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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



pipe. The main pipe line will be 5J4 

 miles long and there is proposed 17 

 miles of laterals. The number of acres 

 to be irrigated is given as 6,600 and 

 the estimated cost at $120,000. 



Plans for the organization of an ir- 

 rigation district, comprising 40,000 

 acres of land in Scott valley, have 

 been completed and will be forwarded 

 to State Engineer W. F. McClure for 

 approval. The petition to the board 

 of supervisors of Siskiyou county ask- 

 ing an election for the organization 

 of the district is nearly completed, as 

 it has more than the required number 

 of signatures of land owners. It will 

 be presented to the board in about 

 two weeks. The land owners propose 

 to take water out of Scott river, a 

 stream with a magnificent unfailing 

 supply of water, and carry it through 

 a ditch twenty miles to the lands to 

 be irrigated. It is estimated the cost 

 of the system will be comparatively 

 small in comparison with the large 

 acreage it will cover. 



Oakdale people are up in arms with 

 the people of Eugene over the pro- 

 posed abandonment of the 26-mile 

 road. The new reservoir of the South 

 San Joaquin irrigation district flows 

 over the road, or rather, the water 

 will cover the road when the reser- 

 voir is full. A petition has already 

 been sent to the supervisors protest- 

 ing against abandoning this road and 

 demanding that the shallow part of 

 the reservoir be bridged for the ac- 

 commodation of the people. 



Irrigation projects involving thou- 

 sands of acres of agricultural lands 

 are under way, according to applica- 

 tions filed recently with the state- 

 water commission. One of the largest 

 is described in an application filed bv 

 Charles W. Landis for an appropria- 

 tion from the Mokelumne river. The 

 application asks for 2,000 cubic feet 

 of water per second for the irriga- 

 tion of 100.000 acres at a cost esti- 

 mated at $500.000. A dam for the 

 impounding of 120.000 acre feet of 

 water is planned. The land to be ir- 

 rigated is embraced in the Dry Creek 

 irrigation project. 



The River Farms Company of San 

 Francisco has filed six applications 

 for appropriations from the Sacra- 

 mento river to irrigate 12,601 acres. 

 It is estimated the work will cost 

 $83,000. 



An application for 7.500 acre feet of 

 water from Stone Corral creek in 

 Colusa countv is asked by the Espe- 

 ranza Land Company of New York 

 for the irrigation of 4,812 acres at an 

 approximate cost of $250,000. 



Edward Fletcher of San Diego has 

 applied for an appropriation from 

 Santa Ysabel creek in San Dieo-o 

 countv for the development of hydro- 

 electric nower. A dam 110 feet high 

 and 800 feet long is planned. The cost 

 of the project is given as $350,000. 



mas, reports that despite the low 

 stage of the river during February, a 

 total of 10,300 acre feet of water was 

 delivered to the farmers. The run of 

 water during the month varied from 

 110 second feet to 200 for the greater 

 part of the month, coming up to 400 

 feet the last day of the month. 

 For the first few days of the month 

 the run averaged around 400 feet. The 

 farmers are taking advantage of the 

 run to effectually wet their winter 

 wheat and alfalfa. 



The Sterling Democrat states that 

 Attorney T. E. Munson is in Fort 

 Morgan trying the case of Dickman 

 vs. The North Sterling Irrigation Dis- 

 trict. Mr. Munson appeared for the 

 district. This is the second trial of 

 the case. At the former hearing a 

 Morgan county jury, on Dickman's 

 plea for damages account of seepage 

 from the intake ditch, awarded Dick- 

 man more than he claimed. The case 

 was taken to the Supreme Court and 

 a decision was rendered setting the 

 verdict aside and remanding the case 

 for retrial. 



Professor House of Fort Collins 

 Agricultural College, accompanied by 

 A. J. Luginbill, secretary of the Ar- 

 kansas Valley Ditch Association, 

 Mark Denson, superintendent and en- 

 gineer of the Holbrook irrigation dis- 

 trict, B. A. Shelton, extensive stock 

 feeder, and A. J. Grom and Robert 

 Hansen, prominent farmers of the 

 Holbrook valley, made a trip of in- 

 spection over the Holbrook valley re- 

 cently, looking into the problem of 

 preventing lands from becoming seep- 

 age in that locality and providing 

 means by which drainage can be in- 

 stalled to reclaim lands which have 

 already become seepy. The professor 

 gave an interesting lecture to one of 

 the largest and most interesting audi- 

 ences that ever assembled in the town 

 hall at Cheraw. People from all parts 

 of the Arkansas valley attended. 



The verdict of the jury of the Dis- 

 trict Court at Fort Morgan in the 

 cases of Dickman and Veronica Geh- 

 rig against the North Sterling Irriga- 

 tion Company was in favor of the 

 complainants. The two cases of the 

 complainants were consolidated for 

 trial. Dickman was awarded $2.500 

 and Veronica Gehrig $1.200. The 

 complaints were made several years 

 ago by Dickman and Gehrig alleging 

 damage resulting from seepage of the 

 reservoir. Three years ago the court 

 awarded Dickman $6,400 and Gehrig 

 $4,200, but the cases were reversed 

 and dismissed. Allen & Webster. 

 Denver attorneys, handled the case 

 for the complainants and Munson & 

 Munson of Sterling for the irrigation 

 company. 



Colorado 



Superintendent Powell of the Fort 

 Lyon Canal Company, near Las Ani- 



A record price for non-irrigated 

 land for the northern part of the state 

 was set in Loveland recently when 

 160 acres sold for $60 per acre. 

 Ninetv-six hundred dollars was paid 

 bv William Rustler to Mrs. Mary 

 Hollingshead, who took it as a home- 

 stead eleven years ago. The 160 acres 

 will average forty bushels of wheat 

 oer acre, and has been farmed by 

 Rustler for the last three years. 



Montana 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed of the Woodlin Farms Company, 

 owned and controlled by four St. Paul 

 men, who propose to farm a tract of 

 400 acres of irrigated land just east of 

 Thomson Falls. H. A. Abernethy, a 

 St. Paul attorney, will remove here 

 to look after the enterprise. The 400 

 acres will be cropped this year, it is 

 stated. 



W. W. Schlect, who for the past 

 four years has been in charge of the 

 Milk river irrigation project, has left 

 for Denver, having been ordered to 

 Arizona to superintend a job for the 

 reclamation service. Mr. Schlect en- 

 gineered the work at Vandalia, Mont., 

 where one of the largest dams in the 

 state was constructed. G. E. Stranton 

 from Saco will take charge of the 

 local project. 



The Supply Ditch Company, which 

 for the past twenty years has been 

 doing business in the Bitter Root val- 

 ley, has been reincorporated for forty 

 years, its corporate life having ex- 

 pired. The concern operates a very 

 successful irrigation project, the water 

 being obtained from the Bitter Root 

 river. 



The Missoula Chamber of Com- 

 merce has received a letter from Wil- 

 burn Fairchild, a member of the 

 Washington state legislature, askiny 

 indorsement of a plan through which 

 he says 100.000,000 acres of arid land 

 could be reclaimed. Mr. Fairchild's 

 plan is that the congress of the United 

 States enact a law creating an irriga- 

 tion commission, which should have 

 its operating headquarters in the 

 western country. The working details 

 should be generally on the plan of the 

 Panama Canal commission. Exten- 

 sive reclamation work should then be 

 carried out through the west. 



The United States reclamation ser- 

 vice has received proposals for the 

 construction of canals and structures 

 on the Sun river irrigation project. 

 Montana, involving about 71.000 cubic 

 yards of excavation, 480 cubic yards 

 of reinforced concrete, the laying of 

 3.300 linear feet of concrete pipe, and 

 the placing in wooden structures of 

 about 70,000 feet 1). m. lumber. The 

 work is located about thirty miles 

 northwest of Great Falls, Mont., be- 

 tween the towns of Bole, Sloan and 

 Cordova, on the Choteau branch of 

 the Great Northern Railway, and 

 Fairfield and Ashuelot, on the Cho- 

 teau branch of the C. M. & St. P. 

 Railway. Bids were opened at the 

 office of the United States reclamation 

 service at Fort Shaw, Mont., on 

 March 20. 



Unanimously opposed to the irriga- 

 tion of their farms, farmers of the 

 south half of the Greenfield bench 

 have decided to form a permanent or- 

 ganization whose sole object will be 

 to have the land definitely declared 

 dry land to the end that this part of 

 the bench may be eliminated from the 

 Sun river irrigation projects. The 

 farmers insist that they have had just 

 as good crops without irrigation as 



