res- 

 ervoir of the system, has been greatly 

 improved; the two ditches out of the 

 Thompson river, known as the Bow- 

 ers "ditch, which fills the reservoir, 

 and the Greeley-Loveland ditch, that 

 carries water to the farms, have been 

 improved by cement linings in many 

 cases. Practically all of the eighty- 

 five or more old wooden headgates 

 that were on the line of ditches have 

 been replaced by cement and steel 

 structures. 



Idaho 



At the election of the Emmett Irri- 

 gation District recently E. J. Rey- 

 nolds of Emmett was reelected di- 

 rector for a term of three years. Con 

 siderable importance was attached to 

 this election in view of the ouster 

 proceedings recently filed against Mr. 

 Reynolds. The vote is taken as an 

 endorsement of the plans of the direc- 

 tors, and the work of enlarging the 



Emmett irrigation canal will be con- 

 tinued. 



Through construction of a new 

 ditch and pumping plant now being 

 erected, between 1,000 and 1,200 acres 

 of fine bench land tributary to Eagle 

 is to be brought under irrigation. 

 The project is being promoted by 

 Nellie M. Wise. Through a contract 

 recently obtained with the Farmers' 

 Union Canal Company, the new 

 project is to receive water through 

 its main canal. At a point one and a 

 half miles north of Eagle a diversion 

 ditch is being run northward about 

 500 feet. There a reservoir is being 

 located, and it is here that the pump- 

 ing plant is being installed. By means 

 of these pumps it is planned to raise 

 the water between seventy and eighty 

 feet. It will be delivered to a canal, 

 which will distribute the supply west- 

 ward a distance of two miles, reclaim-* 

 ing approximately 1,200 acres of 

 valuable south slope lands lying be- 

 tween Dry Creek and Pleasant View. 

 The system will be completed in time 

 for delivery of water next spring. 



Deeds were filed at Lewiston late in 

 December for the sale by the Lewis- 

 ton-Clarkston Improvement Company 

 of its electric power plants and irri- 

 gation systems to the Washington- 

 Idaho Water, Light and Power Com- 

 pany. The latter company was re- 

 cently organized by Liggett, Hichborn 

 & Co., of New York and Boston. The 

 consideration of the sale was $800,000. 

 With the filing of the deeds a bond 

 mortgage in favor of the Equitable 

 Trust Company of New York was 

 also placed on record, which author- 

 izes a present bond issue of $600,000 

 and a future issue of $4,400,000 to meet 

 future developments. 



At a meeting of the State Land 

 Board held late in December the 

 board rescinded its action cancelling 

 the contract of the West End Twin 

 Falls Irrigation Company, and by a 

 unanimous vote gave E. T. Meredith 

 and his associates until June 1, 1917, 

 to commence active construction work 

 on the tract of land they had planned 

 to water in Twin Falls county. 



Utah 



The stockholders of the Logan & 

 Northern Irrigation Company met at 

 Logan recently in annual meeting. 

 The report o'f the secretary and treas- 

 urer showed that most of the $5,000 

 fund received from the state a few 

 years ago has been exhausted. The 1 

 following directors were elected: W. 

 H. Cantwell and Edwin Erickson of 

 Smithfield, R. A. Perkes of Hyde Park 

 and Peter Larson and Alma Olson of 

 Logan. 



A State Irrigation and Drainage 



