Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
Irrigation Project
Is Explained

For the information of those in.
terested, beg leave to make the fol-
lowing announcement:
The Foothills Irrigation Company
is an Oregon corporation, authorized
to do business under the laws of the
state of Oregon.
The officers of said corporation
are as follows: C. E. Bade of Port
land, Ore, president; Jacob Jensen
of Portland, Ore, vice-president; w.
T. Jacobsen of Portland, Ore, treas
urer; T. w. Osgood of Medford, Ore.
secretary and manager.
All preliminary arrangement Incl
dent to this undertaking have been
consummated. Work at the dam
will be undertaken during the COM
ing week and together with other
units of the system will be prose-
cuted diligently and as constantly as
weather conditions will permit until
the completion of the project, which
it is anticipated will be during the
fall of 1914. This undertaking will
involve the expenditure of a consid-
cradle sum of money and it is the
intention of the company to install
plant which will be a credit to all
concerned and which will serve ade-
quately the purpose for which it was
designed.
Every requirement OF the law has
been complied with in appropriating
the public waters of the state for this
use and the permits providing for
such appropriations have been regu-
larly issued by the state engineer
The source of water supply is Emil
grant creek, Keene creek and the
Keene creek reservoir, the latter be-
ing the principal supply.
The amount of water available
from these sources has been deter
mined by careful Investigation.
Water gaugeings of the streams have
been made and complete record of
the annual run-off has been kept by
the company.
Also taken into consideration are
the official precipitation records for
the past "a years, and the stream
gaugeings as recorded in the U. S.
Water Supply papers. The years of
minimum precipitation have been
made the basis of calculation and
liberal allowance has been made for
seepage and evaporation losses in the
reservoir and canals. The result of
this investigation demonstrates con-
clusively that the said source will
furnish water supply, both constant
and abundant for the purpose at
hand.
The Keene creek reservoir Is To-
Gated IL miles east of Ashland at an
elevation of approximately 5000 feet
above sea level and embraces what
is locally known as Hyatt Prairie.
The dam to be constructed in the
canyon at the lower end of the prai-
rie will have a maximum height of
AZ feet and length on the crest of
900 feet. The resulting reservoir
will have an area of 964 acres, an
average depth of approximately 20
feet and a storage capacity of 49,
700 square feet
From the reservoir the water will
be conveyed in the bed of Keene
creek for a distance of about two
miles to the point of intake OF the
division canal which will carry the
water across the summit into the
Emigrant creek water shed, a dis
tance OF one and one-half miles,
thence in the bed of Emigrant creek
distance of IL miles to the intake
of the main canal, located about five
miles above Ashland
The course of the main canal has
not as yet Deen finally located, al
though much preliminary work has
been done in this regard. The wa
ters of this project are sufficient to
irrigate 5000 acres of land and
there are in the upper end of the
valley four units of land, each COM
prising 5000 acres and upon any one
of which the water can be diverted.
1t has, however; been the company's
intention to serve that district living
along the foothills from Talent to
Jacksonville, and there will probably
be no deviation from this course. The
support given this enterprise by the
! land holders and continuation of
such will assure for them a substan-
tial and permanent irrigation system
within the time stated.
To the land owners in particular