The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-08-30

This agreement made this :. dayo
............, 1912, between the Unitet
States of America, acting for this pur
pose by the Secretary of the Interior
under the provisions of the Act o.
Congress of June. II, 1902, (32 Stat
388) known as the Reclamation Act
and acts amendatory thereof or sup.
Elementary thereto, and the Acts Of
Congress of February Fl, 1911, (3t
Stat L. 925), the party of the first part
the Pioneer Irrigation District, an IT.
rigation district organized under the
laws of the state of Idaho, and located
in Canyon and Ada counties, Idaho
acting for the purpose of this contract
under the authority of title IA of the
Idaho Revised Codes, including Sec
tons 1896, 1897, and 1893, the party OF
the second part, hereinafter called the
District
Witnesseth-That,
Whereas, the District includes with
in its boundaries about thirty-four
thousand four hundred (34,4OO) acres
of irrigated and irrigable land which
is entitled to receive water from the
District, and owns and controls those
certain canals known as 'the Phyllis
and Caldwell canals through which
water is supplied from Boise River to
the lands Of the district for irrigation
and domestic purposes, and whereas,
the natural flow of the Boise River
which the district is entitled to divert
under its priorities and appropriations,
is insufficient during the latter part of
the irrigation season to furnish COM
plete water supply for the lands of
the district, and the district desires to
secure a certain amount of stored
water in order to furnish its land
owners and water users more com
plete water supply during the low
water periods of the irrigation season,
and,
Whereas, the irrigation of large
tracts of lands from the canals of the
district and other canals in the vicinity
thereof is resulting in bringing UP
seepage water and alkali in such guam
titles in some parts of the district that
large part of the lands of the dis
trict are likely to become permanently
ruined and incapable of producing
crops, or bearing any share of the ex-
penses of the district unless a drain
age system is promptly provided; and
whereas, it is believed that such a
drainage system will reclaim large
areas which cannot now be cultivated
successfully on account of such seep-
age conditions, and will check the
spread of such seepage conditions, and
save other large areas which are now
threatened with destruction from the
same cause; and
Whereas, the government is now
constructing, under the provisions of
the Reclamation Act, that certain irri-
CATION project known as the Boise
project, including the Arrowrock and
Deer Flat storage reservoirs, and
portion of the lands of the district
have been subscribed to said project
by virtue of individual owners of such
lands: and
Whereas, it is believed that under
existing conditions the only way in
which the additional water supply and
drainage system required b ythe dis I
trict can be secured promptly and at
a cost which the land owners of the
district can afford to pay is by means
of contract between the district and
the government, under the provisions
of the acts of Congress of June II,
1902, (32 Stat 1887, and February Fl.
1911, (36 Stat. L. o25), and Title ID of
the Idaho Revised Codes.
Now. therefore, it is hereby agreed:
l.: That as part of the general
drainage system of it's Boise project.
The government will construct in the
Pioneer Irrigation District a drainage
system to total cost of three hundred
fifty thousand dollars ($35OOOO), be-
ginning with the main drains and fol-
owing with the principal branches, as
ar as said limit of expenditure will al
ow such work to go, such drainage
ystem to be located approximately as
hown on the attached map, and to
AVE sufficient capacity in its main
rains to carry the seepage water flow
ng into the district from the lands :
wing above the district and darining !;
1to it, as we'll at that originating in
he district itself The supervising en- G
ineer in charge of such construction {
hall have the right to make changes {
, the location of the drains shown on +
ne attached map, where such changes d
hall be found in his judgment to be L
ecessary or desirable to increase the a
Efficiency or economy of the system. b
is fully understood that the govern t
rent is to expend only Three Hundred |