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Show WILL RECLAIM IDAHO LAND, Canal to Be Built Which Win" Supply Water for 75,000 Acres. Seventy-five thousand acres of arid land will be reclaimed and opened for settlement in Idaho as the result of a deal which was consummated in Salt Lake City, Saturday last when th American Falls Canal & Power company com-pany finally concluded arrangements arrange-ments for the completion of its canal in Idaho. The contract was awarded to Lyman Skeen of Ogden for the construction con-struction of the entire canal system. The company's canal is taken out of the Snake river, about twelve miles above the town of Blackfoot, in Bingham Bing-ham county, and runs southwest fifty-eight fifty-eight miles. It terminates just below the American Falls. Blaine county, rctiere it discharges its surplus water back into the Snake river. The country that will be traversed by the canal is considered one of the -raant fcrtiio valloy-ftionir V;.o, rivep; and for years has been an object of envy to agriculturists. The canal Will be eighty-five feet wide at the-top, the-top, sixty feet wide at the bottom, and Capable. of. carrying- six feet of water, a river-of itself.- It will have tho nj. tacity -of, irrigating 75,000 acres'- of land. 57,000 acres of which have been set apart by the government of the-United the-United States and the state of Idaho for the benefit of parties who will first purchase water rights of the company. . |