Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-11
WATER IS ON AT MINIDOKA
Government Gets Flood Into Laterals
on New Project.
MORE IDAHO LAND RECLAIMED
People Rejoice over the Completion
of the Great Irrigation Works
and Business shows Bene-
fit Already.

Leonard Fowler, ice-president of the
Minidoka Trust company; general sales
manager of the Kenyon Townsite company
and general "all around booster for Idaho
arrived from Burey, Ida, last nlSht and
is quartered at the Henshaw.
THE United States Government Re
clamation service, at last, has turned the
water into our laterals at Burnley" said
Mr. Fowler, last night, and the whole
country is rejoicing. The people of the
United States have spent more than
million dollars building dam at Minidoka,
across the Snake river, and we will have
hundreds of thousands of acre feet of
water for the land, which until now has
proved entirely worthless. The state of
Idaho will hold an auction of 1900 acres
on May q and Burley will soon take on
the metropltanism of Twin Falls
Not many Omaha people know that Bur-
ley is named after D. e. Burnley, who used
to be here with the Union Pacific railway.
There are hundreds of oldtimers, who
know all about Dan" Burnley, he is
known throughout all of the western
country
"W. ID. Kenyon, formerly the general
cashier of the Pacific Express company,
before he removed to st. Louis, and a
resident of Omaha for more than eight
cen years, is out there. Kenyon is the
president of the Kenyon Townslte company,
director in the Burley State bank, one of
the David Eccles institutions, and presi-
dent of the Glendale syndicate, which
owns 5000 acres Oh the finest land in the
world along the banks OF the Snake river,
about four miles from the great Miner
DAM built by Archie Miner, formerly of
Atlantic City, la. That Miner dam cost
Archie Miner and his associates more
than s., ZOO, 900, and has watered and brought
into bearing 1000 square miles of land
every foot of which is under cultivation
| today.
The Idaho Southern railway, which the
Kuhns of Pittsburg built to get to their
Oakley project, because the Union Pacific
didn't move fast enough for them, was
opened the day l left oakley and l had
ticket nine, on the first train out of Miner
They will extend the road, eventually to
reach through to Spokane.
THE Union Pacific has Just finished lay
ing the ties between Burley and Oakley,
and Van Cleave and bunch of Chicago
millionaires were there last week thinking
. of building a road from Burley to Albion
!
to the Raft river country.
sam Rich, one Of the wealthest men in
the state Of Idaho, and a farmer of ma
tional reputation, has just begun the de-
velopment Of one farm of 1900 acres on
the Mlnidoka project, His son, 5. Grover
Rich. tho cashier Of the Burley State bank,
of which David Eccles is the president, is
looking after the details of what will be
one of the largest producing orchards in
/ the world.
"Burley is growing, so is Pocatello
American Falls Bull, and Twin Falls In
fact, the entire state is seething and burst
ing with AN Industrial awakening and the
! Nebraskans and Iowans with a wander.
lust In their hearts are doing the most to
develop the country.
There are so many OF them out there
that it is like another part of Nebraska. -