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Rh legislature of 1911 appropriated $315,000 additional to complete the erection and to furnish the buildings, and for other equipment. A tract of land comprising about 450 acres situated a mile and a half west of Pendleton, in Umatilla County, was selected, and hospital buildings, modern in every respect, and of a capacity to accommodate about 400 patients, were completed and accepted by the board of trustees January 1, 1913. The hospital was formally opened and occupied upon the transfer of 325 patients from the Oregon state hospital at Salem, on January 23, 1913."—Oregon Blue Book.

New Era of Irrigation Activities in Oregon. In 1913, $450,000 was appropriated by the State of Oregon for the completion of the Columbia Southern Project in Crook County, which had been initiated under the Carey Act. At the same time provision was also made for the investigation of many of our other large irrigation projects. Irrigation districts became the popular plan under which irrigation works should be constructed, and the reports of the State of Oregon, acting in co-operation with the United States, led in 1914 and 1915 to the organization of eight districts. Therefore, as the passage of the Carey Act, and the United States Reclamation Act, marked a new era of interest in irrigation development, so the passage of two important statutes in 1913 appropriating $450,000 for the Tumalo Project and $50,000 for investigations marked a new era of promotion and development; and as a result of these movements there are (1918) approximately 700,000 acres of land under irrigation development in Oregon,

Oregon State Industrial School for Girls. "The Oregon State Industrial school for girls was established by act of the 1913 legislature, and located in temporary quarters until February, 1915, when it was removed to its present site, five and one-half miles south-east of Salem. The courses given for credit are cooking, sewing, laundering, gardening,