The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-04
PROJECT TAKING
ON new INTEREST
President Back of the
Measure. Big Things
for Idaho
MANY RESERVOIRS

use concerning the Dubois project.
People are no longer saying, "1f the
Dubois project goes thru" but have
substituted when the Dubois pro-
ject goes thru Idaho's hope of a
large appropriation for her several
big irrigation enterprises on the
Snake river plains, is based on the
passage of the Myers bill setting
aside a hunderd million dollars for
preliminary work under direction of
Secretary Lane and when President
Wilson got back from Europe last
week he urged the passage of the
bill, SO it is only a matter of time
when it will be enacted if 1t is not
rushed thru in the closing hours of
the session closing today<at noon.
Making Department of Irrigation
Another measure that is designed
to 60 hand in hand with it is the act
now pending adoption in the Idaho
legislature to revise the laws gov
erning the handling of water in
Idaho, and so simplify it and increase
it's effectiveness that it will add to
the range of it's power and usefulness
as 1t added to the power of the allied
armies to be put under one head as
when General Foch was made gen.
eralisimo. This measure is of such
far-reaching effect that If it should
fail of passage at this session, the
friends 1t has made among the big,
broad-minded men of the state, the
reclamation chiefs, the civil en-
gineers, the irrigation engineers and
the men of vision who have given
years of study to the situation, these
men will go on with campaign of
education and enlightenments until
such code Of irrigation laws is en-
acted and put into effect. Then all
the water movement of the Snake
river valley and all the reservoir
sites, both great and small, all the
conduits, both natural and artificial
will be governed under one depart
ment-the department of irrigation,
and great gains in the duty of water
will appear and great losses from
the handling and mis-management
of waste water will be turned into
new wealth. The essential features
of the bill have been tested in Wyom-
ing, California and other states,
and their great value has
been proven, but it Is new to the
Idaho solons and the measure has
met with what we believe to be un-
deserved and unwarranted opposi-
tion and Indifference.
Some Reservoir Sites
Great lack of information is noted
among the people Of the Snake river
valley as to what constitutes a reser-
voir site, and how many available
sites the powers of creation made
when the country was carved out.
A good many people think that be-
cause Jackson Lake and Henry Lake
have been appropriated for use, that
no more water can be stored, but
storage is now only in its infancy.
Here are the names of some Of the
big reservoir sites available, not to
mention those Of secondary import
ance not yet surveyed and listed.
On the North Fork-Henry Lake,
Flat Rock, Island Park.
Robinson Fork Of Warm river
Little Porcupine.
Fall river-Fall river meadows,
Mountain Ash, Upper Ford, Grassy
Lake. the Forks, Becula Meadows,
Becula-Herring lake.
South Fork Snake - Shosh0ne
Lake, Aster creek.
Tributaries Fall river-Canyon
creek, Crooked creek, Loon lake,
Upper Loon lake, Squirrel creek,
Teton creek.
Main Snake rive-American Falls
valley, reaching from American Falls
up to the rapids at Ferry Butte about