Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-03-06
Water Promises Kept to
| The Letter.
North Side Company Has Made a
New Record In Canal Making
= -..MiIner Tract Can Be
Farmed This Year.

An announcement that means much
to Lincoln county, is given elsewhere on
s this page-the fact that water will be
3 delivered April 1st, the beginning of the
q irrigation season, for the 10000 acres
3 of Carey Act land under the reclaim
alton system and commonly known as
8 the Miner tract.
This land, though on the north side of
4 the Snake river, was part of the orig
4 inal segregation of the Twin Falls south
side company. Later it passed to the
North Side company, later organiza-
ton, formed to reclaim the $50, 900
acres of Lincoln county land not con-
templated by the first company. The
one great dam at Miner was found to
be sufficient for both projects, and it
was comparatively easy to enlarge the
plans to cover the $50, 900 acres by US
ing the same dam and ditch that sup
piled the first 80, 900 acre tract.
Tie digging of this canal, even the
comparatively short section to water
the first tract, has been an immense
task. 1t wasn't common dirt digging,
though that alone would have taken a
long time; much of it was through solid
rock. Powder almost by the train load
has,been used in ire work, the blasting
being continued for months, and reg
ular daily feature. The uproar could
be heard for miles Hundreds of men
have been employed, and the bills for
labor, groceries, horse feed and other
supplies have been enormous. But it
was not an idle expenditure, for the
work is done.
When the company promised last
April that water would be delivered on
the tract, it looked like too big a task
to be accomplished within the time.
The contractors, however, the Faris-
Kesl construction company, were pre-
pared for heavy work, and they were
promised substantial bonus of SIT, 500
to complete it in time. They achieved
the seemingly impossible, and will turn
the completed work over to the COM
pany for this years service.
While no large proportion of this first
10000 acres has as yet been cleared, a
good deal will be prepared this season,
and altogether the tract will show a
marvellous transformation before fall.
1t is possible for the early ones, who
have done the work required by law, to
prove up and get title this season.
Work it progressing just as fast on
the rest of the main canal, to Jerome
and Wendell. The Grant company has
several hundred men now at work, and
10 to Is more are being put on daily.
A good deal of stuff has been unloaded
at Miner, for their camps. Yet close
to $50 cars have been already unloaded
here in Shoshone, and as the great ditch
gets farther west, and more men are
put to work, much more business will
come to Shoshone The company ex-
poets to employ 1000 to 1900 men this
summer.
The Twin Falls North Side company |
will beyond doubt make good on their
promise to have water on the remain
ing $50, 900 acres of their land, by April
lst, 1909. 1t is even more feasible than
their first promise to have the Miner
tract ready for this year-which they
have done. Every one who has land on
their project, can go ahead with his
clearing this year, confident that the
life giving water will be available for
bountiful crop next year.
1t is worth while to note that this one
project will bring twice as much farm
land into cultivation as has heretofore
beeh cultivated in Lincoln county.