Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-03-07
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LAND IN OREGON
Col. c. 2. Muller and Mainlanss
Formulate Plans for Irrieating
Large Body of Rich Land on Ore
son Side Tributary to Payette.

Large Body of Rich Land on Ore
gon Side Tributary to Payette.
The Payette Bridge across ths
Snake River is now within a few
feet of the Oregon shore. and will
be completed for foot passengers, II
is expected, by the close of the pres
ent week. This, and the near com
pletion OF the big Irrigation plant
established by the Snow-MOody en-
terprise for watering the nigh lands
on the Dead Ok Flat, attracts new
friends to the wonderfully rich 50 Is
on the. bench between the Sna1e
/ River and the hills to the west,
where the lift for water does not
exceed 46 it., and where the cost
of power for pumping is less than
half that Of the higher lands. The
lands on this bench have been call
ed flats, no doubt because of the
high hills Immediately west and al
an elevation of several hundred feet
but in fact the lands are about the
same elevation of the justly celebrat-
cd Payette Bench, and have been
receiving for the past twenty mil
lion years or more, the rich chem.
ical properties of the higher hills.
and-have remained dormant be-
cause of the lack of rains.
The new friends Of the lands in
cluded in Township II S Malheur
County, Oregon, are Mr. Sinclair
Mainland of the Idaho-Oregon Light
& Power Co. and Mess James A.
Green & Co., who have Joined with
Col. Muller, and are getting the
land signed up as rapidly as posi-
BILE, and as soon as 275O acres are
signed up for water. work will be-
gin in enlarging the work already
started by Col. Muller, installing 4
Electric. Motors Of Is horse power
and 4 pumps, II inch each, giving
ample water for 1000 acres. right
close to Payette and a goodly share
close to Ontario. insuring the ac-
tive interest of both of these cit
les. Mr. Mainland undertakes 10
finance the project, James A. Green
& Co. will install the machinery and
construct the canals, and Col. Null
Ter throws his installed plant as It
now is, towards helping out the
deal and securing water for his own
holdings. The plans for the con-
pletion Of this permanent water sup
ply are about as follows:
An Irrigation Co. will be formed
of the land owners with a Ger. ain
capital stock, each share OF this
stock will represent a paid up wat
er right for one acre OF lan1, and
subject only to the maintenance
charges, such as power and the up
keep of the plant and cana's. This
Irrigation Co. will furnish mortgages
at $50 per acre running for ten
years at moderate interest alter the
expiration of the first year, and MI
Mainland will finance the same.
James A. Green & Co. will install
a fully equipped pumping plant and
complete irrigation system, adequate
and in operation, with full capacity
for 1000 acres, and when complet-
ed will turn the same over to the
Irrigation Company, free from all
They will also as
sumo the interest on the mortgages
,or the first year, and will pay to
the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power
Co., $500 to apply on the power
charge for 1912 and as far into 1913
as it will go. This tides over the
land holders through the two seq
sons known as 'the starvation years
before any payments are to be made.
and enables him to have his lands
cleared and growing crops. TIE Pay
cite Bridge lands the visitor nearly
in the middle of this Township II.
and will soon populate that region,
as it is understood that a number Of
land owners propose to cut lands
up AulO sinai AoNH VI y VI ~ eA+AN0s
If there is the demand for them.
at prices that will be moderate, and
also at easy terms. It is population
that induces the friends OF the
Light & Power Co. to do this, and
very soon on these rich lands there
will be scattered about a population
that will be OF benefit to the public
and to themselves. 1t remains en-
tirely with the land owners, how
soon all this will be accomplished.
Col. Muller has now 14s acres OF
these lands cleared and under cuiti-
yation, and expects to put out more
this spring, amongst which viii be
30 acres in alfalfa intended as a
legacy with an income for his child
rem. Payette is interested in this
enterprise for it means business to
the business men, and homes for
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