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which Shoshone is the capital and commercial center, 

 an area of over 600,000 acres of highly productive, irri- 

 gated soil. Within the past few weeks the United 

 States Government has withdrawn from entry in this 

 county an additional 300,000 acres of arid land. This 

 immense body of land extends from within a very few 

 miles of Shoshone eastward and adjoins the Minidoka 

 project. This will be reclaimed by pumping stations, 

 the power to be generated at the big Government dam 

 on the Snake river east of Rupert. When the water is 

 delivered on this tract, and when the projects now in 

 course of construction are completed, Lincoln county 

 will have the enormous sum of 1,000,000 acres of un- 

 equaled crop-producing soil an area equal to the en- 

 tire amount first appropriated to each of the semi-arid 

 \vestern states a veritable empire. 



A farmer in this irrigated section does not depend 

 on the weather for a successful crop. He regulates 

 the rainfall and is the manufacturer of farm prod- 

 iicts. He makes his plans knowing that he can count 

 on abundant sunshine and can regulate the moisture 

 to the requirements of each crop. 



Professor Holden. the great corn expert of the 

 Towa Agricultural College, visited this section last Oc- 



tober, and upon his return home said: "To the eastern 

 farmer living on high-priced land, having two or three 

 sons, knowing they cannot all farm the home place, 

 and wondering what is to be done, I most certainly 

 recommend southern Idaho. To the renter or the man 

 with little money who cannot afford to buy $100 to $125 

 land in Iowa, Illinois and other eastern states, I give 

 the same advice get some southern Idaho irrigated 

 land while it can be had as cheap as it is today. It is 

 sin-prising the class of men you find out there. I found 

 college graduates living on these ranches and they all 

 said they were there because there was more money 

 and independence in it than in the practice of their 

 professions." 



With the peopling and development of this vast 

 area it is not difficult to anticipate the effect; on our 

 growing city. The dreams of the most optimistic will 

 be more than realized. Our present limits will be ex- 

 tended, new additions made, residences will give way to 

 business structures, commission merchants will, with 

 their consignments of nutritious products, make glad 

 tho appetites of inhabitants in the great cities, and the 

 masses will hnil with enthusiasm that worthy monarch 

 of the industrial and agricultural realm. Irrigation. 



"ONE GOOD INVESTMENT IS WORTH A LIFETIME OF LABOR." 



We carefully "cruise" every forty acres in each segregation opened for entry under the Carey Act, locate settlers on choice land only, in person or by 

 power of attorney, buy and sell Carey Act relinquishments and cheerfully reply to all inquiries. 



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