The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-02-01
PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION.

been in progress, of which nine are
entirely completed and ten more are
more than half done.
The total area that will be redeemed
when the entire thirty-one enterprises
are completed will be 2,292,346 acres
and the estimated cost will be $89,431,-
500, of which $42,O91,OOO, has already
been expended.
Some of these enterprises are very
interesting That at Minidoka, Idaho,
diverts water from the Snake River on
both banks and when the pumping
works are completed, about 10000
acres, now covered with sage brush,
on either side. can be brought under
cultivation.
The Payette- Boise project, which is
about half completed, provides for the
storage of water upon both the Payette
and Boise rivers for the irrigation of
$4,000 acres, at a cost of nearly U.s.
600 600
The Salt River project in Arizona,
intended to irrigate about 100000 acres
of very fertile land in the vicinity of
Phoenix, is in many respects the most
interesting of all the government en-
terpriseS The project as a whole is
about rs per cent completed and it is
expected that the entire work will be
finished in 1910. The Yuma project
which is about half completed, at an
expenditure of nearly $3,000,OOO, pro-
vides for the diversion of the Colorado
River on both banks about twelve miles
northeast of the town of Yuma. 1t
will reclaim 1900 acres of an Indian
reservation Oh the California side and
about $4,000 acres of public land on
the Arizona side, at total estimated
cost of $5,635, 900.
The Gunnison River will be diverted
from it's present channel through
tunnel six miles long into the Uncom-
pahgre Valley, in Southwestern Colo
RADIO. a part of which is already under
private irrigation. This project when
completed will redeem 146,00 acres of
desert and the cost will be $55O0,OOO.
There have been several projects to
redeem the rich soil around the city of
Ell Paso where Texas, Mexico and New
Mexico have a common interest anu
the United States has proposed to ex-
pend $8,OOO,OOO to redeem 10000 acres
of land and give a certain supply Of
water to about 10000 acres more.
The waters of the North Platte River
in Nebraska are to be gathered into a
large reservoir about fifty miles from
Caspar, Wyo., and used for the recla-
nation Of the North Platte Valley be-
tween that town and Bridgeport, Neb.
This cost will be 100000.
What is known as the Shoshone pro-
iect, eight miles above Cody, Wyo.' is
intended to irrigate 10000 acres of
land and, excepting the Ell Paso and
the Salt River projects will be the most
expensive undertaking of the govern
ment.
Washington Projects.
The Okanogan project, in Northern
Washington, provides for the storage
of water on Salmon River and it's di-
version at a point lower down to cover
bench land lying between Alma and
Riverside. on the bench west of Okan-
ogan River The Conconully reservoir,
on Salmon River, is being constructed
by force account, the earth and gravel
being placed by sluicing methods SINH
lar to those used in hydraulic mining.
About one third of the entire amount
of material required for this dam has
been placed. The Okanogan project
as a whole is SO per cent completed.
The Sunnyside canal system of the
Washington Irrigation Company, which
was purchased by the reclamation
service has been enlarged and i'm