The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-02-25

Bruneau Project, Consisting Of Over
100000 Acres Now Assured

The announcement OF the Bum
corporation that the Twin Falls
Bruneau project will be assured is
glad news to the settlers on this
tract and also good news to thousands
/ of prospective settlers on unproduc-
tive farms in the east who have been
looking to the west for their future
homes. The project which will place
approximately 100000 acres of rich
land within the reach of the home
seekers, while it has been generally
conceded that it would be financed
and built by Mr.. Buhl and his associ-
ates yet the small uncertainty has re-
tarded somewhat extensive operations
in this city and on the tract and the
assurance of the construction of the
canal system will make realty values
all over the tract go up rapidly.
Other projects which have been
waiting on the decision of Mr.. Bull
will Immediately be pushed ahead.
The extension of the Minidoka &
Southwestern railway from Bull to
Nyssa, Ore, will be rushed through
in order to convey materials to the
new irrigation project in accordance
with an agreement made between the
railroad and the Buhl company. The
following article covering the asser-
ton of the company's representative
is reprinted from the Statesman:
The construction of the greater
Twin Falls Bruneau project for the
reclamation of 100000 acres of land
in Owyhee county is assured, accord
;Do ~ on op0uncanout mazda vQc-
terday by Fred A. VOigt before the
state land board, and negotiations for
a final contract between the state and
company will be taken up within the
next few weeks. The undertaking
will be the greatest in the history of
irrigation and will mean the expendi-
ture of more than $20,0O0,OO0 in
Idaho.
The decision of F. H. Bull of Shar-
ron, Pa, and his associates, who have
been figuring on the gigantic project
for more than two years, to go ahead
with the work, also insures the con-
struction of the extension of the
Minidoka branch of the Oregon Short
Line from Bull to Nyssa, passing
through the very heart of the great
agricultural tract to be created.
Mr.. Voigt's announcement to the
land board was made by him as the
Idaho representative of Mr.. Bull, the
pioneer irrigation project builder,
who financed the original Twin Falls
project, known as the South Side.
The Twin Falls Land & Water COM
pany made application for the segre-
ro tioD In, Ou,ubao county tUn vQarc
ago, contemplating at that time the
reclamation of 100000 acres. A
force of more than 100 engineers has
been continuously in the field since
and as result of their work it was
discovered that SO large project
was impracticable, and 100000 acres
which had been selected, were releas-
ed.
A great system of storage reser-
voirs, extending from the headwaters
of the Snake river, reinforcement of
the Miner dam and enlargement of
main canals on the South Side Twin
Falls project so as to carry an ad-
volume of water sufficient for
500, 900 acres, the construction of an
inverted siphon of immense capacity
across the Salmon at a point where it
is 800 to 400 feet deep, and the rum
ming of great tunnels, will, it is stat
ed, make this project a wonder of the
age from an engineering standpoint.
The old south side project will serve
as key to the new construction and
the point of diversion for all water
will be at the Miner dam.
The Minidoka & Southwestern rail-
road company at a meeting of direc-
tors held in Pocatello last fall, voted |
to build the extension of its road
from Bull to Nyssa on condition that
the construction of this project was