Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-19 | Page 3 | Government Helps Gem State Farmers

GOVERNMENT HELPS GEM STATE FARMERS BL.ACKFOOT, Idaho, June IS. Theoretically, Theo-retically, the Snake river at Blackfoot is loday a dry bed. Actually, however, there are i 2.0'0 cubic ftet of water passing pass-ing in its 750-foot channel, released from the Jackson lake government reservoir. One year ago today the river measured at Lilctckfoot its highest mark of recorded flow for thirty years. Ky close management, rotation and by deferred use of 100.000 acre feet of reser-voired reser-voired water from the government by ; local irrigation companies, nearly normal crops will tie harvested in this vicinity.