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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



signing of the contract and the filing 

 of the bond. The contract calls for 

 25 cents a cubic yard for earthwork 

 and $1.50 per cubic yard for rock- 

 work in the construction of the in- 

 take, which will be of the "overpour" 

 design, to prevent heavy silt passing 

 from the Colorado river into the main 

 canal. Ernest P. Shields will exca- 

 vate the Tecolote canal, an important 

 link in the water diversion system of 

 the same project. The contract price 

 for this work is named at $82,000. 



Land owners of Tranquility, Fres- 

 no county, have retained Attorney L. 

 L. Dennett of Modesto as counsel in 

 working out proceedings for the for- 

 mation of an irrigation district, which 

 they desire to form to take water 

 from the north fork of Kings river 

 to water approximately 14,000 acres. 



Two of the sixteen wells compris- 

 ing the first unit of the Terra Bella 

 irrigation project have been tested 

 out, No. 6 well showing 85 inches and 

 No. 10 well 105 inches. Neither well 

 is equipped for a capacity test, but 

 arrangements are now being made to 

 put on heavier equipment to test the 

 wells to capacity. Construction work 

 on the first unit is being rushed in all 

 departments. Several miles of ditches 

 have been dug. All pipes in the proj- 

 ect are protected steel. Contractor 

 W. A. Kraner states that he will have 

 the work completed by July 1st. At 

 the recent election of the district the 

 following directors were re-elected: 

 Chas. Hilton, T. M. Gronen and R. 

 C. Gunnison; also treasurer, F. C. 

 Rickey, and assessor-collector, E. R. 

 Clemens. 



After laying dormant for twenty- 

 five years the Happy Valley Irriga- 

 tion District has been reorganized, 

 and at a recent meeting- held in Olinda 

 the following directors were named: 

 J. L. Dwinnell and S. C. Dick of 

 Olinda'; W. A. Palmer, Alfred J. Cut- 

 ter and Thomas Miller of Clover- 

 dale. The district was originally or- 

 ganized in 1891 to purchase the 

 Hardscrabble Land and Irrigation 

 System, but after all details had been 

 arranged the company doubled the 

 price and the proposition was dropped. 

 Reorganization has been effected to 

 purchase the same system from the 

 Happy Land & Water Company, of 

 which the Ehmann Olive Company is 

 the principal owner. It is planned to 

 bond the district for $200,000 to pur- 

 chase the present irrigation system, 

 which will put a large acreage under 

 water. 



Colorado 



F. B. Logan. E. C. Brooks and M. 

 D. Brown, well known men of Nucla, 

 representing some thirty prominent 

 farmers of the west end of Montrose 

 county, have filed with , the county 

 clerk and secretary of state, articles 

 of incorporation of the Colorado Co- 

 operative Extension & Enlargement 

 Company. The plans of the new con- 

 cern, as outlined in the articles, are 

 to enlarge the present Colorado Col- 

 ony ditch to more than double its 

 present capacity at an estimated cost 



of $80,000, enlarging the present canal 

 from a carrying capacity of 70 feet 

 to 150 feet. The ditch will be built 

 on the cooperative plan, any farmer 

 desiring may work to help pay for 

 his interest and water, and it is pro- 

 posed that all work, material etc., will 

 be paid for as the work progresses 

 and no indebtedness will be created 

 against the concern. The plan pro- 

 poses the abandonment of the big 

 flume across the Cottonwod gulch, 

 which was a very expensive piece of 

 work in the original Colony ditch, 

 and building the canal around it. The 

 water will be taken from the San 

 Miguel river and carried for many 

 miles along the rim of the canyon un- 

 til it mounts out upon the mesa. 

 When the enlargement project is 

 completed it is expected that about 

 10,000 acres of new land will be 

 brought under cultivation. 



domestic purposes, the remainder to 

 be diverted for irrigation. 



Idaho 



A gigantic irrigation project has 

 been launched at Soda Springs and 

 steps have been taken to organize an 

 irrigation district known as the Soda 

 Springs-Blackfoot District. This dis- 

 trict will utilize the waters of Black- 

 foot river and Soda creek, and will 

 irrigate the rich farm lands lying 

 north and east of Soda Springs and 

 as far west as Davisville and Elexan- 

 der, Ida. 



The big cut just north of Montour 

 being made for the canal of the Em- 

 mett Irrigation District at a cost of 

 approximately $55,000 has been com- 

 pleted. The cut is 1,800 teet long, 27 

 feet wide at the bottom, and 77 feet 

 deep at the deepest place. The pur- 

 pose of this cut is to eliminate tun- 

 nel No. 1, which is 1,500 feet long 

 and is double barreled. Each barrel 

 is 4^4x6 feet in size. The tunnel is 

 too small and does not carry enough 

 water for the irrigation district. The 

 Emmett irrigation district embraces 

 about 32,000 acres. 



Montana 



Under authority of the Secretary, 

 of the Interior contract has beeri 

 awarded to the Vulcan Iron Works 

 of Denver, Colo., for furnishing but- 

 terfly and cylinder gates for use in 

 connection with the McDonald and 

 Tabor reservoirs on the Flathead ir- 

 rigation project in Montana. The 

 contract price for the gates delivered 

 f. o. b. Denver is $15,996. 



The Keystone Irrigation District 

 held a special election at Sprague re- 

 cently and voted unanimously to is- 

 sue $200,000 worth of bonds for the 

 construction of the Keystone Irriga- 

 tion project. The project covers sev- 

 eral thousand acres west of Sprague 

 and the water is to be taken from 

 Sprague lake. 



It is announced that the government 

 is about to purchase the artesian wells 

 from the farmers in the vicinity of 

 Camas, the water to be used in the 

 reclamation of the Little Bitter Root 

 Valley. The original owners of the 

 wells will be left sufficient water for 



Oregon 



Secretary Lane, after further con- 

 ference with the reclamation service, 

 has announced that inasmuch as the 

 Malheur irrigation project is to be 

 financed by a bond issue, and as the 

 reclamation fund is low, he will not 

 recommend any appropriation this 

 season for starting work on same. 

 This decision means that Oregon will 

 get no appropriations for reclamation 

 this session, save for the Umatilla 

 and Klamath projects. 



The Riverside Irrigation & Power 

 Company of Malheur county has filed 

 certificate of dissolution. 



The government will throw open 

 for homestead entry in the near fu- 

 ture, 4,900 acres of level, fertile, ir- 

 rigated land in the reclaimed bed of 

 Tule lake. A drawing for entries will 

 take place in the spring. This lake is 

 a shallow body of water laying partly 

 in Klamath county and partly in Mo- 

 doc and Siskiyou counties in Califor- 

 nia, which is being reclaimed by di- 

 verting Lost river,' its source of sup- 

 ply, into the Klamath river. More 

 than 30,000 acres are yet to be drained 

 and opened to entry. It is stated that 

 the land will be thrown open in tracts 

 of eighty acres. 



Texas 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Canadian Valley Irriga- 

 tion Company, headquarters in Amar- 

 illo, Tex., with a capital stock of 

 $25,000, ail paid in, about $3,200 in 

 cash and the remainder in large part 

 represented by a water right for 6,250 

 acre-feet per annum from the natural 

 flow and flood waters of the Canadian 

 river to irrigate 2,500 acres of- land in 

 Potter county, together with ditches, 

 laterals and equipment. Incorpora- 

 tors: F. O. Works, G. S. Murphy, L. 

 A. Ramsey and H. Rietman of Amar- 

 illo. 



Washington 



The development of 500,000 horse- 

 power at Priest Rapids, nine miles 

 from Beverly, is planned by the 

 Washington Irrigation & Develop- 

 ment Compa_ny, according to G. L. 

 Parker, district engineer in charge of 

 the United States Geological Survey, 

 headquarters for Washington, in the 

 city of Tacoma. 



Ernest Riste, secretary of the board 

 of directors of the West Okanogan 

 Valley Irrigation District, has re- 

 ceived from Washington, D. C., a 

 draft on the United States Treasury 

 for $95,000 in payment for the pro 

 rata cost of construction of the sys- 

 tem applied to the numerous Indian 

 allotments in the valley under the 

 ditch. These Indian allotments with- 

 in the territory covered by this irri- 

 gation project, include many acres 

 that can be watered, and the installa- 

 tion of the system enhances the value 

 of that land. 



