Show FATHER OF ALL CANALS George E E Hill Jr kt S s So t thIn About a Monster Mastic l Idaho Ditch I George korge 0 E Hill Jr k of the th Hardware Lumber ft Manufacturing company cOmpsy c of Ida Jda was waa w to in the city Wednesday with k lots Joe U of information about bout the various arlou business projects project It win nfl winder del dee way wy In i that stale ate Mr Hill WI it is I tare here making arrangements for the installation lion tion of a mill at I The monster motu canal t c from the south southfork fork ork of the river la is being gotten pUn into shape e for tor use ue this summer nUa the land which It rums nan The Tb canal an la is known as the uby Rigby Great Ot Feeder Pede canal and aDd Is thirty miles mU long I It is feet in ID width and nd averages ave ten tent feet t et deep Nearly Nearl all aU the water of the Snake river can be turned into this canal and fed ted out Into the smaller canals which water nearly nearl MOMO acres IC 11 of Und land sn The main maia canal eana was built in an old I dry bed Met of the Snake river 4 masonry was w put in at the head bead of tips the I anal and ad a project is 1 on Olt foot to drive piles pile pU across ac the river and make a dam cia I that will enable ble the Irrigators to handle the water more easily This big ble canal was Ws at built by the farmers and la is owned by them It la Is not the Ute property of any a an syndicate and the propose to tomake tomake tomake make the best beet use of It Rapid progress to Is being Iq made with the beet boat sugar factory which is to te be built bulk about bout eight miles mil south of according a to Mr 1 Hill Contracts are already being be let for tor the brick and construction work 1 w Ia expected to begin n thIs spring Affairs Affair never looked brighter said mid Id Mr Hill Hili than they do now Many any people are sieving moving into late Rigby y and aDd bust busi business bustness ness ne to Is picking up there We have bave a anew anew anew new paper the Rigby Star which was started only a short Mort time tilDe ago CO |