The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-17
M|N|DOKA PROJECT
IS FORGING AHEAD
Statistician of Reclamation Ser
vice Talks of the Great
Work.
GEM STATE RESIDENTS
WILL REAP BIG PROFITS
Sale of Lots in Hepburn and
Rupert to Take Place
Soon.

c. J.. Blanchard of Washington, D. c.,
statistician- of the Reclamation service,
arrived in Salt Lake Thursday and was
attending to business at the headquar
ters of the service in the Commercial
Club block. Mr.. Blanchard has been
visiting a number of the projects now
under construction to the north and
northeast and will in day or two 60 to
the Strawberry valley project to ex~
anime conditions and the work being
done there.
Mr.. Blanchard expects to attend the
meeting of the National Irrigation CON
gress at Boise next month. This work
being directly in his line, he looks for
ward to the meeting with much pleas
ure. He states that it is both instruc-
tive and interesting to hear the ad-
crosses, Of which he has attended sew
eral, by the farmers of the West, as
they talk from experience and do not
cloud their meaning by theories.
Speaking of the Minidoka project in
idaho, which hes has Just visited, Mr..
Blanchard said:
Mr.. Blanchard Talks.
Salt Lake City, perhaps more than my
other mercantile and. manufacturing point in
the West, is interested in the auction sales
OF lots in the new townsites of Hepburn and
Rupert on the Minidoln project. The Mini
dokn project is directly tributary TO this
city and its rapid development has already
increased the business of your merchants.
Everything connected with the project eX-
cept the engineering work is yet in an en-
bryo stage. as mono of the land has been
watered. With tho faith and courage which
is 50 characteristic of the argonaut of the
Sage Brush country, nearly 1000 people have
settled in the desert waste. have erected
their homes, cleared the land and are patient"
Iy waiting the delivery of the water from
the big Government canals.
The Minidoka project offers the hes, con
crete example of the wisdom OF the rccla.
years ago thnt this tract of land was q sage
brush plain, absolutely uninhabited by man
and apparently destined to remain forever
one Of the waste places Of the West
Backed by Uncle Sam,
Engineers: backed by Uncle Sans reca
nation fund, recognized the poteniiality of
this region. when watercd. and plans for
subjugntings the desert were quickly made
INVOLVING nno the expenditure OF nearly $4,000;
10 point where the water can be supplied
next scnson to a considerable area.
Settlement followed so rapidly after the
and dealers who came later found a ready
market for their merchandise.
At advantageous points on the new rail
road through the project. the Government
located three townsites and portions OF two
Of these nre TO be sold this month The
first sale will be at Hepburn. August 20.
MS lOWH mas tHe faSanlAR8 OF e frontage
on Snake river and will command about
thIrty"fve miles of navigabIc waterway,
which may prove important advantage
later on
Rupert's lots will be sold August 27 and
there is sure to be some brisk bidding for
choice building sites.
The merchants OF both towns progrcs
sive. enterprihng and sanguinc of the
splendid future for their prospective cities
With 10000 acres of land in dense cult.
vstIon. divided about equally into forty md
eighty acre farms. at least large city is
surely destined 10 rise under this project
Which will it bel II you guess right and
lucky enough TO property there. your
investment will be returned many fold.
The Short Line officials offering
duced rates and 1 hope many Utahns will
attend the sale.
I cxpoct to visit the Strawberry valley
project while here, | regard it one OF
the most interesting Of our projects from
engineering standpoint, and also by res
OF the great possibility Of development
contained in the lands TO be benefited by it..