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Twin Falls Oakley Land & Water Company, with 

 50,000 acres; also pumping projects covering 

 100,000 acres. 



The achievements of these organizations are 

 among the greatest in the history of irrigation and 

 agriculture. 



To develop in the desert one of the richest 

 agricultural districts in the world is to produce 

 wealth for the state and nation, and make it won- 

 derfully fast. 



More development per acre is made in five years 

 under these big projects than was the case in the 

 fertile corn belt in thirty. More capital is being 

 used in developing farms now than ever before, and 

 nowhere is this condition more marked than in 

 this section of Idaho. 



The water supply of the greater part of the west- 

 ern slope of the Rocky Mountain system is far in 

 excess of the land available for irrigation. There 

 can never be any question of an abundance of 

 water for the irrigation of all of the lands in south- 

 ern Idaho if it is properly cared for, and never any 

 possible question about those with the first water 

 rights. 



By actual test products grown in the irrigated 

 districts of the West have a higher food value than 

 those of any country where conditions are less favor- 

 able for crop perfection. Soil, sunshine and moisture 

 control are responsible for this. For instance, the 

 average weight per bushel of the oats grown in the 

 Middle West and East for 1908 and 1909 was 

 twenty-four to twenty-six pounds. In the irri- 

 gated Twin Falls country oats weigh thirty-eight 

 to forty-nine pounds per bushel. A legal bushel is 

 thirty-two pounds. Oatmeal manufacturers have 

 found that oats produced by irrigation contain 7 



