Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-09
new IRRIGATION
PROJECT PLANNED
ALONG NALHEUR
Petitions for the Formation
OF District Comprising
$4,000 Acres Of Rich Land
Are Filed.
(Staf Correspondence.)

N''Nii
vale, April S.-An irrigation district
IS pelhg formed in Malheur county
comprising $4,000 acres of rich farm
ing lands extending in narrow strip
on oth slucs o. the Malheur river
from the mouth of the Malheur can
yon seven miles west of Vale To the
Snake river just north of Ontario. Pc
titlons for the formation of this dis
trict were filed this wees with the
county court at Vale. This court fixed
April 10 as the date for hearing obiec-
tons to the petitions for taking action
on the petitions.
me plan evolved is to store the wat
ers OF the middle fork of the Malheur
river in the Warm Springs reservoir
above riverside. Eminent engineers
who have investigated this reservoir
site report it very feasible pror osi-
uon. They say water can be stored
cheaper there than in any other reserr
Volr site in Oregon. They estimate
the cost of storing water there at only
$3.50 per acre foot
Ample Water Supply.
The storage capacity OF the warm
Springs reservoir is 225.0Oo acre feet
OF water. The ;nnual run-off of the
middle fork of he Malheur river is
more than ample to fill this reservoir
with storaga water. 1t is the plan to
furnish three acre-feet of water for
each acre of land in the district. II is
thus seen that the supply of water for
irrigating the $4,000 acres in the pro-
posed district is more than ample.
inc $4,000 acres can be irrigated by
the extension Of the present bitches
The present bitches give partial wat
err supply to 1900 acres. The storage
water from the Warm Springs reser
Voir would not only furnish a complete
water supply for the $4,000 acres. but
would furnish an ample water supply
for 1000 more acres that now have no
water at all for irrigation.
1t is probable as a future deyelop-
ment OF this project to build higher
bitches and thus irrgate quite a body
OF land n the lower Willow Creek val
ley north of Vale. the lower Dead OK
flat north of Ontario.
The surveys for the Warm Springs
reservoir and the irrigation of the
oo,ooo as proposed. were made jointly
pS the state engineers office and the
United states reclamation service. This
project when developed viii prove n
pig asset not on,y to Vale and Ontario.
but to Malheur county as whole.
Two hundred and forty-two thou
sand acres OF government land, cover
ing II townships in Malheur county
mas been surveyed and plated and will
be opened to entry April 30. 1916.
The Vale land office is a busy place
these days.
New Real Estate Office.
1orgensen & Moudy is the name Of a
new real estate office opened this week
N the Nelson Building in Vale. The
new firm also handles insurance. loans
md land locations,
Ihe total amount of taxes collected
Tor the first half of the 1915 taxes in
haiheuf county is something over
slo2,o0o. The sheriff's office was n
mighty busy place the first half of this
week. The sheriff is the official tax
collector in the several counties OF
oregon. In this state. tire first hn!f of
he 1916 taxes became delnauent on
April :, hence the rush of tax payers
Q pay their taxes before they became
b. l.. Becker this week bought OF
sharles Copel Of Vale a $3.50 Buick |
passenger truck which lie will use in |
he operation of an auto stage running
aetween Harper TO Follyfarm, in this
county.
a deal was recently closed whereby
A. Parke of Boise sold his four-acre
ract in the south part of Vale to T..
\. Mansur for $1,000. There is good |
wo-story house on the place.
VICTORY NEWS NOTES.
Mr.. and Mrs. 'Fouser of Iowa have
to their home after a pleas