Show KINGS HILL IRRIGATION PROJECT WILL VILL OPEN ACRES OF LAND Wide Interest has been stirred by the announcement that the Kings Hill Ir Irrigation Power company compan will on Oct 12 open acres of or southern Idaho land for tor settlement have been so numerous in Salt Lake that Taylor brothers agents of the Kings KingsHill KingsHill Hill Rill company have arranged with President C H Hammett of the com corn company company pany to have John M Whitaker taken over oer the entire tract In an automo automobile automobile automobile bile so that he may make a careful study of or the land and the work that has been done to reclaim it The land will sell sen for 50 cents per acre and the water rights will be sold soldat soldat soldat at 63 65 per acre of or the tho pur purchase pu purchase chase price of water rights will be payable at the time of or drawing and the remaining payments will be made to cover a period of or ten years cars with 6 per cent Interest It is predicted that the Kings Hill district will become within a short time one of oC the greatest fruit Sections of ot the country The strong points claimed for it as a fruit raising district ire re very rich soil soli abundance of water low elevation and closeness to the maui main tine line of at the Oregon Short Line railroad The Tile land segregated lies along the th south southside southside southside side of oC the Snake river and parallels the main line of ol the railway ral way for a short distance east cast pf Glenns Ferry Perry to the mouth of or the Malad river None of or the theland theland theland land at any point is over three miles from the railroad The water supply for this Irrigation enterprise is to be taken from the Ma Malad Malad Ia lad md river about a mile above its It mouth and will be conveyed lS the Snake to the lands to be Irrigated by means of or a gigantic gl one of or the great est and most ingenious engineering feats in the west The water vater will swill be betaken betaken betaken taken from rain the Malad MaIa quite a distance below where the railway crosses that stream Persons who have seen that river rier only when crossing it by rail can have but a very ery inadequate Idea of the flow of the river The Malad hard hardly hardly hardly ly deserves the name of or river until after it enters the Snake river canyon a mile and a half or so above aboc Its mouth Here fed by thousands of springs it sud suddenly suddenly suddenly denly changes from a small reek creek to a narrow but very deep and stream with a fall of oC feet for tor the last mile of or its flow before emptying into the Snake At the point of or its it diversion engi engineers engineers engineers have hae reckoned that the Malad river has a minimum flow of twice that of or the Boise river The me Malad here has a flow of or 1100 second feet and the company has the right to use It all for Irrigation purposes However it will take but 00 second feet for the pur purposes purposes purposes poses required for tor irrigating the land now flow segregated The entire flow will be carried by flume to the Snake river Here the 00 second feet will be con conveyed conveyed conveyed across the as stated for tor forthe forthe the land and the rest or second feet will be diverted for tor power pur purposes purposes purposes poses The compa will construct a power plant for the benefit of or the tract It being estimated that there will be sufficient energy to generate horsepower of or electric current The diversion dam a mile above the mouth of or the Malad the construction of or which was commenced the thela latter er part of May will be completed the first of ot next month It has been very strong ly built and no expense has bf ben en spared In making It strong trong and lasting |