Mohave County miner., 1908-04-25
Thirty Million For Irrigation.

ing Record, says The largest filing on waters ever made in the history of the state was made at the office of the state engineer short time ago by re- presentatives of the Twin Fals-Bru- neau Land and Water company, cov- ering waters and flood waters of the Snake sufficient for the irrigation of 900, ,000 acres, which will be a part of the largest contiguous irrigated area in the world, and the culmination of the greatest Inland Empire on the continent, embracing approximately 100000 acres, and will at a reason able estimate sustain a population of 2OO,O souls.
 The filing was made by I. B. Per- rune and R. M. McCollum, who, to- gether with number of other repre- sentatives of the Twin Falls company, the promoter of the gigantic enter- prise, spent day presenting matters in connection with the segregation to the state land board The granting of additional Carey act lands to the state by congress makes the present scheme possible, and the favorable reports of the committees of the house and sen ate upon the bill were matters of fav- orable comment.
 Recently the Twin Falls company secured control of the Bruneau pro- ject, on which operations had been temporarily suspended, and plans are now under way for merger of the in- terests of what is commonly called the Twin Falls company into a company with sufficient capitalization to com plete the projects which will repre- sent an investment of 30,000,000$ and embrace l,720,000 acres of the finest lands in the West. The projects that the company will control will be Twin Falls south side, 240,000 acres; Twin Falls north side, 2S0,0O0 acres, Twin Falls Salmon river. l50,0O0 acres; Twin Falls Bruneau, 900,000 acres, and Bruneau 1000 acres.
 While the lands thus controlled will be the most mammoth undertaking of the kind in all the world, contiguous irrigated tracts, including the proposed Glenns Ferry and Cedar Creeks pro- jects, will bring the acreage up to g. OOo, acres. The Cedar creek segre. gation includes about 50,000 acres of land in the A. No. 1 class and it is current rumor that owing to its rela- tion to their segregations or proposed projects the Twin Falls people contem- plate taking it over, but of this there is no confirmation.
 The project will mean the enlarge ment of the South Side Twin Falls canal to immense proportions, so that it will carry the greater part of the water for the Twin Falls -Bruneau seg- regation, which will be taken from the Snake and from conservation reser- voirs, principal among which will be the Jackson Lake reservior in which the canal company will share with the  reclamation service and which will furnish largely the supply for the Min idoka tract, which will also be prac- tically contiguous to this wonderful wet land area. Advantageous sites for reservoirs for further conservation of flood waters along the valley of the Snake have been selected by the con- pany engineers and plans for construc- tion work are now under way. Exper- iments to test the volume of the flood waters have been on for more than two years, and the value of such a sav- ing has been so satisfactory demon- t 'ated that the promoters feel assured of the success of the business venture.
 The South Side canal will not only be enlarged but extended from the point where It at the high-line inter- sects the Salmon river, almost directly west to the Bruneau river, a distance of about 30 miles, or point in Owy- hee county opposite Mountainhome in Elmore, forming the high-line canal for the main body 9OO,OOO-acre tract: thence running along the Bruneau to- ward the Snake. With this canal on its southern boundary the tract, to- gether with the land of the original Bruneau segregation, will extend to the snake river and the Glenns Ferry segregation on the north, and be bounded on the east and west by the