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Show AMERICAN FALLS, IDA. Work is progressing on the canals of the American Falls Irrigation company j with all possible haste and satisfactory'! progress being made. This was the j first irrigation enterprise to be in- J augurated under the Carey act. but for various reasons the work was permitted per-mitted to drag by the company, until after its reorganization and the present management took charge. Mr. F. A. Sweet of the company says: "Our canal is 70 feet wide at the bottom, 90 feet at the water line and is carrying six feet of water, being next to the largest waterway in the country. It is 40 miles Ions and the main canal is practically completed. We are pushing the work on the principal prin-cipal laterals as fast as possible. A few months ago we had 40,000 acres ready for settlement, but are not making mak-ing any effort to colonize the land for the reason that an additional 40.000 acres will be ready to open this fall when the whole tract will be colonized. "Our immigration agents are now in the field preparing to run excursions to the land as soon as we are ready to receive them. Our settlements will be made principally from the central western states, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa. Missouri. Illinois and other states from that portion of the country. coun-try. There is a great demand for Idaho irrigated lands, our agents inform in-form us and we expect to have all our lands occupied before the close of next season." I |