The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-10-07


which the Company would sell private and corporate parties
In any wherein there the abandonment
plan declared be feasible only by the irrigation Company but
also by the State Engineer which
the rate OF $40 Tor different plan that increases the price
500 acre. And in this regard surely pertinent add
that this project is considered OF the least expensive
sction of the irrigation enterprises the and that those
familiar with such matters that $40 would have been
very ngh price 1or the company to charge for their water rights
That the land board accepts without question the and
PRISE which can be shown by comparison The estimated cost OF the
Goose Creek project placed S750O00 The acreage be
claimed placed 1868 Sc and the price of the rights
at 500 an acre his would show that at the compays own gre
the cost Of the reclamation per would be fraction OF
$40 and the Company would be permitted profit S25
acre while the Twin Falls North Side Land and Water Co for their
Clover Greek segregation place the acreage be reclaimed a.
555S and the estimated Of the enterprise and
the price OF water rights at $40 In other words this
pany practically the of and nearly the
amount of satisfied with profit
against profit of S5 under the Goose Creek project
And the figures OF the estimated always those furnished
by the companies and inflated they possibly be made
this among those
who successful drawing land under this sege CATION d.
McDouga and this among the first OF the
enterprises to be given boost by the Brady administration
certainly pleasing to the voters McDouga began
early his official what the members of the Land
Board have proclaimed s the rights of American citizenship
THE BIG LOST RIVER PROJECTING
ABANDoNED-sETTLERs DEPLoRABLE CoNDTTIoN-I4AND
BOARD RESPONSIBLE
The wrecking the Big Irrigation enterprise
directly due the gross caeness and reckless indifference OF
the Brady Land Board This enterprise for the reclamation OF
land segregated the request the state by the
under the provisions OF the Carey Act The
estimated cost OF the enterprise was SS,5oOOOO
Not only the plans and specifications absolutely worthless
but of the poorly done that citizens OF
three miles below the great dam
Of the enterprise felt that their lives and property danger
They knew that the State Land repeatedly advised
which the work being done official
mon te Ground and made regular reports This fact also atesed
the Land Board after the receipt OF the
report Engineer Lippncott of Los Angeles California who
was enoye M the citizens of Mackay to examine the construction
ascertainng whether their lives and prop
ery danger This resolution closing down the work IS as
follows:
Carey Act inspectors that the construction company the Con-
Macay dam complying with the specifications
C the said contract with and that their attention has been
repeatedly called the fact by the said state engineer and objections
the said construction having been made and request that the said
company perform said work accordance with the contract and the
plans and specifications approved and that said company has failed
and does comply with said specifications and said con-
tract the said dam accordance herewith be It
Resolved all work upon said dam is discontinued and DIS
approved constructed accordance with the SAID
contract approval OF the state engineer and be
that contracts for the sale OF water rights
under project approved until the construction works are aP
proved by the engineer"
members had been informed for long time that the work
not being done IN accordance with the plans ana @ -
they being informed by the inspector charge as wen a.
by the state engineer In fact the first requisite that the steel
core put firm rock and that the puddle wall be pun down " an
impevious stratum ignored The dam should nave oee c
nected with bed rock with mpeous stratum connected WIN
Ibed rock but not This omission IS fatal and carot e
rernedied at this late date In TACT according 10 Engineer p
co foundations OF the dam are fundamentally bad ana me
construction has been improperly built The remedy oT
the settler lies in his judgment in finding more suitable dam
and reservoir site.
Following the custom working entirely in the interest OF the
promoters the Board had permitted the sale OF water
rights Of this enterprise the extent that the company had received
in cash settlers Under this project and 81 10000
lin water right 1t IS known that the company mas ais
nosed Of 81 35 600 Of certificates and owing the con-
tractors on the Rlackay dam upwards OF 100000
The condition settlers is wretched and under exist
limo circumstances no relief appears sight There water
asbe and the settlers only been forced to dispose OF
t live stock a forced sales their crops have been destroyed
d b have been forced in many haul for long
distances for domestic purposes
reported and believed that the IroWbFdgeNver company,
d0f
Ito secure funds carrying enterprise Colorado where t
have been forced into practical bankruptcy o
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