, 1901-11-14
for The Homestead
Irrigation Settlement
Scheme has Been run
and the Question
of the Dam is
now Being Discussed.
Over Seventy Miles in Length,
Will be the Canal, With an Aver
age Width of Forty Feet.-To
Cover 100000 Acres of Agrl-
cultural Land-To Trans
form the Wilderness into
a Bountiful Garden.

County Surveyor, j. G. Kennedy,
has been very busy for the past week
or SO, running a preliminary survey
of the the Homestead Irrigation Set
Element canal. Mr.. Kennedy talked
very Interestingly of his work and its
extent.
"The canal will be probably seventy
miles in length, when we come to run
the permanent survey. We started
at the lowest point on the ridge be-
tween Lake creek and Pass creek,
where a road crosses the divide,
where it will be easy to cover all of
the land below Pass creek, and ran
from there up to the mouth of Brush
creek, taking levels every 500 feet.
We struck the river just above the
mouth of Brush creek and 80 feet
above the level of the mouth OF that
stream. 1t is quite likely that the
dam site will be in the canon, prob
ably a mile, or less, above the mouth
of Brush creek.
1.-The dam site has not been defn-
ately settled yet, but it will certainly
be in the canon through which the
river flows and which ends at the
point where Brush creek flows into
the river.
"When the headgate is fixed then
we will start from that point and sur
vey back to where we started from,
setting permanent grade stakes every
100 feet. After this is done then the
work of tieing the canal to section
corners will be done, and a map made
of the land under the ditch and APP
plication made to have it withdrawn
from settlement by the General Land
Office, in compliance with what is
known as the Carey Act.
THE canal will be forty feet in
width and two and one-half feet in
depth, with a fall of II feet to the
mile. If it has any greater fall than
that it is liable to wash, and that is
one of the things which we have to
guard against. 1t will be ar immense
undertaking but one that will be OF
the greatest benefit to this entire
country. Where the canal goes over
the pass, in the divide between Lake
and Pass creeks, it will probably di-
vide and one branch will turn up
Pass creek and cover all the land pos.
sible up that stream. The other and
larger branch will swing to the west
and cover the immense body of fine
land west of Pass creek in which
there are many thousand of acres
While the canal makes many wind
ings, to get around bluffs, its general
direction is almost due north. 1t may
be that we will have to make N OF
two short tunnels, but that has moi
been determined on yet"
Prospective investors and settlers
are pouring into this country every
day to look it over and to make W
their minds whether they and theil
friends are going to come here tt
make their homes in future. w,
have yet to see the first man who wa
dissatisfied with the outlook; on thu
other hand they have all been de
lighted with the prospect and have
gone away expressing the determin
alton to come to the Saratoga Vale,
Just as soon as the canal is ready fol
them.
There is perhaps as much enthusi
assn among our W people, concern
ing this project, as outsiders, Score
of men here in the town and vale.
have expressed their attention to tax
a homestead under this canal. Ever.
man realizes that the consumation o
this scheme is one of the creates
things that could happen to this val
ley and that it will do wonders to
ward the settlement of the entir
state.