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Show MILLIONS TO BE SPENT ON GREAT IRRIGATION PROJECT IN IDAHO y Twenty-two million dollars Is tho 3um of money to bo expended upon another great Irrigation project In Idaho. This will bring 600,000 additional addi-tional acres of tillable land Into productiveness pro-ductiveness In Twin Falls and Owyco counties. A great dam across Snnko rlvor at American Falls is to bo built to im-poind im-poind and consorvo spring flood waters wa-ters in a gigantic natural recvoir, whoto waters will cover 65,000 acics of ground. To convey these stored waters ou-to ou-to 600,000 acres of fertile lanl jn Twin Falls and Owyco counties a concretellncd canal 140 miles long Is to bo built from tho town of Cephas to Uruncauf river, this conduit to bo an extension of tho south canal in tho great Twin Fall? irrigation project. pro-ject. Tho rum of J22.000.000 Is estimated estimat-ed to'bo tho cost o! tho now project, $8,500 bbO of which must bo expended expend-ed in concreting tho new canal as a slng'o item In tho disbursements, breat Empire Reclaimed An agricultural amplro is being bioubt Into cultivation by means of tbo 'miucnso Twin Falls irrigation piojec't. By wator distributed tncoish Uio north canal already operating tbo area reclaimed Is 240,000 acres in extent On tho south canal 320,000 acres aro being put into tho producing produc-ing class. Thorugh tho proposed Brueau extension of tho south canal 600,000 acres moro will bo brought under cultivation. This will mako Continued on Pago 2. MILLIONS TO BE SPENT ON 6REAT IRRIGATION PROJECT IN IDAHO (Continued from pago one) tho total acrcago come up to 1,060,000 acres of tilled and Irrigated ground. I. II: Perrlno of Twin Falls, Idaho and W. D. Brown of Rexburg, In the samo state, havo Just returned from Washington D. C, whero they havo been consulting with government reclamation officials and hydrogruph-lc hydrogruph-lc experts relating to the now project and they como back hero with the announcement that execution of plans for tho great entcrprlso Is assured. as-sured. Tho project has been financed according to Information given out, and necessary co-operation on tho part of tho government has been secured. se-cured. To Dam Snake River "Our enterprise Is a great one," said Mr. Perrlno at tbo Ho'cl Utah last evening. "In tho first place, wo propose to erect a big dam across the Snako river at American Falls wblc will Impound and conacrvo tho Bering flood waters of that great stream In a natural reservoir that will extend from American Falls nearly to Black-foot, Black-foot, and which will mako a lako covering cov-ering 65,000 acres of ground. "We Intend to utilize the natural bed and stream of tho Snako ilvcr to convoy these reservolrcd waters to the dam at Mlllncr, at which point aro tho present intakes of the north nnd south canals In tho great Twin Falls irrigation project. The bcuth canal of this project runs out west from Millner to near tho western edgo of Twin Falls county, turning north nt tho town of Cephas. It U at this latter point that wo propoao to begin our new extension, which Is to bo 140 miles long and to run out over an lmmenso acrcago !n Owyeo county. Includes Immense Area "This extension will .'r.lgate C00,-000 C00,-000 acres of good ground that at pro sent lies ldlo for want of water. In tho district covered by tho north canal can-al already In commission, the acreage acre-age served is 240,000 acres. The fcou-th fcou-th canal, which also Is In service, brings Into agricultural use 220,000 acres more of ground. The Bruncau extension, which wo will soon proceed pro-ceed to build, will bring under cultivate culti-vate 600,000 acres more of good lnnd. Under tbo entire Twin Falls project, as now In operation and to bo In service ser-vice when tho extension shall ho completed, a total of 1,020,000 acres will yield agricultural products for tho stato of Idaho. "Unless ono should tnko the trouble, troub-le, nnd tho pleasure to look over that vast area, ho can scarcely realize tho fact that It constitutes practically practical-ly an agricultural empire that Is being be-ing nddbd to tho productlvo acreage of tho United States. S. L. Tribune. |