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basin. In the former, more than 4,000 were employed in manufacturing during 1939 as contrasted with about 2,200 in the latter. The value of manufactured products in the central basin during 1939 was about $31,000,000 dollars, of which $12,000,000...
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central basin are as follows : Retail trade, 26 ; wholesale trade, 6.5; transportation, 8 ; construction, 10: professional and related services, 13; communications and utilities, 4; Government, 8; and all other, about 25.
Business opportunities...
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CENTRAL SNAKE
DEVELOPMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Summary
Present Development
Irrigation is the primary use of the water resources of the central Snake Basin. The waters of several tributaries to the Snake River are quite fully developed for...
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only existing developments on the main stem of the Snake River.
Irrigation.—Including land irrigated by diversion from Malad River, which is fed by springs a short distance back from the Snake, the total area served from the main stem by...
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in the several pumping developments are indicated in the following table :
Pumping development Acreage
Indian Cove 1, 010
West Indian Cove 430
Bennet Brothers 150
Shoo Fly ranch 500
snake River 3,030
Grand View 5, 470
Reynolds...
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have an annual output of 940,000,000 kilowatt-hours. The reservoir behind Bliss Dam would flood out some of the existing power installations noted previously in connection with the upper Snake Basin. Replacement of the firm power output so...
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Image captions: Alfalfa hay in windrows near Homedale, Idaho, Owyhee project.
Stacking hay, Owyhee project.
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Irrigation.—Two additional developments are contemplated in the basin above Owyhee Dam. Within the Duck Valley Indian Reservation additional surveys are required to determine accurately the ultimate irrigable area of land for which water rights...
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Deadwood Reservoir on the Deadwood River, a tributary to the south fork of the Payette River. Diversion to Payette division lands is made from the Black Canyon Dam.
Power.—Four power plants have been constructed in the Boise River Basin and...
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securing water supply from the Snake River in connection with the Bliss Reservoir noted previously. Water from the Bliss Reservoir would be conveyed 25 miles through the Bruneau project main canal on the south side of Snake River, siphoned to the...
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irrigated from that stream in 1939. About 3,000 acres of this land lie below Willow Creek Reservoir No. 3, of 50,000 acre-feet capacity. This reservoir was built in 1910 but it has never filled. The remaining 20,200 acres of irrigated land in the...
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Irrigation.—Plans for irrigation in the Weiser River Basin involve provision of supplemental water to the 14,830 acres now inadequately supplied and a full supply to 24,760 acres of new land. The potential new-land developments are associated...
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eral valleys along the Powder River and its north fork. The largest of these is the Baker Valley in the upper middle part of the drainage area.
Above Baker two irrigated valleys contain approximately 6,000 acres of irrigated land. The upper, or...
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Rivers. The remaining 26,800 acres are in the lower Salmon Basin below the town of Salmon. This basin is drained by the main stream and by the middle and south forks of the Salmon River, the Little Salmon River, Panther Creek, and lesser...
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Image captions: Cattle country near New Meadows, Idaho.
Range cattle on pasture near New Meadows, Idaho.
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mental water to 12,370 acres of land now irrigated and the development of 9,060 acres of new land.
The Challis project on the main stream in the upper Salmon River basin would supplement the current water supply on 2,850 acres and bring under...
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Grande Ronde River Present Development
Irrigation of a gross area of about 76,000 acres of land and hydroelectric installations with an aggregate capacity of 2,480 kilowatts constitute the water resource developments in the Grande Ronde River...
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which improvements would be made for flood-control purposes.
Power.—Full development of the Grande Ronde project would involve four power plants, one each at the Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek Dams, and two in connection with the Little...
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Summary of potential developments IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE (ACRES)
New land
Gravity
Pumping
Project or unit
Supplemental water
Total area benefited
Bruneau 300, 000 100, 000 0 400, 000
Bruneau River 80, 000 0 0 80, 000
Grand View...
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Image captions: Cattle country near New Meadows, Idaho.
Range cattle on pasture near New Meadows, Idaho.
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Summary of potential developments—Continued.
ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION COSTS
[Thousands of dollars]
Dam and reservoir
Irrigation distribution cost
Castle Creek Castle Creek 400 400
Boise Anderson Ranch. 2 13, 200 13, 200
Arrowrock...
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Clark Fork-Clearwater
"The very substantial water resources of the Clark Fork-Clearwater subdivision are not being used extensively at present. Only 22 percent of the harvested crop land of the area was irrigated in 1939, as contrasted with 76...
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CHAPTER VI
Clark Fork-Clearwater GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Clark Fork-Clearwater subdivision reaches nearly 250 miles northward from the border of the central Snake Basin to the Canadian boundary. It extends approximately the same... |
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CLARK FORK
CLEARWATER
known as mountain trenches. They have a length and continuity independent of the streams which enter them through mountain gorges, flow along them for varying distances, and then leave them by other narrow defiles. The...
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