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Passive Impounder of Wa- ' . - j - . j BS1 r v ; , r, v'- " ter for Irrieation Purooses "3 " - 't II""" ' ' ' - T '" -! , s It BREWERIES CLOSED UP V ter ror irrigation rurposes fT. g a 1 1 k ,JjU- fi r,Ji , . uifjpi i il nn n n i nri-T-im-m 1 1 1 rntrnfi i i n in in .itlTlh iim i r Til" il qrr-TWiii'''rF-,g'onniPT1""1''""-"1'"1'" a uifl'giinnMMmwil giia Completed by 1'ederal 7v-- jk sr jpxv jiX7r z.ojtjd of izliso wzz jvsozzras punishment for Infraction nmrarncn;i 1QK l lunuuunuu a Gzzirpsr or j?4&r or EIG ARBQWeOCK II IS HIGHEST ; ' OFIIMil : passive Impounder of Wa-S Wa-S ter for Irrigation Purposes Completed by Federal Government in 1 9 1 5. P MASTERPIECE COST NATION $5,500,000 k". y - - Resultant Resei-voir Will Give Productivity to 243,- ; 000 Acres of Lard Trib- utary to Capital of State. t t There was finished near Boio in 1915 the Arrowrock dam, the highest in the world. The edifice is of concrete and is the masterpiece in enpineerin.ar of the I reclamation service. The impounded j water ' will irrigate 243,000 acres, tribu-j lary to Boi?p, and known a. the Boise j project. The dam stands 351 feet high i and is located in the Boise river can-1 yon between mountains a mile high. " '"Work was started on it four years ago. ! ' U was estimated tho cost would be S ? $7,000,000 and that five years would! : be required to erect it. It is a tribute '" to the reclamation wervico that it was I finished at $2,500,000 uuder the estimates esti-mates and in a year less than the estimated es-timated time. The lands it irrigates aro located sLty miles below it. Testimonial of the wise policy of the government in building this great dam is given on its completion. In. the saving of cropa and irrigation reputation reputa-tion of Idaho in this, t he driest ycaV almost in history here, its total investment invest-ment has been paid lek. H is only tho storage water behind it that saved thcrops of a vast territory, for the government was able to sell its water fur thirsty lands, th crops on wlmdi would otherwise have ieen ruined. Solid as Gibraltar. Anchored on solid cranire niutv feet below tho nortual river bed the dam h t a nd s like 0 i bv a h a r . To the eye it vises a t-iieer eyncret e a die A pier o 1 Jpet above the river. The eonori'to in it if piled in a column ten feet square y ould rise to a height of twenty-nine' miles. Tho interior contains throe complete com-plete galleries rummrg full leugih from mountain side to mouuiain side, in which possible lea knee will be en red for and from whi-h twenty outlet . 'i at es are cent relied. There aro :no:v 4 tops in it than in the lare heslelnes f in many cit ie;-. Due spiral stair v ay a lone is ei lu.y-tive feet Iii gh. Acro.-s its curved lop is a solid compete road-wa road-wa v si xt ceu feet w ide. 'Ih'.mderiu c: from its outlets, always uiiiiev p.erfe t I'onti'ol, is ibe normal tluw ut' a morn-lain morn-lain river. Towering ar.' lights on pedestals illuminate i-"- crest. 'The artificial mountain lake backing jt floods a canyon to a drptb oi leet for a distance of oiu'l'teen niles when -lied to its capacity. 'rider these atevs still stand Hooded farm buildings, orchards and f em-os, whb:h on clear davs are visible from 'ud im-tier im-tier the surface. Capacity Is Great. The eity of Boston wuiil be 'oy. M-cd to a dopih of eight f-c;" i-unid r he ai fi's oi" vh is re.-er e;,r tl'V'1'! o it, TO" it eapaeitv i l11" a--re-1'. If this iluid were sjread 'e:- lee! I ground it Would cover 2 4. 4,300 acres a i foot deep. The Boise project nroper was segre-' pated from the pubfic domain some years ago. An idea of tho topography of the southern Idaho country should be gained to appreciate the task the reclamation service had before it to successfully work oat a plan by which its lands could be irrigated. The great Hnake river finds its source in the Teton mountains on the border elevations eleva-tions of the Idaho-Montana line. It flow- in a southerly direction into the eastern Idaho basin, makes a sweeping sweep-ing curve west and slightly north, crossing cross-ing the entire southern portion of the state, a distance of over 300 miles, and continues on as it bends north to the Columbia river into which it empties. emp-ties. So it drains a vast basin. The Boise river is one of its tributaries in the western part of the state. From the Snake and its tributaries level and plalV-an lands once the homo of the jack rabbits and coyotes, have been reclaimed re-claimed until the basin has become a rich agricultural belt. Bridles Bois River. The Boise river has its source in the Boise mountains to the east and north I of the' city by that name. Boise itself is baidted'against the foothills of these mountains. The river, after cutting its way through 'deep .canyons, flows onto t he valley below, which spreads out to the south at the feet of tho city. This plain is -made up of the Boise valley proper and aVeries of bench lands rising ris-ing and dropping a-way to the Snake river valley. Jt is this area that forms the Boise '.project, dotted with several impprtanr cities and towns, including Boi.e, the capital of the state. Nam pa and Caldwell. They form a triangle by a connecting interurban system. Meridian Me-ridian and K una are two smaller villages on tho project. The Oregou Short Line raihoadj part of the Union Pacific system, sys-tem, shuts the southerly boundary and is the principal avenue of transportation. transporta-tion. Sait Lake, Portland and Omaha are the main outside market depots. When the project was first started a system of deep, wide canals were constructed con-structed and a diversion, dam thrown across the Boise river a short distance above Boise, diverting water into what is known as the New York canal, virtually virtu-ally an artificial river. It was carried a distance of thirty-five miles over the valley, distributing the fluid to those settlors actually uu iauds, and storing t lie surnlus in what is k nown as Deer Fbt reservoir, near- Caldwell., It soon horaiiie apparent, however, that ad-uiii.mal ad-uiii.mal watr was needed. The desire :ev increase.! storage capacity was iar'h-vr iar'h-vr to the thought and the Arrowrock dam was located. That was four vears a-'o. " I I Is Indian Isame. I The site jor this "imr.'.ease ..am was sa- j lee ted at what U known Arrowrock,) a towering spi::il oi .-heer g-auiic rising above i he i ver cai.yon and tweut miles n'-iovc Boise. The rock gained it? name from ihi habit of ear y Indian tribes shooting arrows into the'hbrh pinnacle pin-nacle to indicate the direction thev were fawiiig to others of their tribe.-" Tests 1 were made by rc.damation enyinee:s and the site de.-.arcd feasible. An appro- priotion was securer to earrv on "the! construction, a large government camp I was instable:!, together' with machinery iiiekalivii? s'.eam shovels, and a raurcad was built to the camp. Like magic the government town of Arrowrock 'sprung up. The Boise river was diverted'fro-u its regular channel by a tunnel bored through solid rock at the side; a corYer-daui corYer-daui was built, leaving rhe river bed dry. and e.ca a lions we re madi3 tor a nlid rock foundation, to which rhe dam w.-ts an. hored. r w a completed at the) prh-o of a modem ba:;Ie-hip. The dam 1 is 1100 feet long, 240 feet wido at the base arid tapering to sixteen feet at tlu top. Arrowrock, the government town, has faded into history, but Arrowrock Ar-rowrock dam remains a monument to engineering. The impounded water is stored in the fall, winter and spring, when the floods can be collected. It is held until un-til the latter part of the irrigation sea-sou, sea-sou, when it is allowed to pass back into the river below the dam and is carried on to the diversion dam fifteen miles below. There it is run into the New York canal and taken on down to the lands below. Lands Homesteacled. The project will be officially opened with the -dedication. But the opening does not mean there will be anv great amount of public land thrown open to be filed upon. In fact there will be I less than 1000 acres. Settlers were I permitted to homestead these lands un- der the reclamation act early in eighty. ! acre tracts or units, and "they nave I been so content with their entries that : they have held ami improved their ! lauds. Of the 243,000 acres, 1S,U00 j acres,, of land of tho New York Canal I company is included and 36.000 acres of so-called doubtful land. 'Excluding the 36,000 acres of doubtful land there is left 207,000 acres, 07,000 acres of which has been entered or filed upon, 402 acres withdrawn from entry, 15,721 acres of state school land and 122. 5o6 acres of private lands. The school lands when sold bring better t hp n their appraised value. They cannot be sold for less than $10 au acre and have been sold as high as $5 an acre. They are considered of the best and are purchased pur-chased on a foity-year payment plan, $10 down, the balance payable in forty years with interest on deferred payments pay-ments of ti per cent. The private lands can also be purchased at reasonable figures. Climatic conditions are ideal over the entire project plenty of sunshine for which south Idaho is famous, and rain for maturing crops at the will of the farmer, for Idaho rain is artificial through irrigation ditches. All of the lands have an elevation of 2500 feet above the sea lev. The average annual an-nual rainfall is 13.5 inches. The average av-erage range of temperature is from 2S to 07 degrees and :'.ero weather is very rare. The irrigation r-onon is from April 1 to October 31 '-'1 ! day. Nature of Soil. The soil is- clay loa.m, lignt snudy loam and sandy loam. Ir. is 'considered very rich, forv.od as it is from a volcanic vol-canic ash, and having the . i.ecessary qualities to mho crop yield abunca r.t. Thi principal crops are aif.'d:'a ; throe cuttings), wheat, oats, baric. potatoes po-tatoes and all egeval des, i ogt ; h :r v;')j f frits., including al l ies, prno.-. j eahc-. pears, apricots, and o;aii j i;i 1 1 of all va rietie. Gra ' s yield ir i thirty to tif'v rnhcU to The acre for wheat, while oats often go higacr than thai. The lands in the project, and '.he' older Ian. U knrderk.g on it foriu an ex:e..ive fruit l"d: where, apples of the ehou-est l arkeicl -.v:o:ic- ;:"e sciaii-ed as rhe do;.. ' ;-. l.'omc fv. auty. jd rimes Golden, . 1 . . They a : e a 1 a p 1 g ( r o p each year. ;i:e trees bor.viiig abundantly. abundant-ly. Prune, have uevor 1 4-en known to rail and have made ': sccron famous. The rarer fruits pro 1""- 0 rmarkr :y . There were 03, 130 a.-rs of iar.d in the oroject und-M- cul ;-:i.n this yen-". This year the- to: : a a to; cA a ! ''n-tion ''n-tion of between !.," d.,i,o and s2,-OOO.OOf. s2,-OOO.OOf. A a dairy s ti.-:i the r.roi?-: :a:;d and western Ik;i;u is rapit.lv nr--o".i:"j one of the bc-t :: :.ovn. ,g m the ' vnrable climaiic coietious and :.if;i;:a yiehd, wdiile oi ti s to, - t.:ri ve;, 1 |