The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-06
ROMNEY GETS BACK
FROM TRIP
STATE SENATOR TELLS OF WORK
OF CANYON CREEK iRRiGA-
CATION COMPANY.

Hamilton. Nov. h.-State Senator
Miles Romncy has returned from tbs
head of Canyon creek, where he has
been to oversee some Of the work thai
has been done b. the Canyon creel
Irrigation District company. This
company was formed last july undel
the laws OF the state OF Montana ant
was made possible by senate bill No
is. which was introduced al the last
session of the legislature by Senator
Edward Donlan of Missouia.
This district WAS formed upon tbs
application of Miles Romney, A. II
Werner. w j. Griggs, Thomas {
Riley. Frederick II Cruger. Frank G
stevens G. r. Cameron, W. T.. NcMur-
ray. Mrs, c. 7. Long. w A. Palmer
W Wyant, j. f. Rearden. Mary r
Bell and Mary c. Lines. to the dis
trict court of Rarilli county, and
after the hearing granted the appii-
cants Judge Myers ordered that the
district be formed. The court APP
spointed a board OF commissioners for
the first year In the persons Of Miles
Romncy, chairman: w. J. Griggs
secretary. and J. f.. Reardan.
After the organization Of the dis
trict the preliminary steps We're taken
toward the irrigation Of the land I'M
der the project. Under the act wa
ter will be provided for $500 acres OF
land on the west side of the Bitter
Root river. which land belongs Il
those named in application referred
to above. In addition water will be
provided for the Irrigation Of 1000
acres Of land that IL being cleared
west OF Hamilton. for which there is
an abundance of water.
In speaking Of the proposition, Sen
ator Romney made the following
statement: This IL the second dis
trict To take advantage OF the senate
bill No. Is. The first county In
which the bill became operative was
Rosebud, | believe. OF course. Flat
head county had several projects
under way under the old Whiteside
law. but on account of the law not
being all that II should have been
the new bill was enacted into law In
order that 1t might become operative
Montana was the last of the north
west states to take up the mater OF
district irrigation. Washington, Ore
gon. Idaho, Nevada. Colorado and
Utah had laws similar to the Mon
tana law and in Idaho the law was
in most successful operation.
THE Canyon creek district has an
ample and never-failing supply OF
water. This year we have built a
reservoir at the head of Canyon creek
The dam IL now finished to height
of Is feet and now contains 10 feet
Of water, The reservoir contains an
area Of 30 acres. We also have two
other sites that contain % acres and
IL acres. All three Of these reservoir
sites are within one-haif mile Of one
another at the head Of the creek. This
work was under the supervision and
direction of NJ. ID. Kippen. the we'll
known irrigation engineer of Hamil-
ton. and the crew that did the work
was under the foremanship al
Charles $ Patterson. They have com.
pleted the work for this season.
The Canyon creek irrigation dis
irict has been bonded for 0,oo0
which Will be used in the develop.
ment of the reservoirs ut the head
of the creek and to build irrigation
favor of the bill which was passed n,
the last session is that the districts
are governed similar to the schoo
districts of the state. and for this
reason IL is comparatively easy to
float the bonds for projects under the
bill. We experienced no difficulty In
selling our bonds for this district
Men with money To loan recognize the
advantage of the municipal corpora.
ton and for this reason the munich
pal bond is being eagerly sought b,
eastern and western capitalists The
low rate, long-term bonds are Yer,
attractive.
Between Darby and Missouri There
are between so and 40 creeks ON the
west side Of the Bitter Root river
that can become operative under sen.
ate bill No. Is. As each nf these
creeks will water nearly 1000 acres.
IL can he easily seen what benefits
are 10 he derived from their de
veiopment under the district irriga-
ton plan.
Il am given To- understand by the
officials from the forestry office In
Missouia that practically all OF these
creeks have been located under this
law. The process of organization has
already commenced for the diverttnA
of the waters "f Mill. Rlodgett and
Mcclellan, creeks. | have Also heard
that Fred Burr creek is also To be
organized in short time. So. taking
these facts and thoroughly digestns
them. 1t can he seen that the Bitter
Root valley will add thousands OF
sores of its best land Ia the pro-
duetiNe list in short time. In the
state there are several other projects
that have been organized and many
more. that are under the process of
organization.