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countries. In America ice companies, canned goods 

 factories and crockery houses are now using rice hulls 

 for packing their products. 



Visitors to the fair can also go to the "Rice 

 Kitchen" on the grounds and enjoy a meal composed 

 of rice prepared palatably in many forms. 



AN IMPORTANT IRRIGATION WORK. 



The Secretary of the Interior has tentatively ap- 

 proved plans for a stupendous irrigation project to be 

 constructed in the valleys of Payettc and Boise Rivers, 

 in southwestern Idaho. This information will be espe- 

 cially interesting to those who are familiar with the 

 publications of the United States Geological Survey. 

 One of the most recent geologic folios issued by the 

 Survey is that relating to the Nampa Quadrangle, which 

 is situated near the lower end of Snake River Valley, 

 mostly in Canyon County, Idaho. Mr. Waldemar Lind- 

 gren, author of the folio, states that in this region, ow- 

 ing to the lack of rainfall, vegetation is scant, and the 

 entire quadrangle may be called a sagebrush desert. 

 He calls attention to the fact that, with the exception 

 of the flood plains of the Boise and Payette Rivers, 

 tributaries of Snake River, where there is a natural 

 subirrigation that keeps vegetation growing, and some 

 places along Willow Creek, where underground water 

 provides similar subirrigation, the agricultural lands 

 of the quadrangle must be irrigated. In view of this 

 great need, it is gratifying to learn that work has 

 been begun to bring under one comprehensive national 

 irrigation project 372,000 acres of land, or 

 more than the total irrigated area of Arizona. 

 Washington, or New Mexico. In compliance with a 

 request from the majority of the land owners of the 

 Boise and Payette Valleys, the Secretary of the In- 

 terior has ordered a continuance of the surveys and 

 investigations preliminary to actual construction work. 

 A sufficient sum for the completion of the work will 

 be set aside as soon as the settlers perfect the neces- 

 sary organization to secure to the reclamation fund the 

 return of the money required for the undertaking. 



The project comprises two features, a* masonry 

 dam in Payette River and works for the diversion of 

 water from Boise River. Associated with the dam in 

 Payette River is a canal on each side of the stream, 

 that on the south side connecting with a large pump- 

 ing plant. The dam will be ninety feet high, 450 

 feet long on top, and 125 feet long on the bottom. The 

 capacity of the reservoir will be 190.000 acre feet. 

 The north side canal will have a length of twenty miles, 

 the south side forty miles. The estimated cost of these 

 works is $1,200.000. By means of them 1,000 cubic 

 feet of water may be diverted every second for the 

 irrigation of 150,000 acres of land. 



The works for the diversion of waters from the 

 Boise River consists of a dam ten feet high, 400 feet 

 long on top, and 400 feet on the bottom, constructed 

 of- concrete, steel and timber. The capacity of the 

 reservoir will be 150,000 feet. Two diversion canals, 

 one on each side of the river, will have a combined 

 length of 135 miles and a bottom width varying from 

 forty-five to ninety feet. The estimated cost of this 

 section of the project is $2.000,000. making the cost 

 of the entire project $3,200,000. 



No other region of the United States presents a 

 more attractive field for the engineers of the reclama- 

 tion service. 



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