The Monmouth herald., January 31, 1913, CURRENT FEATURES, Page PAGE THREE, Image 9

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The Twin Falls-Oakley Irrigation Project
Reclamation of 45,000 Acres of Goose Creek Valley Land Will Bring Added Prosperity and Homemakers to Southern Idaho
To ImrnoHK tint waters of doone
Crook in ('an-la Comity, Idaho, and
turn thorn on to IiiikIh how giving
thn alaranro of a barnm waste in
tlii) iurjmiMi of tlm Twin FalUOakluy
I'rojoct, by moans of which 0110 of
the most fortilo valloyn of tho Wont
will bo made into blooming gnrdim
unil about 43,000 aero addiid to tlio
rapidly Inrroaiiliig aron of roclaimnd
land. Thin rntorprmn i but one of
many limilur onos that aro to bn found
In tlio Krout buslo country, and pro
iniyim tlio continued jiroHpority of an
already prosperous eomitiiinlty, It it
a tr! Ini to to t lie confidence of ltd mas
torn In tlio science of reclamation and
in tlio futiiro of Houthi'rn Idaho. Tlio
1I11111 tliat will liolil back thn watorH
of (loom Crook entails an oxpondituro
of a vast amutint of money, for it lit
bnlng constructed with a view to por
inauoncy, no oxjioiikd boili spared to
in a 1(0 it mo.
lloforo tho Inauguration of tho plan
to f tirn tub wiitor to tho entire valley,
right 011 tho creek wore hold by own
er of uboiit 11000 Heron, Ooone ('rook
in n mnall niountitln stream with a
minimum rapaeity of 13 second foot
from July to January and a maximum
of .100 nee 0 ml foot through tho bal
ance of tho yoar, Fur many yours tho
(UK II) acres hail boon irrigated from tho
uiircgulutcd flow of thin stream, roiiio
youm with perfeet mitinfaetiou but
ordinarily with an inmifficiotit flow of
water when most needed. Tho farm
er therefore floodud thoir crops when
water wan plentiful onrly in tho sea
ou and conserved tho mointuro tluiB
stored up by cultivation during the
dry months. Many difficulties at
toudod this method of procedure, and
when the proponed regulation of water
upply wan outliuud owner of the
0000 aero agreed to surrender their
rights' to tho water of tho rroek in
return for a regulated vupply of 1 Vi
aero, feet, to bo delivered to them
wlienover needed, Thu the water that
had gone to erve (1000 aero inef
ficiently in to bo distributed over 45,
000. The land above that to be irrigated
ha a fall of 25 feet per mile, sloping
to tlio level alluvial bottom. Tho
ido of the valley are steep, converg
ing at the dam site to a width of 400
feet, with Rtoep slopes on either aide
reaching to a boight of 100 foot and
then riiiing vertically in a straight
wall of solid luva to a hoight of 133
feet above the river bed. Knginoer
were quirk to too tho natural advan
tage of thi narrow nock, a well a
tho atiundaueo of material available
for an earth dam. These and tho won
derful productivity of tho valley
deemed to justify tho expenditure, and
thu project wa launched.
Ton of earth and rock make up
the substance of tho dam, which is
11,1 feet high and 1050 feet long.
Through the center stretches a euro
of concrete, Htarting at bedrock with
a width of three feet and tapering to
a thickness of 0110 foot at tho top.
The bottom is puro concrete, while
the top is reinforced, lledrock was
found at a depth of 28 feet below the
bottom of tho stream. Tho body of
the dam is a mixture of Hand, clay
and small rock, tho rock being mostly
The Only
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To whom eoncernod:
In the course of our Wbite Diarrhoea
investigation during the past season,
we have used a large number of eggs
from the flock of S. C. White Leghorns,
owned by Mr. A. M.- Pollard. We were
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any evidonce of bacillary white diar
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Bacteriologist, Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale University.
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Professor of Poultry ..Husbandry,
Connecticut Agriculture College.
All stock bave free range on 89
acres Wo are booking orders now for
1913.
EGGS 13.60 per 15 $15 per 100.
The Grandview
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A. M. Pollard, Manager,
Mansfield Centre, Conn.
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rruMhod lava. The dirt uhoiI in tho
fill 1 convoyed by mean of a bolt
carrier for a distance of half a mile
and dumped Into a chute lit the sum
mit of the blufffrom which it emp
tier Into thu waiting wagon on the
dam. An idea of tho expense en
tailed to convey thl dirt to the dam
can be had from tho fact that it i
first excavated by team shovel and
loadod Into cur which discharge into
tho conveyor. Thn conveyor make
an ascent of Ml foot in the half mile
run to tho dam.
No pain 1 spared to make the dam
strong. First a layer of small stones,
sand and clay Is deposited to a depth
of tlx inch. It Is then sprinkle.-!
thoroughly and rolled by a four-ton
truetinu engine, Closo to the con
crete core the dirt and stone are do
posited in a pool of water n that the
settling process I constantly gnlug
on. On tho upstream side a finer
mat is used thin 011 the down stream
portion, and when completed thn sur
fuce of the dnm will bo provided with
a layer of Jooso rock threo feet deep
on the upper side and a similar layer
of imaller rock two feet thick on tho
lower. Tha outlet of the reservoir
The Desert Car Jen After
Tr
Pfl.
1 ascvA-ar-JSw
which i now in use to convoy the
water around the dam i a tunuel
bored through the (olid rock 700 feet
11 length and 10 feet square. The
1 ottom is on a level with the stream
bed. .
For yoar "Twin Fall" ha been
almost trade mark for southern
Idaho. ' And rightly so, for tho county
of Twin Fall stand today a the
banner irrigation county of the stato,
and indeed of tho Northwest. No
other county in the state ran boast
so great a proportion of its farmed
bind under tho ditch. And this
progress ha been very rapid. Twin
Full has believed in the mission of
irrigation from tho very first. That
i why the country about the city of
Twin Falls ha come under tho spoil
of tho irrigation fever. Thoso who
hove watched tho development of this
splendid fruit and farming district
have secti barren waHtes turned into
fertilo fields and tho desert voritably
inndo to blossom a tho rose. Im
mense orejiard companies have entered
tho field because they believed in the
country and the irrigation business.
It needed but a Binall demonstration
to prove to tho less sanguine that
with water to turn upon the soil at
will the country would come into its
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issoula Lime
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own under tho mi1o of sunny kin.
Ho project after project ha sprung up
end tho business of "controlling thn
rainfall" ha taken hold on tho dis
trict with a vengeance, Ktartling a
the figure may oem, it is stated upon
good authority that thi county boasts
2.9 per coot of it cultivated farm
under the ditch.
Huch a condition cannot help but
bring enthusiasm among the advocates
of irrigation. Yet tho enterprise and
enthusiasm preceded thn water. Men
w'th foresight looked into the matter
scientifically and determined the pro
ductivity of the oil without water.
It required no system of higher
mathematics to demonstrate that with
the addition of au abundance of rain
fall, regulated a are the. great irri
gation project of the Mate, "the pro
duction of every acre could be made
tc increase in ratio hardly conceiv
able. Men came into the vicinity and
invested thousand of dollar in plant
ing orchard and laying out vineyard.
Many did not wait for the comple
tion of the canal but manifested their
faith in the future of tho country by
starting development before tbeditehos
were made. Southern Idaho i dotted
the 3)oon 0 Irrigation
today with the farm and orchard
of those men, to whose faith and
courngo the state owes much. More
over, busi nens men in the southern
Idaho town threw their support bo
hind the project with the result that
communities became a unit in work
ing for, boosting and anticipating the
future of their sections.
Boyond the confines of Twin Falls
County the spirit of improvement is
no less. Where tho government has
not taken hold of projects private cor
porations have undertaken the task,
and the Twin Falls-Oakley project is
but one of them. Irrigation started
slowly in Idaho, the people going con
servatively , for severul years. But in
1909 22 projects wore launched through
out the state, and of these southern
Idaho received its share. Experts have
repeatedly examined the soil of its
fertile valley and pronounced it ex
cellent. Demonstrations have repeat
edly been made with the same verdict.
It is not surprising then that capital
should seek these fields on which the
eyes of the East had been turned
through the enterprising publicity ef
forts of commercial organizations. The
fields of waving grain, alfalfa, the
blooming orchards and the luxuriant
gardens today greet tho eyo a the
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result of thi faith in the country,
supplemented by actual labor.
The Twin Fall-Oakley project will
quench tho thirst of 45,000 acre of
a most fertilo valley. Where now ex
ists only the unsightly tagobrush will
stand the alfalfa and the sugar beet,
the wheat and the orchard. Land that
ha hitherto been accounted of little
value will bring the highest price for
the water will give it worth. Modem
Big Land Opening in
Moses Lake Valley
Discovery of Immense Underground Lake East of W enatchee
Results in the Development of Many Rich Acres
of Fruit and Alfalfa Land
A large body of fruit land in the
Moses Lake valley of Orant county,
Washington, directly cast of We-
natchee, has recently been opened to
settlement, and ia now attracting a
greftt deal of attention.
The development in Moses Lake val
ley is nothing short of marvelous.
Within a few year thi district i
to furnish home to at least 50,000
people. Many sections of rich land,
which have lain dormant for centuries,
and which until just recently wcie
considered practically woHbless, be
cause of the lack of water for irriga
tion, have now been plac.l on tho
market and are rapidly being settled.
The discovery of an immense body
of sheet water, underlying the entire
district, is responsible for this de
velopment. This water is nothing
more nor less than an immense un
derground lake, , which crops out in
various part of the county
Hundred of pumping plant are be
in j, installed, each irrigating from 10
to 4000 acres, and once the water i
turned onto the land it yields a pro
duction of fruits, alfalfa and garden
truck that is prolific. Water is ob
tained at from 25 to 100 feet, in in
exhaustible quantities. It isn't a ques
tion of where to drive a well in order
to get water. It is merely a question
of where the farmer or orchardist
want his well. If he sinks there, he
is sure to get the water.
Some of the orchards that have al
ready been developed in the Moses
Lake district are actually yielding
higher than $1000 an acre net profit
per season, and it is predicted that
this district will soon hold the rec
ord of being one of the greatest fruit
producers on the continent. The soil
is very similar to that of the North
Yakima and Wenatebee fruit districts,
and a recent chemical analysis shows
it to be richer than the latter My
several per cent. It is composed of
decomposed lava and volcanic ash. It
is deep and mellow, and underlaid with
a gravel formation that insures per
fect drainage,
A visit to one orchard near Moses
lake was nothing short of a revela
tion. This orchard, which consists of
30 acres, 20 of which are in bearing,
is known as the Tichacek place. Dur
ing the 1912 season 10,000 boxes of
fancy apples were harvested from this
20 acres, and they sold for $1.45 per
box net, the sale being made through
the Wenatchee Fruit Growers' asso
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successfully solved the problem of
finding a market for Northwestern
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homo and spacious barn will dot the
landscape. The expanse of gray will
be replaced by the restful green of
the more humid clime, all of which
will testify to the happiness of a new
people in a reclaimed land. Nothing
can atop the development of southern
Idaho a long as these project find
favor. And the faith of the people
themselves will make the outcome
lure.
from the Moses Lake region, and
find a ready market for all of it.
Figuring 45c per box for expense of
production, this leave a net profit in
thi instance of (16,000 for the sea
ion. Other growers are doing as well.
A very interesting instance might
bo told in connection with the Ticha
cek place. Last summer Mr. Tichacek
sold the orchard for $63,000. The
buyers got the benefit of the season'
crop. About the time the output of
the place wa marketed Mr. Tichacek
had a case of "cold feet." He Te
gretted the move he had made, and
he wanted to get it back again. He
did buy it back, paying $69,000 for it,
or a clean premium of $6000 over the
price he had sold it for a few months
before.
Among those who have been first to
appreciate this new Moses Lake dis
trict are the men who have made
Wenatchee. Several Wenatchee capital
ists have, within the past year or so,
invested $4,000,000 in thi district.
Some of them have planted an entire
section to orchard, and, although the
orchard is only a few months old,
these men would not take $500 an
acre for the property today. They
seo its future possibiliteg. Baw land
is selling in Moses Lake valley for
$100 an acre, and a value of $500
an acre is placed on it as soon as
the tree are planted.
Becoming interested in the reports
of wealth and opportunity coining
out from this comparatively new ter
ritory, the editor of the Wenatchee
World recently started on a trip of
investigation. He covered a good por
tion of Grant county. Then when he
got back to bis office he wrote one
of the strongest endorsements of a
new country that has ever been pub
lished in a rival district. In part he
said:
"Those who hold the opinion that
the Wenatchee valley has a monopoly
on the apple land of this section of
the state must change their minds.
Those who do not change their minds
must do so later. The writer has
had a constantly inceasing opinion of
the lands of Grant county. A thor
ough inspection of the lands in that
county during the past few weeks
has forced the conviction that the
fruit lands in the country east of here
are in every way equal to those of
Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan, Methow
and Okanogan valleys. In fact, the
Wenatchee valley is just a sample of
the future of Grant county.
"In short, the country to the east
of the Wenatchee valley is one of
tremendous possibilities. It affords
one of the greatest oppprtuniteis in
the United States today."
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