The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-07
IDAHO'S OPPORTUNITY

lona Irrigation Congress- interested other things besides
the work Of the congress its place Of meeting They went
and investigated the Of the country The Davis
and Weber County Canal companys of the
Interesting things they visited and their interest in the storage Of
greatly increased when they learned the storyo how
this poecr has been carried through Briefly stated the facts
are these
A few years ago the farmers under this canal de-
pved OF the Of about the st OF July because they
the latest appopator and the stream after that time
only sufficient for those having the earl water rights The
stockholders this canal bonded their canal whose stock
worth only $3.50 per share to get money to build small
ervoi at Of $5000O The total value Of the stock
up $24OO00 by Of the values the water which
stored The company then sold 900 shares Of stock $35
per share which sold among the stockholders proata to
their holdings the company and this money used to raise
the dam which added III per cent the capacity Of the
vor Two years later they sold another 900 shares of stock
$50 per share which also taken the stockholders
BEFORE and this $4,000 used raise the dam, which
added s. per the capacity Of the reservoir Another
years has passed. and the stock worth $l9O share Men
who owned hundred shares before the reservoir was
menced and who have paid any assessment for reservoir
work. command $4,000 for what then worth $780,
This increase value the popular imitation value but is
based on production agricultural crops that did not exist be-
fore.
The case Of the Holmes Creek reservoir another exam
pie which asonhed those who built and was revelation
the eastern men who went to see Before the reservoir
built land under was worth $25 acre. after the work
done and demonstrations made Of the values put into the land
the same rented at $25 per year, and sold at
about 5000 People who had been igaing with cold water
from the canyons found that they could grow crop alfalfa in
fifteen to twenty days less time with from the reservoir
L,J,t * Mod ha,+ of
sum- warming the land during irrigation instead Of chilling it.
They found too that had value fertilizer which the
creek water did not possess Water standing the becomes
mpregnated with water-moss which breaks up very fine when
the water moves and goes the fields noush plant
life.
Many farmers in the Salt Lake valley turning their
tenon to tomatoes and they find that the use OF warm water
from the reservoirs especially valuable for this tender CROP
The eastern farmer who engages this work brings his eastern
horoughne with hrm into the field and by resettng
plants wherever they die after planting and by careful cultivation
raises about IS tonnage than his brother
Men who the Irrigation Congress at Ogden last
year looked into all these things and they bought
land In many more instances they went home report what
they had seen their gbors their partners their principals
or whoever they represented The result was that within few
months they were back again looking for his has
spread great deal Of money among the farmers OF Utah and
has been great stimulus enterprise that state he "cov
cred wagons which have annual seamed out Of Utah into
Idaho have not been much evidence this year, the people who
usually go out look for homes emp oymen being proaby
engaged at home his work of investment of capta
Utah farms has not ceased hey still coming and will
tnue to come from year year long people better
their condition by such changes They have Idaho and
do know Of the great beckonng to investors and
farmers along the Snake for thousand miles, and along its
multitude of tributaries
But there way by which Idaho bring these
the attention Of thousands Of the best Of the nation Men
who interested in agriculture, irrigation investment and com
That by securing the meeting Of the Thirteenth Ma
tona Irrigation Congress for daho and taking the delegates
for Of the special alter the congress ad
ourns The excursion would be made up Of representatives Of
the press who would go home and tell their people everything
they could Of daho would include members Of the senate and
house Of representatives who scarcely realize that there any
thing Of the Missouri rve would include who
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