Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-01-12
IDAHO GETS
$7,II3.435
FUND NOW AVAILABLE FOR
COMPLETION OF IDAHO
PROJECTS
Boise-Payette and MinidOka Projects
VIII Receive Liberal Fund.-Two
Million From Reclamation Bond
Fund.

ldanO TWO Dig government Hii-
cation projects are assured compile
ton by the appropriation of funds
made Monday by President Taft. The
president not only has apportionel
the 20, 900. 600 fund which was pro-
vided by congress at the last SEES
sion, largely through the untirng
efforts Of Senator Borah. but has APP
portioned as we'll the contemplated
increment to regular reclamation for
1911 to -914, inclusive, amounting
to more than 5.OOO,) 900 addition
al. From these two funds Idaho will
receive a total of s7,113,435, Of
which all but s52S,O00 goes to the
Payette-B Boise project. The half mil
lion goes to complete the Minidoka
project. OF this total s2,000,000 for
the Payette-Boise is taken from the
100000 fund provided by con.
gress. The remaining $5,000,000 and
over is allotted out of the receipts
to the regular reclamation fund be-
tween 1911 and 1914.
This allotment insures not only
the completion of the Minidoka pro-
iect which is now in advanced stag
es. but insures the practical COM
pletion of the Boise-Payete project
the allotment being in accordance
with the estimates of the reclama-
ton service engineers.
Fortunately for settlers in Idaho
no interest will have to be paid on
the 100000, which is taken from
regular reclamation fund, although 3
per cent must be refunded on the
s2,OOO,0OO given the Payette-Boise
project from the twenty million fund.
whether this $50, 900 interest on the
two millions will be assessed against
the entire Payette-B Boise or against
that portion benefited by this spe-
cific allotment is a problem the board
Of engineers did not solve, but they
intimate that it viii be impossible to
segregate the lands benefited and
that the 100000 viii be assessed
against the entire project. This. how
ever, will not greatly increase the
per acre cost Of water. and will be
only one-third of the tax that would
have been imposed hal the whole
allotment for this project come from
the $2O.0OO.O0 fund.
Senator Borah, when told of Ida
hos allotments, expressed his sat
isfaction and said: Il am not fam
liar with the figures necessary to
complete the Payette-Boise and Min
idoka projects but l do know that
the amounts allotted are understood
and believed to insure the completion
of both of them just as rapidly as the
work can be done. There will be nc
question from now on as to theiI
completion. and if the money is moi
ready in accordance with this dis
tribution it will be provided by al
extra issue. The main proposition thaN
our projects will be finished as speed
Aly do HOcciDlt Is StllAtU.
The above dispatch came from thu
Boise Statesman's Washington bu
reau. The Associated Press Report o
the same matter follows:
President Taft has approved thu
report of the special board of arm.
engineers recommending the appro
priation of the $2O.OOO,OOO provid
ed by congress among the following
reclamation projects in the west:
Salt river, Arizona. $4,000
Yuma Arizona and California. 81,
100000. Grand Valley. Colorado
$LOOO.OOO. Uncompaghre. Colorado
$1.5OO,OOO; Payette-Boise. Idaho
100000; Milkriver. Montana, 81
100000; North Platte. Wyoming an
Nebraska, S2.O0O.OOO: Truckee-Cal
son. Nevada. Sl.193,OOO; Rio Grand
New Mexico. Texas and Mexico. S4
100000; Umatilla, Oregon. $4,000
Klamath-Oregon and Californi;
100000; Strawberry Valley, Utal
s2.272,OO0; sunnyside ana Tietor
at Yakima, Washington, $1.25O.OO
and s665, 900, respectively.
The $2O,000.OOO is to be sper
within the next five years and tn
interest on the loan is to be charge
against the projects.
The following projects complete
or nearing completion carry redu'
tion for the funds from the gener:
reclamation act sufficient only fc
maintenance and operation:
Orland. CAL; Carlsbad. n. NJ
Honda. n NJ; Garden City. Kan
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