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"There has been much friction between promoters 

 of private enterprises and the reclamation agents of 

 the United States Government. It is expected, how- 

 ever, that disputes will work out satisfactorily in the 

 end. The private companies assert that the Govern- 

 ment has taken lands which ought to be left to private 

 development. The promoters want the Government to 

 reclaim lands which otherwise would go to waste en- 

 tirely. 



"Bankers and capitalists of other cities now fully 

 realize that Chicago virtually controls the western 

 money situation so far as the big land enterprises are 

 concerned. Tens of millions of dollars will go from 

 this city into the great irrigable section of the country 

 and the most conservative bankers declare that this new 

 outlet for Chicago energy and Chicago capital will do 

 more than anything else to raise the city to a still 

 higher financial position." 



BEAUTIFUL BOISE. 



The Next Meeting Place of the National Irrigation Con- 

 gress The Date Decided on Is Sept. 3-8, 1906. 



In view of the fact that the Fourteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress is to be held at Boise, Idaho, Sep- 

 tember 3d to 8th, this year, it is considered well to 

 give our readers a general idea of that city and its 

 surroundings. 



Boise, as is well known, is the capital of that pro- 

 gressive State of Idaho, which has, perhaps, as good 

 a chance for irrigation development as any single West- 

 ern State; in fact up to this time more work has been 

 accomplished in Idaho under private projects than any 

 other section of the West, since the passage of the re- 

 clamation law. Large areas of this State, much of the 

 land contiguous to Boise, is also to be irrigated under 

 the Reclamation Act, and when these two classes of 





A Western Landscape. 



GRAFT AND WATER. 



The natural irrigation fund has several fingers of 

 graft mixed up inside of it and Oregon and Washington 

 projects in consequence are held up pending the elimin- 

 ation of the pap tubes through which the leakage is run- 

 ning. It is refreshing to know that the graft has been 

 discovered before the many millions of the fund dis- 

 appeared entirely, and it is further a source of no little 

 gratification to feel that perhaps the great great grand- 

 children of the present generation may possible receive 

 a little benefit from the fund if it holds out that long. 

 With the graft and red tape of government irrigation 

 projects eliminated, something might be done, but it 

 begins to look as if there would be mighty few rose- 

 tinted skies to beam on those who, in the midst of 

 immense desert regions, fertility undisputed, are watch- 

 ing and waiting for Sam's jack pot of many millions 

 to be amicably divided among the long fingers at pres- 

 ent dabbling with it. Journal, Pineville, Ore. 



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work are completed this State will unquestionably rank 

 with the very best irrigated sections in the world. 



The phenomenal growth of the city of Boise, 

 which is the metropolis of the State, in the five years 

 since the census was taken, is due to the fact that 

 natural resources, with the push, energy and wealth of 

 its citizens, has brought her to the front to become, 

 at no distant day, the unrivaled commercial mart of 

 the great inter-mountain empire, lying between Port- 

 land, Ore., Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah. That 

 this is Boise's destiny is evident to all who have studied 

 her and the country surrounding, and who have a fair 

 knowledge of the agricultural, mineral and timber pos- 

 sibilities of that State. 



The population of the city of Boise has increased 

 from 5,957 people in 1900 to upward of 16,000 people 

 at the present time. This city was founded in 1863 

 from the overflow of the famous Boise Basin Mining 

 District, and it subsequently became the mart for a 

 wide expanse of rich territory, and has grown with 

 the development of the surrounding country and at- 

 tracting to her limits and environments successful peo- 

 ple of that State in all avenues of life, many of whom 

 have built palatial homes, and are thereby aiding ma- 

 terially in beautifying the city. 



