THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



347 



We further extend to Professor Ballantyne, the leader, 

 Professor McClellan, the pianist and composer, and to the 

 members of the Ogden Tabernacle choir, our sincere appre- 

 ciation of their valued participation, which has so largely 

 added to the success of the Congress; and to Hon. Fred J. 

 Kiesel, of Ogden, who was instrumental in bringing this tal- 

 ented, organization to Sacramento. 



MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO 



(Continued from p. 340.) 



All lands in the vicinity of Mountain Home are 

 irrigated by the one system of storage reservoirs. For 

 three months in the spring all mountain streams are 

 raging torrents and enough waters go to waste each 

 year to irrigate thousands of acres of land. By build- 

 ing these reservoirs in the mountains the water is stored 

 and husbanded until such time as the spring rains cease 

 and is needed for the irrigation. Water from these 

 reservoirs is several degrees warmer than from living 

 streams and crops respond more quickly and do better. 



The system of reservoirs forms a chain of sepa- 

 rate basins, the first two miles from Mountain Home, 

 the second fifteen miles north, the third twenty-five 

 miles northeast, and the fourth fifty miles northwest of 

 the lands to be irrigated. The first reservoir, two miles 

 from Mountain Home, has been completed at a cost of 

 seventy-five thousand dollars. The dam is one mile in 

 length, sixty feet, high and forms a lake six and one- 

 ii.-ilf miles around the contour line. The second reser- 

 voir is located at the lower end of Long Tom Basin. 

 The Long: Tom reservoir was completed in 1905 to th 

 height of 60 feet, and cost $80,000. 



The next reservoir is that of Little Camas, located 

 at the lower end of Little Camas prairie, and at a junc- 

 tion of Cat and Little Camas Creeks. This reservoir 

 stores and distributes enough water annually to cover 



forty thousand acres of land one foot deep. The Little 

 Camas reservoir is beyond the divide, and it is not a 

 tributary of the Snake Kiver, but empties into the 

 Boise instead. To conduct the water from Little Ca- 

 mas reservoir to the lands of Mountain Home required 

 the construction of a connecting canal fourteen miles 

 in length and one and one-half miles of tunnel through 

 the mountain divide. Portions of this canal cost $20,- 

 000 per mile, while the tunnel alone cost over $80,000. 

 Work on the fourth reservoir has not been completed. 

 This reservoir is known as High Prairie reservoir and 

 is one of the most ideal locations in the West. The 

 basin is five miles in length and an average of two 

 miles in width. A dam 30 feet in height will store 

 enough water in the reservoir to cover 192,000 acres of 

 land to a depth of one foot, enough water after making 

 all deductions to irrigate 64,000 acres of land. 



The company had been at work continuously on 

 this irrigation project for nearly six years, and has ex- 

 pended a vast amount of money. Some of the best en- 

 gineers of the country have examined the project and 

 have approved the plan and specifications which are be- 

 ing followed out by the construction company. This 

 system will be completed next year. 



Lands in this vicinity are open to settlement under 

 the Desert Land Act, whereby any American citizen who 

 has not exercised the right of entry out of the home- 

 stead or other laws, to the extent of 320 acres, since 

 June 30th, 1890, may enter 320 acres. If the home- 

 stead right has been used since June 30th, 1890, then 

 only a quarter section of land can be entered. The price 

 paid the government for desert land is $1.25 per acre, 

 25 cents to be paid at the time of entry and the re- 

 mainder at anv time within four vears. 



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