The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-02

brief statement of various projects will show
the national character of the act and make plain
what a tremendous factor it is in the building of
homes in the arid region.
The Salt River project will cover about 100000
acres of land in the vicinity of Phoenix and Mesa,
Arizona, and will be completed in 1909. The lands
in the project are mostly in private ownership.
The Yuma project will irrigate $4,000 acres of land
in Arizona and $4,000 acres in California
The Uncompahgre Valley project will reclaim $780,,
900 acres of land in Delta and Montrose Counties
Colorado This work will be completed in 1909
Garden City project will irrigate 5000 in
Southwestern Kansas. The land is all in private
ownership and is under existing irrigation sys-
tenn This work is practically completed.
The Hunt1ey project recaims 10000 of
land in Southeastern Montana, and is completed.
The Sun River project involves the ultimate recla-
nation of 256000 tributary to Sun River, Mon
tana nearly all of which is public land Water will
be available to irrgate portion of it in the spring
of 1909
The Milk River project will ultimately reclaim
100000 acres in the Milk River Valley, Montana
North Platte project will supply water to 100000
acres in Wyoming and 100000 acres in Nebraska.
The Truckee-Carson project will irrgate 100000
acres of public land in Western Nevada. Water is
now ready for delivery to $4,000
The Rio Grande project will irrgate 100000 acres
in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico
The Carlsbad project will redeem 10000 acres on
Pecos River, Eddy County, New Mexico. The land
is mostly in private ownership. The work is prac-
tcally completed
The Hondo project will irrigate 10000 acres near
Roswell, New Mexico.
The Lower Yellowstone project will irrigate $4,000
acres in Northeastern Montana and Northwestern
North Dakota, now owned about equally by the
Government the Northern Pacific Railroad and in
divduas
Three pumping projects are contemplated in West
ern North Dakota which will reclaim in the neigh
borhood of 100000 acres.
The Klamath project will rrigate 10000 acres in
Klamath County, Oregon and Modoc and Siskiyou
Counties, California
The Umatlla project embraces 10000 acres inn
mediately south of Columbia River and east of
Umatilla River, Oregon.
The Belle Fourche project will reclaim about 1OO,-
600 acres north and east of the Black Hills in Butte
and Meade Counties South Dakota.
The Strawberry Valley project provides for the
irrigation of 10000 acres in Central Utah,
Provo
The Okanogan project will supply water for $3.50
acres in Okanogan Valley, Northern Washington
The Yakima Valley project contemplates the irr-
CATION eventually, under comprehensive system, of
100000 acres in the Yakima Valley, Washington.
The Shoshone project when completed will irr-
gate 10000 acres of public land; 100000 acres on
the north side of the Shoshone River and 10000
on the south side, all being in Wyoming and about
seveny-ive miles east of the Yellowstone National
Park The project will be pretty we'll completed in
1909
For most of these projects water must be stored
and sometimes carried many miles in large canals
before it is diverted to the land. Sometimes miles