The daily sentinel., 1908-09-14
KING HILL PROJECT WILL
SOON HAVE WATER
Hundreds of Men Toiling to Prepare
Fertile Tract for the Fruit
Grower-The Opening is
October IL.

oCtODef
Three hundred workers, head
ed by Slick Brothers, the hard
est working bosses in the state,
are rushing the construction of
the bridges, dams, canals, and
fumes on the King Hill irriga-
ton project which is to be OPEN
ed for entry October 18th.
This is the smallest. the highest
priced and in many ways the most
interesting reclamation project in the
state. 1t takes the marvelously clear,
cold spring water from the Malad.
at point about a mile above where
it empties into the Snake, and car
ries it through a huge flume, in a
syphon across the Snake, at a height
of nearly 140 feet above the river
level. Hugging the hillside like a
lovers arm, it winds down the valley.
watering a few acres here, farm
there, a couple of sections yonder;
land sheltered by the hills rich with
accumulated silt of ages, fertile like
the valley of the Nile. Some places
there is no land that can be utilized,
between the canal and the river; at
other places the irrigable tract is
more than a mile wide. Altogether,
there is but about IA 900 acres, along
the 80 miles of ditch line.
The price is high, but there is
compensation therefor. Lying on the
north slope as il does, sheltered by
the great hills, watered by the best
water in the state, with an altitude
ranging from 2700 down to $500
feet. it is the finest fruit growing
section of the state, if not of the
entire west. 1t will grow anything
that can be produced in temperate
zones, and in quantities that would
not be credited without actually see
ing. There are a few homesteads
along the river, irrigated by water
wheels. which demonstrate the eli
matte and crop conditions. Some of
these little places are marvels of
productiveness. There is no lava on
the tract-that lies almost if not
quite altogether ON the nortn side
of rhe Snake river canyon; the soil
is silt and lava ash, and deeper than
any other place in south Idaho.
"Inexhaustible'' is a long word. and
covers long, long time; but it
would seem to be a fit term to apply
to such soil.
The land will have one of the very
best water rights in the state-per-
haps it is the absolute best in the
history of Carey Act lands. and the
buyer does not have to wait for
year, or years. before getting water;
water will be actually delivered on
the tract, to 5000 or more acres, be-
fore the opening. This has been
done nowhere else in the state. The
settler can go to work on his new
home, and have water right at his
door, the opening day.
| Owing to the high price, and the
peculiarly choice soil, it is expected
that the filings will average smaller
tnan on any other similar project;
while the limit is the same, 16O
acres, many buyers talk of taking q
| 40-acre minimum. The coming of
many settlers, to small farms, that
require extensive cultivation, must
boost prices much more rapidly than
any other project where hay and
grain farming, less confining and far
less profitable, is the rule.
The company is using between g.
900, 900 and 100000 feet of the
finest red fir timbers, in building
fumes. Large quantities of CON
crete, and a steel bridge to carry the
water across the Snake river, are be-
ing used on the work.
A telephone line, extending the en-
tire length of the tract, has been
built, to become the property of the
settlers. Free ferries have been in
stalled, and these two will become
the property of the people. The COM
pany has a fine Thomas automobile
at King Hill, to take prospective buy
ers out over the tract.
King Hill is one of the best-laid-
out little towns along the Snort
Line. 1t will be opened for sale at
same time as the land opening, Oc-
.tober 12.-From Shoshone Journal.
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