THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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IDAHO. 



The formal opening of the Kings Hill extension lands 

 near Medbury occurred on November 16th. 



The Payette-Idaho Irrigation Company, at Payette, has 

 started work on the reclamation of 4,000 acres near that city. 



It is reported that the Big Lost river project in eastern 

 Oregon has placed its bonds and will soon begin active con- 

 struction work. 



Work has again started on the big irrigation canal in 

 Round valley on the east side of Salmon river, and by the 

 15th of May, 1910, water will be delivered to the land owners 

 direct from Salmon river. 



The Crane Creek Water & Power Company has let the 

 contract for the construction of its dam and reservoir to 

 irrigate 20,000 acres near Weiser. It is proposed to have 

 9,000 acres under water next spring. 



The Deep Creek Irrigation project near Hollister is 

 nearly completed. By the expenditure of $40,000 in a dam 

 and two reservoirs, the company proposes to water 5,000 

 acres. The project has been financed by local business men 

 at Hollister. 



At a recent meeting of the lower Payette Ditch Com- 

 pany near Boise an agreement was entered into with the 

 Payette Heights Irrigation Company, whereby the former 

 company's canal will be enlarged to carry sufficient water for 

 3,000 acres controlled by the Payette Heights Company. 



Land owners in Caldwell and Canyon counties propose the 

 organization of an irrigation district, embracing about 26,000 

 acres adjoining the Boise-Owyhee Irrigation Company's 

 project. It is claimed that the proposed system may be 

 enlarged to water 70,000 acres. The Idegon Irrigation Com- 

 pany has a segregation of 3,000 acres within the boundaries 

 of the proposed district and it is understood that this com- 

 pany protests against the formation of the district. 



Concrete work on the superstructures for the pumping 

 stations on the government's Minidoka irrigation project, 

 was completed during October. The work of raising the 

 spillway for storage purposes is being pushed and excavation 

 on the south side pumping laterals is being continued in 

 small contracts, also the enlargements of the south side 

 gravity canal. The gravity system for this project is com- 

 pleted and 61 per cent of the south side pumping system has 

 been finished. 



For the purpose of supplying water to a large area not 

 covered by the Payette-Boise government project, settlers 

 have recently organized an irrigation district with Edward 

 E. Hedden as engineer in charge. Surveys call for the diver- 

 sion of waters from the Payette river above Horse-Shoe 

 bend and carrying the supply through a tunnel between the 

 Payette and Boise rivers at a point six miles south of 

 Emmett. It is claimed that 40,000 acres will be supplied with 

 water by this system. 



It is reported that settlers under the proposed Sunnyside 

 project in Elmore county and the officers of the Southern 

 Idaho Reclamation Company have entered into an agreement 

 on all matters involving the proposed segregation of 67,000 

 acres, excepting the proposition of water-rights. This prob- 

 lem has been left to the State Land Board. The company 

 asked a rate of $70, but it is estimated that the board will fix 

 the figure at $65. By the proposed plan the construction com- 

 pany will allow settlers credit for money paid on water-rights 

 of the Great Western Sugar Beet Company. The construc- 

 tion company further agrees to deliver water on or before 

 April, 1912. 



On the Payette x -Boise government project in Idaho it has 

 been decided that a water supply can be furnished next year 

 for a certain area, the exact extent of which, however, has 

 not yet been definitely determined. Settlers in several districts 

 of the project which require only the completion of the dis- 

 tributing system have urgently petitioned that they be allowed 

 to do the greater part of the work which consists almost 

 wholly of ordinary earth excavation, and have agreed that 

 they will turn over to the United States for all purposes of 

 the project the ownership and control of this distributing sys- 

 tem so far as may be necessary in carrying out the general 

 policy of the service. The Secretary of the Interior has 

 formally approved the plan proposed for extending the irri- 

 gable acreage on the project. 



Articles of incorporation of the Post Falls Irrigation 

 Company and the Post Falls Land and Water Company have 

 been filed at Coeur d'Alene with an authorized capital of 

 $700,000. The first company is organized to _ construct an 

 irrigation system while the second company will dispose of 



this land to settlers. Upon finishing its work the stock in 

 the Post Falls Irrigation Company will be divided between 

 the land owners and the land company. Directors of the 

 irrigation company are as follows : Boyd Hamilton, Jas. 

 McLane and Harry McLane, John W. Smead and John S. 

 Malloy. The directors of the Land & Water Company are 

 Boyd Hamilton, Jas. A. McLane, Harry McLane and J. L. 

 Gunsaulus and Ayres D. Lundy. Land to be irrigated in- 

 cludes 3,500 acres near Post Falls and Ross Station at the 

 eastern end of the Spokane valley. 



With a capital of $5,000,000 a company is now being 

 organized in Spokane to develop a power site on the Snake 

 and Salmon rivers in central Idaho, 40 miles south of Grange- 

 ville, where A. W. Trine and G. F. La Frenz, of Spokane, 

 have located a dam and site for a power plant. The project 

 involves the boring of a tunnel of seven and a half miles 

 through solid rock. The developing plan calls for a com- 

 bination tunnel and dam. the latter being 100 feet in height 

 located on the Salmon river, a quarter of a mile from the 

 point where the long tunnel will leave the waterway for the 

 Snake river. R. J. Zell, of Spokane, has been working on 

 the project for two months and the estimates on cost of con- 



GEORGE B. PHASER, 

 Editor Twin Falls, Idaho, News. 



struction for the dam and tunnel are nearly all in. The com- 

 pany will also be in position to irrigate several thousand 

 acres of land in central Idaho. 



Approximately 544,000 acres of land which were with- 

 drawn in connection with the Dubois irrigation project, 

 Idaho, have been restored to the public domain by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior. The area is involved in a segregatfon 

 of lands to be included in a Carey Act project under the 

 application of the state of Idaho. The restoration covers 

 lands in Townships 5 to 10 North, Ranges 29 to 40 East. This 

 action was taken by the department for the reason that there 

 will not be available from the Reclamation Fund for some 

 years the moneys necessary for the .development of the 

 project, and upon the petition of the governor and the State 

 Land Board of the state of Idaho, the Secretary of the In- 

 terior decided to withdraw from the project if the state 

 found it practicable to take it up under the Carey Act. The 

 restoration became effective in such a manner as to protect 

 the segregation made upon the request of the state. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Donahoo Irrigation Company of Albuquerque is 

 investigating the underground water supply near El Paso with 

 a view to the erection of a pumping plant for the irrigation 

 of about 4,000 acres. 



