Show American Americ 1 F a Hs s Land Company Opens Vast Tract to o Settlers ers ersIn In Fertile Idaho Plateau Water in Abundance Ft om Workings and Soil Well V en Adapted to Fruit antI and Brings Many lIany Settlers to That Part of State A i t n I T y tt 3 e ar 5 b ri sd y 5 n n w mum I Main Canal Of all the Irrigation projects that have I grown famous along the Snake r river vEr m 10 Idaho that or of the American Falls Canal Power company Is In the very front rank and Is closel closely associated with the great success of Idaho in Irrigation The accompanying photograph Is that of a apart part of the main canal near its point of river diversion from the Snake and an Idea of the magnitude of the project The entire system of canals and ditches and flumes and diversion dams together with the workings at the point of diver diversion diversion sion In the river will be fully completed by early spring The work was com commenced commenced In 1892 but unforeseen obstacles arose which delayed the progress of the work A noteworthy feature of the Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican Falls project Is that It Is the first successful Carey act s segregation In Idaho The venture venturo represents an outlay of ro roM 0 M and the water diverted through the system will reclaim acres ot of here heretofore heretofore arid land Jand turning It Into fertile ground for the cultivation of crops and the growing of fruit In addition to this great tract there will be numerous home homestead homestead stead and desert land entries In that vi vicinity vicinity swelling the total acreage to de derive derive rive benefit from the project to acres There Is enough water however to Irrigate acres It Is known throughout Idaho as well as through all places where Irrigation has made itself attractive that the Amer AmerIcan American Ican Falls Canal Power company owns own one of the most valuable water rights In the whole Snake River valley The district Is already famous and the AmEr AmErlean American lean ican Falls project will be directly bene beneficial to a tract of the best agricultural land in that state That the site was happily as well as economically chosen Is shown by the fact that there Is no expensive dam at the point of diversion The bed of the C canal nal happens to be a little lower than the bed t e tt if f II i i aa w irr J i iy y t tv w r rg v w tE r x f il tf M fit t d N m N m 11 I Watts Basin Check Gate of the river The main Is lo located located ten miles northeast ot of Blackfoot Bingham county and the canal wends Its way In a southwesterly direction for OOt miles to a p point where It Into the Snake river at a point paint four miles be below below low American Falls In Blaine county The country traversed by this canal covers one of the most fertile plateaus In the whole Snake River valley Here a few years ears ago there was sagebrush and roaming bands of wild horses Instead ot of that picture there Is now a scene of agricultural activity where the farmer Is tilling the soil and building homes and thereby adding to the taxable property or of orthe the state as well as making a home and living for a greater number of people Even at that the romance of the tho older picture been wiped out The wild wildness I Iness ness of It has been removed II Fifteen thousand acres of this land has been cleared and Is now under cUltivation cultivation tion while a similar acreage Is being cleared away by those who have haye already alread grasped opportunity and are turning out of the soil a stable competency Besides the farm buildings that dot the district there are miles and miles of new fences wa wagon on roads and ever every other convenience and aud necessity that go to complete the pie pic picture turo ture of a rural district Trees that will bear various kinds of fruit have haye ben been planted shade trees are set about the new homes and the magic of the has transformed the whole aspect Of OC the acres acres of Carey Care net act land have luwe already been sold and the tho re Is being disposed of rapidly rap idly on the basis ot of 40 an acre which Includes a permanent water right There Is n a st ady demand for the land and when the whole canal system Is com completed completed It Is expected that all of the lands will have been sold The altitude of this attractive plateau ls fC feet t or about the same as Salt Lake while the climate Is peculiarly adapted to the growing of wheat oats alfalfa barley potatoes all kinds of other s and an pies that will rank high tI h with the product of the or bards In the tbt west and nr n n tr i iThe The wheat yield Is from flom 25 to ail 0 bi h pr per an acre while the oats yield Is fr it to 80 b bushels From three o fl five t s alfalfa are cut on each acre and anI I are arp grown about to hI hito I Ito to the acre it is net needy dl t ado there Is a ready market for r a all I of n th products at fancy pricer An additional r f the m lean Jean Falls tract Is that the ur gon H HLine I ILine Line Is a new nt 1 Hr L the district This new line lill IS an t slon sion from the Mackey at II 11 land to the new and tl toy th Aberdeen a distance 1 of 2 s miles grading of the new line ha has heer the bridges are being boils buill t I ste steel 1 being laid Th The r d will 1 b operation In 1110 this 88 a ria nac y come from the Short Line lal I have seen fen the advantages offered d tl h new territory Aberdeen Is 15 miles north ost of In lean Ican Falls and Is the huh hub r f a l Ira tra t th the finest farming arming country ill in any allY 1 stai the union This Thill thriving town is n nv center of a circle twIt twelve mils mile v In di dh un unter ter and every foot of land is j whilE tributary to this trait j is more morp I fern fernIng n nIng Ing land of high value Wells d at a d I l lof of 5 56 feet Ceet furnish a supply up I water while the is I pr p rt throughout the wholE district It Ft is id i i This Is true not only of Aberdeen hit the whole tract Aberdeen has bas a t three oral eral stores a store two m markets a drug store stort batik hotel hold i n I Ian Ian an extensive lumber varr yard h sides th r Industries that offer an i sure a supply of nearly II Is needed right at home I 1 tow boasts a newspaper eviden Its pr prosperity The opportunities at n II art are i as numerous a as those tho un n rite anti l l 1 farms about There are openings fur ur a other hotel a restaurant livery brick yard grain elevator flour mill 1 u uIn In fact other enterprises that ru nm n t L whole gamut of Indu industry try and 1 All prospective purchasers ers f Ahod u property are offered all kinds of meats ments to build or make otier olier ments Aberdeen is reached h by stage from Amerl American n Falls but this primitive mIld of travel will be shortly abandon ri s the Short Line will have han trains Into the town The main offices 1 f the American Falls Lard Land Power tun 1111 pang pan as well a as those or of the Abrl AbHI u iI Townsite Investment company at ar I Gated at Aberdeen There are three other sit Bit s for t ti along th the new line of the as Springfield and Claypool Each ILi ac rounded by an area of 1 laYO 01 ares of 1 r farming land will soon rise t to the prom prominence of established marts of trad i creasing the population in that part f the state These towns are y yet t in infancY but lIke other towns town that Ii h established themselves they the now 1 ti j r unlimited possibilities to the investor il 1 business man and will sU a be on a pr r with Aberdeen Of course the canal tom when u 1 In early spring will b be turner o 0 oby by the American Falls Land 1 company to the people who havE b nm t the land as Is usual in such urh cases T 1 0 e water rights according to th thu Cary Carey d dare are Inseparable from th the land Thus t o 1 farmer Is protected Payments on onland t i iland land are made In thin abling the settler to py pay for the lund laud t of the proceeds from his farm and all alb him to realize a profit besides bt ld The attractiveness of irrigation m has e t tIts tits Its magnetic influence over a 1 wide ph to r rand and there Is no territory In tin the west tL 11 t Is so ro charming as that In Idaho Tho fh state Is for forging ng to the front In work and the area or of rich farming landS Is growing constantly wider offering t business and professIonal menas wet i ito to everybody generally opportunities wont be knocking at the door forever fore r |