Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-05-14

For years the remarkable richnes
OF the Snake river placers and tn
unparalleled fertility of the bottom
lands have been well known. Thou
sands Of acres of ground that viii
yield *i.OO in gold per cubic yart
and tens of thousands Of acres o
the finest agricultural land in Idah.
have been acting as STIMULATING
forces upon the inventive genius o
man to the end that the waters O
snake river might be utilized. Man,
different schemes have resulted
dilapidated remains Of water-wheel.
and endless belts with buckets at
tached, bearing evidence of the non.
success of the inventors are to b.
found along the river banks, while
water in sufficient quantities to be
OF any avail for the needs of the
country is still wanting.
The Bruneau Ditch Company, i,
is said, have expended 100000 in
building dams across the Bruneau
river in order that the waters Of
said stream might be diverted and
used upon the fields of the Snake.
and although this company is most
certainly deserving of success and
doubtless win succeed when thew
shall have learned BY experience
that a solid foundation is most es-
sential element in the erection of
any structure intended to be perma-
nent, and while it may be possible
and perhaps practical to pump or
otherwise raise sufficient water to
lrrigate or mine limited acres of
land, it appears from surveys re-
Gently made by County Surveyor
Z. c. Towne % whom the BuLLErrs
g indebted for the facts) for Messrs.
Fletcher & Fletcher of Mountain
Home, that an easy and natural
of all difficulties exists and
hat the problem heretofore regarded
Is unsurmountable is really SO sim
'le that it's simplicity alone has de-
aged its demonstration.
Nothing 10 needed but bitches or
annals tapping the Snake at a point
bout 10 miles above the mouth of
he Bruneau, at the uppermost of
cries Of falls and rapids extending
or about eight miles, the combined
all of which is Is feet. The rim
'elow the lower rapids has of itself
efficient grade for canal with a
apacity Of 5000 miners inches. !
'hus the possibilities Of this project |
re almost without limit. Two
annals and rights of way have been
ocated-one upon either side of the
Iver-twenty miles Of which will
over $4,000 acres of land. The
erfect feasibility of this plan will
once be seen when it 10 under
lood that three-fourths of the work
construction can be performed
'ith pillow and scraper, and that no
bstacle 10 encountered at any point
lore serious than the removal of
lose rock.
No statement is made in the above
hat will not bear the closest inves-
CATION, and with eyes so focused
lat gleam of fut re developments
Iay be seen, all who examine will
" that the half has not been told
lem.
II is surprising that such advant-
res for securing water at nominal
cure along the plains of Snake
yer have been overlooked for 40
any years. 1t has however fallen
BON the two energetic George w.
Ietchers TO first grasp the scheme
I'd the fortune sure to follow. II 1
no uncertain enterprise, like the 1
Hiding Of big dams and depending
ION snow-clouds for a supply of ,
iter-it simply requires the dig
NJ of canal with a fiume and
ad- gate at the falls to receive I
ver-failing supply of the fluid that j
II gladden. the hearts Of both the
rmer and the placer miner. :
The Fletchers are already ar /,
nging to commence the work of
yging the canal, and the BULLE- I
wishes them God-speed in their q
lat undertaking. \