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

right, from SIS to S35 an acre. with maintenance
charge for water of less than 81 per acre.
Some of the arid and semi-arid states to which
this act applies have not taken advantage of it at
ALL few have done much under it, and none except
ing Idaho have approached the limit.
There is no field more inviting to capitalists, there
is no work state administration could perform
which would bring certain and lasting benefit
to their commonwealth than the encouragement of
Carey Act enterprises.
The confidence with which capital views the open
ING of lands in irrigated regions and the assurance
with which money is invested are demonstrated by
this contributory fact
Miner is the town at the headgate of the Twin
Falls North Side project for which a sale OF land
was recently held at Jerome. Gooding is the town
adjoining the tract now being opened by the ldaho
Irrigation Company whose first sale OF lands Will
occur on the 18th of November. Already electric
nterurban road is projected between the towns OF
Miner and Gooding, distance of seventy miles
lust as the settler has fear of his future when
he buys and locates upon irrigated lands so the
capitalist has no fear of investing his money in the
advanced appliances of civilization in the irrigated
region.
Idaho in its legislative enactments in the attitude
of its state administrations, and in its completed
projects furnishes object lesson and an 1nsp1ra-
Congress, on June IT, 1902, passed the most COM
prehensive and far-reaching of all irrigation laws.
Congress- in line with the unbroken policy of the
Government to promote home building, anxious
to aid in retaining all arid land susceptible of reca
nation Nearly every representative in Congress
from the arid states had plan which he was
pushing His bill was drawn with more or less
reference to his local surroundings. What was good
for Idaho did fulfill the requirements of Arizona,
and California could not be satisfied with a law
which exactly suited Nevada.
Congress did not want to pass a number of in
dividua1 acts and all proposed legislation by West
ern representatives had met with opposition from
other Western representatives. Congress was will
ing and anxious to act, but confused Some
few powerful interests and individuals took advan
tage of this lack of unity among Western representa-
tives and easily prevented legislation on broad and
comprehensive plan. This was the situation when
Congress assembled on the first Monday in Decem-
ber 1901 On that first day of the assembling of
Congress in December, 1901, the Senators, Repre-
sentatives and delegates from seventeen states and
territories representing the entire arid and semi
arid belt, met in conference and appointed COM
ittee of seventeen, from each state and terri
tory, to frame a general irrigation law The de-
mands and necessities of the different states and
territories we're so at variance that it required the
utmost patience, beraty and yielding of views on
the part of all to harmonic the conflicting interests
Finally, however, the committee submitted the re-
suits of its labor (Which with few changes is the
present act) to all the representatives from the sew
enteen states and territories 1t was promptly rati-
fled by them, and with this powerful force behind
the measure, it passed Congress and became law