Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-02-16
IDAHO AND IRRlOAilON
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Of Idaho. If placed end to end these
canals would form a waterway more
than two-ffths of the way around
the earth; or practically rach from
Idaho to the summer palace of the
Car Of Russia
The reclamation service is the arm
of the wonderful machinery of the
United States Government through
which two gigantic irrigation schem-
es are being carried through to sue
cessful completion in Idaho. These
projects are known as the Minidoka
and the Boise-Payette; the former is
situated on the Snake river, adjoin-
ing the great Twin Falls tract on the
east. and consists of l3O 1000 acres;
the latter is located in the Boise val
ley, extending south and west from
Boise city and comprises 243,000
acres. This segregation was cut down
little during the paint year, thus
the acreage here given is somewhat
ISIS than formerly reported.
Out of tn $20.OOO,vvO fund and
the increment to regular reclamation
for the years of 1911 to 1914 inclu-
sive, recently provided by Congress
and apportioned by President Taft
to the various states where reclama-
ton work is being carried on, Idaho
received the handsome sum of ST.
113,435 for the completion of her
two projects. OF this amount $685.
100 will go to the Minidoka project,
which will complete that splendid en-
terprise. The remainder. $6,5S5,43
will be appropriated to the Boise
Payette project, thus guaranteeing
the completion of this gigantic
scheme. which contemplates the con-
struction of a huge concrete and ma
sorry dam $50 feet high, up Boise
river. and several other great stor-
age reservoirs, besides the building
of hundreds of miles of canals.
The wonderful benefit that will
come to Boise and the immediate
country surrounding through the ex-
penditure here of this 100000
fund is almost inestimable.
The most stupendous proposition
thus far undertaken in Idaho, if not
in the world, is that of the Twin
Falls Land and Water Company. who
propose to irrigate about $4,000
acres of land in Owyhee county at
an expenditure Of $17.OOO,OOO. To
accomplish this end. it will require
the construction of a main canal over
14O miles in length, besides hun
dreds of miles of laterals, and the
building Of a dam across Snake riv-
er just above American Falls. This
dam will be 80 feet high and 5000
feet long, forming a reservoir with a
capacity sufficient to store 3.O36.OOO
acre feet of water. covering 10000
acres, of land. constituting the larg-
est artificial reservoir in the world
The entire townsite of American
Falls will be submerged, besides
thousands of acres adjoining the In
diau land. he intake of she great
canal which viii be POO eeet wide
on tie bottom will be az the Miner
dam The huge American Falls res
ervoir is to store the water during
tn flood season ana supply the de-
mands of the canal flow during the
irrigating season.
The lands composing this project
have been withdrawn from the public
domain under the provisions of the
Carey act. and the company is en-
gagged in running its surveys and do
ing preliminary work. The Buhl-
Milner-Kimberly interests are back
of this scheme They it was who sue
cessful completion the original Twin
Falls project of 244,O0O acres.
The sublime climate which Idaho
affords, filled with go days of sun.
shine in the year; the great open
vigorous, strong and free country
protected by its snow capped noun
tains from cyclones and fearful
storms the productivity and indies
tructibility of her soil: the excel
lence Of her fruits. vegetables anC
, grains; the strides she is making il
the science of dry farming; he
wonderful accomplishments in irri
CATION: the value OF her white pin
forests; her ineNhaustable store o
precious metals her millions o
sheep and cattle and the sterling
worth of her citizenry are the thing
that appeal louder than a thousan
tongues to the world without. and