The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-30
Canal Representatives
Give Their
Views

A reservoir meeting was held at
the court room at Blackfoot on Fri
day afternoon under the auspices of
the Idaho Reclamation association
and presided over by E. M. Kennedy,
chairman Of this district, at which
the speakers were Governor Davis,
Warren G.. Swendsen, state engineer;
E.. Stoutemeyer, attorney Of the
Idaho Reclamation department.; A.
F. Banks, engineer for the depart
ment; R. E. Shepperd Of the Twin
Falls north side project; L. l.. Evans
of American Falls and some local
speakers.
Governor Speaks
Governor Davis outlined the work
leading up to the present condition
in reclamation in daho. He reviewed
the formation Of the Idaho Reclama-
tion association to concentrate all
the reclamation activities in this
state and, the organization of the
Western States Reclamation associa-
tion to consolidate those activities
Of the western states. Then there
followed the organization of the
Northwestern Reclamation states and
t Q Southwestern Reclamation
states, those of the northwest con-
centrating their attention on the
Columbia river project in Washing
ton and those of the southwestern
states concentrating on the Colorado
river project. They worked on con-
gress and the officials at Washington
in the effort to convince legislators
and the national government Of the
Importance of western reclamation.
He said one very effective thing they
had done was to gather information
showing the manufactured articles
that are bought by the people on
reclamation projects such as furnt-
ture, automobiles and agricultural
implements, and they would go to
senators and representatives of q
state like Michigan that manu-
factures such as automobiles and
furniture and show him what q great
market there is for those goods in q
new irrigation project during con-
struction and settlement. They
would go to the senators and repre-
sentatives Of state like Illinois that
manufactures vast amount of agri-
cultural implements and seek to
show him whit 1t meant to the manu-
featuring interests of his state to
have more of reclamation by show
ing him what a market there would
be for agricultural implements in the
new reclamation project by following
out this principle in many different
states with many lines of manu-
factured goods, they aroused q
keener interest. among the senators
and representatives from the eastern
states. The result was that they OBJ
tanned respectful hearing from the
reclamation's interests of the west.
Arrowrock Dam
In the year 1919 the records were
kept on the lands under the Arrow
rock dam at Boise to see how much
more wealth of crops there were pro-
duced by the use of the stored water
than they could have produced If
the bulk of the water had been al
lowed to run away during the spring
freshets and they had been obliged
to rely on the flow of the river in
its natural way, and they found that
the wealth added by the stored water
that year was enough to pay the orig
inal cost of the dam nearly once and
half times. The cost of the stored
water is SIS and the value Of the
stored water per acre that year was
$25 per acre, the maintenance of the
storage dam and reservoir after 1t is
once constructed amounts to but
very little. The first cost Of the
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