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300 miles in length, to irrigate 10,000 acres. Logan, 120 ditches, 300 

 miles in length, to irrigate 50,000 acres. Oneida, 65 ditches, 100 miles 

 in length to irrigate 38,800 acres. Owyhee, 66 ditches, 153 miles in 

 length, capable of irrigating 21. 300 acres. Washington, 270 farm ditches, 

 290 miles in length, irrigating 40,000 acres. 



Irrigation pumps, windmills and other water lifting devices are not 

 very numerous in Idaho, neither are the canals very extensive invest- 

 ments because of the great supply of water everywhere. The entire 

 canal systems of the state represent an outlay of less than three million 

 dollars, while one system in some other states has cost as much for fur- 

 nishing water to a. very limited area. There is no state, in my opinion, 

 in the arid section offering such inducements to men of limited capital, 

 for obtaining homes and an independent water supply as the state of 

 Idaho, although the general opinion of those unacquainted with actual 

 conditions may be to the reverse. I have no land to sell and do not even 

 own an interest in any canal or farm in the state, but merely write what 

 I have seen and learned from personal investigations. The homeseeker, 

 investor and student of irrigation will do well to visit this new state be- 

 fore accepting all the statements of agents and writers, but at the same 

 time remember there are other good states offering excellent induce- 

 ments for solonists and the investment of capital. 



RECIPE FOR A WAR POEM. 



Take for your foundation "Old Glory" and 

 "the Maine;" 



Equal parts of "outraged Cuba" and "de- 

 caying Spain;" 



Stir in liberal quantities of the "loyal boys 

 in blue" 



And the veterans of the civil war with 

 "hearts so brave and true." 



Mix this well and to it add the "screaming 



shot and shell" 

 And just a dash about the "fight that was 



like a raging hell." . 

 Then a lot of adjectives, ''glorious," 



"brave," and ''grand," 

 Sprinkle them throughout the whole with 



a lavish hand. 



Then send the little pilgrim forth with 



limping, halting feet, 

 To run its weary journey as a war poem, 



complete. 



L. W 



