The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-08-22
Six Hundred Thousand Acres.

state under the Carey Act has re- .
Gently been completed by the State
Land Board and is said to be the big
gest single irrigation scheme IN
the world, says the Shoshone journal.
This is the 600,000-acre reclamation
project of the Bruneau country IN
Owyhee County, south of the Snake
river. The project is to be Watered
from the Snake river,t he land being
lust west of the Salmon river and eX-
tending westward down to an altitude
of about $500 feet. The highest on
the project will be only 300 feet
above sea level.
The water supply will be the most
interesting feature of the project, for
if will be altogether storage water.
If is nroposed to utilize Jackson's lake
south of the Yellowstone National
Park, as the main reservoir, and TO
store there the enormous quantity OF
| .OOO, 900 acre feet of water jack
sons lake is a magnificent body OF
water for this purpose, large enough
| to store water for two or three pro-
iects like the Bruneau. Other reser-
voirs, however, will be provided; some
auxiliary storages in the other head
waters of the Snake, and several nat
| ural reservoir sites on the Bruneau
plateau Careful measurements snow
that the company could get several
times the quantity of water needed to
water this vast project.
The general plan for irrigating the
project will be to store the waters OF
the river, and to release them during
the irrigating season. The South Side
Twin Falls canal will, either be en-
'arged or a new one built parallel to
it, much larger than the present one;
land the water carried out acroos the
Salmon river on the greatest equeduct
: in the history of the world. once
) across the Salmon river, it will be
l easy to distribute the water over the
. tract.
[ | OOIl6 luSd VI thC lioeohiSuoS ~ SAS
$ project may be gained from the state
: ment that it is 20 per cent larger than
d the combined acrea of the original
e Twin Falls, the North Side Twin
: Falls, and the Salmon river projects,
: with 100000 acres, 100000 acres, and
s 10000 acres respectively. 1t would
q be almost twice the size of the two
s great projects in Lincoln County, the
n North Side and the Idaho Irrigation
( projects.
20 The general plan of the work was
Is outlined in the first of this week, be
fore the State Land Board, when rep
IN resentatives of the Buhl syndicate
I'd the Kuhn Brothers and J. G. Whit
IN Company appeared before the boar
pr and settled their minor differences a
at to what part each should have in tn
RI development of Southern Idaho. Bot
NJ the Bull and the Kuhn interests ha
sought the Bruneau segregation, an
rk a fight seemed imminent. Some fin
m paeificatory work was done by |.
m Perrine and others, and an amicabl
rs. agreement reached. The Buhl intel
,e- ests, an extension of the original Twi
ng Falls company, will get the land col
ng tract; the Kuhn interests will see
ew the railway and power projects; an
mn the ]. G. White Company will probi
aid bly, do all the engineering and goo
share of the construction.
Fifty dollars an acre is the price
be allowed on the land. 1t is the bi
gest, and being one of the latest, pro
ih- ably one of the most expensive pre-
hat ects in the State. 1t will require d
red storage of the waters of the Snake ri
bio er, which none of the other projeC
+ have required. The whole tract is
nc be gridironed with electric roads, co
tho Meeting with the Twin Falls syste
now projected; and already started
5is- the Gooding-Milner road.
,ov The consummation of this gre
project shows how badly Idaho net
NOS ed the Carey Act land grants from
no last congress, and what the ST.
y;s owes to the capable and courageo
wos senators and representatives in CT
h,to gress who secured it.
This last project will add as mi
= -, land as there now is under the rec
,;,b nation projects of both Lincoln {