Payette County ID Archives News.....Making the Dirt Fly December 8, 1898
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Payette Independent December 8, 1898
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, December 8, 1898

MAKING THE DIRT FLY.

The Noble Extension Ditch Being Pushed Along Rapidly.

The Noble Extension Ditch Company, limited, is a Payette Valley enterprise that 
hasn’t made very much noise but is doing business all the same with a 
vengeance. The company was recently encorporated under the state laws with a 
capital stock of $30,000, or 6000 shares, limited to $5 per share.  Each share 
represents an inch of water.  All of the stock but about 400 shares has been 
subscribed for.  The ditch will be 22 miles in length, 20 feet wide on the 
bottom and two feet deep.  There will not be a flume on the entire system.

The new ditch is intended to furnish waster for not less than 6000 acres of as 
fine farming and fruit lands as there are on the bench and will be operated and 
managed similar to the Lower Payette Ditch.  The board of trustees for the 
first year are:  B. F. Bartch, president; M. B. Sherman, secretary; W. A. 
Coughanour, treasurer; Scott Stuart and Mrs. Hattie Noble.  

At the present writing from 60 to 75 teams are at work on the upper end of the 
ditch, and it is proposed to have it ready to turn the water in next spring.  


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