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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-07
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Blackfoot Reservoir constitute the
Fort Hall Project. The estimated
cost of the water on the land ia
$24.00 per acre.
The Greater Fort Hall Project
The Greater Fort Hall Project
consists OF FIVE bodies of land named,
located and described as follows:
The Empire Irrigation District
This tract is in the Portneuf and
Bear river valleys, the northwestern
end of it being twenty-seven miles
on an air line southeast of the town
of Blackfoot, is twenty-five miles
long from northwest to southeast
and has a maximum width OF ten
miles; it extends two miles north
west of the town of Chesterfield,
fourteen miles northwest of Ban
croft and eight miles southeast of
Bancroft 1t extends eastward to
within about two and half miles of
the town of Alexandria and within
seven miles of Soda Springs. 1t
contains thirty-fve thousand acres
and is to be watered from the Black
foot reservoir by conducting the
water down from the Blackfoot river
to a point near Grave Creek where
a diversion dam will be built sixty
feet high and the water will be con-
Quoted westward thru a deep cut into
the Portneuf drainage area and con-
Quoted southwark thru the east
Portneuf canal a distance of thirty
miles ito the land to be served. The
diversion dam built in the Blackfoot
river will be sixty feet high, $50 feet
long on the top and will contain a
generating plant for electricity. The
dam is estimated to cost $4,000.
The canals for carrying the water
to the Empire Irrigation District are
estimated to cost $4,000 and the
distribution system for the tract
100000. The irrigation districts
are contracting for water in the Am
erican Falls reservoir under agree
ment that it shall be exchanged for
water in the Jackson Lake reservoir
and this exchanged for water in the
Blackfoot reservoir. The estimated
cost of water on the land is $49.35
per acre.
The Buckskin Basin
The Buckskin Basin lies along
Ross Fork Creek to the eastward of
the Fort Hall Indian agency, 1000
acres Of it being on the north side
of the creek and 5000 acres on the
south side, all of it lying to the west
ward and northwestward from the
base of Mt. Putnam. It's length is
about ten miles north and south
and it's width about six miles east
and west. The nearest approach OF
this tract of land to the town Of
Blackfoot is about eight miles in a
southerly direction. The center of
the tract is about eight miles east
of Fort Hall. This tract will be
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-07

openings can be closed and the water
saved in the reservoir. The esti-
mated cost Of closing them is $780,
600.
Changing Water Courses
The estimated cost of changing the
course of Lineup creek into Garys
lake is $4,000. The estimated cost
of controlling the waters of Grays
lake to keep them draining into the
Blackfoot reservoir il $4,000. The
estimated cost of repairing and en-
larging the Blackfoot dam that holds
the water in the reservoir is $40,-
900. The cost of an electric hoist
to control the gates at the dam will
be $4,000. The cost of making the
additional outlet is estimated at
$4,000. Other works described
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-07

Diversion dam $3.50, 900
Highline canal, miles $154 900
Highline canal, 2 miles 1890 $3.50
Siphon, $500 feet --------- $4,000
Tunnel, miles -..- 100000
Rock cut - 100000
Improving BlackfOOt river $50, 200
Diversion dam near BIT. 49, 10000
Enlarging canal to Tyhee = BAL, 900
Tyhee siphon ....--.. 34,400
Wasteway . 10000
East POrtneuf canal, 81
80 miles -.-.-..-..-... 225,OOO
East Portneuf canal,
20 miles ..... 100000
Distrib. system, Empire - 100000
Distrib. SYSTEM, Buckskin
Basin ..-..-..---.- $4,000
Distrib. system, Pooatello
Bench .....-. 10000
Construction, Poca. Bench :. $4,000
Idaho canal enlargement ---- $4,000
General Improvements on
distrib. system Fort
Hall project -....-.- 5000
Drainage canals .-. $4,000
Enlarging canal for Mich
aud Flat from Black
foot river to Tyhee ..-- 276,4OO
Siphon across Portneuf 1890 ITS, 200
Distr. system, Michaud Flat $4,000
Pumping plant ----~r--- 210, 200
Total acreage in present FIT. Hall
project, $4,000 acres. Estimated
total cost per acre for water, $4,000.
Total cost of improvements for FIT.
Hall project, 100000. Total new
acreage proposed to be irrigated
under the Greater FIT. Hall project,
100000 acres. Grand total acreage
under both, 161, 500 acres.
The Reservoirs
The American Falls reservoir will
be -25 to 80 miles long according
to the size of the dam to be built.
It's greatest width is fourteen miles
and it reaches up the Portneuf
within about four miles of Pocatello,
up Snake river within about twelve
miles of Blackfoot, and up Ross Fork
creek within four miles Of FIT. Hall.
lamentations from it extend to the
town limits Of Aberdeen, and to the
railroad tracks at Springfield, and
covers part of the Sterling townsite. |
1t will have an area of from $4,000
to $4,000 acres, varying with the
size of the dam.
The estimated cost and contract |
price Of waer in the American Falls |
reservoir is from Sc to SO an acre |
The larger it is built, the cheaper
per unit Of water.
The Engineering
The engineering work on the Ft.
Hall project was done by the gov
engineers, John G.. Gran
Vile and W. H. Dietz.
For the Greater Fort Hall project
the preliminary surveys and esti-
mates were made by w. H. Dietz,
G. r. Burley, w. P. Havenor, w. O..
Cotton, H. M. Wolf, E. A. Anderson,
R. H. Burdick and R. B. Keeber, the
expenses being paid partly by the
government and partly by the COM
nercial clubs and citizens of Poca-
ello, Blackfoot, American Falls,
Presto, and interested settlers on the
racts affected.
These are government projects In
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times Recorder. Sep.
TENDER IS, 1879


The continued serious illness of
little Belle Pearlman, the six
year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. Pearlnan, is a source OF
deepest concern to the family and
their mary friends. The child has
been very i'll during several days
and her condition yesterday was
regarded as extremely grave, with
faint hope of recovery.
Thirteen cents for cotton was the
top level price paid for the finer
grades in Americas yesterday, and
there was no "hoodoo" about the
figure, either. The market ad-
vanced sharply during the morning
upon reports of bad weather. in the
cotton belt and prices went bal
looming right away. Of course
only the finer grades brought IL
cents yesterday, the ruling figure
being IL ga to II 7-8 cents much
of the cotton now marketed being
stained to some extent by recent
rains.
Martha Duncan, the pretty little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Duncan, has been quite i'll during
several days.
Miss Virginia Perry, the young
daughter Of Mrs. Allen Perry, and
who has been quite ill recently, is.
now conva!esccnt, to the gratlfi-,
cation Of hec friends.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
POLITICIANS DESTROYING
FARMERS CREDIT.

The Wall Street Journal charges
that those Senators now engaged
in crying to the world that the
farmers are broke, are deliberately
destroying the credit of the farm
ers, doing them untold damage.
Says the Journal:
Let it be conceded that Wall
Street knows nothing about farm
ing. The really intelligent farm
er must necessarily be greater
and more exact than that of all
the farmers put together, in or
der to carry on its business. But
let us. concede that this is not
so. The farmer, in return, will
grant that Wall Street at least
knows something about credit.
The farmer ought to know some
thing about credit, and this is the
time of year when he should be
instructed.
He borrows from small bank
ers, who in turn are extended
credit by larger bankers, togeth-
er with advice and information
on the state of the credit market.
But these small bankers are at
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
SUPERSTITION

All rats left the ship Abner Co
burn before she sailed from Seattle
to the Alaskan fishing grounds. An
old-time sailor would have said
the ship was doomed. But the Alb
ner Coburn made her trip north
and returned to Seattle safety.
That's the way with most supersti
tions when we put them to the test.
However, superstition is based
on precedent-on the law of av-
erages-and it does no harm to
keep one eye open. The idea about
it being unlucky to walk under a
ladder probably originated with a
painter dropping his can of paint
on pedestrian.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

the evasive answer.
"That evidence is not satisfac-
tory" replied the magistrate,
sternly. Stand DOWN.
The witness proceeded to leave
the box, and directly his back was
turned he laughed, derisively. The
magistrate, indignant at the con-
tempt of court, called him back
and asked him how he dared to
laugh in court.
did We see me laugh, your hon
orr" queried the offender.
mo, sir; but heard you," was
the irate answer.
"That evidence is not satisfac-
tory" said Pat.
And this time everybody laugh
ed-even the magistrate.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
MAKING PRINT
PAPER IN SOUTH.

Many efforts to make white ma
per in the South have been made.
In Southern mountains there is
quite number of pulp mills that
ship most of their products to
Eastern mills for finishing, but
another serious effort is being
made in Florida to produce an all
Southern product of newspaper.
The Polk County Record of Bar
tow, Florida reports on the devel-
opment of the project as follows:
THE recent edition of the
Leesburg, Fla, Commercial was
the first newspaper printed on
stock manufactured from saw
grass pulp.
Three years ago work COM
menced in this undertaking. The
minds. of some of the greatest
inventors and chemists in the
nation were taxed to produce
machinery that would gather
raw sawgrass in the marshes
around Leesburg and transform
1t into newspaper pulp. AL
though many problems were met
the company stuck to the work,
and, on the whole extraordinary
success was had.
"A giant caterpillar saw
grass harvester was built that
would either float in shallow
water or traverse, the soft mud
where the water was insuffi-
cient. 1t cut the sawgrass in a
siXteen-foot swath, lifted it into
hopper where it was cut into
shorter lengths, and conveyed to
barges in the rear by means of
a blower, A pulp mill was built
and the original plan was to
confine the product to pulp and
ship it to northern mills, but
freight rates made complications
in this program.
THE men behind the fnan-
cial end of the industry looked
into the matter thoroughly.
The high freight rate on pulp
going North and the high rate
on finished paper coming back
South gave margin of profit
that made it advantageous to
complete the manufacture of the
finished product right where the
pulp was produced and this prog
ram is now being followed out.
"The sawgrass paper is of bet
ter texture and twice the
strength of the wood pulp pa
pers. The stock used in the issue
of the Leesburg Commercial is
characterized as ordinary news
yet permits the use of a pen
without the least blur. 1t is diff
ficult to tear it with the fingers
IN straight pull. Craft wrap
ping paper will be the main
product at first to utilize this
strength and finish to advan-
tage.
The pulp mill will be opera
ted continuously hereafter while
the paper-making machinery is
to be installed at once. Immense
sums are already invested in the
industry and men of the widest
| experience are reporting it's fl
nancial success"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY

WEN 4 IEARO -AGO AOOA
(From the Times Recorder. Sep
TENDER IS, 1903.)
Miss Flora Hamil left today
for Decatur. where she will enter
Agnes Scott College.
Cleve Tillman is reported quite
i'll with fever for ten days at his
home on Furlow street.
Wallis Mott left this morning for
Atlanta, where he has accepted a
good position with the Regal Shoe
Co.
Little cotton, comparatively, has
been received in Americas this
week, yesterday receipts aggregat-
ing but few dozen bales as the
result of the destructive storm. Had
it not been for this, receipts here
this week would have been great.
Even 10 3-4 cents is a mighty
good price for cotton. And Amer
icus is about the only market in
Georgia that is paying the price.
Mr.. R. J. Perry desired to dis
pose of his@fine carriage horses,
advertises them for sale in tho
Times Recorder.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
Evidence Not All In

1t is quite as hard as ever to get
ahead of Pat. This was proved
the other day during trial in an
English courtroom, an Irish witness
being examined as to his knowledge
of a shooting affair.
Did you see the shot fired?"
the magistrate asked, when Pat had
been sworn.
NO. sorr; only heard it," was
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
I;7'.Ai /.
13 byAbert Apple
PRODIGY

NOOA0A
A ninety-year-old girl prodigy is
so highly educated that an intelli-
gence test shows she is qualified to
be a high school teacher. She is
Elizbeth Benson of Los Angeles.
In an all-round way she probably is
the brightest youngster of her
age in the world.
But if she lived 200 years from
now, her mentality would not be
above normal. Average intelli-
gence advances rapidly. The aver
age boy radio bug of 1923 knows
more about science than Abraham
Lincoln knew when he died. He
doesn't have Lincoln's wisdom.
knowledge and wisdom are sep
arate and distinct things.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

the mercy of popular rumor pre-
cisely as Wall Street is, on oc-
casion. 1t would be possible in
Wall Street to damage, and
ultimately to ruin, the credit of
the most solvent corporation. A
dexterously conducted campaign
of depreciation and false infer
ence might easily make it impos-
sible for the packers to carry on
business, in view of the small
margin of profit on their inn
mense turnover.
1t is possible to damage the
farmers business in the same
way. 1t is possible to spread
rumors about his financial con-
dition which will so scare the
small banker that he will lend
the farmer less money and
charge more for lending it. When
therefore, Senator Brookhart
bawls all over the country that
the farmer is broke, that he lost,
by deflation, $4,000, 100000, or
more than half of the total value
Of all the farms in the United
States and everything on them,
he damages the farmers credit
everywhere. 1t makes no diff
ference that his statement is not
only exaggerated, but flatly I'M
true. Brookhart throws a sue
eessful scare into the small bank
err and the credit of every farm
er in the United States is in
jured.
Observe how one of the com
monest expressions current
among farmers is turned to their
disadvantage. The individual
farmer may know Wall Street
men whose standards of honor
are of the highest. But he lis
tens to continual vituperation of
Wall Street and finally says that
where there is so much smoke
there must be some flame" In
the next few weeks, thanl1s to
Senator Brookahrt, Senator Cap
per and other vociferous
Friends" of the farmer. the
banker to whom he goes to dis
count his note will inevitably say
the same thing to him. You
farmers may not all be broke, as
Brookhart says; but where there
is so much smoke there must be
some flame"
Frankly, how will the farmer
like that? 1t is not Wall Street
that has damaged his credit. 1t is
the very men he returned to
Congress, to smash the credit of
Wall Street, who have done him
this i'll turn. When the banker
will only advance him 30 per
cent on his collateral instead of
80 per cent, charging the highest
rates the law allows and making
the most generosu terms of re-
payment, the farmer will know
that he is dealing in a credit
market demoralized by his own
representatives, from Minnesota
and elsewhere.
This is addressed to the farm
ers of the United States, in all
good temper.
The more business man knows
about credit the more care he takes
n preserving his credit. The sue
;essful farmer, like the successful
nan in any other line must know
credit, commerce and farming.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

want some sleep and I want you to
take hold of the tillerl Do you
know anything about navigation ?"
mot MUCH" said Jimmy.
Well" said the skipper, do
you sec that star? Keep her head in
that direction"
yes, sir" said Jimmy; 'I'll keep
her in that course;" and the skip
per went below, Jimmy did very
well for time, but by and by it
grew a little cloudy and stormy,
and when the storm had cleared
away somewhat, and Jimmy looked
again for his star, 10, it was b
hind him! He turned around much
alarmed, and said: wake up, cap
tain! Wake up! Give me something
else to steer by, for Pm past that"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
Y
FORD

Net profits of the Ford Motor
Co., recently have been at a rate
of 1862 million dollars a year, ac-
cording to the latest Ford financial
statement.
To save you the bother of figur-
ing it out; 1862 million dollars rep
resents 6 per cent year interest
on 200 million dollars, which is
not far from three billions.
This gives you a rather stagger-
ing picture of the amount of mon
ey in the Ford camp. Six per cent
interest, you know, is about as
much as the average rich man can
get, with absolute safety. At least,
it satisfies most of them, barring
the profiteers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
FARMERS

Experts of foodstuffs of all
kinds from our country were val
ued at 979 million dollars in the
IL months ended June 80.
This compares with the 1911
1913 average of ABS million dol
lars year. SO the money value
of food exports is more than twice
as much now as before the war.
But what the exporter gets is an
entirely different matter from
what the farmer (producer) gets.
Higher freight rates to seaboard,
among many other things, help alb
sorb the gain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
Mexico Recognized

The restoration of diplomatic -ela-
ions between the governments Of the
United States and Mexico is an event
Which may prove to be of import
mt significance IN a business way
Oi course the United States desires
friendly relations with Mexico. 1t
wants nothing of Mexico but that
American citizens who sit the coun-
ry or seek to transact business there
hall be accorded the protection OF
he laws of the country, in those
oers onal and property rights which
are recognized in all civilized coun-
iries, and which this country accords
reciprocity to citizens of Mexico here.
The matters that have been at issue
between the two countries have been
under patient consideration between
the Mexican government and a very
competent Commission appointed by
the President of the United States,
and the agreement arrived at has
been approved by the Secretary Of
State and President OF the United
States. Methods have been arrived
IT for the settlement in detail OF the
matters that have been subjects Of
controversy, and there is no reason
to doubt that everything will be
worked out in a satisfactory manner.
The foreign creditors of Mexico,
holders of her government bonds,
some time ago arrived at terms of
settlement with the Mexican govern
tnent, making liberal concessions by
way of aiding the country to resume
its position upon sound financial
basis.
Mexico is country of very great
natEr2! resources, which can be de-
capped only by the investment Of
capita. Doubtless it will be to her
advanIsge, as it was to the advantage
ci tb4 United States in former years
20 !rs~e foreigfS capital employed in
sac, dcvelopme 1t, and the United
STATES g the most natural source of
such capital supplies. With the de-
s.iar1.eat Of her resources and in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
Three Smiles
Chicken Hootch.

Sam, the colored culprit, looked
disreputable. The Judge was stern.
Looks like you had been drink
ing again"
Eyes, sab, jedge, dat was power
full stuff-some OBJ dis heah chick.
en- hootch."
81 never heard of that"
"Well, sab, jedge, you take one
drink OBJ chicken hootch an you
lay"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
THE VALUE OF AN
EDUCATION IN
DOLLARS AND CENTS

Dol LAES AMI NLANA -
This week the minds of parents
are directed toward the school room
The little tot, for the first time
with eyes sparkling and happy
smile. enters on the long journey
of life.
The older children are thmbing
the pages of the new books, gazing
for the first time on worlds to be
explored in the next nine months.
Mother is all aflutter, fixing
lunches, examining ears, wrists, lit
tie nccks for the places that soap
and sponge may not have reached.
Dad is computing the expense
and - growing over
the high cost of books, school
clothes and vaccination, etc. Pos
sibly he has not yet realized that
what he terms an EXPENSE is in
reality an INVESTMENT.
DR.. A. C. Ellis, of the University
of Texas, claims that every day
spent in school pays the child 5000.
At the request of the United States
Bureau of Education he made an
exhaustive investigation and report
ed upon the value of an education
in dollars and cents.
He states that the uneducated
laborer earned on an average Gus
ing statistics of 1879 $500 a year
for 40 years, a total earning of
$4,000.
High school graduates, he says,
earned $1,000 year average, for
40 years, a total Of 100000.
High school education required
an average of II years, 1870 school
days per year, total of 2,160
school days, If 2,160 school days
earned the difference between $780,
600 and $4,000, then the average
per day added is 1925. The Rich
land News says:
THE child that stays out of
school to earn less than SO day
is losing money-not making
money.
This gives some idea of the
value of the days spent at school.
The figures will be surprising to
many and convincing to those
who want to give serius consid-
Grafton to them.
"These figures do not and can
not give the estimated value of
an education in other lines. In
fact good education is inesti-
mable to any person in hundreds
OF ways-yet some people are
inclined to believe that the costs
of good schools are too much.
A good education for the child
ia cheap at any price,
When we buy books; when we
pay taxes, let us keep these facts
in mind, and we realize the vast
benefits we reap by our invest.
menta
There is, however, still another
and more important side to be con
sidered. The vast pleasures Of
books, art and MUSIC Gan not be
enjoyed by the illiterate. He i.
moving in restricted path, unable
to enjoy many of the benefits and
pleasures open to his more for.
tunate brother.
The handicap in life's battles is
too great to impose on the child de
MED an education. The opportuni-
ty should be given him and parental
authority exerted to make him
and her-take full advantage Of the
OppOrtunitV