The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-10-27
LOAN FOR IRRIGATION
SOUGHT
Cong. Smith Introduces Bill for
Transfer of S2O,OOO,OOO to
Reclamation Fund.

Black Canyon project took another
forward step last week in congress,
when Congressman Addison 7. Smith
introduced bill. carrying out the
suggestion of the unemployment COM
lnittee that existing reclamation pro-
jectx Be completed as rapidly as pcs
sabie, in order thst employment may
| be furnished to from 5000 to 10000
rcen during the approaching winter
and spring, and which work, if under
taken, will create demand for mer-
! chandise, machinery and numerous
manufactured articles which will pro-
baby result in the employment OF
from $4,000 to $4,000 men in the in
dustrial plants of the east.
The text of the measure is as fol-
lows:
Be it enacted: That to enable the
secretary of the interior to complete
government reclamation projects
heretofore begun, the secretary of the
treasury is authorized, upon request
of the secretary of the interior. to
credit of the reclamation fund created
by the act entitled An act appropriat-
ig the receipts from the sale and dis
posal Of public lands in certain states
and territories to the construction o.
irrigation works for he reclaratlon
of arid lands, appr,;t-d June II, 1902,
such sum or sums, not exceeding in
the aggregate $40, 900 900, as the Sec
u%~r of Tho ipfo dopV1n Qd-
visable to complete the said reclama-
ton projects, and such extensions
thereof as he may deem proper and
necessary to the successful and pro-
fitable olrratitn ano maintenance
thereof, or to protect water rights
pertaining thereto claimed by the
United States, provided the same
shall be approved by the president of
the United Staes; and such sum or
sums ~ may be required to comply
with the foregoing authority are
hereby authorized to be appropriated
out Of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Provided, that the sums hereby
authorized to be transferred to the
reclamation fund shall be so trans
ferred only as such sums shall be
work performed under existing law:
And provided further, that all sums
so transferred shall be reimbursed to
the treasury from the reclamation
fund, as hereinafter provided.
Section g That beginning five years
after the date Of the first advance to
the reclamation fund under this act
S1,000,0 900 per annum shall be paid
k1a 01nT f,,nI into "a /
general fund of the treasury of the |
United States until payments so made
shall equal the aggregate amount of
reclamation fund, together with in
terest, at the rate of a per cent per
annum.
Section 8. That all money placed
to the credit of the reclamation fund
cluded with all other expenses in fu
ture estimates of construction, opera
tion, or maintenance, and hereafter
no irrigation project contemplated by
said act of June II, 1902. shall be
begun unless and until the same shall
have been recommended by the sec
retarv of the interior and approved
by the direct order of the president
0I the OnIleQ OLdL6S.
If this bill receives the sanction of
and the president, as it is
believed it will. construc-
ion work on the dam will start as
quickly as men and materials can be
as the object of the mea-
sure is to give employment to idle
men.
The DRILLING of test holes at Black
Canyon is proceeding satisfactorily.
every hole drilled shows solid rock
ormation without break. This con- !;
Iition, engineers state, means that ;,
he foundations will not need to be !
nore than 10 feet beneath the sur q
ace and win result ir large saving :
f expense. 1t is now estimated that :,
500, 900 will complete the work, thus ),
osting the Emmett Irrigation Dis :,
rict 100000. If such a saving is !
,ade, and if the full 81 200, 900 is set !, !
side for this work the balance prob
bly, will be used to build the South
ide canal as the first section of the
lack Canyon project. C
Crescent Club Dance. n
The Crescent Clubs annual ball will =.
: held Tuesday, November 1, in Lib +
'ty theater. This event is looked