Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-11-15
NORTH DAKOTA VISITOR
TELLS OF MOUNTAIN HOME
Gives Garrett What is Coming to him--Ake
and Hall Ranches Arouse
His Enthusiasm.


other reservoir, known as the High
Prairie reservoir, and its canals.
This storage basin will be fifty
miles distant from the lands its
waters will irrigate and 2, 500 feet
above Mountain Home, and will
have larger reserve capacity than
the other three reservoirs combined.
1t will divert one or more sizbale
perennial streams of water and head
them for Camas Prairie.
1t was our good fortune to 60 up
into the mountains under the escort
of the able and gentlemanly chief
engineer, G. w. Sublette, and view
the irrigation system of the Great
Western Beet Sugar company-its
basins, dams and canals, and it goes
without saying that we were much
pleased with what we saw. The
system is admirably and substantial
ly constructed. There is absolutely
no sign or intimation of graft or
swindle in these works. We saw
much of the canal between CamaS
and Long Tom and admired the
canal and its tunnels and fumes as
they wind their tortuous way
around jutting ridges and reclining
horseshoes, for their beauty and
solidity. The canal is twelve feet
wide at the bottom and twenty-five
at the top and has fall of three
and quarter feet to the mile, and
in many places they are dug through
solid rock, which has rendered their
construction both slow and expens-
i've The soil is calcoreous and
forms substantial cement at the
touch of water. Seepage is thus re-
duced to a minimum. In three or
four places the canal was not en-
tirely completed, but the work
was going on in a business man
ncr and we are told that the
largest and most difficult unfin-
ishcd portion would be completed
in six weeks from that time. We
passed through two 8O0-foot tun-
ncls, five feet wide and six feet
high, largely through solid rock,
at cost of seven dollars per lineal
foot. The tunnels aggregate a mile
in length and the several fumes
reach a similar stretch. Mountain
Home reservoir has an impounding
capacity of 5000 acre feet of water,
i. e. sufficient to cover 5000 acres
with water one foot deep; Long
Tom, IS, 900 acre feet; Camas Prai-
rie, $4,000 acre feet. The storage
capacities OF Long Tom and Camas
Prairie basins will be largely in
creased by contemplated elevations
to their dams.
, Our ride through the mountains
, was no less thrilling and exciting
than it was interesting ascending
steep pitches, dropping down int
deep gulches and gorges-moun
tains presenting Kaleidoscope scenes
of beauty and ruggedness which
alike charmed and startled as w,
, dashed along the winding and un
, even trail, over crest and valley
Mountain sides and tops were pilcC
with strata of rocks perpendicular
' and aslant-quaint, weird, small
huge, dentated, serrated, castled
l frowning, threatening, ugly, repel
! liant, lovely, winsome, wooing
: most inviting place to while ava.
5 a month in rest and recreation, il
contact with NATURES boldest freak
r and richest sublimity.
John H. Garrett is the movin
f spirit, the master mind and hand
D that has brought the Mountain
f Home system of irrigation into ex
y istence and great credit is du
Z him therefor. Thirty-two year
: old, large of frame, alert an
e pleasing of countenance, direct an
: of few words in business, genis
e and companionable in leisure, cles
d in judgment, puhsing in enterprise
: willing and helpful in counsel anc
y last but first, trusted as being thoI
i oughly honest, he holds var
: tage ground offering unequalle
n opportunity for usefulness in a re
lie community. He is not only pre-
lie noting the Mountain Home systei
is of irrigation, but he is promutir
h Mountain Home city. His hand
l. seen in almost every public ente
n prise that makes for the good
r. the vicinity in which he live
as Irrigation, lands, blooded horse
lie and cattle, electric light plan
lie county fair, fruit culture, businei
be blocks and other interests engag
2. each, some of his busy moments.
ed Most of the country around Mou
ee tain Home is covered with sag
re brush-is handsome in its eve
DIS ness and is all irrigible from Z