Payette County ID Archives News.....Little Willow Irrigation Project April 18, 1918
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Payette Enterprise April 18, 1918
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, April 18, 1918
 
LITTLE WILLOW IRRIGATION PROJECT
 
As a great many of our readers are interested in the Little Willow Creek 
Irrigation Project, we will take pleasure in reporting from time to time the 
progress made and the prospects as they appear to us.  This is without a 
question a very unfavorable year for a project of this kind, and yet the 
present conditions prove that the proposition is bound to be a grand success.  
With all the shortage of snow and rain fall during the winter and spring, the 
big reservoir at Paddock Valley has quite a quantity of water.  At the present 
time the water extends back at least four and a half miles, and is within four 
feet of the present height of the dam which is about sixty feet and is raising 
all the time.  There are three sources of supply that enter the creek below 
the Paddock Valley dam, Indian Creek, Lindson Creek and Holland Gulch, which 
will be used for early irrigation.  We are told by Mr. Coats that there are 
now about two thousand inches of water flowing over the diversion dam which is 
located at his ranch, and will in a very few days be turned into the ditches 
for irrigation.  The reservoir at this diversion dam backs up the creek about 
one-half mile and covers quite a territory of land.  It would seem advisable 
for the Payette Rod and Gun Club to stock these two ponds with fish.  We 
believe arrangements could be made with the State game warden to take bass and 
croppie from the slough's and the State will furnish plenty of trout.

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