THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



CALIFORNIA 



More than 10,000 people partici- 

 pated in the dedication of the Wood- 

 ward dam of the South San Joaquin 

 irrigation district, twenty-six miles 

 southeast of Stockton on May 12. 

 The cost of this structure was 

 $600,000. 



An offer of free water from the 

 city for irrigation purposes, wtih the 

 understanding that the crops raised 

 for personal and not commercial use 

 has been made to the people of Sac- 

 ramento by the Commissioner of pub- 

 lic works. 



The newly organized Home De- 

 velopment Company of Auburn, 

 Placer county, has filed an applica- 

 tion with the State Water Commis- 

 sion to appropriate twenty thou- 

 sand feet of the waters of Painter 

 Creek and Buckhorn Creek in Lassen 

 County for the irrigation of 9,055 

 acres in that vicinity, where the com- 

 pany plans the establishment of a 

 colony of small ranchers. The esti- 

 mated cost of the project is given as 

 $71,000. 



The Empire Water Company of 

 Los Angeles has served notice on the 

 ranchers near Stratford that it will 

 appear before the railroad commission 

 and ask to have its contract set aside 

 and increase the rate. 



National guards have been sta- 

 tioned around the head works of the 

 Modesto irrigation district and the 

 Tuolumne river to prevent any at- 

 tempts to damage the irrigation sys- 

 tem at this critical crop period. 



Twelve thousand acres of rice land 

 near Colussa have recently been sold 

 to a San Francisco syndicate. 



Twelve carloads of mules and 

 equipment recently arrived at Ander- 

 son to be used in excavation on the 

 . Anderson-Cottonwood irrigation dis- 

 trict. 



Charles W. Landis of San Francisco 

 has filed an application with the State 

 Water Commission asking for per- 

 mission to appropriate 3,000 cubic 

 feet per second of the water on the 

 Mokelumne river to irrigate 150,000 

 acres. A reservoir with storage ca- 

 pacity of 250,000 acre feet will be 

 located on the Rancho Arroyo Seco. 



OREGON 



The Squaw Creek Reservoir Com- 

 pany of Redmond has made applica- 

 tion to the Public Service Commission 

 of Oregon for authority to increase 

 its rates for irrigation water. 



Five hundred owners of lands under 

 the Central Oregon Irrigation Project 

 will be active in support of the forma- 

 tion of the proposed irrigation dis- 

 trict now being planned under the 



direction of a prominent Portland 

 attorney. This move affects approxi- 

 mately 45,000 acres. 



Advice has been received by the 

 State Desert Land Board from Col. 

 Wood of Portland that should the 

 Portland Irrigation Company win in 

 the courts in its litigation over the 

 waters of the Chewaycan river, it 

 will complete what is known as the 

 Paisley Project. 



Portland may become a manufac- 

 turing point for the Layne & Bowler 

 pumps according to statements made 

 to the Oregonian by Mr. Layne of 

 that firm. 



Irrigation projects in Oregon are 

 public service corporations and are 

 subject to the jurisdiction of the pub- 

 lic service commission as announced 

 from the attorney general's office. 



WASHINGTON 



In response to the demands from 

 Washington that every possible acre 

 on the various irrigation projects be 

 made to produce a maximum crop for 

 the next two years, a movement has 

 been inaugurated, now state wide in 

 its scope, for the immediate comple- 

 tion of the Wapato project. The 

 land comprises approximately 150,- 

 000 acres and occupies the irrigable 

 section of the Yakima Indian reserva- 

 tion. 



The final report of the consulting 

 board on the Horse Heaven irriga- 

 tion district has recently been sub- 

 mitted to the board of directors at 

 the headquarters in Prosser, Wash- 

 ington. 



The project as estimated will fur- 

 nish water for 215,000 acres without 

 storage at a cost of $66 an acre. In 

 order to. provide for interest during 

 construction and discount on the 

 bonds, a bond issue of $18,250,000 is 

 recommended. 



There is no question about abun- 

 dance of water for irrigation for this 

 season in the Yakima country as it 

 is stated that there is at the present 

 time ten feet of snow at Lake Keeche- 

 lus which forest service hydrograph- 

 ers say is equal to forty-six inches of 

 water. 



UTAH 



pany has made application to the 

 state engineer of Utah to have a 

 field survey made of the Mammoth 

 reservoir on the Price River in order 

 that the dam may be raised from 

 67 to 135 feet in height. 



The North Willow Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Grantsville has filed with 

 the state engineer application for ten 

 second feet of water to be taken from 

 the sources of supply of North Wil- 



low and Davenport creeks in Tooele 

 County by a water developing tunnel. 

 The water, which will be used to 

 irrigate 2,000 acres of land, will be 

 conveyed to the land by a sixteen- 

 inch pipe 29,000 feet in length. 



Hundreds of thousands of acres of 

 school lands within the national forest 

 area of Utah, title to which has been 

 in question between the state and 

 the government for years, will be 

 made available to the state for dis- 

 posal for the benefit of school funds 

 as a result of a decision by the su- 

 preme court of the United States. 



There are 422,000 acres of such 

 land in Utah and Senator William H. 

 King has requested the general land 

 office to expedite action upon the 

 Utah lists, that the state may come 

 into full possession of the lands and 

 derive all the benefits arising from 

 such possession. 



The decision by the supreme court 

 of the United States was in the case 

 of the state of California, plaintiff 

 in error, against the Deseret Water 

 Oil & Irrigation Company, reversing 

 a prior decision of the Supreme Court 

 of California. This decision has 

 formed the basis of action by the de- 

 partment of the interior which will 

 clear titles to these lands, which in 

 various states have been the subject 

 of different court rulings and de- 

 cisisions. 



Frank Miles of Richfield has filed 

 application with the state engineer for 

 fifty second feet of water to be taken 

 from Paria, or Pareah, river in Kane 

 county for the irrigation of 5,760 

 acres of land. The Farm Creek Irri- 

 gation Company of Tabiona has filed 

 application for five second feet of 

 water from the Duchesne river to be 

 used for irrigation purposes. 



MONTANA 



A municipal garden of not less than 

 fifty acres is planned by Mayor A. J. 

 Fousek of Great Falls, who will spe- 

 cialize in beans, onions and potatoes. 



Farmers with land along the Fort 

 Peck irrigation project will plant al- 

 falfa on an extensive scale this year. 



The rate for irrigation water for 

 the Flathead irrigation district has 

 been changed by the federal reclama- 

 tion service. Rates announced will 

 be in force during 1917. 



A flat charge of fifty cents per acre 

 will be made, instead of a minimum 

 charge per acre irrigated. In addi- 

 tion to this the requirements exact 

 a minimum of $5 per farm unit. 



Uncle Sam will take a hand in, 

 breaking up the soil on the Sun river 

 irrigation project, looking to increased 

 acreage and a bigger crop production. 

 As a part of this work about to be- 

 gin, a gasoline tractor of the 25-50 



