The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-02-09

age reservoir built there, not only 70
the benefit OF Wyoming, but for Nc
braska as well. The Secretary has sc
aside $2,250,000 for the Shoshon,
River, Wyoming, project and So, 1896. O0(
for the Pathfinder project on NORTH
Piatte River. to be partially expended
Tor the benefit of Nebraska. Thus
about Is per cent of the entire re-
clamation fund will be laid out in Wy.
om1ng, although she has contributed
only about per cent. of the fund.
Scenes along the Platte and the Sho.
shone canyon are among the widest
and most picturesque in America,
Second to Wyoming comes the terri.
tory OF Arizona. with the great Salt
River project at an estimated cost of
about four million dollars. recurring
upwards of 9 per cent. Of the entire
reclamation fund, although Arizona
has contributed less than / per cent
1t Is stated by the engineers that the
opportunities for water storage in Arr
iona are. next to Wyoming, the best
IN the arid West while the soil Of that
territory Is not only extremely fertile
ana lying at a moderate altitude. but
tne climate IL semi-tropical and under
careIul cultivation. ten or even five
acres will support family. Southern
Ca!llornia to-day, with similar soil
ana climate. has thousands Of pros
porous little i've and ten acre farms.
Inc third State in order of irrigation
benefits in Montana, which. although
lying Tar north. has q splendid water
supply and likewise rich land. Actual
construction has been begun by the
government on the Yellowstone.
wnere, owing to the plentiful flow of
water, none Of the embarrassing com.
plications OF vested water rights ex.
ISL, which have prevented work thus
far on the upper Missouri River and
on the Milk River. The funds allotted
70 Montana for the Huntley. Lower |
Yellowstone and Milk River proiectssl
amount to over three million dollars,
or nearly nine per cent. Of the fund.
which Is in excess Of the amount con.
tributed by Montana.
The fourth State In order of benefits
is Nevada, contributing the least
money to the fund but probably most
necuIng the benefits. Il was, In fact,
through the dire wants OF this State
That the law received its inception. be-
ing frst known as the Newlands bill,
this unique plan Of automatic appro.
priation being originated and intro
1uced by Senator Newlands, then a
representative. in the spring Of 1901.
Following Nevada come Idaho.
Washington, Colorado, Nebraska,
south Dakota, Oregon, North Dakota,
Oklahoma. Utah. Kansas. and lastly ;
New Mexico, =
Throughout these States Govern 4
nent surveyors and engineers are II
working upon many interesting pro- II
ects where strong rivers rush down h
'ut Of the mountains in time of heavy t,
pring floods. but which will be i'm. ii
founded behind great masonry dams i,
form storage lakes whence the water n,
1ill later be diverted into the irri- =,
alton canals and used for crops on the =,
esert soils. Thousands Of prosperous II
ONES will be the result when these :
'orks are completed, and the great re-
Vest, which is to-day in reality but a tn
parsely settled community, will be- n
ome more rounded out and better bal as
need against the more populous East ra
n half Of the country. G.