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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



HON. JAMES H. BRADY 



Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, 

 of Idaho, is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was 

 born in 1862. He was raised in the middle West, a por- 

 tion of the time on a farm. After securing a common 

 school education, he took a two years' course in college. 

 He also took a course in law study, but did not engage 

 in the practice of his profession. After several years 

 spent in teaching school, Mr. Brady became interested 

 in the real estate business, and particularly in western 

 lands and immigration, with which he occupied himself 

 for a number of years. About the time that Idaho se- 

 cured statehood, Mr. Brady began his business career in 

 that State, although he did not make Idaho his home 

 until about seven years ago, when his interests in irri- 

 gation works and power plants had become so extensive 

 as to demand his undivided attention. 



HON. MONTIE B. GWINN 



Hon. J. H. Brady, Pocatello, Idaho. 



Throughout his life Mr. Brady has been an active 

 and uncompromising Republican, and has always taken 

 an interest in party affairs. He was chosen chairman of 

 the Republican State Central Committee at Moscow in 

 the fall of 1904, and during the campaign of that year, 

 which, resulting in the election of the entire Republican 

 State tickets with pluralities ranging from 17,000 to 

 20,000 he gave indubitable evidence of an aptitude for 

 public affairs and a skill in organization rarely equalled 

 in the Northwest. Mr. Brady was again chosen chair- 

 man of the State Central Committee of his party at 

 Pocatello on August 1, 1906. His friends predict for 

 him a career of honor and usefulness in the future. 



We are presenting in connection with our report of 

 the Congress, a photo of the chairman of the executive 

 committee, the Hon. Montie B. Gwinn, of Boise. Mr. 

 Gwinn is entitled to a large amount of credit for the 

 manner in which the details for this Congress were 

 worked out, and received many assurances from delegates 

 of the high appreciation of his services. Mr. Gwinn's 

 first experience in the commercial world was gained as 

 a clerk in a frontier store. After some experience in 

 this line, he embarked in business for himself. In 1883 

 he erected the first building and established the first 

 store in Caldwell. Not a very elaborate institution to 

 be sure. Its dimensions were 16x24 feet, with a dirt 

 floor and a tent warehouse; yet from this is based his 

 success in a commercial way. In 1898 Mr. Gwinn re- 

 moved to Boise, where, for the succeeding five years 

 he represented the New York Life Insurance Company 

 as state agent. He is the president of the Glenns Perry 

 Bank, vice-president of the Caldwell Banking & Trust 

 Company, and is a directing stockholder in a number 

 of other industrial institutions. He is secretary and 

 manager of the Malheur Livestock Company, which has 

 large holdings of land and sheep in Idaho and Oregon. 

 He recently purchased a large block of stock in the 

 Pendleton Savings Bank, one of the strongest institu- 

 tions in eastern Oregon, and contemplates removing to 

 that city in the near future. Mr. Gwinn has at times 

 taken an active interest in politics, being recognized as 

 one of the leaders in the councils of the Rep'ublican 

 party of the State. Many a hard fought political battle 

 has been won through his experienced generalship. He 

 is recognized as one of the great forces in the up-build- 

 ing of the Pacific Northwest, and will without question 

 be highly honored by the Fifteenth Congress when it 

 meets at Sacramento in 1907. 



A NEW PROJECT. 



In investigating the Madison river irrigation project, 

 Mont., a scheme to irrigate about 150,000 acres of land located 

 near Helena, a small independent project was developed on 

 the east bank of the Missouri river in the vicinity of Toston 

 and Townsend, and numerous requests have been received 

 by the Reclamation Service from citizens residing in that 

 locality for a report concerning its feasibility. 



The project would irrigate about 16,800 acres by a canal 

 diverting water from Missouri river on the right bank about 

 three and one-half miles above Toston and running in a gen- 

 eral northerly direction for about thirty miles. There are 

 5,140 acres of cultivated land below the projected canal line 

 location irrigated from Dry, Greyson, Gurnet and Duck creeks 

 and Confederate Gulch. If satisfactory arrangements could 

 be made with the owners of these water rights, their lands 

 could be watered from the canal and the water from the 

 creeks used on lands above the canal, and this area, 5,140 

 acres, now watered, has been included with the 16,800 acres 

 of irrigable land. There are probably 3,000 acres north of 

 Confederate Gulch that could be irrigated by extending this 

 canal to Avalanche Gulch, but as this would invole many 

 additional miles of canal, it has not been considered. 



Most of the land is in private ownership. The crops are 

 principally alfalfa, oats, wheat and rye. As the low water 

 flow of the Missouri river, which occurs in August and 

 September, and sometimes in July, is insufficient, it would be 

 necessary to resort to storage, and it is probable that the 

 reservoir site on Cherry creek or United States Reservoir 

 sites Nos. 25 and 27 could be utilized. 



