The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1907-08-17
More Railroads
and Carey Lard
Another Big Irrigation and Rail.
road Scheme for Idaho.

What is known as the Salmon RIVER I
Carel Act project, which has been {
talke Of for two or three months, has
been formally approved by the state
land hoard, and George + sprague is now
at HALEY periecting the segregation ol
the land embraced In the tractwh:ch it is
proposed to reclaim The plans for the
work have been approved iy State En-
gineer Stephenson
TLis tract covers 10000 acres Of very
choice land adjoining the Twin Falls
tract on the south. 1t is Is miles long
and II miles wide The land il 10 be
watered from the salmon river, which
will be damned to create reservoir To-
impound the spring dow of water ior use
later in the SEASON,
The application for the seg,rgation
was made 10y G,,rge r Spraruc, c. b. /
HURT, H. L. Hollister and |. Il. Perriuc !
A company viii te organized TO prose
cute the work. the organization l,cing
known as the Twin Falls-Salmon River
Irrigation company, another tribute be
ing paid TO- the great original Twin Falls
enterprise.
Mr. Sprague AMI J r. Hayes of Twin
Falls have been at work on this pruject
4 ior tong time, associaiing others with
themselves in getting the matter
\ through The credit for the plans be-
longs promarily to Mr.. Hayes. The
latter, realizing that the body OF land
: to be irrigated is OF superior quality and
that the river flows enough water for
the purpose of its reclamior, determined
to make an investigation
1t had been Supposed it was impossi-
bic to get the water out, but when Mr.
Hayes ran preliminary level he found
hthsre was hogback along the east side
Of the stream extending along nearly its
entire course as far as the Nevada line.
The effect Of this hogback is to shut out
kall drainage into the Saimen from the
70 east side.
Making further survey, Mr.. Hayes
found il would be possible to construct
great reservoir in the Salmon and
draw tl.e water off through a tunnel a
mile in length. That, then, is the gem
2. erai plan OF the enterprise. The dam to
be Constructed will be in section lS,
township II south, range 10 east. II
will create a reservoir Is miles in ieIigtl
when filed, and the water, carried of
- tsroagh this tunnel, will be delivere'
- upon tire tract. The water will be put
into service at the point where it cmer
ees from the great lssre but there vii
be- 10 miles of main canal to carry 1t Il
. tother portions Of the tract. The Teser
voir wills impcund s0O.Op acre-feet q
water, enough to cover the entire trac
two feet deep after the high water shal
have suljsided.
Under the terms OF the contract ell
tered into with the state, the conpan
will be permitted to charge $40 an acr
for part Of the water rights, thi bein
conditioned upon an agreement upo
the rar4 Of the company 10 build Il raj
way line through the tract from Twi
Falls. This read is to ie completed b'
fore the larrl is throvn open. The r.
mainder OF the tract will go at $50.
The estimated cost Of the irrigatio
part OF the enterprise is 100000
NJ. What the railway will cost is not state
The TACT is that this piece Of railw'
8. line is to constitute link in lii
reaching to a connection with the Wes
ern Pacific and s,uthern Pacific in y
vada. Further, it is the plan to make
connection with the line from Goodfl
70 NIilner. and it Is an open secret tn
the plan involves the construction
-, spother section giving the new road
;,5.nsndent connection with Boise.
There IS rumIr th,t heavy railw
interests are back Of this project, Y
,otl,ing is definitely known on that 81
ieet one story is that the Gould int
sste are playing part in it. Furth
i, is stated to be the intention Of
Northwestern and Cos people to pa
line through here to me point on
Western Pacihc, the northwestern
,.,dinr directly to this point and maxi
rannection here with this line rea
inc through the Twin Falls tracts to
vada. Whether two connections are
1,o made with the Western Pacific Is
n ,,,,own. hat il is understood to be
NJ ,,l,n 10 cut into all this new territory
the benefit Of both systems.
1t is announced that the irrigit
,roiect has been financed also thai
Hollister has arranged for the IN
ior the railway through the tract. 1t
Mr.. Holister who has been working
the continuation of the proposed line