Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-10-14

of the lands under the King Hill ex-
tension for November 16.
The contract for the reclamation of
the land embraced in this project was
formally entered into between the
company and the irrigation company
Approximately 100000 worth of
construction has already been com
pleted upon this project and large
forces of the Slick Bros. Construc-
ton company is now engaged in the
work of building the system L. G.
Bradley, manager of the company,
seen yesterday by a representative
of the Statesman, stated that the wa
ter would be available for the land
in time for the irrigation season of
1910.
The King Hill extension project
reclaims approximately $1,000 acres
of land lying along the Snake river
bottom west of Glenns Ferry. Two
sources supply the water for the
land under this project An extern
sion of the old King Hill ditch car
will reclaim 5000 acres. allowing
fve-eighths of an inch of water per
acre, as the contract provides. Res
ervoir systems having a capacity of
10000 acre feet will be constructed
to catch the food waters of Cold
Springs, Little Canyon. Bennett,
Dry Creek and Hot Springs Creek,
and the water from these reservoirs
will be distributed over the lands
too high to be reached from the King
Hill ditch.
The contract entered into with the
land board yesterday regarding the
reclamation of the land was of the
usual form of Carey Act contracts
and provided that the price charged
for water would be s65 per acre, the
payments to be distributed as follows
"a at the time of sale; IS one
year after water is distributed on the
Wand and the remaining payments to
be divided equally and extended over
a period of eight years, making the
entire time for payment for the land
10 years. The company is allowed
No charge not to exceed IS cents per
acre maintenance during their own
ership of the canals, and as soon as
the work is accepted by the state land
board the system is to be turned over
to the settlers.
The contract calls for five-eighths
of an inch of water per acre for ev-
cry acre under the terms of the con-
tract and requires the company to
furnish a sufficient bond to insure
completion of the system.
Mr.. Bradley when asked concern
ing the general nature of the land
under the King Hill extension pro-
ject, said:
I'VE contend that we have a sec
ton of country in Medbury valley
which cannot be excelled in the en-
tire west for fruit raising. We
know that we can raise the more
tender varieties of fruit, for this
year John McGinniss, who has a
small vineyard on his ranch at Med
bury, raised successfully some of the
tender varieties of California grapes
"A small portion of the land under
our project has been farmed for a
number of years from the natural
flow of the creeks that we reservoir,
and it has been demonstrated that we
can successfully grow Strawberries
cantaloupes, tomatoes, and that we
can reach the market with the ripen-
ed product from one to two weeks
earlier than any over section now
under cultivation"
OF the land to be reclaimed under
the King Hill extension, but TO-
600 acres is Carey Act land. The
early residents of the country secur-
ed titles to much of the land and in
later years people who foresaNN that
the land would be irrigated, made
filings. Part of them relinquished
and allowed their holdings to be seq
regated under the Carey Act, but
others still hold their land as desert
or homestead entries.
A new town will be located at Med
bury under this project. The new
town will be approximately 10 miles
west of Glenns Ferry. The system
will reclaim the lands lying adjacent
to Glenns Ferry and the lands of the
project will be tributary to both
towns Statesman.