The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-07-21


general public. We predict that the verdict will be a
condemnation of the Reclamation Service.
Let cite instance for the consideration of the
reader. The Reclamation Service the Boise Project
went ahead and provided irrigation system for from
$4,000 100000 land than is legally under
the Project subject the Reclamation laws If these
lands brought into the Project the remainder
must pay the entire cost of the Project, The only way
in which the lands be brought into the Project is
by the organization of irrigation district The land
owners who not already tied up will object to being
forced in. They will fight the organization of the dis
tric Can any blame them in view Of the fact that
they do not know what the cost of water will be? The
condition existing is due entirely the careessness and
Negligence of the Reclamation Service.
Let us look at the Boise Government Reclamation
from the standpoint of settler upon the land. For
obvious and places changed in the |
following story but the facts substantially as |
stated:
In 1907 Joe Anderson and his wife and three children
were living DeKalb, Illinois. They we'll to
do in way Anderson industrious and able to
support his family in comfort Be it said, however they
had been able accumulate great amount of property
In the fall of that year they visited relatives in Chicago
While looking about Chicago Mr.. Anderson's attention
directed to large black tent which had been erect
ed and in which pictures of Government reca
nation projects shown lectures the conditions,
advantages and opportunities the projects delvered
and literature dealing with the subject matter dis
tributed Mr. Anderson attended several lectures,
joyed the pictures and took home the literature. lie
greatly impressed with what he had heard and
He determined to investigate and if conditions as set
forth found to exist, to cast his lot Gov
eminent project.
| Inquiry resulted in the information that the
pictures lectures and literature known the Rec
amaon Service of the United States This propaganda
being conducted with full knowledge and
approval of the Government Indeed it official
propaganda Upon further inquiry Mr. Anderson found
that great many people from Pontiac, Illinois, had To-
Gated in the Boise Valley, and that their tract of
land included in tle Payete- Boise Government Rec
amaton Project (This tract is not part of the
Proect) He wrote to persons whose he had
received and found that the pictures, facts and figures
were authentic He advised to write the Recama-
ton Service Department of the Interior Washington He
wrote and received reply fully subsantatng every
thing that had been told him. He inquired about the
lectures and pctures about the laws under which the r
rigaton works being constructed and about the
terms, costs, He told that the big black
was being conducted under the auspices of the Gov
eminent and the representations there set forth were
rustworthy that the Government constructing the
irrigation system; that when it completed it would
be turned to the farmers at actual cost and that
there would be interest deferred payments. Mr..
Anderson deeply impressed than before. He is
careful however, and wrote to the PayetteBoise
Water Users association concerning the cost of the If
rgaton system the Government had under construction
Literature sent him which stated that the cost in
this instance is estimated $500 per acre" During the
winter Mr.. Anderson talked the matter over with his
wife and friends and decided to visit the Boise Valley.
;, In early spring Mrs Andersons father died and Joe
did until mid -summer when he was
accompanied by his family The death of Mrs. Ander-
sons father made available to the family $4,000 and
he the last tie at DeKab The small patrmony
enabled the family pull up their stakes and depart
The family to Caldwell Mr. Anderson visited
he Roswell section and found conditions represented
He talked with the leading of Roswell Parma,
Caldwell, Nampa and Boise-armers, merchants, bank
ers professional and representatives of the Reca
nation Service. By every he assured that the
facts had been told him and that he could rely upon
he had the 1ectu Tho
literature delivered you published with the full know
ton which hurled at him time and time again He
was importunted to buy land He looked home
steads, Pioneer Irrigation District lands Nampa-Me
idian lands and Dixie lands. He noted that both the
Pioneer Irrigation District and the Nampa- Meridian
Irrigation District part of the Payette-Bose
Project Accidentally he four page
eafet being address to the landowners of the Nampa
Meridian Irrigation District setting forth facts which
the Reclamation Service the Water Users association and
the Irrigation District commonly interested This
eafet reiterated the that the estimated
the works $500 1t signed by J. H. Lowell,
as President of the Payee Boise Water Users assoca-
ton and by H. A. Partridge President of the Nampa-
Meridian Irrigation District. 1t in fact published and
endorsed by the Reclamation Service.
In fact every inquiry the part of Mr.. Anderson,
Washington, at Boise at Caldwell, and the farms
lead the statement that the estimated of the
project $500 per Finally Mr.. Anderson was
convinced that this section offered superior advantages
lie bought S-acre REIMBURSEMENT Deer Flat for
100000.
OF course, Mr.. Anderson got here too early for water