The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-12-30
IDAHO GETS fine
CHRISTMAS GIFT
PRESIDENT TAFT MAKES AL.
LOTMENT OF $4,000, 900 IR-
RIGATION BONDS.
The PayeIe-Boise Project Gets 81.
and Half Millions In Order t.
Complete Enterprise Minidoks
Gets Over Half Million.-Work tc
be Rushed.


Gets Over Half Million.-Work tc
be Rushed.
That was a very nifty Christina
present President Taft slipped Idaho
To be exact the state gets $7,ll3,43.
with which to complete the two bi.
government reclamation projects in
this state The Payette- Boise proiec
gets all but $528,OOO of this amount
The press dispatches from Washing
ton dated Monday of this week have
the following account of the allot.
ments:
Idaho's two big government irriga
ton projects are assured completion
by the appropriation of funds mad
today by President Taft. The presi
dent not only has apportioned the
$20,000,000 fund which was provided
by congress at the last session, Blu
has apportioned as we'll the contem
plated increment to regular rec,ama
ton for 1911 to 1914, inclusive
amounting to more than $25,0000O
additional From these two fund,
Idaho will receive total of %,ll3,43S
of which all but $528,OO0 goes to thc
Payette-Boise project The half mil
lion goes to complete the Minidokg
project. OF this total 100000 fol-
the Payette- Boise is taken from thu
$2O,OOO,OOO fund provided by congress
The remaining $5,OOO,0OO and over j,
allotted out of the receipts to the
regular reclamation fund between
1911 and 1914.
This allotment insures not only the
completion of the Minidoka project
which is now in advanced stages, bu:
insures the practical completion
the Boise Payette project, the allot
ment being in accordance with the
estimates of the reclamation service
engineers.
Fortunately for settlers in Idaho no
interest will have to be paid on the
100000, which is taken from regu'
lar reclamation fund, although per
cent must be refunded on the $1,000
600 given the Payette Boise project
from the twenty million fund. Wheth'
err this $4,000 interest on the two
millions will be assessed against the
entire Payette-Boise project OF
against that portion benefited by this
specific allotment is problem the
board of engineers did not solve, but
thew intimate that it will be impossi'
Bile to segregate the lands benefited
and that the 100000 will be assessed
against the entire project. This, how
ever, will not greatly increase the PEI
acre cost of water, and will be only
one-third of the tax that would haV'
been imposed had the whole aliot
ment for this project come from tn
$2O,OOO,O00 fund.
Senator Borah, when told OF IDA
hos aIlotments, expressed his salts
faction and said: 81 am familiar wit
the figures necessary to complete I'll
Payette-Boise and Minidoka projects
but l do know that the amounts a
lotted are understood and believed t
insure the completion of both Of ther
just as rapidly as the work can b
done. There will be no question fror
now on as to their completion, and
the money is not ready in accordanc
with this distribution it will be pre-
vided by an extra issue. The mai
proposition that our prospects will
finished as speedily as possible is sc
tied"
President Apporions Fund
President Taft has approved the r
port of the special board of army c
gineers recommending the appropr
alton of the $20,000,000 provided
congress among the following reel
nation projects in the west:
Salt River. Arizona, $4oS,OOO Yum
Arizona. and California, $4,000
Grand Valley. Colorado, $l,000,OO
Uncompahgre, Colorado, $l,S0O0C
Payette- Boise, Idaho. $2.000000; Mi
river, Montana, 100000; Nor
Platte. Wyoming. and Nebraska, $
100000; Truckee. Carson. Neva'
$llo3,OO0; Rio Grande. New Mexi'
Texas and Mexico, $4,S00,0OO; I'm
tilla. Oregon, $32S,0OO; klamath-O'
gon and California, 100000; Stra
berry Valley, Utah, $2,2720OO; ST.
nyside and Teton, at Yakima, Was
ington, $l.2sO,OOO and $665,OOo,
spectively.
The $2O,OOOOOO is to be spent wi
in the next five years and the int