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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



also to permit them to take the water 

 from the ditch. 



L. F. Williams, Pueblo contractor, 

 lias been awarded a contract for the 

 construction of an irrigation dam to 

 be built for the Nine Mile Irrigation 

 Company, twenty-five miles south of 

 La Junta. The dam is to be built on 

 the Pickett Wire river to divide the 

 water of that stream, turning the 

 course into the Nine Mile canal. 



This canal is one of the oldest in 

 the state, having been built in 1860. 

 The wearing away of the old dam. 

 which is of primitive type, necessi- 

 tated the building of the new struc- 

 ture, which will be 300 feet long. It 

 is to be built of reinforced concrete, 

 with a covering of tile which is being 

 produced in New Mexico. Work on 

 the dam will commence September 1. 



TEXAS 



An interesting injunction case was 

 tried recently at Wharton in which 

 were involved practically all of the 

 canal men in Matagorda county, who 

 sought an injunction against the 

 Northern Irrigation Co. and the 

 Markham Irrigation Co. to restrain 

 them from using the water supplied 

 them from Lane 'City. Judge Styles 

 granted the injunction upon the 

 grounds that the water after it got 

 back into the' channel of the river 

 was public water and belonged to 

 whoever could get it. 



Extensive betterments are being 

 planned by the La Feria Water Im- 

 provement District No. I!, Cameron 

 county, La Feria, Tex., which re- 

 cently voted an issuance of bonds to 

 the amount of $500,000. This is a 

 municipal corporation organized to 

 supply water for irrigating 25,000 

 acres. It will take over the present 

 canal system (at a cost of $90,000), 

 representing an initial investment of 

 more than $300,000. It is the plan 

 to expend $410,000 to purchase a new 

 pumping plant with a capacity of 

 110,000 gallons of water per minute, 

 install reservoirs, laterals, canals, etc. 

 George H. Byrnes, receiver, La Feria 

 Mutual Canal Co., is in charge of the 

 enterprise. 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Texas Irr. Land Co. 

 Headquarters of the company are lo- 

 cated at Mercedes, Texas. Capital 

 stock $5,000. The incorporators are 

 Lee B. James, of San Antonio; A. D. 

 Dickinson, Jr., of Fort Worth; D. D. 

 Merchant and W. H. Follett, of Min- 

 neapolis, Minn. 



Artlicles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Wharton County Irriga- 

 tion Company. Headquarters, El 

 Campo, Texas. Capital stock, $100.- 

 000. Incorporators: R. H. Hancock, 

 El Campo: I. W. Jolly, and J. L. 

 Henry, of Houston, Texas. 



OREGON 



'With the sale of $900,000 of the 

 bonds of the Ochoco irrigation proj- 

 ect in Crook county, comes the an- 

 nouncement that active work on the 



permanent development of the big 

 Central Oregon enterprise is to begin 

 within two weeks and will be com- 

 pleted within eighteen months. 



The bonds were sold to a syndicate 

 composed of Stephens & Co., of San 

 Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco 

 and Coronado, and Clark, Kendall & 

 Co., of Portland. The price was 94.44 

 for G per cent securities with an aver- 

 age maturity of 17J4 years. 



The construction contract has been 

 awarded to Twohy Brothers, who will 

 construct the main dam across the 

 Ochoco river and 15J4 miles of the 

 main canal. 



The project comprises 22,000 acres, 

 with Prineville as the center of the 

 district. Seven thousand acres are 

 now under water and 15,000 acres are 

 being cultivated either under irriga- 

 tion or dry farming methods. 



Talent Irrigation District recently 

 voted $600,000 in bonds for construc- 

 tion of a water system from the Hy- 

 att Prairie source of supply in Cas- 

 cade mountains near Green Springs. 

 The district embraces 8,500 acres of 

 rich valley land nearly all under cul- 

 tivation. 



OREGON 



Application for a permit to irrigate 

 2,700 acres of land in the lower 

 Powder Valley, with the waters of 

 West Eagle creek, was recently made 

 to the state engineer by F. A. Phillips. 



Plans for the Grants Pass irriga- 

 tion district, covering 5,350 acres ly- 

 ing between Grants Pass and Gold 

 Hill, have been received by the state 

 engineer. It is proposed that the 

 main canal supply the water also for 

 the Gold Hill irrigation district. 



By a vote of four to one, the state 

 desert land board has decided to com- 

 ply with the request of the Central 

 Oregon Irrigation Companyto ask the 

 department of the interior for a five 

 year extension of the contract be- 

 tween the state and the government 

 for the reclamation of the lands con- 

 tained in what is known as Oregon 

 segregation list No. 6. This segrega- 

 tion is a part of the company's big 

 project near Bend. The land is being 

 reclaimed under the Carey Act, and 

 if the state does not obtain an exten- 

 sion of its contract with the federal 

 government the portion of the lands 

 which were unclaimed at the time the 

 contract expired would revert to the 

 government as general public lands. 



In a supplemental report on the 

 Suttle Lake Irrigation district proj- 

 est in Jefferson county, State En- 

 gineer Lewis approves the plans to 

 the extent of 15.000 acres. A former 

 report made in 1915 approved the 

 project for 13,000 acres. It is pointed 

 out in the supplemental report that 

 the shortage on the project in 1915, 

 which was about 25 per cent, is in 

 the face of an unusual condition and 

 that such a water shortage would oc- 

 cur probably only at periods many 

 years apart. The report also finds 

 that the project will stand a charge 

 of $50 per acre. 



UTAH 



David S. Wegg, of Salt Lake, has 

 tiled an application with the state 

 engineer for fifteen second feet of 

 water from Fish creek, which drains 

 portions of Piute and Sevier counties. 



Atkins Hinton of Hurricane, has 

 filed an application with the state 

 engineer for the right to use one-half 

 second-feet of water from Oak Can- 

 yon, to be used for irrigation pur- 

 poses. 



The Manderfield Irrigation Com- 

 pany, which waters 2,200 acres of land 

 in Beaver county, has completed the 

 improvements recommended by the 

 local division of the federal irrigation 

 service and the farmers on the project 

 are receiving all the water they need 

 for their crops this season. The im- 

 provement made it possible for the 

 water supply to be conserved to such 

 an extent that next year 1,000 addi- 

 tional acres may be placed under ir- 

 rigation in that section of the state. 

 The project has been losing a great 

 amount of its water during the past 

 few years and as the farmers had no 

 way of measuring the flow of the 

 streams or canals, too much water 

 was used by those having prior water 

 contracts. 



WASHINGTON 



Contract for the building of a dam 

 across the lower part of Wilson creek 

 has been let to H. J. Kimmel for 

 $6,240. The work consists of more 

 than 1,300 cubic yards of earth and 

 250 cubic yards of concrete, and when 

 completed will hold back flood waters 

 in the spring and irrigate several 

 hundred acres of now arid land. The 

 land is mostly owned by T. C. Ben- 

 nett of Wilson creek, and the dam 

 will be built on his ranch. 



The government dam at Union 

 Gap, recently completed by the In- 

 dian Reclamation Service, cost $144,- 

 264. It contains 7,271 cubic yards of 

 concrete. This dam contains the 

 headgate of the Wapato canal and is 

 the first item of the permanent im- 

 provement which will lead to re- 

 claiming an additional 70,000 acres on 

 that project. 



Voters at Attalia recently, by 25 to 

 15, decided to bond irrigation district 

 No. 1 for $125,000 to take over the 

 water rights and irrigation facilities 

 of the Attalia Land Company and 

 also to repair and maintain the sys- 

 tem. The project embraces land in 

 the west end of Walla Walla county 

 on the Snake river. 



Seventy to 80,000 acres of land un- 

 der the Yakima and Palouse projects, 

 withdrawn by the reclamation service 

 from entry, have been offered for 

 lease by the government. The leases, 

 which will extend to the. end of the 

 calendar year 1921, have been made 

 on the basis of from 10 to 50 cents 

 per acre. All lands under the Yakima 

 project withdrawn and not brought 

 under irrigation may be leased for 

 four years. 



