Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-24 | Page 12 | Prospects Bright for Irrigation

PROSPECTS BUT FDR IRRIGATION j Plan Proceeding to Re- claim Big Land Area in Southwestern Idaho. Special to The Tribune. TWIN FALI..S, Idaho, Nov. 23. That prospects for tho building of the Bruneau irrigation project to reclaim a half-million acres of arid lands in southwestern Idaho wero never so favorable as they are at' j tho present tinif with the national government gov-ernment turning its attention toward" the problem of pioviding employment and ! homes for the men returning from European Euro-pean battlefields, is the opinion expressed I here Friday afternoon by Governor-elect 1). W. Davis of American Kails, at a eon-1 eon-1 ferenee with a score of representative citizens of the county. Mr. Davis stated Ihnl, because of the probability, that he could further the clailm of this project at that time, he had determined to attend the meeting of governors gov-ernors and governors-elect of the several states to be held in Washington or Annapolis An-napolis in December. During the conference here the 'subject of the proposed reorganization of the state game department was discussed nt length. A motion was adopted declaring it the desirevof the citizens present that provision provi-sion should be made by the next session of the legislature for game commissions to be organized in each county to exercise exer-cise direct supervision over the game laws and to advise with the state game commission in respect to measures applicable ap-plicable to each locality.