He is an expert on irrigation projects, having been a resident of the Greeley, Colorado, district for more than thirty years. The preliminary survey for the district was made in 1905 by H. O. Smith, who at that time was deputy state engineer of the state of Nebraska, and the first estimates were made by him for Messrs. W. Walker, Maginnis and Forsling, Mr. Lemon not being a resident of the county at that time. April 14, 1908, Messrs. WTalker and Maginnis were granted an appropriation from Lodgepole Creek for 20,000 acre-feet for storage purposes. In the summer of 1908, Messrs. Walker, Maginnis,

Forsling and Lemon entered into an agreement to employ engineers to make a permanent survey of the lands to be included in the Kimball district and to run the surveys for two main line canals covering approximately 8,000 acres.

In October of 1908, these engineers located and surveyed the Oliver Reservoir. Messrs. Baker and Thompson, two prominent engineers of Greeley, were the men who made these surveys and estimates of cost, Mr. E. E. Baker, senior member of the firm, making the report showing the feasibility of the project. While the surveys were under way the promoters communicated with the best irrigation contractors in Colorado, the state where irrigation is carried on extensively, and at the same time employed the well known legal firm of Hayt, Dawson and Wright, of Denver, to organize the district.

The contract was let to Atchison and Dailey of Fort Morgan, August 14, 1910, and by December 1, 1911, the entire work was practically completed, a few details only remained. The cost of construction was $235,000, or approximately $33.00 an acre. No irrigation project was ever completed in such short time, and the promoters point with pride to the fact that the cost was approximately the same as the original estimate, and also to the fact that net one dollar was absorbed for promotion nor in commission to any bond-selling concern for placing the bonds.