THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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boundary between Oregon and Idaho. 

 Part of the land is in Oregon and part 

 in Idaho. 



The irrigation and drainage com- 

 mission of Idaho, recommends in its 

 report to the state's chief executive 

 and to the land board that the plans 

 of the Utah Construction Company, 

 owner of the Big Lost river project, 

 be followed out and that the pro- 

 posed new contract between the set- 

 tlers and the company for water rights 

 calling for the delivery of two acre 

 feet be adopted. It is the latter rec- 

 ommendation that has been the main 

 bone of contention between the set- 

 tlers and the purchasing company, the 

 settlers holding out for more water 



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and the company claiming it could 

 not possibly guarantee to deliver 

 more. Apparently the commission is 

 satisfied that the contention of the 

 company with regard to inability to 

 deliver more water is correct. 



Irrigation of several thousand acres 

 in the Twin Falls district of Idaho, by 

 pumping was made possible when the 

 public utilities commission issued an 

 order putting into effect a special flat 

 rate for water services, which had 



been asked by the Great Shoshone 

 & Twin Falls Water Power Com- 

 pany. 



Five projects are affected by the 

 commission's order. Under the old 

 contract the settlers were required to 

 stand responsible for the charges on 

 the entire acreage and owing to the 

 failure during 1913 of the interests 

 back of the Great Shoshone and kin- 

 dred interests, settlers found condi- 

 tions such that they could not profit- 

 ably cultivate more than a small per- 



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