Show MORE FROM minidoka MiNI DOKA the canals to water the project are of 0 two kinds gravity and the pump system all of 0 the north side at 0 the river will be ba watered by gravity canals and prospects are cic ellent tor for getting the water next spring on the south side of 0 the river a great deal of 0 the land can only oaly be watered by pumping the witter into a canal to tollow follow around the toot foot hills hilli the gravity canal has reached a point about twelve miles east of burley here they have encountered a bench running from the hills to the river the bench beach to Is about I 1 of 0 I 1 mile in width and in the center requires a out cut 29 26 feet deep it if once this cut Is 1 made I 1 believe the gravity canal will vill be several miles south of burley it if the out Is not made then practically all of the land south couth of the river will be under the pump system and wont get water until 1907 the surveyors have estimated the cost of water to be from 15 to 23 25 per acre the farmers pay this to lo ten annual installments no ko interest in fact they get the canal at cost and ten years time to pay tor for it the elevation of this valley is over feet leu leas than salt lake and today I 1 sampled some excellent water melons and can cantaloupes ta loupes raised within a mile ot of burley little drifts ot of sand that I 1 saw prompted me to inquire in regard to winds oh yes said my informant we do get a sand blizzard here once in a while however he continued we have only had bad one during the past six weeks the soil varies generally very tones loose and sandy bandy near the river and firmer towards the foothill III I 1 saw no clay and the soil is of an immense depth everywhere u Youcan you caroi rot and ad a pebble even in c digging diggin gai a well welt and found foundation alioa rocks will no do doubt have to be hauled from the hills concluded next week |