THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



CALIFORNIA 



The conflicting claims of the Mo- 

 desto and Turlock irrigation districts 

 and the Yosemite Power Company as 

 to water rights on the Tuolumne 

 river have been settled through an 

 agreement just reached between the 

 directors of the two districts and 

 representatives of the power com- 

 pany, the agreement placing the rec- 

 ognized right of the power company 

 to 66 second feet of the natural flow 

 of the stream. The power company 

 has hitherto claimed right to 300 sec- 

 ond feet. On the basis of this agree- 

 ment the suit by the district against 

 the power company which has been 

 pending several months in the supe- 

 rior court will be ended by entry of 

 judgment entitling the power com- 

 pany to 66 second feet. 



COLORADp 



The Henkins Reservoir and Irriga- 

 tion project on Mud creek, southwest 

 of Lamar, is to be greatly enlarged 

 and improved and will be made to 

 irrigate several thousand acres of fine 

 land outside of the Henkins ranch. 



Mead and Longmont county farm- 

 ers are planning the building of a 

 $30,000 reservoir to be constructed 

 at the foot of Longs Peak, that will 

 irrigate 1,000 acres. 



OREGON 



Believing that work may soon be 

 started by the government on the 

 Crane Prairie Reservoir, one of the 

 largest water storage systems ever 

 planned in central Oregon, Fred N. 

 Wallace, engineer for the Tumalo ir- 

 rigation project, recently completed 

 a survey for a three-mile canal to 

 connect the Tumalo canal with the 

 proposed irrigation system, which 

 would make possible the watering of 

 thousands of acres of land in Cen- 

 tral Oregon. 



Through changes in the irrigation 

 district laws the question has arisen 

 relative to the Ochoco irrigation dis- 

 trict bopd issue, as to whether the 

 district under the new law must take 

 over certain water rights under the 

 old law, and for this reason the deci- 

 sion of the State Bonding Board as 

 to the certification of $900,000 worth 

 of the district bonds may be delayed 

 for a short time. If it is found that 

 the water rights must be taken over 

 it probably will require an extra ex- 

 penditure of about $150,000 on the 

 part of the district, and this will pre- 

 vent the state certifying to the bond 

 issue until after another election is 

 held. 



UTAH 



A trust deed from Utah Lake Ir- 

 rigation Company to William L. 

 Biersach, trustee, to secure a loan of 

 $125,000, has been filed with the 

 county recorder. The indebtedness 

 will be in the form of $5,000 and $1,000 



notes bearing 8 per cent interest, pay- 

 able quarterly. The deed conveys to 

 the trustee many tracts of land in 

 Salt Lake and Utah counties and 

 notes given by water users to the 

 company. 



Ruben S. Collett of Roosevelt, has 

 made application to the state engineer 

 for the use of 843 acre feet of water to 

 irrigate 840 acres of ground. It is 

 Mr. Collett'S intention to take the 

 water from an unnamed draw in Uinta 

 county by means of a ditch 1,000 feet 

 long to a storage basin. 



N. J. Christensen of Ferron, has 

 filed an application with the state 

 engineer for the use of thirty second- 

 feet of water from Ferron creek for 

 the purpose of developing 275 horse- 

 power. A concrete dam eight feet 

 in height and fifty feet long will be 

 constructed and the wheel will be un- 

 der a head of 100 feet. The water 

 will be conducted to the turbine by 

 two twenty-four inch pipes. The 

 water will be returned to the creek 

 above all existing irrigation ditches. 



WASHINGTON 



Regardless of what the national 

 council of defense decides regarding 

 the appropriation of $2,000,000 to com- 

 plete the irrigation system on the 

 Yakima reservation as a war measure 

 the Indian reclamation department is 

 preparing to enlarge the present canal 

 and put 10,000 more acres under cul- 

 tivation for the crop season of 1918. 



Since a part of the canal is in a new 

 location, excavation work is to begin 

 at once, and Superintendent L. M. 

 Holt is this week installing a drag- 

 line excavator for cutting two miles 

 of new canal, approximately parallel- 

 ing the present main canal, but on 

 higher ground. 



At the end of the present irriga- 

 tion season the remainder of the main 

 canal is to be cut to a larger carrying 

 capacity and new laterals excavated, 

 carrying water to land not now under 

 cultivation. Superintendent Holt has 

 received authority to buy another ex- 

 cavator, making three, which will be 

 put to use in cutting canals or drain- 

 age ditches. With no further appro- 

 priations available than funds now on 

 hand he will be able to furnish water 

 to 10,000 acres additional for the crop 

 season of 1918. 



The reclamation service announces 

 the completion of the first unit of the 

 Grandview pumping plant, and that 

 no work will be done upon the other 

 units until fall on account of the in- 

 ability to get delivery on the elec- 

 trical machinery. The first pumping 

 unit is hydraulic turbine, lifting 16 

 second-feet, with capacity for irrigat- 

 ing 1,600 acres. About 600 to 800 

 acres of this is in crop this year. The 

 main canals are concrete lined and 

 the distributing system for the whole 

 district has been completed. 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Water Motor Irrigation 

 Company, with a capital stock of 

 $300,000. The office of the company 

 is located at Seattle. The incorpor- 

 ators are W. I. Peary, H. H. Hoi- 

 brook and Olga Perry. 



MONTANA 



The West Park Irrigation Com- 

 pany with main offices in Red Lodge, 

 authorized capital $15,000, all of 

 which is subscribed, has filed articles 

 of incorporation. The incorporators 

 are Peter Lemley, Arthur Henlund 

 and N. Nieme of Red Lodge. 



About 60 farmers, owning approxi- 

 mately 10,000 acres of land in the 

 valley of the Tongue river near Miles 

 City, have brought suit against W. B. 

 Jbrdan, owner of a big irrigation 

 ditch, to compel him to sell water to 

 them for irrigating their crops. When 

 the ditch was built the farmers re- 

 fused to buy the right of way, claim- 

 ing the price was exorbitant. 



Work on the Flatwillow irrigation 

 project is to be pushed rapidly to 

 completion, according to an announce- 

 ment made following a recent meet- 

 ing of the stockholders of the Fergus 

 County Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany. The Flatwillow project em- 

 braces about 8,000 acres of Carey act 

 lands segregated for use of this com- 

 pany under Carey Act withdrawal No. 

 21 in eastern Fergus county, a few 

 miles southeast of Grass Range, and 

 a shorter distance south of Winnett. 



Work on the project of the Thomp- 

 son Falls Development Company, 

 consisting of 2,000 acres lying just 

 east of Thompson Falls is rapidly 

 nearing completion. The construc- 

 tion includes 2,500 feet of flume; 3,600 

 feet of 12-inch pipe line and about 

 four miles of laterals. The main ditch 

 is already built. 



NEBRASKA 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 authorized the Reclamation Service to 

 award contract to J. E. Hilton of Lin- 

 gle. Wyo., for earthwork on Fort Lar- 

 amie Canal Stations 3260 to 3563-60 

 Fort Laramie Unit, North Platte Irri- 

 gation Project, Nebraska. The work 

 involves approximately 336,500 cubic 

 yards of excavation and is located 

 near the Bridgeport-Guernsey line of 

 the C. B. & Q. railway. Rapid 

 progress is being made in the con- 

 struction of this canal, which when 

 completed will irrigate 100,000 acres 

 is Wyoming and Nebraska on the 

 south side of the North Platte river. 

 It is anticipated that the system will 

 be ready for operation in 1918, and in 

 the fall of that year a large area of 

 government land will be opened to 

 entry. The south canal system di- 

 verts water from the Whalen dam in 

 Wyoming, and will be more than 100 

 miles long. 



