THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



Arizona 



A. J. Holtom, former irrigation 

 manager of the reclamation project, 

 Phoenix, Ariz., has been transferred 

 from the Salt river valley project to 

 the Colorado river investigation ser- 

 vice. He will make his headquarters 

 temporarily in Phoenix, but his work 

 will be confined exclusively hereafter 

 to the Gila basin, that river being a 

 tributary of the Colorado. 



bonds as may be needed. This as- 

 sumes that the cost may be reduced 

 materially. 



duction of 15 cents an acre over last 

 year's charge. 



W. M. Reed, chief of the irrigation 

 department, and J. R. T. Reeves, su- 

 perintendent of irrigation of the de- 

 partment of the interior, visited va- 

 rious projects in Arizona recently on 

 their way to California. 



California 



The petition to the supervisors for 

 the organization of the Jacinto irri- 

 gation district, near Willows, now 

 lacks only three signatures of title 

 holders, which, it is believed, will be 

 obtained within the next two weeks. 

 At the last election the organization 

 of the district failed by one vote. 



With only 16 dissenting votes out 

 of a total of 200 cast on the question 

 of formation of the district, the Fair 

 Oaks irrigation district was recentlv 

 organized and officers were elected. 



The Miller & Lux Corporation has 

 signed an agreement with the Madera 

 Irrigation Bureau to join in the for- 

 mation of an irrigation district. The 

 agreement was signed in San Fran- 

 cisco recently and outlines the basis 

 under which the firm will work for 

 the formation of the district. Cer- 

 tain of their lands are excluded from 

 the district and an agreement has 

 been reached regarding the amount of 

 water from the San Joaquin river that 

 Miller & Lux are willing that the pro- 

 posed .district should have. 



C. E. Steinigul was re-elected presi- 

 dent of the South San Joaquin irriga- 

 tion district recently, and S. L. Steele 

 was elected secretary, to succeed 

 Charles A. Proudfit. C. W. Moore 

 will succeed Steele as superintendent 

 of the district. 



Old and new directors and the 

 members of the land owners' advisory 

 committee are making a tour of the 

 Anderson-Cottonwood irrigation dis- 

 trict and will look over the work done, 

 and determine, if possible, what 

 changes may be made in the plans so 

 that the district will not have to raise 

 $513,546 to complete work, as reported 

 by State Engineer McClure. It is cer- 

 tain that the directors will decide 

 soon what amount of bonds shall be 

 submitted to land owners to be voted 

 upon. It is the general opinion that 

 it will be best to vote the whole 

 amount, and then sell only as many 



The Keno irrigation canal near Kla- 

 math Falls, Ore., has been leased by 

 the government to the California- 

 Oregon Power Company of that city 

 for a period of ten years. The lease 

 provides that improvements may be 

 made in the canal by the company, 

 and also permits the company to erect 

 a dam in Link river near the head of 

 the river and just before the outlet 

 of Upper Klamath lake. 



All five members' of the board of 

 directors of the Turlock irrigation dis- 

 trict visited Sacramento recently, 

 where they attended a meeting of the 

 California Irrigation Districts Asso- 

 ciation. The screening of irrigation 

 canals to preserve fish and other leg- 

 islation pending before the legislature 

 was considered and acted upon by the 

 association. 



Heavy rains during February will 

 means thousands of dollars to the 

 farmers of Stanislaus county. 



Formation of proposed irrigation 

 districts may be initiated on petition 

 of 500 property owners within the 

 projected district, providing they rep- 

 resent at least 20 per cent of the land 

 value, under the terms of Senator 

 Maddox's bill amending the present 

 laws, which passed the Senate re- 

 cently. 



W. H. Shry has been named as 

 chairman, and Oscar Weatherby, sec- 

 retary, of the land owners of the Deer 

 Creek, Saucelito and Poplar districts. 

 in their organization of an associa- 

 tion to protect their irrigation rights 

 against the Terra Bella irrigation dis- 

 trict. There were twenty-five land 

 owners at the preliminary meeting 

 held in February. There is a fear 

 that when the many deep wells which 

 will supply the Terra Bella irrigation 

 water have been developed it mav 

 affect the flow in wells of the districts 

 named. 



A compromise has been effected 

 between the property owners in the 

 Lafayette district, southwest of Lodi, 

 on the proposal to form a Wright 

 irrigation district. Instead of forming 

 the district, a plan is on foot to sign 

 a five - year contract with the 

 Stockton-Mokelumne Canal Company, 

 which will increase the acreage under 

 their ditches by 10,000 acres at a cost 

 of $2.50 per acre. 



According to an announcement 

 made by Project Manager J. G. Camp 

 the operation and maintenance charge 

 in the first and second units of the 

 Klamath irrigation project will be 85 

 cents an acre this year. This is a re- 



A delegation of Scott valley resi- 

 dents, among whom is Supervisor W. 

 D. Mathews of Fort Jones, have pre- 

 sented a petition to the board of su- 

 pervisors stating they will appear be- 

 fore the board on April 2 and ask 

 that an election be called to have an 

 irrigation district formed to comprise 

 40,000 acres. They plan to take the 

 water from Scott river, which flows 

 through the land, and carry it in a 

 ditch that will be twenty miles in 

 length when completed. 



The Turlock irrigation district 

 board of directors has gone on record 

 as favoring the retention of practically 

 all existing irrigation legislation in 

 California and as discouraging vir- 

 tually every bill which has been sub- 

 mitted for passage in the present ses- 

 sion of the California legislature. 



Elliott & Home Company of Los 

 Angeles report a brisk demand for 

 the $1,400,000 bonds of the Lindsa*-- 

 Strathmore irrigation district for 

 which they were the successful bid- 

 ders. The issue has been approved 

 by the State Irrigation Bond Com- 

 mission and the bonds carry the cer- 

 tific?te of the state controller. At of- 

 fering prices they return to the in- 

 vestor a net yield of 5.60 to 5.75 per 

 cent, according to maturities. 



Harlan & Harlan, contractors of 

 Williams, have about completed the 

 development work on the Blevins- 

 Mallon project on what is known as 

 the Harbison-Kitchen ranch of 26,000 

 acres. Irrigation ditches and canals, 

 together with other improvements, 

 have so far advanced that the tenants 

 are ready to plant rice crops for the 

 ensuing season. 



Articles of incorporation of the Red 

 Rock Irrigation Company of Red 

 Rock, Lassen county, with a capital- 

 ization of $20,000, were filed recently 

 in the office of the secretary of state. 

 The object of the company is to sup- 

 ply water to residents of the district 

 for both irrigation and domestic pur- 

 poses. 



The Natomas Company of Califor- 

 nia has applied to the state railroad 

 commission for permission to appro- 

 priate 50 cubic feet per second of the 

 waters of the Sacramento river in 

 Sacramento county for irrigation pur- 

 poses. Some of the data given in the 

 application is as follows: A concrete 

 intake in the river leads to a 60-inch 

 steel pipe controlled by valve leading 

 into sump; one 38-inch centrifugal 

 oump with 40-inch suction pipe 58 feet 

 long with 38-inch discharge pipe 70 

 feet long discharging into concrete 

 stand pipe feeding 48-inch concrete 



