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Show ACQUIRE SITE ! TO BUILD TOWN American Falls to Be Removed to Allow Space for Reclamation Rec-lamation Project AMERICAN FALs, Idaho. Jan. 17 I L'nltcd States rcclamrUlon official" announced today that J4n aeres of land .h:is been acquired for the new town- site of American Kails. Two nook? ago it tvai also announced thai tht SoVernment had stpned n contract with I the Yurni Springs Ntatorlum com-Ipany com-Ipany for ico nprca in the deal witb ithe manugcr. the natatorluVn company, lit. U Tucker received SCOOO for the 'acreage purchased from him. The re-Imatnder re-Imatnder of the unpuht was purchased Lfrbm .Mrs. Mary (franklin and Blra i Eva Ihies. The new tounsile now has a total of j 260 acres with other tracts under consideration. con-sideration. With t li o amount acquired, , however reclamation enpliifers declare I there is sufficient land to start the i new town Although no official plans hap been submitted, it Is predicted (that the new town of American Falls will he one of the best planned municipalities muni-cipalities in tin- country. It is believed that parks, public playgrounds civic centers and similar enterprises Will be included in the government specifications specifica-tions when they are officially pre-pa pre-pa red. Purchase of about 32 per cent of tho property f the flrt unll of the dam right of way, which the government started buying two weeks ago. has been terminated- A few days ago the gov- ciumeiii uiuae oners on auotu si.vtoei: cltv blocks of property It la said that tho prices offered by the government have met with th approval of .most ail of the local owners. 1 In a few instances, there were ob-ijections. ob-ijections. thM will have to be settled by condemnation suit. The assessment assess-ment work on American Falls property prop-erty is said to bo progressing in a satisfactory sat-isfactory manner and the officials be-llieve be-llieve the entire project will go forward for-ward rapidly. Drilling for bed rock on I tho high land along the base of the ; proposed dam Is speeding along. Most satisfactory reports arc being made daily. " A. F. Banks and Berry Diddle of the I'nited States reclamation service attended at-tended the meeting of the Idaho b ip-ter ip-ter of the Association of American Engineers, En-gineers, of which Mr. Diddle waa an official, al NTampa this week. Mr j Banks gave n talk on the American Falls dam at one of the sessions. |