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side; along Wood River above and below Sho- 

 shone; on Clover Creek on the north; and from 

 springs in the north side of the Snake River Caflon 

 at Blue Lakes and along down the river to the 

 Hagerman Valley. Successful crops of fruit, grain, 

 hay, and vegetables have been raised in these 

 places by pioneer stockmen and miners for forty 

 years. 



The great Snake River plains, the most fertile 

 and best drained agricultural section in the state, 

 were undeveloped because millions of dollars was 

 required for large improvements before the settler 

 with ordinary means could find a place. 



To I. B. Perrine of Blue Lakes is due the credit 

 for successfully starting the extensive irrigation 

 work in the Twin Falls country. He located the 

 dam at Milner from which water is diverted, and 

 interested capital in the possibilities of the country. 

 J. S. & W. S. Kuhn of Pittsburgh, Pa., have spent 

 and are spending twenty million dollars in develop- 

 ing the possibilities of this agricultural empire. 

 Five years ago sage brush and coyote reigned 

 supreme; now 40,000 people have their homes in 

 the Twin Falls country. 



There are 54,000,000 acres of land in Idaho. Of 

 this amount about 2,500,000 are irrigated. Over 

 450,000 acres are contained in the irrigation pro- 

 jects already built and being built by the Kuhn 

 interests. 



At the present time the tracts reclaimed in Idaho 

 by J. S. & W. S. Kuhn of Pittsburgh and their as- 

 sociates include the first, second, and third segre- 

 gations of the Twin Falls North Side Land & Water 

 Company, embracing 220,000 acres; that of the 

 Twin Falls Salmon River Land & Water Com- 

 pany, embracing 80,000 acres; and that of the 



