The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-22
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NEED TIVE DO
Water Runs Away That
Might Reclaim = Vast
Areas Idaho Land
TIME FOR EFFORT
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The present yesr 10 the driest in
thirty years in southern Idaho. NIL
Hons 0f dollars worth Of crops are
burning up. Thousands Of people are
miserable and q lot Of bad blood and
neighb0rhood quarrels are the re-
sr2t, all because we let our land q
life and the prosperity Of the country
run down Snake river to the ocean
every spring: The ocean does not
need it--and our acres do.
The Dubois, Big and Little Lost
rivers, Blackfoot, American Falls,
Bruneau, Sunnyside. Blark canyon,
Twin Falls Oakley, Twin Falls-Sal-
mon and 'Minid0ka pumping pro-
jects, besides many smaller ones,
are all calling for water.
It is sad thing to have such q
misfortune as is occurring in the up-
per and lower Snake river valleys
this season, but II 1t will awaken
everybody to the fact that we can
change this years situation, it is a
blessing, altho wrapped in barbed
wire fO, many people and localities.
Arrowr0ck is Lucky
The government project supplied
by the Arrowrock reservoir is pro-
baby the most fortunate of all the
big ones, having plenty Of water for
crop development, even during this
unusually dry year, but even this
reservoir may have to curtail later
in the season.
The United States appropriates
and expends hundreds of millions of
dollars for all kinds of things, some
good and some not so good. Why
not organize and ask our Uncle Sam
to build enough "Arrowrocks" to
save all the waters that go to- waste
every year, and settle this all-im-
portant and vital question forever?
Does not this seem worth while?
One thing is plain to every thinker
along reclamation lines, that right
now is the accepted time, and that
organized, persistent and intelligent
effort every day until Idaho's irriga-
tion goal Is reached Is the only solu-
tion to this great question. Politics,
local community efforts, private ir-
rigation companies, all seem to fail.
Private capital has been "stung" 80
many times that it is gun-shy.
Organization Needed
Government aid and control seem
to be the only solution. If this be
true, why not get busy under an or
ganized effort and get down to busi-
hn 10 ofi ocy
sociation was founded to do that
very thing.
Every county has an executive
committeeman elected by the asso-
citation, who is a member of the
state association and in it's counsels.
In addition to that there is county
organization in every county, con-
sisting Of president, secretary-treas-
urer and as many vice presidents as
the president thinks advisable to ap-
point to work in the different dis
tricts of the county.
Our congressional delegation in
Washington is complimentary in ex-
pressions regarding the work done
by Governor Davis, former Governor
Gooding, r. M. McCracken and R.
e. SHEPPARD. All Of these men ex-
cepting Mr.. Sheppard went there at
the expense of the association and
were requested to, 60 there by the
association, which paid their ex-
penses. Later, as conditions and cir
cumstances develop, men who are
accustomed to public life and have
: acquaintance and influence in Wash
ingtOn, will be drafted from different
parts of the state by the association.