THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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L. Doherty & Co., of New York, are 

 the defendants. The suit is for the 

 return of $625,000 worth of bonds 

 issued to Doherty & Co., or the pay- 

 ment of the face value of the bonds, 

 plus interest, amounting altogether to 

 about $1,250,000. Professor Steele 

 charges that after bonds aggregating 

 $625,000 had been turned over to 

 Doherty & Co., and Fred Lucas, their! 

 engineer, changes were made in the 

 plans for the irrigation project in the 

 East Denver district and that these 

 changes were not approved by a vote 

 of the landowners, as provided by 

 law. 



D. V. Burrell, owning a 480-acre 

 tract of land near Brandon, is hav- 

 ing great success watering his farm 

 by means of irrigation from wells. 

 Chas. Suhl, in the same locality, is 

 preparing an extensive acreage for 

 irrigation by pumping water from 

 wells and expects to have his land 

 ready for irrigation next spring. 



The Sun Land Company has pur- 

 chased 640 acres of irrigated, unim- 

 proved land, two and one-half miles 

 southeast of Hudson, from T. P. 

 Stephens of Coronado, Cal., for $48,- 

 000. Tractors are busy breaking 

 ground and practically the entire 

 acreage will be placed under cultiva- 

 tion. 



IDAHO 



The Robin Irrigation & Develop- 

 ment Company has filed articles of 

 incorporation with its chief place of 

 lu-iniss at Robin nisil a capita: 

 stock of $50,000. The directors are 

 M. J. McAughey, Heber T. Edwards, 

 Albert Evans, A. M. Curtis and P. 

 M. Larsen. 



Directors of the Nampa & Meri- 

 dian irrigation district have reached a 

 decision to place on sale approxi- 

 mately 350 acres of lands now held as 

 possible reservoir sites. The deci- 

 sion to release these lands for set- 

 tlement and development by ranchers 

 was reached at the monthly board 

 meeting here Tuesday afternoon. 



The largest tract to be offered for 

 sale is that embraced in the old 

 Greerihurst, or Nampa reservoir. It 

 is located between Greenhurst and 

 Collopy. Other lands held for res- 

 ervoir purposes, and now to be of- 

 fered for sale, are the Lake Ethel 

 tract at the edge of Nampa, and -what 

 is known as the old electric light 

 plant reservoir on the bench, just 

 south of Boise. Appraisal of these 

 lands will be made at once. 



Property owners in the vicinity of 

 Grandview recently voted unanimous- 

 ly to form the Snake River Irriga- 

 tion District. Forty-five votes were 

 cast. Three directors were elected, 

 as follows: B. Querry for the first 

 precinct; Samuel Sanderson for the 

 second, and George Allen for the 

 third. 



Citizens representing the Orpfino 

 Commercial club are engaged in a 

 survey for an irrigation ditch run- 

 ning from a point on Orofino creek, 

 two miles east of that village, to the 

 North Idaho sanitarium. It is the 

 intention to build the ditch this fall 



to have it ready for use next season 

 in supplying water for irrigation pur- 

 poses, covering nearly the entire vil- 

 lage, as well as the fields and gardens 

 of the state institution. 



The State Land Board has for- 

 mally approved the bonds given as se- 

 curity by the Owlsley Carey Land 

 and Irrigation Company. 



MONTANA 



Holding that it will be the part of 

 wisdom in the long run to irrigate 

 the Greenfields bench, Secretary of 

 the Interior F. K. Lane, in a letter 

 to Senator Myers, gives the reasons 

 why he must deny the petition of a 

 number of settlers to be excluded 

 from the S'm River project. 



Secretary Lane states $3,000,000 

 has been expended on the project 

 and $5,000,000 more will be ex- 

 pended to complete it. He admits 

 that excellent dry land crops have 

 been raised on the bench during the 

 past few years, but cites the precip- 

 itation records to demonstrate the 

 yields have been exceptional. He 

 further points put that dry land 

 grain farming will exhaust the fertil- 

 ity of the soil in 10 or 15 years, 

 while irrigation will permit of di- 

 versified husbandry being practiced. 



He takes the position that if a 

 portion of the project is released 

 large expenditures already made will 

 be rendered useless, while the irri- 

 gation works on the contrary will 

 add largely to the productivity of the 

 land and the food supply of the 

 country. 



A contract has been awarded by 

 the government to the Vulcan Iron 

 Works Company of Denver, Colo., 

 for furnishing lateral turnout gates 

 for the Flathead Irrigation project 

 in Montana. The contract price is 

 $5,607. 



Thos. Dignan, an attorney of Glas- 

 gow, has purchased the Lphr 

 ranch, a few miles west of that city. 

 The ranch consists of 1,600 acres, 

 and the consideration was $50,000. 

 The property is highly productive 

 and is irrigated by water pumped 

 from Milk River. 



in the sum of $290,000 for the con- 

 struction of canals. The success of 

 this plan will mean the irrigation of 

 8,000 acres now unused, and putting 

 water on about 6,000 acres now tilled 

 without irrigation. 



A great deal of discontent has 

 been caused by the stoppage of 

 work on the irrigation project being 

 constructed by the government in 

 Moiese valley, according to County 

 Agriculturist John R. Campbell. 



A mass meeting was held recently 

 at which a formal protest was made, 

 and an appeal issued to hasten the 

 work at the earliest possible time. 

 Last summer's drouth, according to 

 the county agriculturist, has shown 

 them the necessity for the quick 

 completion of the irrigation work. 



Last year's appropriation for the 

 construction of ditches on the reser- 

 vation was $750,000, but in spite of 

 this, the work has been delayed. 



OREGON 



The directors of the Grants Pass 

 Irrigation district recently voted to 

 call an election of land owners un- 

 der the proposed district to vote 

 upon a proposition to issue bonds 



The Lower Powder Irrigation 

 Company is to rebuild at once the 

 dam at Lower Powder River, 

 which went out in the flood last 

 spring. Engineer J. W. Bailey has 

 been engaged to prepare plans and 

 specifications of the new dam, 

 which is to be of reinforced con- 

 crete construction. Work will be 

 rushed to completion this fall. 



The Desert Land Board has re- 

 ceived advice from the Department 

 of the Interior that a relinquishment 

 filed by the Board on the Benham 

 Falls irrigation project has been ac- 

 cepted. This project embraces 74,- 

 000 acres of land. Sometime ago the 

 Board applied for an extension of 

 time on contracts covering the proj- 

 ect and later filed a relinquishment. 

 There are three dispositions that 

 may be made of the project i. e., It 

 may be thrown open to homestead 

 entry; it can be withdrawn from en- 

 try under the Gary Act or with- 

 drawn under the United States Rec- 

 lamation Act. 



McCalister District Improvement 

 Company, which will have head- 

 quarters in Deschutes county, has 

 filed articles of incorporation. The 

 object of the company is to operate 

 an irrigation project for 1,263 acres. 

 The incorporators are Ruth F. Cald- 

 well, Guy McCallister and F. W. 

 Levernz. 



By a vote of more than 2 to 1, 

 the ranchers in the vicinity of Med- 

 ford recently voted in favor of es- 

 tablishing an irrigation district. This 

 is the second election in two years. 

 At the first election the required 60 

 per cent majority was missed by five 

 votes. Ranchers now believe that the 

 water is assured after a struggle of 

 ten years. With irrigation Medford 

 has been officially assured a beet 

 sugar factory. 



Petition for rehearing in the 

 Squaw Creek Irrigation Company's 

 case before the Public Service Com- 

 mission has been filed by Vernon 

 Forbes of Bend. The petition de- 

 clares that the commission erred in 

 holding that "the economic duty of 

 water in this district is about two 

 acre-feet per year." The petition 

 further alleges that the commission 

 erred in fixing a rate of 60 cents per 

 acre-foot per year for water, declar- 

 ing that such a price is prohibitive. 



From Bend comes the announce- 

 ment that the engineers of the 

 Ochoco irrigation project in Crook 

 County expect to have the enterprise 

 completed within eighteen months. 



Wm. Dalton, one of the most 

 prominent stockmen in Southern 

 Oregon, has purchased 22,000 acres 

 of land northeast of Malin and ad- 

 jacent to that town. The land lies 

 very level and can be irrigated by 



