Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-08-02

blossom like the rose.
That Chinese garden in your city
is sight. l never saw anything
better, not even in the outskirts
of Chicago, where some of the
best gardens that can be found
are located.
And that trip to the source OF
the water supply OF the Great
Western Beet Sugar company which
took dispelled forever from my
mind the possibility of doubt about
the water supply. OF course the
system is not yet completed, but
there is water enough there to
water four times the amount that
is now cleared, in crop or lying idle
for want of people who will take
hold and work it. AS more OF the
valley land is cleared and put in
shape for hay or grain, the capac-
ity of that water supply will be
increased to meet any demand that
may come upon it.
To those who are inclined to find
fault and try to discourage new
Corners there, l would suggest that
they take a trip of inspection to
Long Tom reservoir and look it
over carefully and see if it is not
as near faultless as it is possible for
man to build it. With dam sixty
five feet high, built solidly OF &C.
mcnt and rock, 800 feet wide at the
base and forty or more feet at the
top, and water sixty feet deep ;above
and below is Canyon creek, which
affords the outlet for the overflow
as we'll as for the supply for irriga-
ton for the valley land many miles
below. AS stood on the top of that
dam and looked to the east across
that body of water more than deep
enough to float the largest ocean
steamer, thought that nothing that
had ever seen in engineering could
equal it.
We next visited the the mountain
tunnels, which are to bring the
water when needed from Little
Camas, still farther up in the
mountain region. The first tunnel,
740 feet long, all done but los feet
on June IL, three shifts of mer
working eight hours each, crew al
each end of tunnel meeting ir
center. This tunnel is SIS fee
below the surface of the mountain
in the deepest place. We founo
Eddie Dufresne in charge of tn,
tunnelling crew at this point, frs
class man in charge of first class
onutfit and doing what consider
ed first class job. On accoun
of numerous rock slides the work
crs were finding il necessary 4
timber about all the way, and lum
Der costing $25 per thousand fee
!. delivered on the ground, l coul'
readily see that money was needles
to carry on this work and lots of /
too, but when that fertile vale,
, around Mountain Home is watere,
and furnishes happy homes TO
J thousands of people who are cominI
/ from the thickly settled caster
states, that money is going to b
, looked upon as having been wei
, spent. Dufresne accompanied on
party as guide for some distance
showing us the canal work yet to b
5 done and some fluming to bring tn
water to this tunnel. He pilote
D our party to tunnel No. 2, $50 fee
1 long through solid rock. We walk
| ed through this tunnel its entir
r length and found it in exceller
S shape, all timbered with SIX s O
a sides and top and then planked bs
n hind and above these timbers.
: the farther end of this tunnel d.
: fresno babe us farewell and then r,
y turned to his camp. About lively
miles of canal work (most Of whic
h is done) connects this tunnel wit
still another 1850 feet in lengtl
f which is being worked similar
n the one already described, only II
It rock, after being blown loose wi
C explosives, is drawn out with
), small pony hitchcd to two dun
cars carrying one ton of rock eacl
,e on an iron track.
n Well, we found work beil
l. pushed right along by the wor
lie men at this long tunnel and
re September IS, it will be complet
lie which will open the water way
cr Little Camas, where we find ST
tn another lake, with a dam across I
at outlet forty feet high and water
as abundance. The water was rus
at ing over the spillway of this d;
it at terrible rate, and still peol
e who do not know what they {
r. talking about will sou ft,n xx,o