Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-06-09
Meet And Discuss American
Falls Water
ADVERSE INFLUENCES
MAY BE WORKING
Committee Appointed to Take Up
Matter With Reclamation De-
partment and Report to
Both Counties

party of Mountain Home citizens
representing the Gilmore Development
League, visited Boise Thursday even
ing of last weeka met with several
members OF the. Boise Chamber OF
Commerce at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms.
The object of the joint meeting
was to find out, If possible, just what
had been accomplished by the Gov
ernment in work on the survey of
ditch from the Miner dam to the
Mountain Home tract.
Early in June, 1921, Gilmore and
Ada counties raised $4,000 for the
purpose of making this survey, and
this fund was augmented by like
sum furnished by the Government.
1t has been felt in Gilmore county
that this work was not being pushed
as rapidly as might be possible, and
our people have become somewhat
impressed with the idea that adverse
interests were endeavoring to hold up
this work.
The Mountain Home men attend
ing the conference were: Worth S.
Lee, John Gaines, o. e. Cannon, II.
L. Braden, Ed Helfrich, w. L. Sew
ard, S. S. Eckstein. T. B. Lindsay,
Roscoe w. Smith, f. M. Lindsay, and
will II. Gibson.
President Lawson of the Boise
Chamber of Commerce presided over
the meeting, and the various phases
of the matter were gone over thor
oughly. It was found that the Boise
Chamber of Commerce officials knew
probably less about the progress be-
ing made on the ditch surveys than
the visiting delegation. The month
ly reports received by that organiza-
tion, while giving the amount of
money spent each month, were beau
tifully vague in regard to the prog
ress being made with the work
It was finally decided that a joint
committee, consisting of three mem
bers of the Boise Chamber of Com
merce and two members of the Ell
more Development League, should be
appointed to investigate the progress
being made and report to both or
ganizatiohs. The committee appoint
ed consists of Harry Lawson, Ern G.
Eagleson and Allen Eaton of the
Boise organization, and Worth S. Lee
and o. e. Cannon for the Elmore De-
yelopment League.
Fridays Boise Statesman has the
.ollowing account of the joint meet
ing:
Tentatively considering possible
surplus water from the proposed
American Falls irrigation
reservoir project, Ada and Elmore
residents will once again at
tempt to irrigate between 100000
and SOC, 900 acres of land comprising
he Mountain Home-Sunnyside dis
trict south and east of Boise. Ac-
ton looking to an investigation of
The feasibility Of bringing the water
in a canal approximately ITO miles
long, was taken in a conference of
Mountain Home residents and Of
.icers Of the Boise Chamber of Com
nerce at which a joint committee
was appointed to examine reclama-
ion service data to determine the
possibility of the plan. The commit
zee made no report back to the main
,ody at the Boise Chamber of Com
nerce.
Headed by Worth S. Lee, Roscoe
smith and Z. c. Helfrich, all af the
Gilmore county seat town, the Noun
ain Home delegation asserted that
he time is ripe to get some water
omewhere" for the Sunnyside and
Home districts and pro-
,osed that a surplus, calculated at
80, 900 acre feet, from the proposed
at American Falls be Sc
ured, If possible. They frowned on
he lack of concrete information
in the monthly reports OF
he reclamation service, under con-
ract for the past two years to sur
icy the proposition, and demanded
ONE tangible figures and results.
Following discussion, in which
very one of the delegates professed
ignorance of actual figures, Harry
,awson, president of the chamber OF
ommeree, named himself, Ern G.
,agleson and Allen Eaton to act on
committee with the Elmore COM
iitteemen, Worth s. Lee and o. E.
annon, to determine the feasibility