Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-07-02
THE DREAM OF YEARS
FINALLY REALIZED.
Water Flows From Little CamdS to LOnq
Tom. Interesting Facts Regard
ing the Canal.

This is exclusive of the nginecr-
ing COZ ps, the Camas Prairie dam
itself snd the thousand and one
small incidental expenses that oc-
cur in connection with such an
undertaking.
No other irrigation project in
the entire northwest, whether a pri-
vate or public enterprise, has la
bored urdcr such difficulties and
endured such ordeals and in the
face of the , accomplished what
the Great Western Beet Sugar COM
pany and its manager, John H.
Garrett have brought about in
Mountain Home and vicinity.
Mr.. Garrett first came to Mountain
Home the 22nd day of May, 1897.
His next visit was in the early
part of May 1898. and this enter
prise, the merit of which he at
once recognized, was first given
consideration by him early in, the
year 1899. The Mountain Home
reservoir and canals were pur-
chased BY him from Frank AXE
anu OlltCIS lllC ldttCl Pdl vi lflC
wear 1899, and the E1more County
Irrigated Farms Association was
org anized the first year. The fol-
owing year the Idaho Beet Sugar
Company was organized with the
object of buying up the Mountain
Home towpsite and other lands
in this vicinity. In 1902 these
two companies were practically
merged into the Great Western
Beet Sugar company. When Mr..
Garrett took hold Of the project
the Mountain Home reservoir was
irrigating AIS acres, according to
the books kept by Mr.. AXE. Two
years later the same water supply
was irrigating nearly 1000 acres
and last year it irrigated close to
5000 acres. In the fall of 1912
work on the Long Tom reservoir
was inaugurated and the dam was
completed to height of 81 feet in
the fall of 1904. This reservoir
cost 500, 600.
1t is useless to rchaSh what the
Great Western Beet Sugar COM
pany has done in promoting and
building up Mountain Home and
Elmore county, and this in the
face of difficulties tina: would APP
pear to be almost unsurmountab1e.
Every citizen of Mouptair Home
who loves the ctern4i .lirness Of
things realizes what has been done
and what is still being done.
Mountain Home, La some respects,
Is peculiar community There
is probably not another community
in the West where there have been
so many obstacles placed in the
way of the greatest factor in the up
building Of that community Since
the early part of 1902 the Great
Western Beet Sugar company has
been disbursing In pay rolls alone
from $4,000 to $12, 200 month, and
in any months the additional dis
burscnents for materials and sup
plies have run up to $40, 600 or
$2r, 900. Two reservoirs and over
100 miles of bitches have been built
and are practically all paid for
The claim of infallibility for
Mr.. Garrett or his company is not
made They have made many mis-
takes and will protab: y make more.
This worlI is made up of impcr-
! fections Show us the man who
makes no mistakes and we will
show you nonentity. About all
that is now needed to make this
system impregnable is to raise the
dams so that more # the flood
waters from the mountains may be
stored inaugurate better system
OF distribution and bring about
such a condition of affairs that the
different main canals will be SOON
er or later turned over to water
user's association which can prob
! ably distribute the water to better
advantage than can corporation
This is presidential year. per-
iod generally recognized in busi-
ness circles, as one of inactivity.
Second, a financial panic, the like
of which has possibly never before
been experienced by the people, has
been ard still is raging from coast
to coast Third, and possibly
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