Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-03
GOVERNMENT AID
FOR KING HILL
BILL APPRoPRIATING s2oo, 900 FOR
RELIEF OF PROJECT WENT
THROUGH HOUSE MoNDY.
HISTORY Of PROJECT
PROJECT HAS MANY UPS AND
DOWNS. POLITICAL FOOTBALL
FOR SEVERAL YEARS PAST.

Ihe national house Of representa-
lives Monday agreed TO the Item In
the sundry civil bill appropriatlna
S200,OO0 TO begin work ON the King
tillI project.
he King Hill project lies In El.
more ana Owyhee counties On the
Owyhee SIDE between King Hin and
uIenns Ferry and on the fillmore
side between Glenns Ferry and Ham
metL and has had long and stormy
history, that ii Is hoped by the
trends ot Ir4satlon, will be less
unset gIea IN the future. 1t u ex.
pected tAat The bull now through
the house wll pass he senate pracu-
cally wlLhout opposition aud that the
work oil renaDnltatlon viii be com-
meaeed en4s sprung.
Ile hlAs lin pr0lecC was started
IN 1901 as the .Glenns Ferry project,
W Tue survey Ol ulkCA LTOLu Inc
nouA ol Malad r.Ner 10 Pasadena
Dasin II OMyhee county opposite the
present town OF King Hill, and was
financed Ny Glenns Ferry CAPITALISTS,
cnIet among whom was Joseph Rose
year and Ernest Plerson.
The task OF putting In the diver
SION works proved too great for these
men and in the faA OF 1907 they In
terested Cha&. Ii. Hammett In the
promotion. MIR. Hanmett had just
successfully emerged from q sDecula-
tion in Oklahoma oil Lands and was
roputed to nave $35O,000 of his own
money to put into the work. He
bought out the local interests, en-
Iarged the scope OF the project and
the work took ON new Lie
On tne 9th OFT september. 1908. the
project opening Vas held at King
Hill. 1t was one OF the biggest and
LAOot SuSSOSeAui OpOhth5c h0A0 0AAUA
the Carey act to that date, practi-
calIy every subdivision of tine original
8 5000 acres having been filed on be-
fore might, and more than 200 people
receiving Their money back, there not
beng land enough to so around.
Immediately after the King Hill
opening, l.. &. Bradley and Gaylord
Thompson began the promotion OF
the Medbury, later known an the
Kings Hill Extension project, aud
that project was opened aud disposed
OF the following spring. The pro-
motors then held lot sales OF new
additions To King Hill and Glenns
Ferry and laid the new townsdte OF
Hammett At Hammett they con-
Quoted a drawing that the United
Sta es courts decided was illegal and
Thompson paid fine for the viola
ton OF postal Law.
Ditch troubles delayed the delayed
delivery of water in 1903 aud from
that date there never has been an
adequate supply. he trouble never
has been lack OF water supply, there
being constant flow at the diver
sion point on the Malad OF 81, 700 sec
ond inches, but the fact that the
main canal will not stand the strain
of delivery. The project defaulted
on its bond interest and was sold
after q few years. The state OF
Idaho was the purchaser at $4,000.
Since the state became owner each
legislature has made an appropria-
lion to get water to the settlers and
1he plan to get the reclamation ser
vice to take it over has been worked
On for several years.
1t is believed that the appropria-
Ion with be made at his time and
that the King Hill project win become
one of the states successful trriga-
lion projects.
Some Of the best land ever put
under the plow Ia embraced in the
main project and ito extensions and
t In claimed that an expenditure OF
$500 per acre will make the water
supply regular and certain In the
ears in which water has been do
iyered, the project has made itself
! reputation for cantaloupes and po-
alton that is an earnest of what the
and will produce once the water sup
)ly is dependable and adequate.
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