The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-10-28
FEDERAL AID FOR IRRIGATION
Director of Reclamation Service Urges
State to Join.

Idaho is urged to join hands with
the reclamation service and redeem
her impaired irrigation securities by
f. II. Newell, director of the service
who arrived in Boise Sunday on triI
of inspection. He takes the position
that the state should assume the res
possibility for Carey act projects that
have not been successful and take
steps to appropriate money to make
them good.
''lf the people of Idaho will show
that they appreciate their RESPONSE
bility in this matter, for every dollar
the state will put up for use in com
pleting these projects the reclamation
service can readily be induced to put
up dollar" said Mr.. Newell. "The
service has the funds and will meet
the state half way.
with the exception of the Twin
Falls South Side tract, every big Carey
act project in Idaho has been unsuc-
cessful. The state gave out the i'm
preston that it stood behind these
projects and people who have invest
ed their money in these irrigation Sc
curities, only to see the investment
wiped out, are expecting Idaho to
make good.
81 do not make this statement in a
spirit of criticism, but in a desire to
help. The reclamation service stands
ready to help, but the state must make
the first move. Oregon found herself
in the same position that Idaho stands
| today. She joined hands with the rec
lamation service and her projects are
now in fair way to be completed.
Oregon put up $450,OOO and the recla-
nation service a like amount.
Until these projects are made good
only the government will be able to
finance irrigation enterprises of any
kind. AS it is now, you can't sell an
irrigation bond, and that condition is
a direct result of the failure of these
Carey act projects.
with that condition existing, and
there being at the same time de-
mand for the completion of more irri-
cation projects, it is imperative that
the government have funds with which
to carry on the work. Secretary Lane
of the interior department is asking
for 500, 100000 as loan for recla-
nation work. A few years ago that
would have sounded like a tremen-
dous sum, but it does not seem to be
causing a great deal of stir now, and
| would not be at all surprised if it
were forthcoming"
While in this vicinity Mr.. Newell
will inspect the work at Arrow Rock
and go over the Boise-Payette pro-
ject He will check up on the work
that has been done thus far toward
securing drainage for the Pioneer IT.
rigation district.
This drainage problem is one of
the most important that the reclama-
ton service now has to solve said
Mr.. Newell. ut is a vital one. Wher-
ever irrigation has been practiced for
any length of time from one-quarter to
one-third of the lands have been ruin
ed from the lack of proper drainage
facilities and from the application of
too much water.
What is needed most is campaign |
of education, and that is what we in
tend to inaugurate. Through the ap-
plication of too much water the farm
ers have been running their lands by |
out the fertility of them.
Then, too, they must be taught to use
a large head of water for irrigation,
putting the water on quickly in large
quantities instead of keeping a small
stream running for an extended per-
Iod of time. This campaign of educa-
ton must be carried on while drain
age systems are being built
Mr.. Newell came here from Mon
ANA, where he looked over reclama-
ion work that is in progress there.
Near Browning, Mont, two weeks ago
ne was caught in blizzard while
Irving to the railway station The
lriyer was familiar with the road but
he storm ragged so fiercely that 1t was
)nly by cropping their way from tele-
,hone pole to telephone pole that Mr.
Newell and his party were able to find
heir way. He says the snow was
,eavy all through Montana, and that it
$, like entering the tropics to come
o Idaho from there.-Statesman
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