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Show UU CONCRETING OF CANAL IN IDAHO IS PLANNED Salt Lake. Oct. 28 Since the Kuhm; are about to be discharged from the receivership in Pittsburg, plans art-being art-being laid for the concreting of practically prac-tically thirteen miles of big ditch on the Twin Falls North Side project according to W illiam McGlnnis of Jerome, Je-rome, Idaho, who is at the Wilson Tho big dam for the North Side tract is located al Mllner. thirteen miles away from Jerome, where the sforaee reservoir is located. It was figured out by the state engineer of Idaho and by engineers employed by the Kuhns that over 33 per cent of the water which was turned out of the Mllner dam was lost by evaporation and seepage before It got into thfl storage reservoir, at Jerome, accord Ing to Mr. McGinnls "The plan to concrete the canal between be-tween Mllner and Jerome would be a boon to North Side farmers.'' said Mr MrClnnis "There are many thousand acres of land adjoining the North Side tract which arc irrigable, if the water could be brought through this d'tch. The bringing of the water wa-ter from Jackson lake in Wyoming is not a good solution as the lake I' too far awn), and If the plan is car ried out many new settlers will com into that section of the state. The work will coEt a great amount of money, mon-ey, but it will he worth it to the farmers farm-ers and to tho co-npanv No definite defin-ite plans have been announced as yet in connection with the work, but Pick Brothers, irrigation contractors, have had men on the ground for seeral days looking over the ditch " |