Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-21
IRRIGATION UNDER HeAowAY.

law or June IT, lSoZ, IS one or the most striking developments in the current history of the United States. Unlike many great national undertak- ings, irrigation was well provided with cash funds from the start All the money received from the sale of public lands in the arid and semi arid states. from the date of the pass age of the law, has been turned into he irrigation fund. and, at the begin
 ling of the present month, amounted o s2S,02S, ,5715O. Nor has there been any delay in beginning actual, work Eleven projects, for nearly million acres, are under construction, and six more are approved. In June last Ne vada celebrated the completion of the first part of the Truckee system. and early in 1906 Idaho will put into use the Minnidonka project. The dam on Snake river, below the American falls will supply water to 100. .00O acres, and settlers are gathering in the three towns surveyed, where choice of lots will shortly be disposed of at auction At a similar sale at Lawton, Okla homa, $400,Oo0 was received in pre- miums. Among other projects under construction are those at Salt river, Ariz., 1S0.000 acres; at Yuma, Ariz., and California, S5,0OO acres; at Un- compahgre, Colo. 125,OOO acres; at Huntley, Mont. 35,0O0 acres; at Fort BufOrd, Montana, and North Dakota. 60,000 acres; at North Platte, Ne braska, and Wyoming, 100000 acres; f; at Hondo, New Mexico. 10000 acres: at Belel Fourche, South Dakota, S0,000 acres; at Shoshone, Wyoming, 125,OOO acres.
 Here is a total of 960,OO0 acres to be reclaimed, where work is already proceeding. at an estimated cost of s23, ,97O 900, or s31.42 per acre. a figure received with general satisfaction by the prospective settlers, who will pay the first cost in gradual installments Thus the funds for irrigation will be kept revolving in ever increasing az gresate. Five other projects have been approved by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, at Klamath Falls, Oregon, and California; Malheur, Or egon; Milk river, Montana; Bismarck and Buford- Trenton, North Dakota. and Fayette-Boise, Idaho. The pro- jects cover the reclamation of S19,000 acres, at a cost of s6,1OO,0O0 Oregon leads in it's contribution to the recla- nation fund, with $4,S00,000; North Dakota is second, with s4,50O,000; Oklahoma third, with s3,2O0, ,00O, and Washington, fourth, with s3,100, coo. Those at the bottom of the list are Nevada, s65,0 ,000; Kansas, st39.000; Arizona. s24O,O0O; Utah, s335,O0O, and New Mexico, s473,O00 The work go- ing on includes many large enter prises, such as driving a tunnel 30.000 feet long to convey the iGunnison river, Colorado, into a fruit-raising valley, and series of tunnels in Mon tana to take water from the south side of the Yellowstone river to an area of 30,0O0 acres crossed by two transcontinental railways.
 A question has been raised in Ore gon and the state of Washington that will interest the interior department and congress, as well as the citizens generally. Some time ago the project at Palouse, Wash, was approved. It proposed the reclamation of S0,000 acres at<a cost of $2,SOOO00, but the undertaking has been suspended in definitely on the recommendation of a board of consulting engineers. be- cause the estimated cost would be s63 an acre. while the average cost of the other projects under construction is $3142 an acre But papers in the state of Washington say purchasers are ready to take the Palouse lands at Lue estimated cost of water rights. and that the prices of all lands in the northwest warrant a higher range than in sandy wastes where there are few inhabitants and no immigration and land sells for only tenth of what  lively unsettled regions. Oregon al ready has irrigation works con structed by private capital at cost o1 s2.50O,0O0, that supply 4500 farm CTS through 4OO0 miles of main canals and d-,ches with products of s5,O00,- 900 annually. or twice the first outlay INSURANCE REFORMS.