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IDAHO. 



Negotiations that will assist in clearing the way 

 for the launching of the big Bruneau irrigation project, 

 consisting of approximately 600,000 acres of land located 

 west of the Twin Falls south side project and south of 

 the Snake river, were brought before the State Land 

 Board recently when a representative of the Twin Falls 

 Land & Power Company presented to Governor Hawley 

 for his signature the applications of the state to the De- 

 partment of the Interior to segregate land from the pub- 

 lic domain into a Carey Act project whereby the large 

 body can be set aside and the state can proceed with 

 the working out of the final details and the promoting 

 company can go ahead with the building of its irrigation 

 system. The project calls for the expenditure of approxi- 

 mately $20,000,000. 



out this company will erect the highest irrigation dam 

 in the world. It is proposed to construct a reinforced 

 concrete dam on the Malalla river which will have a 

 height of 290 feet and will spread from a width of six 

 feet at the bottom to 490 feet at the top. A reservoir will 

 be formed that will store water sufficient to irrigate 100,000 

 acres of land. The estimated cost of this structure is 

 $1,500,000. It will be a private enterprise. Five-acre 

 tracts will be placed on the market. 



Fourteen thousand acres of rich fruit land will be 

 opened to entry on December llth, at Jerome, Idaho. 

 The tract is to be irrigated by modern pumping system. 

 The land is segregated under the Carey Act and the 

 opening will be conducted by the State Land Board. 

 Entries may be filed for 40, 80, 120 and 160-acre tracts. 



The Kingman Colony Irrigation Company of Owyhee, 

 has let the contract for the construction of an irrigation 

 project to reclaim 10,000 acres of land in eastern Oregon, 

 ten miles south of Nyssa, to James A. Green & Co., 

 Engineers, of Chicago. The contract calls for the delivery 

 of water in 1912. Water will be taken from the Snake 

 river. Irrigation through the medium of pumps will be 

 demonstrated on this project, the first of its kind launched 

 in that section of the west. 



The State Land Board has given notice of its inten- 

 tion to consider the complaints against the Elaine county 

 irrigation project near Howe. The settlers claim that 

 the promoting c.ompany does not deliver sufficient water 

 to enable them to properly irrigate their land. 



The Oregon Valley Land Company of Lakeview has 

 sold its entire holdings to the Goose Lake Valley Irriga- 

 tion Company. The transferred land includes a mammoth 

 irrigation system which takes water from a large storage 

 reservoir in Drew's Creek canyon at the point where 

 it leaves the hills to enter Goose Lake valley. 



The State Land Board is taking steps to complete the 

 Big Lost River irrigation scheme, the company that began 

 that work being bankrupt. The proposition is to issue 

 receiver's certificates to the amount needed to complete 

 the work, these certificates to be paid for from the 

 revenue that would ensue. 



W. J. Furnish, promoter of the Furnish irrigation 

 project near Stanfield, has made an assignment of his en- 

 tire interest in the reclamation of 5,000 acres of land to 

 G. W. Sherwood of Spokane, Wash. It is announced 

 that a far-reaching colony scheme for securing bona fide 

 settlers will be launched. 



OREGON. 



A company has been formed in Portland to promote 

 an irrigation project about thirty miles southeast of Canby 

 in Clackamas county. If the present plans are carried 



UTAH. 



A tract of land embracing 15,000 acres of fertile 



soil is being thrown open to settlement by the National 



Savings & Trust Company of Salt Lake City. The tract 



of the Delta Land & Water Company comprises 43,000 



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