| Show J MANY f RECLAMATION PROJECTS IN IDAHO IDAnO BOISE Ida Aug 8 So So prominently does tho the reclamation matlon of or tho the arid arld lands figure In Sn the tho present history of ot Idaho that It Jt has been pr practically Impossible for forthe forthe the last latt few weeks to pick up a local paper which does not contain some In Interesting Interesting interesting In- In news concerning either a vast expanse being brought Into cultivation or the tho development of or one of or the older projects Following are some of or tho the most Important events In connection with the reclamation of ot desert lands w which ich have occurred recently The Black canyon canon district has filed In the United States land offiCe an application for right of or way for Us its canal system s the main canal of which will be forty orty miles In length The tract to be IrrIgated covers about acres and lies les twenty miles west of this city between be be- tween weon tho the BOise Bolso and Payette Fayette rivers dyers This land and W was ts originally Intended to be Included ed In the Pa Bolge-Pa Boise Fayette etto project coming within the reclamation act but the tho plan was abandoned abandond by the government on account of ot the expense The settlers then organized the Black Block canyon canon Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion district and on August 3 were voted such by tho the county commissioners The water to bo be used on the tho and Jand will be beaken betaken betaken taken aken from tram the tho Payette Fayette river near Horseshoe bend diverting It Jt to the lands by y means of a a. canal Already has been expended by the new company compan In surveys and securing rights of Wa way and under tho the present plan It Is estimated that hat the water rights will sell at from front 50 to 60 per par share Notification has been received In the state land office from the tho secretary of ot the InterIor that the application or the Thousand Thousand Thou Thou- sand Springs Land Irrigation company for or segregation under the Caroy Carey act has been approve approved and tho the contract executed exe cute The proposed project Is located In Custer duster county and has an acreage of ot acres A larg Irrigation project wilt will be In Installed Installed installed In- In stalled In Blame Blaine county count If It the state land I board x ard acts favorably upon the application application application tion of or the Little Lost River Land Irrl Irrigation atlon company compan for the selection of lands ands under the provisions of ot tho Carey I act Tho The selection asked for tor contains acres all aU In Blame Blaine county Propositions Propositions for tor the tho construction of ot the necessary necessary necessary sary Irrigation works subject to the In Inspection Inspection In- In of the state engineer arc are also lied filed If the application Is granted ranted It Is planned to begin work within six months and to havo have tho the reservoir and canals completed within a years year's time The Little Lost river will furnish the water and the cost of water rights are estimated not to exceed 40 per acre Tho The project which has s been engineered by the Welser Weiser Land Water company and which represents an expenditure of or has Just been completed within this week and will furnish water for tOr the Mesa Council-Mesa orchard twenty-five twenty miles north of ot Council This new system Is also of Inestimable value to the tho surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding country as the tho city of Wel Welser Weiser er which has hIlS been suffering for tor water has bought Inches of at water from the company which was as turned In to tho the elt city on So 80 welcome Is It that the advent of ot the mountain water was the occasion of ot a city Jubilee The wat water r was let out of tho the company's reservoir through a Inch 48 valve and Inere Increased tho the flow of at the he river five fold when It had mingled with It n The flume line o of this system Is seven soven miles mlle m In len length th arising from the middle fork tork of the river and carries the water across acrons the Council valley at a height of ot feet above tho the Ilan land One hundred and thirty tour patents to Care Carey Caroy act lands In the Twin Falls South Side Land Water company have been Issued b by the tho the state land Jand board In Its Us recent session Tho The patents were Just secured from th the department of the Interior last week conveying to the stats state several hundred acres under this project and these have havo In turn been Issued to the until the full quota has been exhausted Patents for tor tho the remaining settlers have havo been asked for by the register of at the land board and also patents patents patents pat pat- for the thc American Falls project As AsIt AsIt Asit It consumes some time In the tho securing of at these the grow very ery Impatient Impatient Im Im- im- im I patient to receive them A de decision received by the register of the United States land office concerning an original entry which was false being assigned to the second party has been the cause of at some discussion and tho the settlement of ot an Interesting question This caso case was one near Mountain Home and belongs to tho the lands hands Included In th the tha fraud cases there As In the other entries entries en en- tries the original one was declared fraud fraudulent and ordered canceled but tho the as assignee as a.- signee being an Innocent party was al at- at lowed to make entry In his own name The parties to the caso case were Effie Effle Flewell and Charles E. 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