The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-07
The Payette-Bose Irrigation Government Work

md the death knell of 295,OO0
ssoebrush, and cause to spring
= h ~ stead great stretches Of al
~, transform the home of the
and ground squirrel into homes
e,nsands and tens of thousands
ssv and prosperous people, is the
fPyyI,ncle Samuel, who through the
@st;on service is spending millions
.Tsrs upon the Payette"Boise irri-
pps. n,o;set. now vel; under way.
FOR the great development
M to he secured by constructing
reservoirs to conserve the sum-
Srnly from the immense foods
'lqg renc down from the mour tsins
\. sarlv spring months, doing dam
:, times to great bodies of bot
srds The supply will be taken
mo Boise and Payette rivers. The
lstors ~ of the Payette, the principal
for the purposes of this project.
payette lakes. about 200 miles
u ,bs mouth OF the river. These
4 .rs three miles wide and nine
a n length, with steep cliffs all |
4, them. The outlet is through
Il opening about 80 feet deep and |
,'r fyom side to side. The juttine
are of granite formation, ideal
A. .eonstruction Of a dam to raise
Ear AT least twenty feet. The
',mtatives OF the Reclamation Ser
|sv the opportunity and the gov
~ is now building solid cement
-s,l dam to hold the waters of the
|&rersion dam will be built in
: Rock CANYON, FIVE miles above the
Al Emmett. on the Payette river,
I'm point water will be taken for
4 oS 6O0 acres of land. The main
4 rill pass through the divide be-
, tbe Payette and Boise valleys
fiut sixty feet in depth and over
"a long Another canal will be
4 from The Boise river. on the north
rsar the city of Boise, to water
rot under the Payette canal. This
zc,y is adjacent to the towns of
n New Plymouth, Payette, Par
yotus, Middleton, Star, and Cald-
HEADQUARTERS for the work.
4 lands on the south side of the
4 river. adjacent TO Nampa, Cald-
Meridian and Parma, will be sup
; from canal taken from the south
"A the river Just above the city of
+. near the point where the New
4 anal gets its supply. In addi,
'c mppIementing the supply of wa
4; the lands now under cultivation
uusl will furnish enough TO re-
.tbout 100000 acres of desert land
|cfsred with sagebrush.
Deer Flat Reservoir.
\ principal feature of the south
surks is the construction of
rsseryoir In Deer Flat. This is
|Ilnl site lying five miles south
Idwell, and covering approximate
il00 acres. When completed the ]
1vir will hold water about sixty
lNp over the basin, and the sup s
vi be sufficient to carry all the I
|nt lands safely through n dry
VI The latcrals from this reser.
Mil cover all the land on the {
Ide of the Boise river from
y down. G
}Hded in the project are two small s
xryoirs on the headwaters of the s
rver, to serve lands above Deer ]
'nlievihg the heavy demands on S
'Far section of the system during
= dry weather i
Work Now Well Under Way. .
diversion dam IN the Boise river t
Dove the city of Boise is being
~ concrete, of the most substan- t
.1racter. A diversion canal forty t
1ide Oh the bottom and with a d
ng capacity of $4,000 miners b
? Of water, extends from this dam h
Dan creek, above Kuna, on the
p State line, about twenty four a
n length. The water is turned i,
adian creek for eight miles. and 7
|b another canal, carried twelve b
iurihcr to the Deer Flat rescr- S
These canals are even now prac- c
4 completed, and the diversion dam p
K Boise river will be in readiness /,
y next spring. II
Deer Flat reservoir is being y
pDy Two dams, the one at the low S
known as the Hubbard and n
\, asin, being 200 feet in length, t;
t,n helghth and 250 feet wide al .
,A II will have n roadway at b
twenty feet in width. The con i
z. ls Of clay and gravel. The Fl
y brought from a neighboring Il
z .ao the clay is taken from the 81