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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The Company proposes to expend about $500,000 for con- 

 struction on the project during 1908, and the balance required 

 in 1909 and 1910. 



The work on the ground will be carried out under con- 

 tract by J. G. White & Company, Incorporated, of New 

 York, N. Y. 



Water will be taken from the Big Wood and Little Wood 

 rivers, which are important tributaries of the Snake. The 

 natural flow of the streams is more than sufficient to water 

 all the lands during the first part of the irrigating season. 

 During the latter part of the season the natural flow of the 

 rivers will be supplemented by water supplied from an im- 

 pounding reservoir to be built by the Company, with a capacity 

 of 190,000 acre feet. The water rights and the amount of 

 water available are ample for the complete irrigation of at 

 least 150,000 acres of land, and have been so certified by the 

 State Engineer of Idaho, who has control of the appropria- 



an additional tract. This application has been recommended 

 by the State Land Board and forwarded to Washington for 

 final approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Upon com- 

 pletion of this new segregation, the State Land Board will 

 be asked to authorize the sale of water for a total of 150,000 

 acres. 



All lands to be watered are favorably located on the main 

 line of the Oregon Short Line, and partly along the Ketchum 

 Branch of that line, near Shoshone. They are just north of, 

 and of the same excellent character as, the Twin Falls tract 

 opened in 1905, and which has been the most pronounced 

 success in the history of American irrigation, and which as- 

 sures the rapid sale of the land with the accompanying water 

 rights of the Idaho Irrigation Company. 



The topography of the lands is well adapted to their irri- 

 gation, and the soil is of the highest quality for agricultural 

 purposes, consisting of deep, finely divided loam of a dark 



View of Pumping Plant on Ranch of Tarr & Sellers, Platteville, Colo. Pumping Machinery was Installed by the Dempster Mill Manufacturing 



Company of Beatrice, Neb. 



tion, diversion and apportionment of all streams and surface 

 waters within the state. The engineers of the Company have 

 laid out the irrigating system to the satisfaction of the State 

 Engineer, who has, under the state law, not only approved 

 the sufficiency of the water, but also the quality of the land 

 and the adequacy of the proposed system. Inasmuch as with- 

 out his official determination of the adequacy of the water 

 supply available for irrigation purposes, etc., no company is 

 allowed to take up lands or water; the fact of his approval 

 is a guarantee of the merit of the project. Several engineers 

 of J. G. White & Company, Inc., have independently exam- 

 ined into the sufficiency of the water supply and engineering 

 details and have endorsed and approved the whole project. 



The State Land Board of Idaho, with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, has segregated about 110,000 acres 

 of public lands to the project. There is sufficient additional 

 land not segregated, but in private ownership, lying under and 

 near the ditches of the Company, to make a total of 125,000 

 acres, for which acreage the present contract with the state 

 allows the sale of water rights. 



The Company has recently applied for the segregation ot 



brown color. The water penetrates this rich soil and does not 

 run off the surface as it would on heavy clay. As the soil is 

 underlaid by rock at a considerable depth, it retains the mois- 

 ture for a long time and gives it up to the crops as needed. 

 The climatic conditions are practically ideal for plant growth 

 when water is supplied, so that under irrigation the lands 

 will produce abundant crops of wheat, barley, oats and other 

 grains, alfalfa, sugar beets, potatoes, and the finest quality 

 of apples, pears, plums and other fruits, and in fact anything 

 that can be grown in the temperate zone. Yields per acre 

 of 85.5 bushels of wheat, 84 bushels of barley, 119 bushels of 

 oats, 524 bushels of potatoes, 22 tons of sugar beets and 9 

 tons of alfalfa in the second year have been obtained on land 

 of the adjacent Twin Falls tract, on which the conditions, 

 location, soil, etc., are the same as on this tract. 



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