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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



pumping water from the Klamath 

 Reclamation Project ditch with a lift 

 of 35 feet. The consideration in- 

 volved was not made public. 



UTAH 



At the meeting of the Board of 

 County Commissioners held early 

 this month, the vote of the Spring- 

 ville Irrigation District was can- 

 vassed and a resolution passed creat- 

 ing the district and the following di- 

 rectors declared elected Orson 

 Hutchinson, R. A. Deal and Moses 

 Child. 



A survey of the proposed Pahvant 

 Irrigation District in Millard Coun- 

 ty, from Holden to Konosh, em- 

 bracing about 56,000 acres, has been 

 completed by C. J. Ullrich of the 

 State Engineer's office. Water to 

 the extent of 98,000 acre-feet has 

 been alloted to the district and it is 

 the intention of the promoters to 

 purchase the greater part of the 

 water from the Sevier Land and 

 Water Company. The district has 

 been organized under the new irri- 

 gation law. While the cost of the 

 survey is being paid by the state, the 

 new irrigation district will eventual- 

 ly reimburse the state for same. 



. Abandoning every proposition to 

 rebuild the Mammoth dam, the 

 stockholders of the Price River Ir- 

 rigation Company, at a recent meet- 

 ing voted in favor of permitting the 

 state to foreclose on the property of 

 the company to satisfy the indebted- 

 ness of $80,000 to the state. It is 

 contemplated by the farmers under 

 this project to buy in the property 

 at the foreclosure sale and then re- 

 organize the company for continu- 

 ance of its operation as an irriga- 

 tion company. It is proposed to 

 ask the state for a loan of $30,000 

 with which to run a tunnel to take 

 the place of the present flume which 

 carried water to the reservoir, which 

 was emptied when the dam went out 

 in the spring flood. With the run- 

 ning of the tunnel the company will 

 be able to furnish from its supply 

 of 200 second feet of water sufficient 

 to irrigate all of the land which was 

 irrigated from the reservoir, up to 

 about June 20, which will permit the 

 growing and harvesting of the early 

 grains and two cutings of alfalfa. 



A contract has just been let to 

 Erick Rosenwall for the construc- 

 tion of a reinforced concrete dam at 

 the old canal head for the sum of 

 $885, work to be completed Nov. 1. 

 The Gunnison Irrigation Company 

 has been to considerable expense of 

 late repairing breaks and keeping up 

 the dam, and at its last annual meet- 

 ing the company decided to make 

 permanent improvements of a sub- 

 stantial character, these including a 

 concrete apron and side-wall protec- 

 tion at the reservoir besides a flume 

 at the mouth of the tunnel. Presi- 

 dent Knighton states that due to the 

 exceptionally large inflow of water 

 it was necessary to defer this latter 

 work for another season. .. 



WASHINGTON 



Owners of 2,000 acres lying 

 above the Sunnyside canal, north of 

 Prosser, at a recent election ap- 

 proved the proposal of the govern- 

 ment to install a pumping plant there 

 and put the land under irrigation. 

 The estimated cost of the project is 

 $220,000 and an appropriation of 

 $250,000 is available for the work. 

 It is expected that water will be de- 

 livered by next summer. 



The extensive irrigation plant 

 built at Wahluke by the now defunct 

 DeLarm & Biehl corporation, which 

 had a capitalization of $5,000,000, 

 was recently sold to Gale Matthews 

 of Ephrata to satisfy a judgment of 

 $275. DeLarm & Biehl organized 

 this big irrigation project in south- 

 ern Grant county and sold stock 

 amounting to thousands of dollars. 

 The federal authorities investigated 

 the scheme, the case got into the 

 courts and when their project failed 

 the owners disappeared. The proj- 

 ect was then bought in by another 

 party who had liens against the as- 

 sets of the company, and now Mr. 

 Matthews has been compelled, in or- 

 der to get his money from his claim 

 against the successor to DeLarm & 

 Biehl, to buy the plant and other as- 

 sets, which include a big steam 

 pumping plant and other accessories. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



J. C. Dobbins, a real estate man of 

 Phoenix, Ariz., has applied for the 

 purchase of 71 sections of state land. 

 About 45,000 acres will be placed un- 

 der cultivation in the near future if 

 his plans go through. The land in 

 question lies south of Tucson in the 

 Santa Cruz Valley. 



Gary B. Brooks of Crowley, La., 

 has purchased the Watertown Farm 

 and Irrigation Company's planta- 

 tion of some 3,300 acres lying just 

 across the Mermentau river. The 

 tract is improved with pumping 

 plants, warehouses, etc. The pur- 

 chase price was $65,000. 



Construction of the second largest 

 irrigation system in New Mexico, 

 which will rank second only to the 

 Elephant Butte system, is in prog- 

 ress at East Las Vegas, N. M. The 

 system will place under ' irrigation 

 about 12,000 acres, including some of 

 the most fertile lands in the state. 



The Story Construction Company 

 of San Francisco is building the sys- 

 tem at an estimated cost of more 

 than one-half million dollars. The 

 work will be completed before 

 March 1, next year. 



The system will be supplied by a 

 reservoir which will contain 22,000 

 acre-feet of water. The dam, which 

 will impound this supply, will be 1,- 

 300 feet long and 90 feet high at its 

 highest point. Its base will be 325 

 feet in width. The dam will have 

 a concrete core which will be cov- 

 ered with dirt. The upper side will 

 be rip-rapped to resist destructive 

 action of the water. 



The .dam will cause the formation 

 of a body of water three miles long 

 with an average width of one mile. 

 The lake when filled will contain 

 enough water to supply the entire 

 acreage under the system with water 

 for one irrigation season. 



The land, which will be irrigated, 

 was given by Las Vegas in consider- 

 ation of the building of the system 

 and the consequent benefit the town 

 will derive from the cultivation of 

 the Jand. The land is not now for 

 sale. It will not be placed on the 

 market until the system is complet- 

 ed. 



Al. Trieloff of Reno and Franktown, 

 Nevada, has filed an application with 

 the state engineer of Nevada, to take 

 sixty-five second-feet of the flood 

 waters of the Truckee river for ir- 

 rigation purposes. The land to be 

 irrigated lies in the Spanish Springs 

 and Prosser Valleys, lying a short 

 distance northeast of Reno. While 

 no authorized statement has been 

 made by Mr. Trieloff, it is understood 

 that he and his associates have op- 

 tions upon several thousand acres of 

 land in these valleys. It is proposed 

 to take water from the Truckee river 

 from a point above Verdi, and to 

 carry it into the valleys by means of 

 a high line ditch. 



IRRIGATION BY MEANS OF 

 CANVAS TUBE. 



A very interesting contrivance was 

 demonstrated last summer at the Col- 

 lege farm. It consists of a long can- 

 vas tube in which are placed small 

 brass gates, so placed that each gate 

 will come opposite a row down which 

 it is desired to discharge irrigation 

 water. The tube is laid 'along the 

 high part of the field, connected with 

 the ditch at the upper end, the water 

 runs through this tube without; the 

 water is discharged through the gate 

 openings in the amount desired by 

 the irrigator, and the supply for each 

 tube is controlled by opening the 

 small gates in the tubes. The canvas 

 tube decreases in size as it extends 

 from the ditch so that the smaller 

 head of water flowing at the extreme 

 lower end is carried through a much 

 smaller tube, and thereby a saving 

 of material is obtained. 



So far as the control of irrigation 

 water is concerned this device is 

 ideal. Further than that it is easily 

 changed from place to place by al- 

 lowing the water to run out of it and 

 then dragging it along the ground. 

 The only thing that will have to be 

 watched is that it is thoroughly 

 cleaned when irrigation ceases, be- 

 cause the canvas will of course in 

 time rot. and the same care must be 

 given a tube of this kind as is given 

 to the ordinary canvas dam in order 

 to preserve the same. 



E. B. HOUSE, 

 Colorado Agricultural College, 



Fort Collins, Colo. 



If you want to keep in touch with 

 all sides of the Reclamation Problem 

 send $1.00 for one year's subscrintion 

 to the Irrigation Age, 30 North Dear- 

 born Street, Chicago. 



