Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-09
/. LINCOLN COUNTY IDAHO
RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
OFFERED H0MESEEKERS
SHOSHONE, ,THEC|TY BEAUTIFUL
ITS HOMES, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES
AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

mountains with an altitude of about
$500 feet at the river and some 450(
at its northern boundary. Its rela.
tions to the mountains give it semi
arid climate and its varying altitu-
des give range of several degrees
in average annual temperature, SC
that often when the farmers are do
ing spring plowing in it's southern
ground in the northern part. The
annual average rain fall is about IL
inches and most of this falls in the
winter in the form of snow. From
April to October a cloudy day is sell
dom seen. Its northern latitude
gives it long days of almost cloud
less sunshine during the growing
season, with short nights always cool
enough for comfortable covers.
These conditions give an unusually
vigorous growing season for farm
crops and the yields are almost be-
yond belief, where irrigation is used.
Irrigation Farming.
In an irrigated section the farm
lands do not cover the entire area of
the country as in the middle west.
The irrigable lands lie in great ir-
regular shaped tracts whose bound
aries are determined by their con-
tours which determine the location
of the ditch lines. These follow.
along the highest levels that can be
reached so as to place as much land
as possible below the bitches. There
are four of these tracts in Lincoln
county, each containing in the neigh
borhood of forty thousand acres
They are known as the North Sho-
shone, the Richfeld, the Dietrich and
the North Side Twin Falls tracts.
The latter receives its water from the
Snake river and the other three from
Big Wood river. These tracts are
separated from each other by desert
areas which lie too high to be reach
ed by water from either of the sys-
TENS supplying the irrigated tracts
and this fact tends to make each ir-
rigated tract a self centered commu-
nifty whose interests, locally, are not
connected with those of any other
tract
Irrigation Systems and Water Supply. !
An irrigation system consists of
the dams, bitches head gates and |
other structures necessary to control |
the water supply from any given /
source and distributing it to any tract /
or tracts that may be reached from |
its head dam and reservoirs. The ir- |
rigated lands of Lincoln county are
by two systems. The North
Side Twin Falls tract getting it's wa
ter from Snake river and all of the
other three tracts from a system US
ing the waters of Big Wood river
Both of these systems are what is
known as Reservoir" systems, that
IS they impound their supply of wa
-er in great reservoirs, thus insuring
1 stable and abundant quantity dur
ng the idry season of the year, when
water is most needed,
'ather than having their supply de-
pendent upon the ebb and flow of a
stream which is liable to be short of
water at a critical time.
A prospective settler in an irriga-
ed country should satisfy himself
thoroughly on the quantity and sta
,ility of the water supply and the
character of the works of ,
he system, before selecting a loca- {
ion. For in this country the land
alues are of small Importance as
ompared with a first class water {
light in reliable system. Practi- +,
ally we sell you the water right and t
i've you the land
Our Water Supply. t
The Snake river, which supplies c
Tater for the North Side Twin Falls t
ystem in the southern part of Lin i
oln county, is one of the great rivers
I the continent. We get our water
-om dam located at Miner, Just