American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-04-21
Congressman Smith Would Educate
Fasteners By Tours Of The West

Congressman Addison Smith of Idaho, always in the foremost O f
possff that ali the west ~ n pe@d to o. do % is s sse fe% Sy 70 eaS eas this S, ~ses with tn pro pro
pTaetica5iuty and results of irrigation III aS S eu and her r0 app s@ p Dr0r problems no r %H
More irrigated land in the west means nor homes, more machinery
%Sg ia 70 otSer v %4Ee p mnOaG Sasnas. nor th so sk more to skirts and
y r nem Pg e ecnsres coneaet s saua Teste1n s Psosectg a great aeann light win dawn on
through 1sS t RsR %sss d 4 shs t aeP fsa9 nSe Years Committee an%ai there have is po msSf two That tr Rs
HON l. ! Z, c asn% n o Of Michigan is me- N m@ Of thee NJ Members T%ss hs RS %ss vs dRts f te
having il charge ali Of the appropriations oSii IS" affecting ah@' Go We %Ip s%s'a aotVass
,..A When asu Mr. r cramton visited the West two years ago he became very enthus
bin providing for the appropriation for the various projects vas au un @ern cone Ge
iamation work copy Of Which hg I submit nj s as Follows 1 us ppopr@u0nS i0r rec
subcommittee on Appropriauons having in charge the appropriations for the
Now, as o the Reclamation Service. AS you are all ware this is a COM
have carried it It o " e SsVe expended @ Sd sBs qRS derived sTfTed'f from IT the sf following d%s ns
Total receipts. sales of public lands ----~----~ ~ ---~~~- 100000 4s7
Proceeds Of # p5ssssns Royalties as ~-------------- 4s iasss
Rio Grande Dam appropriation 1,oO0oOO
I iSasasse 81 e sSaps ss fa' funds 1891. sss5is
181O88y8s7
lamatoa projects slassassss. That is = TsSoivi ing f fund. It t is IS added de- to from rom
and so o forth, from NTH the pubic public l a%S and and til is u used edPn IN building un@G1 n reclamation an a9oni prS.
sSSs fund, i repaid d 70 tbs tSs G sa1ss Rsos By fs sf people on sR who 70 get s' the be Ssn e P Of tho he
sssst e e ! July 1Ss sDp pssI ted ' the people ssg3Sso ) the / Vest V 3 spp &c s'l i and %q those Sc
been my sS privilege fEs to visit 81 t gS%s' 20 or those sP pr DC @'D i! Us IS ios1T short or Of Of % ms
S Hessr e edu sd p rO Deers anything thu no a %i fd Adjacent Il %eS sim Tssf fan wis un p%t q ETea tt nt
9Tsdse Of mile A away S.9 and there Ss % yH sss the si fHest kind ~do # a ri TsssISG Ge7eIO %n
that within 10 r Is years that site where the city 20 stands wal only a
zatiOn. with splendid school buildings and every other community activity was
49, sSs 1s tbs The RI, Reclamation sl a N at Service .% some figures an and q they x have given
ject in Idaho; figures that were prepared in January, 1920. In 1904, 16 years
before the land was al uninhabted, sagebrush desert, with no town, no farm
no railroads, no facilities of any kind and all that it has to-day is the result
of the construction Of the irrigation work at a cost of $5SO0O0O OF this
amount over $lO00O00 was repaid at the end of 1919 n more since.
Now, that one project, created at an expenditure of $5SOOOOO, which is
to come back into III Treasury, hal created value In thu way of farm land and
improvements to the extent $3OS73OO0. There is a assessed valuation of that
project of $14570O00 The crops produced in 1919 amounted in value to
1924 900 more thar the entire cost ofthe project AS to shipments, there
were $500 carloads o shipments Of hay potatoes, beets, catue, wheat sugar.
sheep flour, and other products.
Now, Is to the purchase of manufactures: During my tour 1 remember
one evening, after a day spent in going W. a project 1 believe in the State of
Oregon and, being from the State o Michigan, Is / went down the street of
that town, a town built by reason of the development OF an irrigation project
I was interested % tote that along that street. on both sides of it, were hun
deds Of automobiles, that lever would have been bought except for the pro-
jet, and most OF those automobiles car from the State of Michigan, veryp ro-
perly; and 81 I feel that the State of Michigan has al immediate selfish in
terest in the development of those splendid new home regions found in the
West
On this Mindoka project in Idaho the wholesale purchase of manufac-
Dry goods, clothing, shoes $1293OO0
Lumber 100000
Automobiles trucks etc 1040O00I
Groceries $4,000
Hardware $780, 900
Coal feed, flour, and bags $4,000
Farm implement $4,000
Machinery an supplies $4,000
Electrical supplies 279000i
Jewelry and miscellaneous instruments -----~-- 24900O
Drugs and sundries - 1720 900
Cigars, etc. $4,000
Furniture 121 1000
Other merchandise 1903 900
Total for year $7139O 600
Then as to the war activities of this project There were from it over
1000 men in the Army n 400 Red Cross members. In addition they took
in Liberty loans, Red Gross subscriptions, and other subscriptions for war
activities, $2014O00 from hat project And let me remind you as to thesel
projects that they provide for the maintenance of a home and a family on a
small area of land 40 or so acres in many cases., and that nearly always the
nan who owns the land culdvates 1T, to my mind the ideal development for
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