Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-07 | Page 13 | Girls to Keep on Running Great Irrigation Project

GIRLS TO KEEP ON RUNNING GREAT IRRIGATION PROJECT I 1 - , 1 THE POWERHOUSE CREW ON THE MINIDOKA IRRIGATION IRRIGA-TION PROJECT IN IDAHO. When the war hit tho Minidoka Irrigation project in Idaho, tho men were either called to the colors col-ors or pressed into service as guards against any possible German Ger-man plot to destroy the irrigation system. The call went through Idaho for girls. Thoy responded. The oflico force was reorganized with girls, and they wcro placed in tho power house and pumping stations. They pumped the water for 50,-000 50,-000 acres of land, which oCTrer girls and women assisted in cultivating. culti-vating. Other girls were recruited tor surveying gangs, as the work of reclamation was carried on without with-out pause. There girls alone surveyed sur-veyed and laid out 150.000 acres last spring and summer. That-beat That-beat anything mere men had done. The project manager writes In here to say the girls have handled the job every bit ns good as men had done it before; that they were getting the same wages, and would stay on the job as long as they wanted to.