Pizer, and a few others have small appropriations from Horse creek, Kiowa creek, Sheep creek, Winter creek, and other small streams.

The acreage given in the foregoing list is approximate. In some cases the original intentions have been enlarged, and a few of the smaller projects entirely abandoned. A larger number of the small appropriations have been merged into the southside federal irrigation project, and are included in the Gering & Fort Laramie Irrigation district.

Interstate Canal Some years before the reclamation act was passed, several irrigation enthusiasts were looking for the possible extention of H. D. Lingle's irrigating canal of Wyoming, into Nebraska, and including thereunder the fine table lands now under the Interstate canal. They were driving east from the Rawhide, and struck a valley through the sand hills, which Oscar Gardner called "Lucky valley," because of the desired elevation.

When the government purchased the Lingle canal, and made its extention, this valley was utilized for the passage of the big Interstate canal into Nebraska. The building of this canal was simultaneous with that of the Tristate or Farmers canal, and the incidents and conditions obtaining in the construction years were similar to those related under the former story. This difference occurs : government work was eight hour labor. Under the civil service rules and the rapid expansion of the government department, there were those in the service that the departmnt could not discharge had it so desired, and some of the places were occupied by men who should not have been there.