The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-23
of the house is the last great proposition
in tho evolution of the race.
RECLAMATION STATUS.

The Department of the Interior has
issued statement Of the present statu:
of the reclamation fund and of tn,
work proceeding under the Reclamation
service, 1t appears from this that the
actual receipts of the fund to June 80
1908, amounted to $50,661 ,54927, and
that the estimated total to June go
| 1909, was $5s,5S2, ,14O.66. being an in,
crease of 1920, ,591.39 for the year.
The condition of the various rccla.
nation projects is given In detail to
October 81, 1909, none being entirely
completed. The great Salt River project
In Arizona shows 81 per cent COM
pleted. The Yuma project, 70,5 per
cent The Uncompahgre Valley project
shows SIS per cent completed, which is
surprise, because the public under
stood that President Taft touched the
button on the nearly completed project
last September.
The Minidoka project in Idaho, which
will irrigate 132,031 acres, is complete
SO far as a gravity unit is concerned,
cent completed. The Payette-Boise
project, which will irrigate 34s,o0O
acres, is 20 per cent complete on the
south side of the Boise unit; exclusive
Of the storage works on the headwaters
of Boise river, 81 per cent complete.
In Montana the Huntley project is
completed. The Milk River project ap-
pears to be only just begun, but per
cent of the work being completed The
Lower Yellowstone project, Montana,
is far along, being % per cent conf
pleted.
The North Platte project, Nebraska,
is "a per cent complete; it will irrigate
129, 500 acres.
The Truckee Carson project will irri-
gate 2O6,000 acres. OF the entire project
81 per cent is complete; of the first unit,
90 per cent is complete.
in Oregon the Umatilla project is s5
per cent complete; it will irrigate co.
$40 acres. The Klamath project will
!rrigste $4,000 acres; it is SS per cent
complete.
In Utah, the Strawberry Valley
project will irrigatc $4,000 acres; it is
only 3S per cent complete.
In Wyoming the Shoshone project,
which will irrigate l5l,9 300 acres, is only
IS per cent complete.
The computed total cost Of the irriga-
ton projects that have been under.
taken is s119,555, 900. OF this $2,o6s,-
100 is For the Strawberry Valley project,
Utah. The irrigable area Of lands in
The projects undertaken is s,OS7 ,96I
acres. Of this 1925 acres are now
lnder irrigation. The acreage charge
'or water ranges from $S2 at the Mini |
loka project, Idaho, to $65 per acre in
The Okanogan project in the State of
The net cost of these reclamation
projects to October 81, 1909, was $47,-
@4S,oa6.l5. The water right repay
nents to the same date amounted 10
'4S4 1883. The greatest repay.
nent was from the Salt River project, |
which amounted to an even |
100000. The next greatest was $74,.
to7-o6, from the Sunnyside unit of the
Yakima project, Washington. The next,
S6l.7B7.S1. was from the Shoshone
project, Wyoming. The next greatest
epayment was from the Huntley
project, Montana, and amounted to
,57 ,935.96.
The estimated value of the lands when
under these projects is $780,
$4,000, which is almost exactly double
he amount of fhe estimate of the cost
# the reclamation, and this S120, 900 900
nay be fairly counted as newly acquired
wealth.
The total area under irrigation by
hese projects is 424,549 acres. The
lcrefeet storage available October 81,
900, was 70S,3Oo.
A supplemental sheet brings certain
alta up to April so, 1910, as follows;
Total monies received from sales OF
ublie lands under Reclamation Act 10
april 30, 1910. S5s,342.5i7.o2
,eciamati tion Act from ali iesiUs sources. in
ash and credits for work done, s2,s3e,-
1888. divided as follows; Town lot
ales. s1loS4s.s7; Miscellaneous sales.
;ater rentais, etc, sl,522s5s;sl; collec-
eu OF cash there has been received for
iater right charges under the co opera
lon system, work valued at s233, ,lS426,
There is unsettled corporation work
mounting to approximately s110o 900. for
'hich payments Will be made from the
reclamation Fund