| Show INN N N NI p I IK NATIONAL IRRIGATION PROJECT I I E Two rind d a Quarter II to Build Dam and Canals S I 2 Tho Government begins Work on tho the or 5 5 a 5 2 g c it l no 4 lence nce I n D DO 0 a Sept W V w wild and Ind Vy ful tul topography of Qt northwest rm em Wyoming W Is t i to be b tho the thet t e e nf lit grout groat activity A AWI WI t action of ot the irrigation alone n In III wiling setting aside two anti t quator tt r million dollars for the tho rout con coni canIl Il i ii of oC a I huge dam clam and irrigation Hk sc ks on the river In III Wyo 10 lag PI lends Interest to somo little roann lann which have been rude m de e in ht this thin uninhabited wilderness A brief dl of at tho the work of tho the theIn In r during tho the past tar ar j to i this Ihla region will be bo found In the tho forth annual report of or the II Service but tho ox ex Gant rIO Ms 1 of the thc lute hi ii k eh opt t to tho the Civil wait The Th bolle protect pl ha has glen sad completely out Ul will w probably roMly irrigate fully n 1 ree r rp of oC waste wate 6 hands parched M bat holding Iii hi their dry embrace on en eUng lacing n near lIr lh the l Iea vf boundary n My of or the tho Tel Yol Ti II J 1 Park lirk In ln northwest t Wyoming that natures wonder tl a d tb Shoshone river hewing est uto I Yard rushes Into Inlo n 1 eon cut down through rile i granite The now flow of tho the gS 1 1 by the Im l king Will not 1 u he iuso 0 ot or ll 1111 l Wing u Is Origin I S among this the Y ll w stone tono highly My v variable f ole toot Cool i ono In time of or ofen or feet teet V en and ond and per sec ace rI again III as low lIS as 50 tel Tho tie In the 1 lit of Ul thin P l therefore lithe Ito oC tile flood Joining walla ot HIlA canyon the a tn tone none dam build l a n cement and I as Q as the ever Ier feet bole above t emiK lv n and d rising the 1110 river trtat Uk lake level forming 1 n na a la orage n acres acre CUbIc feet Ceel of rite llIe la The Tho lit at the dam raer but 76 feet teet wide at the tho dan dam curd lit at the curb or of tho It D acute HO feet teet vide thus toms POint inverted with the tho Into Inlo the river The Tho I r Inow water will s be lend from lInd onto tho through about a system ot of tunnels and four miles In length I To us DE WELl Joint ml the aerate l n j t before f or e th fien tee last lalit te and house hou O t t month it H e l t th ti easily for most u a dam We NII III Storage Jam al the r at t nt tho U 1 r end I extent canon and and n At t tan 1111 ot of cr ery high bench tr 1 a lower Of Iown u ion bUild a 11 third extent exten of each bench and wo tad d corer still Mill and pill lower louver alts Inver tn Ea lands and less leu of 11 line ins or relation lit in to hate future to the r I of at the coup coun the i tl 1 tH h e lalm the theTo To ecu o the tho great pro tho t tr r r I est oat acreage tile thin cost however per micro aero U Is the highest It mutt must be he re ye remembered however that whatever project Is II s taken will be IJO final Una I Ime me TIlL MODEm Th Tice are to be of ot con concrete crete crate and of ot the best beet construction on the principle that a 1 modern railroad Is la built buill I e c with lIh n II view to low cost oMI of ot In order not net notto netto to throw upon tho the people the tho necessity of ot practically rebuilding all nil their Auntee us lie noon toon KH nit they thc are lire paid for tor The Tho high hue lino mid largest canal for fur the holle will twill make it tt nn un Interstate project thin inject In Its finality cutting across the tho divide into Montana and Into tho the Crow Indian reservation upon thin opening of 0 this thin reservation fur for which ft a bill has hAt been repotted reported favorably bly In to tho flue house houe the government engineers eon cnn Kd ga Into the tho reservation and pick out cut the lands rho Tho Immediate reclamation to 10 result I from rom the tho first work ork of or the government on in this will be bo about acres In Wyoming but as all stated tho th nil ultimate I mate utilization of all nil the ilme flood waters of or thin this plied eked will Irrigate to nn nil c halt half million acres neres HOl E Tho Tito item dam canal will develop some lame horse luoren and an nn addi additional liD will be generated from Neat t creek whoso Wh o will also nl O bo be This power CAn enn be used uBel under the reclamation act for fur pumping other water for tor Irrigation the sumo Slime nu as l III it to bo be done dote with power potter de der developed from Crum the tho Salt BRit volley valley than which will will up water for an nn ad Id additional noon flues h 3 time the land Ilind Irrigated iota the river A gratifying fact brought out omit nt Rt the joint committee meeting above men mentioned Honed Is that thul there are aro no legal corn com complications Involved In the right of or the th government to ties iso river water The Tho engineering are aro Bruthe the only anI one ones to tu be encountered All the land hand belongs to the government and nM line has already been reserved re all nil spec opec entry It cannot how now bo be tiled lied upon under tho Iho desert land lav Inv the tho timber and atone alone law or by utilizing Urn till commutation clause e of or the homestead law it cnn can only ani b be taken up under the tha original homestead law haw requiring live tI years actual residence nail Improve Improvement men ment FREE FROM LAUD LAND SPECULATION This Thill project Is III believed to stand nione among those tho e Investigated gated thus far tar b government un under under der del the national Irrigation not net In ev every e eCI ery CI other case more moro or less lUll of the lands to be Irrigated are aro found to be taken up under some of br our various loose anti speculative land hand Inn 1 laws law and often otten with the evident Idea Idel on the tha part of or the en tryman tr that Just some somo such ouch Improve Improvement Improvement ment went Is to l he be e undertaken by the gov government government Tho rho effect of oC this then 1 la III that when tho the government puts pUll tho the water upon Its It II land gre greatly ing Its value the speculator who has hall obtained title Is la in III a to take tako a largo profit prom from the tho real settler who should hould have havo had the first show h w In Inmany Inmany n many instances of or course boha b ha fide settlers setters are aro found struggling along with whir nn an water w supply derived JJ r n front from simple ample el Irrigation projects where the water Is 18 diverted directly from the thc river and In such cases where the gov government gO stores the hood waters of or these thell rivers und cord thus thu Increases the reclaimed area these settlers who ho have dent clent water should really be the Ihl first fiut beneficiaries but It Is a n senseless prop proposition proposition that Congress should allow land hod laws lawn to remain III In force which enable tho the speculator to 10 acquire government land for tor practically nothing so 10 n that when whon the government does dO s finally build Its Ita Irrigation works these land lam dealers will be bo tho the first of tho the government expenditure making the ost cost of settlement by IJ the thc real home tanker higher and nd tore imre The operation of ot these thew the e speculative amounts In fact fart to n distinct menace to tho the Irrigation policy rake the Hie Shu holl protect project fur for an nn instance If It the tho cost lOst of or the reclamation of ot this Ihl land lInd IH is W 10 per acre the settler settlor going upon his government claim of or IGO acres would have hoo to pity Iy buck to the government In 10 annual Installments of UIO each Since the land lund Is le extreme extremely ly It I and will raise ral n enormous crops the first Brat year that the Water In Is Input put upon It II It Is le l believed that he hue would experience little In tanking those thelle payments and nt lit the Iho end of ot 10 years would own H U magnificent proper property ty anti and his hie pro rata rota of ot Interest t In the duns dam and canals If It on the other hand he had In addition to 10 purchase his land which It if public land hand would celt him hint nothing from the speculator who had previously acquired it at a nominal cost the burden might be more than ho could bear and the result might bo be that the lands landa would not bo be rapidly col colonized and Instead of or the government getting back Its Ill money y promptly In 10 to years HO so that It could bo ho used over for tor other Irrigation works settlement would be retarded and find years elapse be before before p fore the entire en lire acreage would be tall talc taken tallen en up L |
