| Show HENRY LAKE CANAL Engineers Demonstrate That Project Pro-ject Is Not Feasible TRIBUNE SPECIAL Boise Ida Sept 23State Engineer D W Rosa has returned from the Henry Lake country whoro he had been Inspecting Inspect-ing the survey work being done under his direction This work was undertaken Jointly by the State and United States geological survey for the purpose of do lormlnlng If water could bo taken out of tim Henry fork of the Snake and put upon up-on a fine body of land lying northwest of I that lake It has been demonstrated the project LJ not feasible The hope was that a canal could bo i taken out of Henry fork near Henry hike and run to a point on Caman crock If that could have boon done the water i carried by the proposed canal could have bosn turned Into CamaH creek and taken out again somo distance north of Mud lake The divide Is very low and some thought that after allowing for a twcntytwofoot cut at the divide Henry fork Would bo reached below the Jake but the survey came out forty feet above the lake level The line run was thlrtyllvo miles In length In order to secure a water supply sup-ply It would bo necessary to make a out through the dlvldo olghtyflvo feet which wodld bo Impracticable |
