Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-04
many VISIT THE
fine PROJECT IN
WE|SER VALLEY
Formal Opening of Crane
Greek Tract Takes Place
Ample Water Secured
in Big Reservoir.
(Staff correspondence

Weiser June 4.--The magnificent
Crane creek irrigation project, COM
prising 21,54S acres Of the choicest
fruit and agricultural land in the state
situated at the very door of Weiser,
is completed. It's completion was fit
tingly celebrated yesterday by those
at the head of the project, by the bust
ness interests of Weiser and others.
Governor Haines was taken over por-
tons of the project and he expressed
himself as being much pleased with it's
completion, with the splendid character
of the construction work throughout,
and especially with the fact of there
being an abundance of irrigation water
Tor every acre of land for the fun ir-
figation season each year.
Superior Construction Work.
The Commercial club of Weiser real
izing the great importance of this
project to weiser and its future growth.
assisted In yesterdays celebration by
chartering a special Pacific & Idaho
Northern train for the day. This train
made three round trips from Weiser
to Crane, Is miles east of weiser. At
Crane the people were met by automo-
4 biles and other vehicles and were taken
where big basket dinner was served
Quite a bunch of people got off the
train at the point above Appleton.
where the 24-inch wood stave, iron
bound syphon. 20sO feet long. crosses
the Weiser river from the south to the
north side From this point they in
spected the work on this project for a
distance of eight miles They found
o+r orb to ha Of
superior kind. The syphons, the fumes,
the ditch, the intakes and outlets, etc,
are all very finely constructed. There
are few, If any, irrigation projects in
the west where the construction work
in its entirety is as we'll done as on
4 this one
Splendid Reservoir.
The reservoir for this project was
built in the fall of 1911. This reser-
voir has been a revelation IN more
ways than one. 1t has proven to the
complete satisfaction of every person
in the Weiser valley that 1t not only
holds water perfectly, but It stores
enough water for nearly twice the
number of acres under this project. An
either important point about this reser-
voir is there are enough natural
SPRINGS in ii to make up the amount
Of water lost through evaporation. The
submerged area of the reservoir is
3263 acres. The greatest depth of the
water is $50 feet. The average depth
of the water is ZIG feet. Its storage
capacity is 1857 feet The length of
its shore line is over 20 miles. The
reservoir holds water like a cement
basin.
Materials Used in Construction.
Work on the canal system proper
including the fumes and syphons. was
started April Is, 1913 The materials
used In it's construction are: over
100000 feet Of selected white pine
lumber from Washington for makine
the fumes, the life of these fumes be-
Ing estimated at 20 years; 300 kegs OF
nails; $500 sacks of cement; 1900
pounds of steel were used. There are
S86,S51 feet of lumber in the heavy
slaves of the syphons, and it required
1882 pounds of steel bands on the
to strengthen them properly
Such syphons as these endure for II
and even more, years, There are foul
syphons, whose total length is II ,34s
feet.
The syphon across the Weiser river
is $40 feet high. 1t is the highest one
in the state and the second highes
in the United States.
95 Miles in Canal System.
The total length of the main cana
is IS miles, and of the nine distributing