Deseret Evening News | 1905-09-23 | Page 1 | Progress of the Payette Boise Irrigation Project

PROGRESS OF THE PAYETTE BOISE IRRIGATION PROJECT hoard Board of Consulting Engineers Will Meet in October to Plans Plane cud aud Decide 01 on out Future to ta the News Washington I D C Sept Engi Engineers nests In charge chAree of oC the project In southwestern Idaho dahn have hue mails mado Much progress 8 with lIb the tho preliminary preliminary nary work stork Irk that th the board of ff consulting engineers ts 0 will III unset meet some time In 0 Oc Or October tuber tober to consider plans and decide on future arrangements About acres mire are Irrl Irrigated gated I fill In iii this thin section but plans for tOl this the lull full development ot of the n natural r resources re resources sources of ot the valley alley which will under tinder this project are of ot such suh magni magnitude tude AS iii to be beyond th the reach of corn com community effort trott The estimated cost ot o of nC tim th the entire I 1 Is nearly and the tha completed works ork will lIui supply ply wilIer water t r to 10 a approximately sues acrel of land I On Out account of ot the Ute restricted con dillon nf of thu available reclamation fund however a portion of ot th this the project has hili been selected ted which though only an nn Integer of the he whole hole will shih yet et b be corn com complete pIete In la project In Itself The secretary of or the therefore has baa set aside 1000 with whirl which to 10 construct work ark by which acres ores will be benefited and stud liaise valleys talleys y constitute one oils of ot the most molt attractive sections attIle atthe at of the tIle weft west Progress fOK in n agriculture In Inthis inthis this vicinity k in the put past few fn years sears sail and th the consequent nl growth of the adja adjacent cent ent nl towns furnish in nn fOX excellent Xi clIent exam xam example pIe of time result o of Irrigation and give promise of und n wonderful In hut the future