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extension of time asked on the 74,000- 

 acre Benham Falls project, near 

 Bend, instead of abandoning the ex- 

 tension so that the department may 

 throw the vast project open to home- 

 stead entry. 



E. C. Hopson was recently ap- 

 pointed receiver for the Willamette 

 Valley Irrigated Land Company. The 

 company was capitalized for $200,000 

 and has assets of approximately 

 $190,000. 



The Winnett Irrigation Company 

 announces that its project, begun four 

 years ago, will be completed this fall. 

 The project covers 11,000 acres of 

 land northwest of the town of Win- 

 nett. 



Work on the Glen Lake irrigation 

 project has been completed, and 

 though very little water was used in 

 Tobacco valley this season, next year 

 practically all of the farmers in the 

 valley will be using the water of the 

 Glen ditch for irrigating their crops. 

 The district has been bonded for $13,- 

 000 in addition to the original amount. 

 This is for the purpose of maintain- 

 ing the system and providing for 

 emergencies that might arise. 



James W. Dunlap of Medford has 

 filed an application with the state en- 

 gineer to take water from the Rogue 

 river to irrigate 16,000 acres. He pro- 

 poses to install a pumping plant that 

 will cost approximately $200,000, and 

 construct canals 16^4 miles long. 



Approval of the application to irri- 

 gate 1,200 acres of land near Mt. Ver- 

 non in Grant county has been given 

 by the state desert land board. The 

 water is proposed to be taken from 

 the John Day river by the Blue Moun- 

 tain Irrigation Company. 



Trustees of the Talent-Ashland irri- 

 gation district, recently organized, 

 have procured the services of Con- 

 tractor C. E. Bade of Medford to 

 begin work at once on preparation 

 for irrigation of 5,000 acres of the 

 unit during 1917. Unappropriated 

 water from Emigrant, Ashland and 

 Neil creeks will be used for that 

 purpose. 



The Squaw Creek Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Prineville has filed applica- 

 tion with the state public service 

 commission for authority to increase 

 its rates from 35 cents per acre foot 

 to 60 cents per acre foot, contending 

 that it has operated at a loss under 

 the rates in effect. 



C. W. Johnson, secretary of the 

 High Line Canal district, has recent- 

 ly announced that the directors had 

 granted an option on the $5,000,000 

 bond issue to a syndicate headed by 

 the Twohy Bros., contracting firm 

 of Spokane and Portland. The option 

 calls for the construction of the en- 

 tire canal project by the syndicate, 

 which is to take the bond issue as 

 pay. The option is for 9,0 days and 

 the syndicate must complete its ex- 

 amination and decide whether- it 

 wishes to exercise its option by Jan- 



uary 1, 1917. The High Line Canal 

 district, also known as the Kittitas 

 Reclamation district, consists of over 

 90,000 acres in the Kittitas valley. 

 The option calls for the completion 

 of the entire project by March, 1919, 

 in case the investigation proves sat- 

 isfactory and the option is exercised. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service has 

 commenced excavating for the con- 

 struction of the pipe lines and ditches 

 for the Grandview irrigation district. 

 This is a pumping project for about 

 5,000 acres, and all power will be 

 developed on the canals and spillways 

 of the Sunnyside project, mainly at 

 the drop of the Mabton syphon feeder 

 canal, where the pump house will be. 

 The work will be rushed to comple- 

 tion this winter so that the canals 

 will be ready for water, next season. 



IDAHO 



The State Prison Farm of Idaho 

 will be located near Nampa on the 

 land owned by the state under the 

 Government Ditch. 



The application for the confirma- 

 tion of the organized proceedings of 

 the Riverside Irrigation District by 

 the county commissioners was filed 

 in the district court at Boise recently. 

 This district was only recently organ- 

 ized. 



Arrangements are being made to 

 irrigate 24,000 acres of land east of 

 Twin Falls, between Hanson and 

 Milner. The water for this project 

 will be raised by pumping from the 

 Snake River. 



Payment was made recently by E. 

 H. Durey and the farmers and Mer- 

 chants' National Bank for $14,250 

 North of Nampa and Meridian irri- 

 gation bonds recently offered for 

 sale. The bonds bear 6 per cent in- 

 terest and run for 20 years. 



WASHINGTON 



The Lewiston Land and Water 

 Company has placed a guard, night 

 and day, about the large reservoirs 

 supplying water for irrigation and 

 domestic users on the Lewiston or- 

 chard tracts. 



The Indian Reclamation Depart- 

 ment has sent instructions to Super- 

 intendent Holt at North Yakima to 

 co-operate with Superintendent Don 

 M. Carr to get the largest possible 

 acreage put in crops this year to as- 

 sist in the general preparedness cam- 

 paign. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Hunter Irrigation Canal, 

 twelve miles south of Crowley, La., 

 started pumping recently to get the 

 canal system filled with water in time 

 for the rice irrigation. 



Word from Williston, N. D., says 

 the Federal million-dollar irrigation 

 project will not be operated this year, 

 this decision having been reached at 

 a recent meeting of the Williston 

 Water Users' Association. This proj- 

 ect has had a stormy career. 



Irrigation will save the crops at 

 the State Reformatory of Kansas, 

 regardless of whether rain comes or 

 not. All arrangements are made for 

 taking care of the crops by this sys- 

 tem. 



The Chilian Congress has made ap- 

 propriation for the construction of an 

 irrigation canal which it is expected 

 will add about 100,000 acres of valua- 

 ble agricultural lands to the available 

 supply of Chile. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service is 

 asking for proposals for furnishing 

 75,000 barrels of Portland cement, 

 f. o. b. cars at the works of the bid- 

 der. 



Bids will be opened at the office 

 of the U. S. Reclamation Service, 

 Tramway Building,' Denver Colo., on 

 May 23, 1917. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 issued public notice providing for an 

 increase in the cost of construction 

 on the Umatilla irrigation project, 

 Oregon, of $13 per irrigable acre. 

 This charge is made to meet the cost 

 of supplemental construction in Dis- 

 trict 13. 



The lands which are subject to the 

 increased charge lie in T. 5 N., R. 29 

 E., W. M., Sees. 29 and 30. This 

 extra charge will be paid in addi- 

 tional annual installments after the 

 last of those now payable under the 

 Reclamation Extension Act, the first 

 annual installment being $6.00 per 

 irrigable acre, and the last install- 

 ment $7.00 per irrigable acre. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service is 

 asking for proposals for the construc- 

 tion of 5.7 miles of main canal on 

 the Fort Laramie Unit, North Platte 

 irrigation project, Nebraska-Wyo- 

 ming, involving about 536,500 cubic 

 yards of excavation. The work is 

 located near the Bridgeport-Guern- 

 sey line of C. B. & Q. Ry., in the 

 vicinity of Torrington, Wyoming. 



Bids will be opened at the office of 

 the U. S. Reclamation Service, Fort 

 Laramie, Wyoming, on June 6, 1917. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service is 

 asking for proposals for the con- 

 struction of canals on the Rio Grande 

 irrigation project, New Mexico- 

 Texas, involving about 196,000 cubic 

 yards of excavation. The work is 

 located near Garfield, New Mexico. 



Bids will be opened at the office of 

 the U. S. Reclamation Service, El 

 Paso, Texas, on May 23, 1917. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 announced .that the operation and 

 maintenance charges for the South 

 Side Pumping Unit of the Minidoka 

 irrigation project, Idaho, for the irri- 

 gation season of 1917, and thereafter 

 until further notice, shall be as fol- 

 lows: Forty-five cents per acre-foot 

 for all water delivered after June 5, 

 and on or before October 20, pro- 

 vided, however, that there shall be a 

 minimum charge of $1.25 against each 

 irrigable acre whether water is used 

 thereon or not, which minimum 

 charge will be applied in payment of 



