The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-11-07
Statement Submitted. to Court
Gives Farmers Under Pay
ette-Boise Only SO per cent
Of Arrow Rock Storage.

The Payette-Boise project in
volved a gross expenditure, including
equipment as yet undisposed OF, OF
$l2,732, 1886, according to the state
ment filed last Thursday with the
United States district court in COM
pliance with the order of Judge F. S.
Dietrich in the decision which he
handed down recently in that case.
Reclamation officials filed the state
ment, which bears the signature OF
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
interior.
This sum includes various items, &C
cording to the statement, which will
not be held against the project. These
items include $43, 1886 for reconnais-
ance on other projects and surveys for
etension on the Boise project and
sundry other things which makes the
net cost to water users under the
project total $6,788, 233.18 exclusive OF
the construction cost of the Arrow
rock reservoir. This latter cost $4,60l,-
1852 according to the statement filed
with the court
Pay Half Arrowrock Cost.
only 50 per cent of the cost of the
Arrowroek reservoir construction will
be charged to project users. Acreage
from which the cost of the project
must be obtained is given at 10000
acres after deduction of 10000 acres
which for sundry reasons have not
been available as properly included in
the lands receiving benefits from the
project.
IN -. -. - 81 lo.:n &c &Ln.,
figures is set at $40 per acre of which
$52.22 covers the cost of the works
other than Arrowrock and $l7.70 is
devoted to the Arrowrock. This is the
minimum amount which can be safely
charged to cover the cost according T.,
the statement and may be increased
materially. On that matter the state
ment says:
Unless irrigation districts or some
form of Organization capable of bind
ing all the lands should be formed, it
will be necessary to depend upon in
dividual applications or contracts, the
making of which is largely optional
with. the individual land owners.
Without district organizations bind
ing all landa, it is estimated that a
considerable percentage of the land
owners will avoid paying the govern
ment for water right by picking up
waste water, or securing water in
some other way or holding the land
for speculation without irrigation.
Consequently, it is estimated that a
charge of approximately $40 per acre
will be NECESSARY If districts are or
ganized and contracts made, binding
all irrigable project lands to pay for a
water right, and a charge of $50 per
acre without such organization
May Cost $50 Per Acre.
That is, it is estimated that pay
ment of $40 per acre from all project
lands guaranteed by an irrigation dis
trict having the taxing power enabling
it to assess all the lands would bring
in a total revenue or payment equal
to the amount which would be col
lected by a charge of $50 per acre
upon such of the project lands as the
owners thereof may elect to- purchase
water rights for.
. Estimating the available capacity of
Arrowrock reservoir at about 268,000
acre-feet Approximately the amount
of stored water drawn out of Arrow
rock reservoir during the irrigation
ScdSoH oi i>i1J, the storage Capacity
of Arrowrock reservoir to be dedi-
Gated to the project lands of the con-
structed unit would be $4,000 acre
feet, and estimating that about % OF
the 10000 acres of project land is
located above Deer Flat reservoir and
will be supplied with water from Ar
rowrock reservoir, and about Ia is To-
Gated below Deer Falt reservoir and
is supplied from Deer Flat reservoir.
the amount of Arrowrock storage ca
pacity dedicated to the project lands
supplied therefrom amounts to about
~ acre feet per acre reservoir ca
pacity, provided water rights are pur
chased for the entire area.
May Buy More Water.
Approximately $1,000 acre-feet have
been sold to supplement the water
rights on the old lands of the Boise
Valley under the canals of the several
irrigation districts and companies with
which contracts have been made. in
Guiding the lands of the shareholders
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