THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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which will be erected during the year. The farmers 

 of the surrounding country have taken an active inter- 

 est in support of this movement and an attractive 

 feature of the new building will be a rest room for 

 ladies as well as the public lobby for men, especially 

 adapted to the needs of the community. 



The greatly increased acreage of sugar beets this 



eastern cities. Many of the growers have received 

 from $200.00 to $300.00 per acre for their canteloupes 

 and the acreage is increasing yearly with the increased 

 demand as the quality of the Payette Valley canteloupes 

 are compared with those from other localities. 



Fruits of all kinds are even more profitable, Jona- 

 than, Rome, Beauty, and Winesap apples and Italian 



Another Group of Scenes in the Payette Valley, Idaho. 



year in the Payette Valley practically insures the build- prunes being the best commercial fruit so far produced 

 ing of a million dollar factory on the one hundred acre in the valley, 

 tract now owned by the Western Idaho Sugar Company, 

 near the city, so that the future growth and prosperity 



of Pavette and the Payette Valley is already assured. 



THE PAYETTE VALLEY AS SEEN BY A DRUMMEH. 







"All aboard for New Plymouth!" The salesman 



Scene near New Plymouth, Idaho. 



PAYETTE CANTELOUPES. 



. The Earl Fruit Company of Chicago has this 

 year contracted for a very large acreage of canteloupes, 

 in fancy packs, to be shipped from Payette to the larger 



for a large hardware firm, who 'had just swung off from 

 the long 0. S. L. train as it pulled into Payette, Idaho, 

 turned in surprise and, after a word with the conductor, 

 climbed into the Payette Valley coach standing on the 

 sidetrack, from which he had heard the familiar -words. 



