Canals; Irrigation; Irrigation canals & flumes; Construction equipment; Construction industry; Carts & wagons; Horse teams; Horses; Labor supply; Laborers;
Boise irrigation project constructing the New York Canal. This view shows horse teams bringing concrete to the site. Workmen are filling and leveling the poured cement.
The Black Canyon Dam was constructed on the Payette in 1924 not as a storage facility, but to divert water into the Emmett and Black Canyon Canals, which vastly increased the irrigated acreage in Gem County and the Emmett Valley. This photograph...
This picture shows a bridge crossing the Ridenbaugh Canal in Boise. A car is on the bridge. Next to the bridge is a billboard advertising Camel cigarettes. In the background are homes along the steet. The canal is dry and the trees do not have...
General correspondence; private files of executive officers; payroll account books; and other financial records of a company organized under the Carey Act in 1903, first to build canals and laterals and act as a land office and later to maintain...
