Show RECLAIMING IDAHO LANDS Mammoth Irrigation Project to Reclaim Re-claim 800000 Acres In Ada County Salt Lake CItA Tribune special from Boise Idaho says a mammoth irrigation project destined to reclaim a vast area of hagebinsh land directly tributary to Boise and in Ada county Increasing the valuation of the latter 50000000 within the next fifteen yeais was officially launched on Saturday Sat-urday The cost of the project Inclnd Ing a 3000000 dam 250 feet in height on the Boise river about twentylive miles above the city is estimated at from 18000000 to 20000000 and involves in-volves construction of seven miles of tunnel in the Sawtooth range where lie water supply will be obtained and ICO miles of main canal and pumping lines over the landus The project will be known as the Boise City and it is planned to en largo It on a gigantic scale to Include territory estimated at between 500 000 and 800000 acres The water right price is set at 100 per acre the highest In the history of the state The Buhls and Killing multimillion alre capitalists of the east are hackIng hack-Ing the deal financially Construction work will start within the presen year |