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Show Ac:ric:.n Pr.Hs Cml and . Porer Ccnpany. Will h Irrijate T5,0G0 Acres j of Ferlile Soil. ; Messrs. Evans, Curtis and Sweet, who ; ; are Interested in the reclamation of a (. j vast tract of land in Idaho, have made J Preparations to open offices in Salt , ; Lake this week, for the purpose of J handling all business pertaining to the J J ,1,ew Irrigation canals ' which they are J i constructing. - It is believed that with the opening 1 land watered by the American J i alls Canal and Power company, near I f Blackfoot. which these gentlemen rep-f rep-f r resent,' many farmer will be brought s to that part of the State. The land is 3 alor? the Snake river, opposite the Fort : Hall Preservation, and is considered the Diof7 fertile in the State. . ' I T.Tle tract ls within, eighteen miles of , PociteHo. and of the 75,000 acres reaped by - the" canal, no part Is un-, , suitable for farming. The company has ( . appropriated 130,000 inches of water, or 5 j about 3000 cubic feet per second. This will irrigate 240,000 acres'. j The land has sufficient slope to be 1 economically watered, and the soli is from one to fifteen feet in depth. Su- gar beets will yield abundant crops and small fruits attain perfection. The land is 4400 feet In elevation, about the same aa Salt Lake, valley, and the climate ls almost identical. The sale of each tract of land carries with it a perpetual water right. The Oregon Short Line crosses the northern part of the lands owned by the company-, and also the southern part near. American Falls. The Twin Falls Irrigation v Scheme Will Furnish Homes to Thousands of Farmers. . Nelson Bennett of the Nelson Bennett company, that has the contract for the construction of two canals on Snake river, in Idaho, was in the city yesterday yester-day on his way from San Francisco, i and reports the work on the big ditches to be going on satisfactorily. . There are 250 teams at work, as well as graders and - Improved machinery, i The river will be raised twenty-six feet by the construction of . a dam, which will throw the water into the canals. This work is under the supervision of Farris and Kesl. This canal will carry twice the volume of water that is carried car-ried by the Erie canal. It is 125 feet wide and carries ten feet of water. The canal ls twenty-five miles long, when it is reduced from time to time by laterals, lat-erals, which will water 240,000 acres of land. The entire length of the south canal ls sixty-five miles, and with the laterals will measure 200 miles. The north canal will be sixty feet wide and twenty-five miles long and with its laterals will irrigate 60,000 to 70,000 acres. Mr. Bennett says that all the land to be Irrigated is unusually good soil, and that the country will be quickly filled with progressive farmers. A new town is building at the intake of the canals, which is about twenty-five twenty-five miles above Twin Falls. |