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''t-?- sv 1 - lis'2t1----I- '' Jr r - r - -- - - - C'' ''S'': N ' t it: ' 11 - - ‘ t It- 4 4 0 :' - s tl ""' a7144roi''14' 44 T1'li '1 kid" N"‘ -- ' - 46"Plt - 4 14 Wfr'qk '''" '‘404I?1 6-- r - - 6 t ---- - '' s r - - s Q'' ' '4- io-'- 4 :' sii its mission the water moves through modern Completing syphons and courses down the individual rows of crops - - Almost to its the water clicks the upper end of the field and very soon will reach the growing plants s V‘ m - - a eseris Blossom cls the Rosé Recicimed From Wilderness ' ter for aintoprogress a reclamation movement will work has transformed the Intermounout a basis for successfully exI 1 tain Empire garden spot principally through contending the program of water servation storage and utilization of natural water resources conservation and utilization in A program of irrigation and reclamation launched shortly the western states Development plans (of the great river after arrival of the Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley has g basins) of the required magniTown into a system of reservoirs and canals that tude can be executed efficiently acres water to millions of carry only if the responsible agencies 731m1per crops result and qual have knowledge of the funds ity products from western farmsis may be designated by they may expect over a period aystems lands go to America's markets I hope your associaof years the of the interior secretary in the form of fresh and proction and western groups other costa to a over be with repaid water-utteressed fruits and vegetables can work out a means of provids of by years period project These are grown on 5680000 ing that the reclamation strucThus IV born the bureau averts of crop land in Utah Idaho tures already begun are comof reclamation Several Wyoming and Nevada soon and for developing pleted has It constructed riojectaadditional irrigated acres our western river basins on a 4500supplying approximately scale which will meet the recomprise pasture lands upon 000 acres with adequate water thousands of head of sheep hydro-electri- c quirements of the nation" installations with and cattle thrive and fatten more Idaho with the largest irriof 2000000 kilowatts than will rroyect wroch ultimately faciliflood and control acreage of the mountain gated capacity place other rnilflons of acres of states 2277857 has five addities which eliminal" millions of land under arid rulpresent day tional projects authorized for dollars of damage when rivers twation are under construction has These are: PaliIt construction rampages stage spring or scheduled for irtclusion in the e devvhich will prosades for reservoir programs e program of western vide supplemental water for of water and power velopment agricultural development resources of great river basins 850000 acres of land in the 0 of the west including the ColurnSnake River valley a full supply' Nis Snake and Colorado to a new block of land and The of coop- necessity piOnter THE tive effort to grow adeLahonton basin covering moat support a 30000 kilowatt power of Nevada and the Bonneville plant Fayette division of the quate food brought reclamation basin covering Utah and parts Boise project will bring irrigato the west At first water was of Idaho and Wyoming have constructed by the war depart diverted from streams to nearby and you leaders in the national merit on the Boise river for farms As colonization &Tread more becarrie difficult and It expensive to brirg water longer THE RECLAMATION PICTURE distances to new land Neighbors grouped together to conIdaho Utah Wyoming Nevada struct ditches for their common IA v e ater rage use apportionIng the water so delivered per acquired arnong themselves and 41 acre irrigate) cf 23 32 20 snaring the expense of construction maintenance and repair As additional areas on higher Merage investlands were settled the cost of ment per acre ' constructing these canals be$4501 $3562 $2285 $2793 irrigated came too great for individual or so irrigation cornrrunity effort Irrigated proporcompanies and corporations were tion of state land crgarrized to supply necessary area per cent '17 21 11 36 water These either charged users art annual rental fee or soid them water rights outright Irrigated propor still later irrigation districts of tion land avere formed empowered to con4 6 123 farm 184 200 pet struct or purchase facilitiex reeded for watering the land Irrigated area Boards of directors elected by to bucredited the lardowners supervised and reclamareau of directed distribution of water tion acres 200078 1187353 154048 69343 and continue this system today on rnary projects throughout the Includes irrigated pasture lands west The "Carey act" of 1E94 Statistics from 16th census of the United States further stimulated irrigation by 1910 permitting arid states to withdraw from public domain not to exceed 1000000 acres stipulatbeen surveyed and recommendalion to 25000 acres of new land ing that provision must be made tions made for future develop- for supplying it with adequate and provide additional water to ment Involving expenditure of water A few years later it was 83750 acres in the Emmett valhundreds of millions of dollars apparent that costs of reclaimley Anderson Ranch darn will ing large areas of the arid west provide supplemental water for avas beyond the reach of private Boise valley and the 320000-acr- e S :TRThe federal governr-vDTtESIDENT tt a will have enterprise U' ert MAN told the last convenstepped into the picture in power plant Lewiston Orchards 1C2 by passage of the 17nite1 tion of the National IleclamatIon will rehabilitate a distribution States Reclamation act" This I am confident ansociation: " system serving 2900 acres and Trovidrd for construction by the that my representatives from water to 400 acres of new bring the department of the interior government of suCh irrigation land Lucky Peak darn being A Ca-NTT:11- far-flun- life-givi- ng ELA is-hi- ch long-rang- long-rang- Ilk 0 total r - 40500-kilowa- 1 flood controland irrigation also: may 'provide additional 1)ower Five other projects in Idaho have been recommended for early authorization These would irrigate 233250 acres of new land provide supplemental wa- ' ' - a a p acres and increase hydro-electrpower capacity by 163000 kilowatts to meet the regions growing needs - -- 7' t - 1 8760 dit4t $ t 4 ' - v e '"kr:--:1-4"gp- 1 Ittitl----- "':'''''' 4 AIIIIO' "i ic :: I ' i ' - -- - '' t in Wyo- AAJOR isdevelopment on the Shoshone and Riverton projects Completion of scheduled work will result in opening approximately 90000 acres of new land for home- i' t gation for Potential development Utah within the next 10 to 15 years as outlined by the bureau of reclamation would require construction of 12 projects which would bring 294460 acres of new land under irrigation and provide supplemental water for 320030 more These are covered in the Bonneville Basin which also would program benefit 77930 acres of new land with supplemental water for 118050 acres in Idaho and Wyoming Greatest single effort contemplated is the Central Utah project designed to add 113000 acres of new land to the state's Irrigated area with supplemental water to 300000 more Besides being one of the great water control projects of the world the Central Utah development would provide a wealth of new hydro-electrpower for the area Plants with installed capacity of 414500 kilowatts and generating 1915000000 kilowatt hours of power annually are set up in the survey Potential development in the Lahontan basin lying principally in Nevada in the Truckee Carson and Walker river valleys would bring 59500 acres of new land under irrigation and provide 69980 acres with suppleHydro-electr- ic mental water plants with an installed capacity of 145500 kilowatts are pro- 7 ' 4 a ' '':-4- 0 ' i -- i I - e ' 3: i :! t- wiekTcl- ' N4 rofie -2r: ' 14-1A'- ''' r ' 4'1 ""i'Ll :t 7') '! 0 4 40 s '‘ " '0'" tr Agricultural development of the west in the span of a lifetime has made it one of America's most productive regions Its potential resources are beyond estimation just beginning to be realized Quite different from the description of the west chronicled by Washington Irving in his account of the Hunt party of the Astor expedition in 1811 He wrote: "It Is a land where no man ' 4" - i - 4 we- l trre- 0 -- ''' f ! 4r i : -i - r: 4t--- 'W1 ''''- - - ' v'7 - - 1 T r ---t ' i:tre 4 "It::"- t V - '' - -- - f I r: 4 - 4t- :" " - - ' '':! 1t' itr-- " - ''' ' - ' ''' 'NI0100017 ' ' - ' '!" 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S 4--:- 41 - t — 42" fertile acres producing bumper crops on this western land reclaimed from the wilderness in the span of a lifetime 4 - - i- permanently resides: a vast uninhabited solitude with precipitous cliffs and yawning ravines looking like the ruins of a world vast desert tracts that must ever defy cultivation and interpose dreary and thirsty wilds between the habitations of man" ic posed 1rr - e t lkiliMA610 i-- ' r: -- 4:'!)t - 1 i'' t 4 Or Ltyl-'r-'- t I 1 3 i01' 1'44 Iv : "V '' ? '''''''' : -- S- - L- mr- it-- 01 1 i k ir-r-- '4 ! A?:'"' -- 4 A 'Atiir' 4' - 7!6 - '' 1 :' '7:::"'-- ' -- - r iv 4A111 - '' t0tt'lit t ' : 4 r 'f' - i ' e 4 -- 0 : r'' i '' 0'- - :" ' ' " '' e:3::''''''' 4 :" 7 I "wr44 ' ir' -- !:F---- :t ''' ' ''''' '' ': 4 : 4' - -- :r ii 7 7: : - - 24t4 r kir' -- - :t- r-14- 1 - '- :t:-- 11 -- - '''''- :'''::--:- A A'-- - '' - t :-- 4 - ''' 'd 2-' - ' !" 1 '''''': - - i ' ' --:-' ' '' : r7 - - 3 Funds alto stead settlement are provided for work on a number of units of the Missouri Basin project- - including Boysen Dam Owl Creek Keyhole Paintrock Shoahone Project extension Clark's Fork Big Horn Pumping and Powder River In Utah work progressing on the Provo River (Deer Creek) and the Ogden River projects will bring a stabilized supply of water to more of the state's 1176116 acres now under irri- t' : ' ': '' : owes RECLAMATION inE Idaho Rockwell who allied himself to the group fighting for construction of the great American Falls reservoir and saw that historic struggle through to the end—and victory The project was about to be abandoned in the depression days following World War an-I chiefly because settlers on other Idaho reclamation area were delinquent in their payments Rockwell fought through to Senator Borah to the top of the reclamation bureau the departmerit of the interior arid up to the president himself to finally resucceed in having instated Rockwell long active In mining financial and educational circles' in Idaho tells the story of that fight In a recently pubthe-projec- t lished well documented book "The Saga of American Falls Dam" HdrilessJn:':he:Colót046: nEVELOPMENT of the Colo" rado river to its full poten- tialities for irrigation hydroelectric power and flood control Is the ultimate aim of the bureau of reclamation and the states of its upper and lower basins To this end numerous federal state and local governmental agencies have cooperated on a report outlining 134 projects and units of projects they deem feasible However there is not enough water available in this great river system for full expansion of existing and authorized projects and for all the potential projects outlined in the bureau It is of reclamation report certain however that progressive development of the Colorado will add thousands of new acres to the west's irrigated s furnish supplemental area water for other thousands of acres and provide new power for increasing industrial and home consumption Ultimate development is designed to use beneficially all the waters of the Colorado available to the United States The bureau has presented for con sideration ill potential projects or units of projects mostly mulA hundred of tiple purpose these are in the upper and 31 Average annual rainfall: Inches 1330 Utah 1816 Idaho 1418 Wyoming 905 Nevada Irrigated acreage from which crops are harvekted In the Intermountain area: Utah Idaho Wyoming Nevada Total 1176116 2271857 1486498 739863 5680334 Bureau of census 1940 in the lower basin Estimated construction costs figured on aprewar basis call for $1471227200 in the upper basin and $089270000 in the lower basin a total of $3460497200 The over-al- l plan would bring 1230960 acres of new land under cultivation in the upper basin and furnish supplemental water to another 504170 acres visualizes 29 potential power with projects in the upper basin1713an installed capacity of 000 kilowatts and 9 new plants for the lower basin with Installed capacities of 1945400 kilowatts It !and in the Colorado $1 to $5 an acre Improved and irrigated it would be worth' $75 to $300 an acre Reclaiming of 1500- 000 acres would possibly add more than a quarter billion dollars to taxable values An increase in gross crop income estimated at $65000000 Ls anticipated in feed for livestock Conversion of this to beef mutton hides ' wool and poultry would greatly add to the gross The availability of abundant low-coelectric power would stimulate industry and would be a source of fuel and energy in homes factories &lid railroads It also would be instrumental in c:eveloping and processing the region's metals and chemicals including fertilizers and coal and oil shales A ItA13111 11 river basin is worth st 4b I - -' Z -- - i - - -- '” & a )441 a a a 17 8 "gr - a - N- I' 1Pw?'!'" z i -- ' - N"'" - 41 4 b - 4 -4 A -- ''''"'''4144-- - - it- - 0' — :i 741e( t 44- - f It F ! 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