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Show PROJECTS 1ST ; FEBEIiJlClI Success of Bruneau Undertaking Under-taking Is Now Believed Possible. RnvUl to The Tribune. "'pOCATKl.LO, Idaho. Cot. 0. Major Kred K. Reed, executive secretary of Up-Idaho Up-Idaho Reclamation association, is back al his office iti this city after an ext-ndovi stiiy in Boiso. whfie ho oon.iuoud a hoo'h rti tho state fair, taiked reclamation to tho 1,0,000 visitors -vho attoiuKHi the fair, and distributed litoraiuro dealing' with the T.r.ter question in the west. ye-rdins' the Bruneau project, interest in which has aain been revived, Major Kfv.1 t,Uit Ilie Pi'oposition looks Ktvei-ahle. This is a project in which Thi- federal so'ermnent. t lie state of Idaho "id private interests are concerned, and. r.ti-en the project goes throng!:, it will be iloi'.e thoroughly, said Major P.ecd. Mis-nkes Mis-nkes in the past in putMng througli Carey act projects will prove profitable in the future, and further mis-takes will be avoided, he declared. While the Idaho Heclamat ion a ssocia-ticn ssocia-ticn is not. favoring any one individual prefect, but is working- for I he best interests in-terests of the state as a whole. Major Heed indicated last niht that the association asso-ciation wid approve the Bruneau project if It is passed upon favorably by the federal fed-eral government and the state. When project receives the approval of these i.fjencies, there will be no further question to the success of the undertaking, and no concern that cannot positively show that it is financially able to complete a project will be given a chance to work it, in the opinion of the reclamation asso- , cintion official. 'Hie company that wants to build the project is headed by E. T. Meredith of l'es Moines. Iowa, a director of the federal fed-eral reserve banking" system and recently r:'.ined president of the Publicity Bureau of the World at a New Orleans couven- . tion. While the project involves an ex- ! penditure of between $50.000.0n and $iU,- ! O'tf.OoO. Idaho officials are confident that if Mr. Meredith and associates undertake j the project they will be able to complete i it. The area involved, aggregates C40,000 acres. It is estimated that the company already has spent in the neighbornood of I .:&. 000 on the project in preliminary 1 work and the payment of heavy filing fees. I. B. Perrine of Twin Falls is at the head of the field activities. E. H. Ievey, -capitalist of Nampa, and Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Governor C. C. Moore, besides other Ha ho men, are interested in the Bruneau project. The Upper Snake River valley will not -be affected by the taking of water for the Bruneau project, and Governor D. "W. Davis is said to be thoroughly assured of this fact, as he is determined to safeguard safe-guard every section of the state. The Rater to be stored for use in irrigating the Bruneau tract now runs to waste, and :or the past eight years the aggregate volume of water that runs over the Miiner clam each season is 4.50'00O acre feet, fit is estimated that the Bruneau project", f-vhen completed, will require 1, $00, 000 Score feet, which still leaves an unused 700,000 acre feet to distribute among the present water systems in the state and toevelop other fea sible projects. AVaters tot the Yellowstone lak and other un-;tievelo;ed un-;tievelo;ed water sources ot" easrern Idaho 'v.ill take care of the needs of the Dubois project. In speaking of the Bruneau project last bight. Major Reed said: "It is the beginning be-ginning of a big forward movement in F the state of Idnho. The state Is mighty fortunate in sectiriner the interest of such a man as Mr. Meredith, and that he is able to back his word in regard to the development of the big- project in which he has become interested, is beyond ciues-tion." |