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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



W. W. Wilson, A. J. Butler, D. E. 

 Greenwood, and August M. Nelson, 

 of Sandy, Utah, have filed application 

 with the state engineer of Utah for 

 the use of one cubic foot of water 

 from Utah lake and Jordan river for 

 irrigation, culinary and domestic pur- 

 poses at Midvale. 



Work of construction has begun on 

 the main distribution laterals of the 

 Lake Charlotte project in the south- 

 ern part of Colfax county, New Mex- 

 ico. The Colmor Irrigated Land 

 Company has started the work 

 through Palmer & Harris, contractors 

 of Denver, Colo., who are on the 

 ground now with a large outfit and 

 will push the work as rapidly as the 

 condition of the weather during the 

 remainder of ' the winter will permit. 



The Lawton, Okla., irrigation dis- 

 trict was created at an election held 

 in Lawton late in February. A tract 

 of land embracing 2,500 acres, lying 

 to the south of Lawton, will be irri- 

 gated. Congress has already appro- 

 priated $100,000 for this project. The 

 reservoir at Lake Lawtonka, the 

 source of water supply for the city 

 of Lawton, is to be used by the gov- 

 ernment while experimenting upon 

 the area mentioned. When a larger 

 area is added, this dam will be raised 

 an additional fifty feet and thus many 

 millions of gallons of water will be 

 added, as this structure spans a deep 

 valley in the Wichita mountains. 



The Dry Gulch Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Roosevelt, Utah, has filed an 

 application with the state engineer 

 for 2,760 acre-feet of water from 

 Montus creek, Duchesne county, to 

 assist in irrigating 5,680 acres of land. 



The New York Reservoir Land & 

 Irrigation Company has filed articles 

 of incorporation. Capital stock, 

 $10,000; headquarters, Cora, Wyo. 

 (Fremont county). Directors: P. W. 

 Jenkins, A. W. Mushon, E. M. Belk- 

 nap, Guy Holt and C. C. Alexander. 



IRRIGATION BY MEANS OF 

 CANVAS TUBE. 



A very interesting contrivance was 

 demonstrated last summer at the Col- 

 lege farm. It consists of a long can- 

 vas tube in which are placed small 

 brass gates, so placed tliat each gate 

 will come opposite a row down which 

 it is desired to discharge irrigation 

 water. The tube is laid along the 

 high part of the field, connected with 

 the ditch at the upper end, the water 

 runs through this tube without; the 

 water is discharged through the gate 

 openings in the amount desired by 

 the irrigator, and the supply for each 

 tube is controlled by opening the 

 small gates in the tubes. The canvas 

 tube decreases in size as it extends 

 from the ditch so that the smaller 

 head of water flowing at the extreme 

 lower end is carried through a much 

 smaller tube, and thereby a saving 

 of material is obtained. 



So far as the control of irrigation 

 water is concerned this device is 



ideal. ' Further than that it is easily 

 changed from place to place by al- 

 lowing the water to run out of it and 

 then dragging it along the ground. 

 The only thing that will have to be 

 watched is that it is thoroughly 

 cleaned when irrigation ceases, be- 

 cause the canvas will of course in 

 time rot, and the same care must be 

 given a tube of this kind as is given 



to the ordinary canvass dam in order 

 to preserve the same. 



E. B. HOUSE, 



Colorado Agricultural College, 

 Fort Collins, Colo. 



If you want to keep in touch with 

 all ftides of the Reclamation Problem 

 send $1.00 for one year's subscription 

 to the Irrigation Age, 30 North Dear- 

 born Street, Chicago. 



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