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WEALTH BASED ON IRRIGATED LAND
TWIN FALLS-MINIDOKA-GOODING AREA -1940
ANNUAL DOLLAR VOLUME CAPITAL INVESTMENT
NEW WEALTH
TURNOVER
RURAL -
IRRIGATED LAND 675,000 ACRES
- FARM BUSINESS EXPENSE - 6.7
FARM PRIVATE PROPERTY-63.9...
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Power Benefits
To an even greater degree than in the case of irrigation, the full benefits of power development are difficult to resolve into monetary terms because of the numerous uses for electric energy and the widespread benefits those uses...
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tion with the Columbia Basin joint investigations, sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation.
The greater part of the shipments by water to the project, it is assumed, will consist of petroleum products, which now constitute the chief traffic up...
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reimbursable funds permissible under current standards developed by the War Department for achieving benefits of the value estimated. The estimate, however, does not include any consideration of benefits to recreation and to fish and wildlife....
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authorized Columbia Basin project is $341,900,000, at 1940 prices. Water users have contracted to repay an average of $85 per irrigable acre, or a total of $87,465,000. The balance of the cost allocated to irrigation, $254,435,000, will be carried...
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authorized Columbia Basin project is $341,900,000, at 1940 prices. Water users have contracted to repay an average of $85 per irrigable acre, or a total of $87,465,000. The balance of the cost allocated to irrigation, $254,435,000, will be carried...
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In addition to projects of the Bureau of Reclamation listed above, the Office of Indian Affairs is continuing construction of irrigation developments on Indian reservations within the Columbia River Basin. Additional surveys are required to...
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Power projects authorized—Bureau of Reclamation,
Department of the Interior
Annual production
(million kilowatt-hours)
State and project
Finn Secondary
Idaho:
Palisades 30. 0 131 99
Anderson Ranch 40. 5 _ _ _ 118
Montana:...
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maintenance, and replacement costs, including $495,000 for the transmission system, are estimated at $1,854,000. Total annual costs thus estimated would aggregate
$6,651,000. Annual benefits, estimated by means indicated previously, would total...
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Irrigation projects deferred—Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior
State and project
Installed capacity (kilowatts)
Storage (acre-
feet)
New land
Acres
Supplemental
land
Total benefited
Idaho:
Minidoka extension...
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SUMMARY OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
BY STAGES AND SUBSTAGES.
FIRST STAGE
Second
Under Construction
Authorized but not
yet under construction
Recommended for Authorization
Deferred
PERCENTAGE COMPARISON
NUMBER OF PROJECTS
New Land...
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Upper
Snake
"Waters of the Snake River are the lifeblood of this area. Wind and water have blanketed the vast lava plain which forms the valley floor with soil materials of inherent fertility. Rainfall, however, is scanty . . . To this...
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CHAPTER IV
Upper Snake GENERAL DESCRIPTION The upper Snake Basin embraces the eastern two-thirds of the crescentic Snake River Valley, which reaches westward across southern Idaho from the river's source in Wyoming. This basin is about 300... |
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solution has two phases : provision of an adequate supply for lands now irrigated, and development of new lands.
The first phase, provision of an adequate supply for lands now irrigated, commands prior consideration. The extension of irrigated...
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Pacific Ocean and, moving southeastward, strike broadside on the Pacific Northwest coastline and the Cascade barrier. The moist, unstable air is lifted in passing over the Cascades and a very large proportion of the precipitable moisture is...
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ASHTON
ANN. PREC. 15.80 IN.
MORAN
ANN. PREC. 21.77 IN.
POCATELLO
ANN. PREC. 13.81 IN.
TWIN FALLS
A'NN. PREC. 10.38 IN.
, UPPER SNAKE
PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE DATA
SELECTED STATIONS
Data from: weather bureau...
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the water reaching it percolates into crevices, large and small, in and between layers of the basaltic lava, with the result that large areas are entirely devoid of streams. Of those which start southward across the plain from the mountains on the...
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Run-off data for major streams—Upper Snake
Approximate location
Records available 1
Drainage area
(square miles)
Average annual
run-off 1931-40
(acre-feet)
Stream
Snake River Heise, Idaho 1910—42 5,740 4,091,000
1902...
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of the cultivated lands there is subirrigated by raising ground water to the plant roots. As a result, water tables on both sides of Henrys Fork River are brought to within 1 to 3 feet of the surface during the growing season, and remain higher...
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isting surface supplies. Only a small part of such development has been made to date.
The most widespread and important use of ground water in the basin has been for domestic and stock-watering purposes, but excessive well depths have made its...
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Wind-laid materials blanket much the greater part of the plain. These loessal materials, largely moved into the upper Snake Basin by prevailing winds from deserts and ancient lake beds to the west, range in depth from a thin sprinkling to heavy...
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Perch and trout are residents of the lake behind American Falls Dam, and bass and perch are taken from the Walcott Reservoir.
Wildlife.—Mule deer, widely distributed throughout the upper basin, are the most common big game. Locally, in the...
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ages under the administration of differing Federal agencies are shown in the tabulation that follows.
Farm lands (4,467,789 acres), about one-third of which are irrigated, make up the bulk of the privately owned land. A smaller but undetermined...
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clusive) was 90 percent higher than for the 30 late-potato States. Approximately 90 percent of Idaho's potatoes are grown on about 110,000 acres of irrigated land on the Snake River Plain in the upper basin. The production of dry, edible beans on...
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