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
Summary
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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dams
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irrigation canals
embankments
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a and b irrigation district
allan r ansell
paul s bickel
frank henry buhl
joseph m carey
clover irrigation pumping company
martin delong
william h eaton
faris kesl construction company
walter george filer
john hayes
high line canal company
historic american engineering record
witcher jones
peter lanterman kimberly
frank knox
james harrison lowell
milner irrigation district
milner low lift irrigation district
stanley b milner
mark maurice murtaugh
nelson bennett company
north side canal company
ira burton perrine
john a rosholt
brent smith
albert keppel steunenberg
twin falls land and water company
us bureau of reclamation
a j wiley
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Wiley, A J
Filer, Walter George
The Carey Act
Perrine, Ira Burton
Buhl, Frank
Milner, Stanley B
Location
Twin Falls (Idaho)
,
42.56297, -114.46087
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html