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Show IDAHO RECLAMATION PROJECT APPROVED Costs $11,000,000 and Adds Nearly Half to Value of Farm Property. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. Dec 27 -The Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior today approved the Fayette-Bolse project In Idaho, providing for the Irrigation of r.TV.uOO acres at nn estimated cost of $11,000,000. or $30 an acre. Senator Dubois, who him need the approval approv-al of this project, lei much gratified. He estimate 11 win jdtl 42 per cent to 1 he value of farm property and 37 per cent n the gross Income of farms ln Idaho. Change Face of Natu!. The pluns provide for some remarkable changes In the physical conditions of the valleys. Great dams In the Payette and Boise rivers will store the floods of these Streams. From the former stream a broad canal, running along a line of foothills foot-hills and pai-sing through the divide between be-tween the rivers, will carry the surplus flow of the Payette river Into the valley of the Boise. Here a network of canals and ditches, many of which are now in operation, will furnish water to nearly 500 square miles of country. |