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Show IDAHO GETTING READY FOB WATER Committoo Preparing' Data, and "Will Make Application for Government Aid In Irrigation Scheme. Special to Tho Tribune. BOISE, Ida., March 5. Tho committee commit-tee that Is In chargo of tho preliminary work in connection with tho Government Govern-ment Irrigation project In the Bolso and Payctto valleys has roaohod tho point whero It is prepared to make a formal application to tho Government for aid. It has a very largo proportion of tho lands In the two valleys signed up, and at a mooting It has arranged to have all tho data put In form and tho necessary neces-sary application prepared and forwarded. for-warded. Tho Stata Land Board, on behalf of 60,000 acres of State land within the proposed pro-posed district, today adopted a roBolu-tlon roBolu-tlon pledging Itself to co-oparate In the work of the committoo In urging tho Government to take tho matter up. This project contemplates a great system of reservoirs and canals by mcano of which tho Irrigated area of the two valleys will bo increased from 100,000 ooreo to 885,000 acres. |