Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-06-10
GLENNS FERRY
DOlNG THINGS
Coming of King Till Water Gives New
llfe-.Ldrge Hotel and Bridge
early Prospects

Glenns Ferry, June 5.--The fruit
in the valleys around here suffered
some damage from the late frosts,
but not so much as was feared at
first. In the more sheltered locali
les peaches will make over so per
cent of normal crop. while apples
will run higher than this, some ranch
ers reporting prospects first class for
a full yield. Small fruits of all
Kinds will be in abundance.
Settlers are coming in almost daily
and on that portion of King Hill tract
tributary to Glenns Ferry great
activity is being manifested, sage
brush has been and is still being
cleared. new homes and improve
ments are going up everywhere and
every one is busy. Many of the new
settlers are planting potatoes ex-
tensively, this land being especially
adapted to their successful culture,
so in few years the valley promises
to rank with the leading potatoe dis
tricts of the state from commercial
standpoint.
When bids were submitted last
Saturday for Glenns Ferry's new
school building. The plans call for
an eight room two story structure.
with cloak rooms, teachers rooms,
etc. the size of the school room to
|. nfor tol f, h.,
used in its construction will be either
brick or stone. specifications calling
for bids on both materials. A full
high school course will be added.
The cost of the building complete
will be upwards of $l2.00 This
is something badly needed. the old
frame school house having long since
become entirely too small and made
quate for the rapidly increasing school
population, which. with the settle
ment of the land contiguous and the
opening of several thousand acres
proposed in the near future, will
bring many more children here, add
ing to the necessity of better and
more thorough educational facilities.
The proposition for building new
hotel is still being agitated. with
prospects for It's successful culmina-
tion brighter than at any previous
time. Several desirable sites are
offered aud if stock company should
be formed majority of the capital
could be secured right at home for
the erection of modern and up to
date hostelry A first class hotel is
something badly needed as the town
has been without since the fire of
more than year ago.
4 To accommodate the settlers living
on the opposite side of Snake River
it is proposed to build a wagon bridge.
the county to cooperate with the
irrigation company. they to use the
same piers for the bridge the com
pany will use in bringing their sy-
phon across on. This plants feasible
and could be carried out with saving
to both parties concerned.
The state land board has granted
the segregation of $500 acres of land
lying within three miles of Glenns
Ferry. and an additional 10000 acres
in the Medbury valley. These two
tracts are to be watered by the King
Hill Irrigation Extension company.
the water supply coming from an
extension of the King Hill system.
The water will be syphoned across
the Snake river above town. The
syphon over the river will be 1906
feet in lenght and will be very simi-
lar in construction to the one convey
ing the water across the river on the
main canal above Bliss. After cross
ing the Snake the canal will follow
along the ridge above Glenns Ferry
to Medbury valley; from this point
it will be diverted into laterals anc
carried to the different tracts under
the project.
Work on this system will begin
as soon as the contract is finished or
the other side of the river which il
expected to be not later than the first
of July. 1t is the intention of the
Kings Hill Irrigation Extension com
pany to have the work completed anc
water on every acre of the land under
the segregation in time for the ir-
rigation of crops next spring.
In addition to this there is proposed
auxiliary systems to cover the high
or bench land above the valley,
water from which will be supplied
for reservoirs. the supply coming
from Canyon or Cold Springs creeks,
steps for which have been filed on
and ali preliminaries completed.