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Show (hat erigain k10ject j idaho . stro:;gly rnanced BOISC IiU-. Aat- 7. Kuhn. Ub Ce. f New Tor, en of the areateat financial finan-cial IMtltotlone al the Vnlted Btatee. benln wklek atande J. Plerpont Morgan ami other (Treat flnanclera. haa taken over the Buhl Interests In the Irrlaatloa of Mt aoe ateree of tend loeated In the south-er south-er part of Idaho. This company pro-pom pro-pom the Irrigation of the entire trnrt. and the .expenditure of .o.ueo.ooo to goake Ita completion possible. The advent of Kuha. I0 Co. Into the Irrigation rield presented la the southern south-ern part of thle tat. Is coneldered the nwt Important event that has trana-nlr4 trana-nlr4 In thle eeotlon of Idaho (or nsanr yeera. due le the fact thai this gigantic pro)et. one of the largest. If not the Unreal In the world, means the employ-meat employ-meat of thousands of men for veral yeare and the ultimate cultivation of thousands of prosperoue (arms. Okeeklag Up starrer. The engineers of Kuhn. Loeb are now In the field actively engaged In checking over the eurvevs and estimates made by the engineera of the Plurtla, multimillionaires mul-timillionaires of Pittsburg, who made possible the Twin rails projects In thle atate. Approximately tlM.MM was ea-psnded ea-psnded on the preliminary work, including includ-ing (he eurvsya and eatfmatea of erufl-neera, erufl-neera, and the work waa executed by some of the moot eomptenl Irrigation englneera In the United Btatee. The entire eoo.soe ecres He between the Salmon river dam emuhweet of the , . , . Ts yeite eerth so wwbtw-e. distance of tlx mlleo east of Olenns retry. It Includes the bulk of a vast stpibruit deeert of volcanic ash located at the foot of the Idaho-Nevada divide, and extends north to the Rnake river, almosf aa far aa Buhl and west .towards the Bruneau project. The soil le declared de-clared to be the very richest In the Irrigated Irri-gated portion of the state. Great Great Kaaerrolr. . Included In the plana for the Irrigation R reject la the building of one of the irgeet reservoirs In the northwest. This will be located In the Snake river valley, beglnnlnc at American Falls and above the famous Mllner dam. Thle dam wilt be elevated fifty feet, backing the water of the Snake Into Ita own canyon and back almost to Idaho raile and close to the city e( Poeateiio. The Blaekfoot Indiana, now Included within what la known aa the rort Hall reservation aurroundlng Pocatello. own the bottom or meadow lands along the Snake river, which are to be Included In the bottom of the rerervolr, but they have agreed to accept a stipulated price of 10 an acre for the land, and will be moved beck onto hlxher benehee above the water wa-ter line, where they will be given other landa to cultivate. Thle action will do ewey with condemnation proceeding and greatly assist In the erection of the reservoir. res-ervoir. It wea made poeelble through agent of Kuha, Loeb di Co. |