Milner Dam & Main Canal: Twin Falls Canal Company, On Snake River, 11 miles West of city of Burley, Idaho, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, ID

Significance: Milner Dam and its canal system have national significance in agricultural history as a rare successful example of state-supervised private irrigation development provided for in Senator Joseph M. Carey's reclamation statues of 1894.

Survey number: HAER ID-15

Building/structure dates: 1905 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1915 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1949-1950 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1944 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1982-1983 Subsequent Work

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