The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1907-06-14
Another Empire About to Start.

IKE buaV WHICH now COHpilSoo AWiu
Falls county, was marked desert" on
the map of Idaho. Senator Hevburn
had the offensive and misleading word
removed and, no doubt, had the SEN
ator's wishes been carried out to the
letter the word paradise" might have
been substituted Lincoln and Twin
that they contain the greatest irrigation
projects in America ana will in very
short space of time be the most pro-
ductive agricultural and horticultural
sections of the Gem state. Lincoln
emerged from the stock range period to
the home building era when the great
Minidoka project was launched. This
lifted the county into the first rank.
The second step was taken when the
Twin Falls North Side Land & Water
company opened $4,000 acres for entry
in April of this year. The third step
will be taken on June "a, when the
Idaho Irrigation Co. will open 40,82l
acres of Carey act land at Alberta, Is
miles north of Shoshone, on the HALEY
branch of the Short Line. This land
is to be reclaimed by means of huge
reservoir which win impound 100000
acre feet of the waters of the Malad and
the Big Wood rivers.
Thanks to the wide publicity given
the Twin Falls projects and the thor
oughness of the tests made on the Min
idoka and Twin Falls tracts, there is no
further need of dilating upon the quail
ity of the soil in this section OF the
state Under irrigation every foot of it
will produce anything that can be grown
in the temperate zone.
The Idaho Irrigation company's pro-
jeot, which is popularity known as the
Boone Hernsheim project" because S.
d. Boone and Charles Hernsheim were
the active spirits in its development,
possesses one distinct advantage. APP
proximately $4,000 acres under the
canal system has been cleared Of sage
brush, which will be a saving to the
settlers of So an acre at least. On this
tract Of land the sagebrush was once
very dense. A rancher set fire to the
brush one windy and dry day and the
flames swept over $4,000 ocres.
The project is being developed under
the Carey act, the more practical, the
most liberal and most successful irriga-
ton law ever framed. Under its terms
the settler obtains water at a reasonable
rate, he has 10 years in which to pay for
his water rights aud he can make final
proof and obtain patent to his land
within few months. In other words
he is not married to his land for term
of wears. When he secures a patent he
can easily borrow what money he needs
to develop his farm He also pays taxes
and contributes his just share toward
the upbuilding of the state. 1t is not
even necessary that the land seeker
should attend the opening. He can file
by power of attorney with the positive
assurance that he will fare just as we'll
as though he were on the ground in
person. The conditions are exactly
the same as they are on the Twin Falls
tract. The settler pays 50 an acre on
his water right at time of filing aud %
cents an acre on his land The land
costs so cents per acre and the water
right $50 per acre.
The land under this project has been
carefully selected and conservative and
experienced men who have inspected
the tract say that every acre is good.
The soil is rich, sandy loan, smooth,
free of rock and easy to handle The
canal system will eventually cover no.
600 acres. The construction will be
strictly high grade throughout aud the
water supply will be ample aud certain.
The tract to be reclaimed lies in the