Show BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT THE GREATEST SCHEME EVER LAUNCHED IN IDAHO Projectors to Build a Canal Sixtyfive Miles Long and Raise Water from Snake River Thirtyeight Feet TRIBUNE SPECIAL Boise Ida Oct 17News of the organization of the greatest irrigation irriga-tion project ever launched In this Slato If not In the Northwest has leaked out tonight Moreover thc projectors of the undertaking propose to do what liua always been supposed to ho Impossible they will take water from the Snake river some miles above Shoshone Falls and Irrigate LOOOOO acres oCtho wonderfully fertile land that stretches away on ito plateau 1000 feet above the tumbling river The reclamation Is to be undertaken under the Carey act and the State legislation enactod to carry that law Into effect and the segregation oC the land has already been made at the v Ifullcy land olficc The amount of land segregated In 217000 acres on the south side of lho river and rlQOO acres on the north side Bosldea there ls i 1SOOO acres of school Innd covered on the south side and 2000 acres on the north side As far as possible worthless land has been eliminated elimi-nated from the segregation but somo of that taken Is not ilrstclass There Is however fully 200000 acres of as fine land as is found In the West all of which can b < i watered The project has been under way for several months under the direction of State Engineer Ross who has made all the surveys and plats to avoid the errors and discrepancies that have causecpto much trouble With other Carey net projects in this State The canal on tho south side will bo sixty live miles long and that on the north two miles The river will be raised thirtyeight feet The entire work will cost 1500000 S B Milne of Salt Lake is president of the company and J II Lowell secretary One of the directors Is Frank Knox president oC time Bank of the Republic of Salt Lake and another A 1C Stcunenbcrg the Idaho banker |