Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

practically ignores the purpose of It's
creation, namely: perpetuation of it's
specie. II this extra supply of water
comes to the farmer of the rain peit,
he is helpless, his crop will be
worthless. The irrigation farmer
Knows no excuses. He applies wafer
to the growing crop in such quaint
ties as will stimulate perfect growth.
and when his grain has reached tne
proper height he withholds furtner
water until tho instinct of the pan
diverts its energies to the creatlon
of secd-head when this change
takes place, he applies more wafer
with the result that the plant Is stint
ulated In the direction of seed pro-
duction. 1t Is plain to see what the
results would be to the rain oeit
farmer. II about the time tho irri-
CATION farmer closed down ms heau,
gates to allow his grain to mead,
he should receive Il down pour or
rain for week: he would reap a
harvest of straw, while his brother,
the irrigator. would reap harvest
of grain The irrigation farmer knows
no failure of crop so far as drcuth
or flood is concerned. No fear OF
either ever enters his mind. He pre-
pares his ground, plants his seeds,
irrigates, cultiyntes and reaps MS
harvest. His only fear is his lack OIL
Knowledge and thrift in the execution
of these five steps.
IDAHO STANDS UPON MERIT.
Idaho. standing as she does in the
forefront of the irrigation world, stands
out before the world on her merits, |
claiming to have justly earned the dis !
tinction to which she has attained. She |
looks back but Il few years to her in
cipiency. Less than u half century ago !
she was not Oh the map of the United |
states, and not score of years have |
passed since she Joined her sisters in !
the Union; yet the innate virtues and |
the indefatigible energies of her youth |
have made for her a name.
Four years ago she began the task |
OF srbduing the desert" and she has |
already succeeded in wlping II great |
part Of It off the face of the earth and
is fast doing away with the balance.
Out of it she is making homes for the
homeless. She flung open wide her
gates and shouted loud the tiding: |
Come neighbors and frlends--brothers
of the Union and from over the sea-
you are welcome to Idaho. One hun |
bred thousand have accepted the invita-
ton and come during this short length |
of time and made homes here.
STORY OF IRRIGATION.
The story of the development OF IL |
one. In 1905 the first Carey act pro-
ject was opened in Idaho--the great |
South Side Twin Falls tract. Water |
from the Snake river was diverted by |
means of a huge concrete and masonry |
dam into n canal so feet wide and 8 feet |
deep and 30 miles In lengthh to wrest !
100000 acres Of agricultural land from |
its ardity. Since that day the sage |
brush has been cleared away, the land |
broken up and homes for 1900 people |
have been built upon this tract. which |
was formed into new county by tho |
last Legislature, with Twin Falls. a city |
modern in every particular, with 5000
population, as the county seat. OF the |
100000 acres, fully 10000 acres are now |
In cultivation.
The Twin Falls North Side canal
Lincoln county, Is now nearing COM
pletion and will be ready to furnish
water by May /, next year. for 10000 |
acres of splendid land, $4,000 acres of
which have been filed on by about 1000
farmers.
Adjacent to this tract, on the north.
in Lincoln and Blaine countless lies the