The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-05-10
INFORMATION FOR VOTERS

INFORMATION FOR VOTERS
Date of Election-Saturday May IL
Who can vote?
Every owner of real estate, o.
holder of contract for real estate
This also includes the wife.
Voting places:
pringfield-School House.
Jerome-Office of North Side
Canal Co.
Wendell-City Hall.
Bliss-Drug Store.
Twin Falls-Court House.
Filer-City Hall.
Buhl-City Hall.
The polls will be open from s
a. m. until Z p. M, Mountain Time.
Electors vote in both the bonds and
the proposed contract
Twin Falls, Idaho, May 5.-Next
Saturday, May IL, at an election of
the largest irrigation district in ar
tificially watered America, will be
decided the fate Of the largest reser-
voir undertaking but two in the
world-a reservoir SO mammoth as
to rival those on the Nile and Euph-
rates, with a floor of $4,000 acres,
providing water for an empire, and
the construction of which will in
volve the moving of an entire town
public and private buildings, its mills
and its railroad trackage.
The seat of this proposed devel-
opment is American Falls, where the
government, in cooperation with
various irrigation tracts, combined
in the American Falls reservoir dis
trict, and others being financed in
dependently Of the big district, pro-
poses to construct this great reser-
voir, inundating what is now the
town of American Falls and storing
waste waters of the Snake River to
the extent Of 100000 acre feet in
the first unit to be built and, poten-
TALLY, 100000 acre feet.
Election Will Settle 1t
The big district is an essential
factor in the financial structure, and,
therefore, il the bond election should
fail in that district the whole thing
would collapse; and the govern
ment has already announced that |
such failure would mean abandon
ment of the undertaking.
The governments share of the cost
is provided by congressional appro-
priaticns under It's contract, as pro-
posed, with the big district and the
other units, pending only the fav-
orable action Of the various locali-
ties, has been available for a long
time. At present there is $1,0O0,00O
of government money available.
This contract with the government
will be executed II approved by a
two-thirds majority at the election
on May IL, the same as required on
the bonds.
Big Vote Needed
The committee in charge, having
the cooperation of the Idaho Recla-
nation association through its man
ager, Guy Flenner, are urging a
heavy vote as the only means of
surely overcoming an opposition that
is largely fomented by misunder-
standing and Misrepresentation and
much of which might not be reached
with all the facts in the course of
short campaign.
One of the latest statements of
the committee to the public follows:
1.-THE reason for increasing the bond .
Issue to $2,700,000 was
FIRST: To take care of the in
terest for five years, so no payment
will have to be made until benefits
have been received from the reser-
voir and from allied developments,
and everyone will be in better posi- !,
lion to pay the same later than now.
Bond Issue to be Reduced s
SECOND: The bond issue is bas- 7
I'd on a minimum Of reservoir and l
| maximum of cost. The present t
represent 100000 acre r
'eet of storage. That was the totaQ
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