Show HUGE IRRIGATION PLAN LAUNCHED Buhl and Associates to Put Acres of Idaho Land Under Water WEST OF LITTLE SALMON GREATEST GREATE PRIVATE IRRIGATION PROJECT EVER ATTEMPTED With the appearance In this city yester yesterday day at or Frank II n Buhl Duhl the Sharon Pa millionaire and George A Baird chief executor of ot the I L 1 KImberly estate from Idaho news was released concern concerning concernIng ing tho th launching of ot another great land and Irrigation enterprise the largest private private vate enterprise of ot the kind ever at attempted tempted In the United States It In Involves Involves not tar far from acres of ot land landon on the south f of or the Snake river und extending westerly from the Little Salmon which now marks the west boun boundaries boundaries daries of oC tho Immense tract of or land brought under water and cultivation by bythe bythe the Twin Falls FaIle Land Water Vater company compan since ISO at a cost of oC more than 00 The Tho new undertaking involves a scheme to continue the same kind of oC work and when It is finished the Snake River val valley valle ley le from the dam for tor a distance of at 10 miles went weRt and covering more mare than acres on the tho south side of the Snake river will have hae been filled with people and towns for Cor the tho entire distance Undertaking la Is Immense Frank II Buhl Duhl Is at the head of at the new undertaking as he was In the Twin Falls scheme that has been completely rounded out and his associates are the I same with the tho exception of ot Peter L LImberly KImberly and S B ll who have passed away since the tho first enterprise was launched However these Interests are now represented by b those who suc succeed succeed the men George A Baird for tor the KImberly estate and A C Milner for the estate so the work worl is LI all allIn allIn In the hands of ot men drilled in the details of or working out auch Buch a mammoth under undertaking undertaking taking The scheme Includes engineering fea features features tures that are going to require not only consummate skill but millions of ot money MOne and this work has been placed In the tho hands of ot J G White Co probably tile the biggest engineering firm In the world a II company that has from 1000 to 1500 engineers In the field all the time and andla an anIn la In all parts of at the world The main canal that supplies the Twin Falls tract Is to be enlarged and carried across Little Salmon canyon Canon for tor over oer 1200 feet Ceet and at a height of ot feeL teet feeLA A system of or reservoirs is to be con constructed on the new lands These are calculated to conserve of ot the flood Cl od waters of ot the Snake river and made to supply the ground around them Reservoirs at Headwaters At the headwaters of ot the Snake river rive another system of t storage reservoirs with a capacity of ot are arc areto to be constructed by b the Buhl Duhl syndicate aided by b tho government and the plan Is to have hae a portion of ot the he new country countr tn hn h to In one from ii now n v By the time ilm this ih s undertaking has been rounded out Buhl and his as associates will have expended In Ie the neigh neighborhood neighborhood of ot to It Is fig figured figured that the preliminary surveys and engineering work will cost at least Frank II H Buhl Duhl was a most enthusiastic believer In what could be accomplished In the Snake River Rhe valley when the th Twin Falls enterprise was launched and not notwithstanding withstanding the fact that many man of ot his friends declared It was waI not feasible and that It would break him he saw the thing through In a way that lId did credit to his nerve for Cor In the expenditure of at the mil millions lions running through good times and bad not a n man or a company ever had to wait alt a minute for tor his money mone He pro proposes proposes poses to push the new scheme through in inthe Inthe the same way notwithstanding his ad advanced age |