Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-04
Negotiations Being Con :
Quoted With Reclamation
Service Officials to Sup
ply the Water.
KING HILL MATTERS
AGAIN CONSIDERED
All Problems Preliminary
to Taking Over Project
to Be led-Riverside
Drainage District Asks
for Government Super
vision.

Negotiations are well under way for
the United States reclamation service
to supply water for lands under the
New York canal At a conference this
morning between Director A. P. Davis
and Judge Will r. King, chief counsel
of the reclamation service and repce-
sentatives of the New York company
plans were considered whereby the
government will furnish water for
some of the lands under this canal dur
ing the entire season and for other
lands only during the latter part Of
the season. While no definite conclu-
sions have been reached, Director Da-
Wis says that the government and the
New York company people are not Ear
apart and a satisfactory arrangement
will likely be reached.
There are about 10000 acres under
the New York canal. Water is now
being supplied for about 10000 acres.
Plans now being considered would
make water available for the entire
10000 acres.
KING HILL MATTERS.
King Hill has been given further con-
sideration by Director Davis and Judge
King. The legal questions involved
will be solved ultimately and Director
Davis and F. E. Weymouth, chief con-
struction engineer, go to the project
Saturday to make an inspection and to
determine the first work that must be
done. The exact cost of putting the
project in shape cannot be stated at
this time. Speaking of this, Director
Davis said:
Materials have advanced so
much that the cost will be far
greater than has been estimated.
We have 100000 for this years
work and we are going to deter
mine what is to be done first. The
government Yill build the project
and the actual cost will be charged
to the lands. This is the only way
in which the reclamation service
can handle the project"
DRAINAGE PROBLEM.
Drainage of the Riverside project is
now being considered by Director Davis
and Chief Counsel King. The River
side district is represented at the con-
ference being held this afternoon by
Thomas WEIGH, Harvey Hatch, Sam
Tuning. J. H. Lowell and John Boswell.
The object in getting the reclamation
service to take hold of this project is
to get the benefit of the governme ut
drainage experts. The district en-
braces about $4,000 acres in Canyon
county.
Director Davis will go from Idaho
to Colorado, where he will be Joined by
Judge King. Reclamation problems in
that section will come up for consid-
Grafton. Speaking of the purposes of
their western trip, Director Davis said
that it was for the purpose of making
a general inspection of government irri-
cation projects and to do such pre-
liminary work as can be done at this
time towards speeding up crop produce
ton.
Further conferences relative to Idaho
irrigation projects will be held this af-
ternoon and evening. No definite ac-
ton can be taken regarding the Gem
district and others similarly situated,
as the reclamation service has not
funds available for extending immedi-
ate aid to private projects. Judge
King, who has been in Boise for more
than week, will leave Saturday Cor
Colorado