The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-03-03
News from the Teton Country
Big Canal Proposition to be Voted on; Wa
ter Work a Success; Electric Lights.

TETON CITY, Idaho, Feb. 81, 1906 -
The fire OF action has at last been
kindled around the enterprise propo-
sition and the fogg of seeming neg.
lect has now been melted away
State engineer has reported favorably
on the feasibility Of the canal and
things are now on the move. Elec-
tion for the voting Of bonds is called
for March 10Th. On that day owners
of land in the enterprise district will
vote, no doubt TO man, for bond Of
SITS per acre on the six thousand two
hundred and sixty acres to be re-
claimed by the canal This vast
stretch OF land is as fine soil as is
found IN Snake river valley capable
OF producing from forty TO fifty
bushels of wheat or twenty tons OF
beets per acre.
The opening up of this six and one
fourth thousand acres OF excellent soil
abutting Teton is perhaps the most
benefcent proposition that could
come to town. 1t meaps the creating
of miles of beautiful farming land
tributary to Teton, and the establish.
ment Of hundreds, and in time, thous-
ands of settlers in our vicinity Land
now owned by Teton citizens and dry
farmed from towns will be converted
into beautiful homes. Much of it
will be sold in eighty and forty acre
lots and thus will it be more thickly
settled This will give abundant OPP
portunity for migration to Teton,
and we shall all say welcome"
The canal is to be taken out of the
Fall river whence it takes south
westerly course to the crossing OF the
Teton river distance of eight miles.
1t will be siphoned across the river in
a siphon sixty-tive inches in diameter
at a point about five miles above town,
whence it containues little west of
south for distance OF about eight
miles to the Moody creek. The canal
is thirty feet wide on the bottom
three feet deep, and thirty-flve feet
wide at the top of the water with a
safe carrying capacity OF eighty second
feet.
Work on the canal will in ali prob
ability begin about the first OF June
and we have 1t from the directors that
water will be admitted, ordinary sue
cess attending the work. early in
September. This seems wild nope,
but with the determination of such
men as James Siddoway, John r.
Allen and James W. Mckinley behind
the project our doubts are dispelled.
The expenditure of tifty-ive thous-
and dollars and more in our midst
means cash in circulation at Teton,
good times and things doing for 1906.
Water System a Success.
Our extremely cold winter weather
has gone, and the false predictions OF
those unfriendly to our beneficent
water system have gone with it.
Never could there be more real success
realized than has been the good for
tune OF the Teton Water Il Power Co.
This plant was installed in the fall OF
1905 at cost OF about $4,000. To
the stock holders ii has giren-or at
least has to give-despiJe the great
difficulties met with, a dividend OF
better than five per cent, and TO the
town it has given abundance of pure
water in pipes at their doors, or, II
they desired it so, right in their
sinks and baths. Secretary b. f.
Gillett informs us that the company Is
in excellent condition. New stock
holders are entering the company with
gratifying frequency. 1t is the hope
that next year a 10 per cent dividend