These cost $35,500 in place. The largest flume is 1100 feet long and has a maximum height of fifty-six feet. The financial condition is A-l. There are no unpaid interest coupons, all semi-annual interest on bonds has been promptly paid since issued. Very few registered warrants on general fund, said warrants taken at par by the banks. Cost of maintenance for 1914, sixty cents per acre; for 1915, sixty cents per acre, and for 1916, seventy-five cents per

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acre. Part of this year's maintenance went into construction of new steel flumes, therefore this cost has not increased. Each annual levy for interest on bonds is $2.25 per acre, making the total levy for 1916, $3.00 per acre.

Ninety-five per cent of all lands in this district are in cultivation and crops this vear (1920) and all this land is irrigated. The crops consist of sugar beets, potatoes, cabbage, alfalfa, native hay, wheat, oats, barley, spelts and corn. In 1921 II. Walker is president and F. E. Reader, secretary of this district.

Lodgepole Irrigation Company The Lodgepole Irrigation Company was organized in November, 1913. with $250,000

capital stock. The announced intention of this company upon its organization being to put the Bennett Live Stuck Company's range, overtake all fertile acres into irrigation and divide into eighty-acre tracts for sale to settlers. This range was then composed of approximately 5,000 acres of land. It was figured that this project would allow more than one-hundred new families to come into Kimball county and settle.