The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-12
HUGE IRRIGATION
PLAN LAUNCHED
Bull and Associates to Put
100000 Acres of Idaho
Land Under Water.
WEST OF LITTLE SALMON
GREATEST PRIVATE IRRIGATION
PROJECT EVER ATTEMPTED.

With the appearance in this city yester-
day of Frank II. Bull, the Sharon, Pa,
millionaire. and George A. Baird chief
executor of the Z. l. Kimberly estate,
from Idaho news was released concern
ing the launching of another great land
and irrigation enterprise. the largest pri-
vate enterprise of the kind ever at
tempted in the United States. 1t in
wolves not far from 100000 acres of land
on the south side of the Snake river
and extending westerly from the Little
Salmon. which now marks the west boun-
diaries of the immense tract of land
brought under water and cultivation by
the Twin Falls Land & Water company
since 1901 at a cost of more than S4OOO,OOO.
The new undertaking involves a scheme
to continue the same kind of work, ana
when IL is finished the Snake River val
ley from the Mlner dam for a distance
of 80 miles west and covering more than
100000 acres on the south side of the
Snake river, will have been filled with
people and towns for the entire distance
Undertaking Ia Immense.
Frank II. Bull is at the head of the
new undertaking. as he was in the Twin
Falls scheme that has been completely
rounded out and his associates are the
same, with the exception of Peter L.
Kimberly. and S. b. Miner, who have
passed away since the first enterprise
was launched. However, these interests
are now represented by those who sue
coed the men named. George A. Baird
for the Kimberly estate and A. G. Miner
for the Miner estate. so the work is all
in the hands of men drilled in the details
OF working out such mammoth under
taking.
The scheme includes engineering fea-
lures that are going to require not only
consummate skill but millions of rooney
and this work has been placed in the
hands OF ]. G.. White & Co.. probably
a
a company that has from 1000 to 1900
engineers in the field all the time ana
IN all parts of the world.
The main canal that supplies the Twin
Falls tract Is to be enlarged and carried
across Little Salmon River canyon for
over 100 feet and at a height of $40 feet
A system of reservoirs is TO be con-
structed on the new lands. These are
calculated to conserve 700 acre-feet of the
flood waters OF the Snake river and made
To supply the ground around them.
Reservoirs at HeadWaters.
At the headwaters of the Snake river
another system OF storage reservoirs,
with a capacity of 600 acre-feet are
10 be constructed by the Bull syndicate,
aided by the government, and the plan
IS to have a portion of the new country
ready to be opened TO settlers IN one year
from now. BY the time this undertaking
has been rounded out Bull and his as
sociates will have expended IT. the neigh
borhood of 100000 to 100000. II is fig
ured that the preliminary surveys AMI
engineering work will cost at least SlO0 600.
Frank II. Bull was most enthusiastic
believer in what could be accomplished
IN the Snake River valley when the Twin
Falls enterprise was launched and. not
withstanding the fact that many of his
friends declared II was not feasible and
that IL would break him. he saw the thing
through IN q way that did credit to his
nerve, for, IN the expenditure of the mil
lions. running through good times and
bad, not a man or a company ever had 10
wait n minute for his money. He pro-
poses to push the new scheme through in
the same way, notwithstanding his ad-
vanced age