Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-02

Seven miles of this canal way is
across High Prairie and Moore's
Flat, an idcsl country over which
to build large canals. 1t is said by
Ben Query and others who have
carefully scrutinized the country that
there would be practically no rock
work at all for the first seven miles
OF this canal. This canal, as plan
ed by the Great Western Beet Sugar
Company, will be sufficiently high
to later utilize High Prairie as
storage or impounding basin. 1t is
recognized fact that the High
Prairie Reservoir site is one OF the
most ideal storage basins in all this
Western country. 1t embraces
about ten square miles and without
the aid OF surveyors level it ap-
pears to be perfectly flat; in fact,
it only has slope of one foot to the
mile. A dam 80 feet high will
store $4,000 acre feet of water.
II may be possible for the Great
Western Beet Sugar company to
build the reservoir this year. The
company Intends to increase the
height of the Camas dam 1S feet ir-
respective of whether or not the
proposition now before the people
for the construction of the Lime
creek canal this year is carried out.
Mr.. Querry's grading outfit will be
at work raising the Camas dam
within two weeks from this time.
The Beet Sugar Comp any has
$3.50, 900 in unpaid notes and bills
receivable. This amount is suffic-
lent to construct the canal to Limo
creek to build reservoir at High
Prairie 80 feet in height and lease
sufficient surplus to complete all
distributing latcrals and bitches to
the lands to be irriaged.
The proposition now, the advis-
ibility of which will be considered
by the Mountain Home Commercial
club at it's special meeting next
Tuesday night, is whether or not a
sufficient number of people who
now owe the company on notes will
guarantee the payment of a certain
amount of the Indebtedness, wnat-
ever amount they guarantee to be
payable monthly for the next twelve
months, such money to be used for
building the Lime creek canal and
thus make the flood waters thereof
, available for irrigation next season.
1t is thought 500, 900 will be am
pie to do this work and, at the time
of going to press, more than $50
600 of this amount has been SUBJ
scribcd by the loyal citizens and
taxpayers of Mountain Hsme and
vicinity. A good number of citizens
have come in and volunteered to
buy a water right for 40 acres pay
ing therefor $1,000 in twelve equal
monthly installments, their object
being to aid in the bailding of this
Lime creek canal which they all
know means absolute success for
SMountain Home and vicinity be-
yond peradvcnturc of a doubt.
Henry Hewitt, of Tacoma. who has
already invested $50, 600 here,
readily subscribed $40, 900.
About twenty of the leading citi-
zcns of the county on Wednesday,
night at the offices of the Great
Western Beet Sugar Co. met for
the purpose of discussing this
matter and formulating SONS feas-
lble and tang ale method BY which
this $l0e, 600 can be raised.
1t is proposed that committee of
five representative business men,
those not in any manner connected
or associated with the Beet Sugar
Company, be appointed to receive
and disburse this money and that
no portion thereof shall be cxpcud-
ed for anything or in any
manner whatsoever except for actu-