The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-24

government and special legislation was
| necessary for their appralsoment and
| sale. The original appraisal WIS made
| so high that the prices were prohibltive.
| so il became necessary 10 petition TO
congress TO authorize reduction In
price, that they might sell.
Large. adequate hotel properties could
not be built because, aside from the pro-
| motion Of the town Itself such hotels
would not be justified as private invest
mcnts.
IL is no fault of the settlers on the
Minidoka reclamation tract that the
towns on tho project are not more pros
porous than they are today. On tho con-
trary, IL IS the wonder that they are
substantial as they are today consider
ing these indisCretIons. omissions and
inadequacies in the laws TO which this
project has been subjected during the
years OF its hampered progress.
Ihcre are three towns on The N1inidoka
project-Kupert Eurley and Hepburn.
Rupert has probable population OF coo;
Burley OF 1000. and Hepburn OF 300, The
hotel in Rupert cost approximately 500;
the hotel at Burcy cost approximately
$4,000. and the hotel at Hepburn prob
ably $500.
on the Twin Falls project are the
towns of Miner. with a population of
about 250 and a hotel which cost $40 900 .
Hanson has about 100 people and a
$4,000 hotel; Kimberly has about 200
people and a $1,000 hotel; Twin Falls has
an approximate population of $500 and
two hotels, one which cost $l00.000 and
people and $1,000 hotel; Bull has ap-
proNimatcly 500 people and $3.50
hotel,
Carey Act Benefits
The Carey act has been chiefly respon-
slble for recent irrigation development in
through which a few brave men. true,
ingenious. coura gcouS. and rcsourcctul
have risked their wealth against the
ha piliamcuts OF nature ana won q great
achievement uf ,lI
mankind The government work, al
though the largest of any in the states
OF the arid west. is secondary in Idaho
The Carey act was named for Senator
Carey OF Wyoming. who stood sponsor
for the act,
Elwood Mead, formerly state engineer
OF Wyoming, is probably chiefly RESPONSE
BILE for the framework of the act itself.
The law was passed by congress on
August is. 1894, and ii donated an even
million acres of land to each arid state,
conditioned on tho states reclalmfng the
land
An act passed June il. 1896, amended
the original law by providing that when
ever the main canals were built and
supply OF water furnished that patent
for the lands should issue to the state.
the state thereafter issuing a patent 10
the settler.
This amended law further made pro-
vision for the creation OF lien by
the state in which the lands were grant
ed. which lien should he valid against
the legal subdivisions Of the land re-
claimed for the costs and expenses Of
reclamation.
Tho original act expired by Hmita-
tion OF time ten years after its enact
mcnt, but by an act passed March g.
1901, IL WAS further provided that the
tcn-year period named in the first act
should only begin to run from tho time
the application was made by tho state
TO the government for the setting apart
of the lands.
Grants to the States
The scope of these laws provided that
tho government should grant 10 the state
the lands specified in tho act; that the
state might create 4 lien upon tho land
for the expense OF its rcclama don. and
that ten years would hc allowed for the
construction of the works.
In the acceptance of this federal lcgis-
latiop The state of Idaho sUDplcinente ed
this law by providing that land could be
taken by actual settlers only in tracts
not TO exceed $50 acres, and that such
settler must first procure water for his
legal subdivision from the company con-