The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-11-04
CONSIDER ENGINEERS REPORT
State Land Board Receives Report Re-
garding Salmon River Project.

State Land Board Receives Report Re
garding Salmon River Project.
1t is probable that the state lane
board will consider the report sub
mitted by Joe Burkett, one of the
states Carey act engineers, during
the early part of next week, and thai
that report will be placed on public
files by the last of the week, in which
case The Herald will carry the same
In next weeks issue. Mr. Burkett, il
will be recalled, is the engineer who
spent several days on the Salmon a
few weeks ago, making various inves-
LEGATIONS for the state land board.
A. M. Bowen, Of Twin Falls, Special
Counsel for the Salmon River Set
tiers Association, has been in touch
with John Gray of Three Creek. during
the last few days studying the surveys
which Mr.. Gray obtained some time
ago when he contemplated irrigating
some land on the Bruneau tract, east
OF the Salmon Mr.. Gray made various
filings on water sources there, and
had considerable engineering work
done. Financial obstacles finally
obliged Mr.. Gray to abandon his pro-
ject for the time being, and he offers
his rights for the benefit of the Sal
mon River tract at a mere nominal
price, should it develop that they can
be used to advantage here.
There has been great deal of talk
during the last year about switching
the East Fork OF the Bruneau and it's
tributaries into the Salmon River res
ervoir, but there are many conversant
with that stream that believed it would
~ al 1o 80 Nv
which would be required. Mr.. Gray,
however, proposes to divert the Bru-
neau ITSELF into the East Fork of the
Bruneau, which he maintains is IAN
engineering possibility. The elevations
on the maps submitted would indicate
that with the construction of dam
and tunnel, this might be accomplish
ed, and with similar constructions and
several cuts, both the Bruneau and
the East Fork, thrown into the big
reservoir which now impounds the wa
ters of the Salmon for the irrigation Of
this tract, thus adding to the pres
ent sources of water, the waters of
another entire river system. 1t is es-
timated that these waters would not
only furnish sufficient water to irri-
gate that portion of the tract which it
Will be impossible to irrigate with the
present supply, but will also irrigate
enough additional land so, if sold at a
slightly advanced price, that it will
pay the cost of additional construc-
ton work
AS reported in The Herald last week,
the State has had an engineer in the
field studying various means of OBJ
tanning additional water for the Sal
mon.
1t is known that Joe Burkett one of
the Carey Act engineers of the state,
has spent several days on the Salmon,
and in its vicinity, measuring various
streams and compiling data. He drove
from Rogerson into the Cedar and
House Creek countries, undoubtedly
for the purpose of determining wheth-
er the proposition of diverting those
streams and the east fork of the Bru-
nea,k into the Salmon reservoir was
feasible, and also to determine the
amount of water that could be obtain
ed from those sources. Mr.. Barnes, a
Twin Falls engineer, is known to
have assisted Mr.. Burkett in this work
1t is also thought that Mr.. Burkett in
vestigated the proposition Of pumping
water from the Twin Falls high line
canal to get water for the north end
of the project.
The report of this engineer will be
matter of public record within the
next few days, and The Herald has
made special arrangements to obtain
a copy of it at the earliest possible
date, which it will publish in these
columns.
1t is hoped that the State Land
Board will take up the matter with
the least possible delay, and will pro-
coed with enough efficiency and ex-
petition to warrant holders of prop
erty on the Salmon to believe that the
State of Idaho is going to make good
her guarantee of the Salmon River
Project. Otherwise entrymen on this
tract intend to proceed on their own
account in direct fashion. The Asso-
citation intends to put engineers in the
field, If necessary, to look over the
various sources of water, and when the
most feasible plan has been mapped
out, action will be instituted to oblige
the Water Company, which unfortu-
nately is now in the hands of receiv-
ers, to do the necessary work; failing
this, another line of action has been
mapped out, and will be reverted to
without delay.
Throughout the summer water in
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