The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-03

| CoSc Tor PerpeGual flSnC-
The price per mere Of a perpetual water
| right depends upon the cost OF construc-
| ton of the irrigation works. Five irri-
cation canals, with dams, headgates and
In Idaho, and the purchase price OF water
| rights have varied from $50 to s25 per
| acre, onet tenth I'm cash on the day water
| is ready for delivery and the balance In
| nine equal annual installmenta. With in
| terest on deferred payments at per cent
| per annum.
State Land board. assisted by the State
| Engineer. who has kept his eye on the
omgb %nTS aupmG L progress % e or makes and r.
| In his Judgment. the contract has been
fully complied with, The work Is ac-
copied, then It, together with all rights
and franchises appertaining Ia It. be
comes the property OF the settlers on the
entire tract Every one Of them has
acreage of lands he owns. and IT be-
comes a part of. the land inscparable from
II and passes With IL TO the grantee OF
| the settler.
settler can prove up on his land
in five weeks and does not have 10 re
side on the land after proof, but in
case he does not make proof he must
reside on the property until proof is
made.
Another Tract to Open.
On the oath another tract of "Carey
act' farm lands will open. This will
be at Alberta, fifteen and one-half
miles northeast from Shoshone. The
waters in the Malad and Wood rivers
have been conserved, A great dam has
been constructed. There is water in
plenty for 10000 acres. And they will
he opened under the Reywood River
Reservoir and Canal system The reser-
voir which impouuds this system is
natural wonder Nine and half billion
cubic feet are conserved from n water.
shed covering 1850 square miles and
draining the highest mountains in the
State
In the uper Snake River valley, of
which Idaho Falls is the center, there
cultivation. one-third of the entire sgri-
cultureal area under irrigation in the
State Of Idaho The canals in this
region cost over three million dollars,
and the area irrigated is as large as
the State of Delaware, twice the size
of Rhode Island and half the size of
Connecticut. This is what the man
with the shovel has dome.
Another great irrigation scheme Is
the American Falls Canal and Power
company, near Blackfoot. The Amer
lean Falls company has diverted the
waters Of the Snake river. and canal
carving six feet of water extending
sixty miles with width of 50 feet has
been constructed
But why enumerate This is the work
of the man with the shovel and he has
done more than well. He has taken a
desert, a age-brush plain, barren
waste and thereon he has grown to the
acre 80 bushels of wheat 10 bushels OF
oats, 75 bushels of barley. six tons of
alfalfa, 90 tons Of sugar beets, 500
bushels of potatoes And this in agrl
culture The man with the shovel has
done this.
Great Fruit Country.
In addition what Mas this man with
the shovel done. Why enabled the hor-
ticulturist to not only live, but TO ac-
auire fortunes And what does he
grow7 Apples. peaches, pears ,plums,
nectarines, apricots, Japanese plums
and cherries. Grapes, currants, straw.
berries aud melons. And even the weed
that is solace and comfort, tobacco. is
grown. Not only this, but the fruit
grown has won prizes at all the world s
fairs in America. at the worlds far
in Paris, and Idaho pears and apples
in London commando higher PRICE than
from any other country. And this is
what the man with the shovel has ac-
complished for Idaho.
Nature, too, does something for Idaho
does n great deal for the Gen State. The
sun shines bright on hill and dale, IN
valley and on mountain 21? days every
wear. The climate is delightful. the
hot days. the nights are cool. 1T is
) what might be called and earthly para
disc. No wonder the Salt Lake invaders
had a revelation. No wonder they mar
veled
Man With the Pick.
And now of the man with the PICK
, what has he done7 What of his digging
; and delving, and burrowing III the fast
r ness of the mountains which cover 2
LARGE area In the State. The man witt
the pick 6rst found yellow metal in the
Boise basin and the placer mines IN tha'
, region of the State have yielded mil
lions and millions of dollars.
t Early in the sixties yellow metal was
discovered in the Wood river district
In 1869 railways aided the .prosPectoi
, and then the man with the pick showed
!, what he could do In 1880 Salt Laker:
, located mines in Scorpion Gulch. II
? another year 10000 persons were in the
Wood river district The man with the
pick was at work; over thirty million;
of dollars have been taken from that
, district since.
In the Occur d'Alenes.
} In 1884 the Occur d 'Alene district
; was invaded by the man with the pick
.. He accomplished wonders in that re
! gion, Lead, silver, copper, zinc, an
t timony and gold were uncovered by his
: pick Since his advent in the Coeu,
. d 'Alene range, practically one hundred
( and fifty million dollars has been taker
( from the mines. which the man with
the pick developed, The first man will
the pick TO locate in the Occur 'Alenc
: region was Thomas Irwin He located
1 quartz claim in Elk Creek in 1873
, Back in 1892 the wealth of the Coeul
! d 'Aleues first became known. when the
Jesuits established mission on the
: ST Joseph river, and two years late,
this mission was removed to its pres
ent site on the Coeur d 'Alene river
Then Father Josef and his missionaries
,, were the only white men in that sec
: tion. But the man with the pick had
not arrived. After Irwin located in
: l1S7S other men with the pick came
in aud the first quartz claim was 10
!; Gated on Ritchard creek, September 2l
, 1882 This was the paymaster claim
r What Has Been Done
Then a stampede began. The man
! with the pick was everywhere, prospect