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Show I IDAHO'S $50,000,000 IRRIGATION PROJECT. From Washington comes a correction correc-tion of the statement published last week that Secretary Payne of the interior inte-rior department had approved a project proj-ect to build a $60,000,000 dam at American Amer-ican Falls, Idaho, which would im pound water sufficient to reclaim a million acres of land in the Snake rlv er valley. The secretary simply said he would urge congress to appropriate money for the dam, if the undertaking received satisfactory assurances of fl nancial backing from various irrigation irriga-tion districts in the Snake river valley t Preliminary to the working out of details, de-tails, the interior department has au thorUod a F.urvcy to be made A dispatch from Washington sayi "in the event the American Falls project Is approved, the government, for itself, will take over one unit, and reclaim 100,000 acres lying near Mini doka, for development under a soldier Settlement plan, for the benefit of ex-servico ex-servico men, nnd congress would be asked to advance the cost of this por-iinn por-iinn Aside from that, however, prl vate interests must hear the construe tlon costs, and must come forward with a satisfactory showing of their ability to rnlsr their respective shares of the total cost. This apportlonmen' being based on the areas named in contracts recently submitted by the secretary of the interior. As a matter mat-ter of fact the project on which government gov-ernment engineers are figuring doe not embrace the Bruneau project, re-garding re-garding which there has been much publicity, and to date the secretary has declined to approve the state segregation seg-regation of the 500,(100 acres covered by this project." There are great tracts of land In Idaho to be brought under cultivation and, If the government has large sums of money to expend In the making ot now homes, the opportunity Is there presented to create new wealth to be enjoyed by the willing workers who are building up America, but. with the land cry for economy, it is doubtful that the federal congress will do much more, than pave the way for private capital. |