The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-07-07
GIimse of the Work Of American
Falls Canal and Power Co.
ALL VISITORS ARE SURPRISED
Independent of all Other Local Enter
prises, The Work of This Concern
Goes on With Telling Results.

Goes on With Telling Results.
The big project on the west side of tho
river by which $1,000 acres of Carey land
and 1900 acres of other lands are being
brought under the reviving touch of the
waters of American Falls Canal and
Power Company, is being steadily pushed
forward notwithstanding periodical re-
verses which come with the work and
growth Of the enterprise.
People of this community have looked
on with no little interest while this work
has gone on, reclaiming lands on which
1900 families might be provided with
farms Of 40 acres each, and their water
rights be backed by great reservoirs in
the desert filled with the winter flow and
fed by a stream six feet deep and 70 feet
wide on the bottom.
Few persons beside the stockmen who
have ridden the range, realize that this
takes in some Of the very richest lands
in Bingham county, and that when set
tied up it will mean population several
times as great as that of Blackfeot.
Last summer the work on the canal
and reservoirs was pretty we'll finished
as far as Danilson Springs, and this sea
son the contractors with about rs teams
are grading from there southwark and
westwards toward American Falls. The
canal has to be carried over Spring Creek
by means of 1ume 1900 feet long, which
requires the use of 100000 feet of lumber
From there the canal is to be extended
in two branches; the Lowland Branch
reaching to Tartar Springs, about ten
miles above American Falls.
A tract of land about rs miles in
length has been surveyed this season,
by E. O. Church, the company's engin-
eer, and stakes set at every quarter sec
tion corner and at the center of each
section. These posts are 4 inches in
size and four feet high, set we'll in the
ground. The elevation of each corner
stake is recorded carefully, showing it's
relation to the grade line Of the canal,
and craftsmen at camp are busy making
profile maps showing this, and contour
maps showing the lines of these canals.
Many preliminary, or test surveys are
made before locating given section of
canal, and when done it makes the loca-
tion of the arteries of future common
wealth whose appearance on the plain
will be as sudden as it's structures are
and lasting.
The "Third Opening will occur in
about sixty days, when 5000 acres will
be opened to purchasers, and when men
who have looked over the land and ask
I'd to be permitted to make selections
and deposit money to hold them, will
have a chance to part with their money
and acquire titles to land and water that
will produce fruits and cereals such as
nay be seen in the annual overflow of
he horn of plenty at our September fair.
The company have experienced the
'ame troubles that all others have who
rave built new canals and tried to carry
arge bodies Of water through them the
irst season while the banks are loose.
They have had washouts and losses Of
ime and water at critical times, but no
Freaks are ever SO large but that they
IAN be repaired, and all the settlers whom
We have mentioned heretofore, who have
,ut in crops, are watering them except
snyder and Loomis, and they are water
ng their trees and garden with sled
md barrel while waiting for the water
o reach them through the canal.
Yet in the meantime the work of
construction goes on steadily like the
Mills of the Gods; grinding slowly but
xceeding fine.