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iires under private capital and it is estimated by those 

 who are in touch witli the Hondo and other districts 

 that much more healthy and substantial development- 

 will be established within the next few years than in 

 any preceding years in the history of that section. 



Large sums of money have been made in New 

 Mexico in the last several years by eastern and northern 

 people who have gone in there and have been kesn 

 enough to observe the possibilities from a home-making 

 standpoint. One gentleman, Mr. Richard Morley, is 

 said to have made something like $300,000 there in 

 a few years in land transactions alone and a gentleman 

 and wife from Chicago of the name of Colby went in 

 there several years ago and cleaned up something like 

 $150,000 or $200,000 on land deals. Both Mr. Morley 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Colby were comparative strangers 

 to New Mexico ten years ago. They visited there and 

 saw an opportunity to get land at a low price and they 

 have been fortunate in the accumulation of what we are 

 all after, money. We name these two instances to illus- 

 trate the possibilities in a section like New Mexico. 

 Perhaps the same results might have been obtained by 

 the same application and effort in other states, but 



JAMES S. AND W. S. KUHN. 



James S. and William S. Kuhn are two distinguished 

 men in the business world. They are young in years 

 but masters of great undertakings-. They were intro- 

 duced into irrigation circles by H. L. Hollister of 

 Idaho and Chicago. Mr. Hollister then had in hand 

 with I. B. Perrine the Twin Falls North Side Tract 

 of 180,000 acres and the Great Shoshone Falls Power 

 Company. The Kuhn Brothers saw the possibilities 

 in these great projects and placed behind them the 

 strength of their splendid organization. Everyone who 

 is in touch with irrigation progress knows what an 

 impetus they have given to development in the Twin 

 Falls country. Without waiting to complete the North 

 Side system they took up the Twin Falls Salmon Tract, 

 which lies south of the original Twin Falls tract. . It 

 speaks volumes for the public confidence in the Kuhn 

 Brothers to say that 70,000 of the 80,000 acres of 

 the, Salmon Tract opened for entry, were bought by 

 entrymen at the opening on June 1st, and immediately 

 after, the first payment thus being made two years 

 before water for irrigation will be available. The 



Hotel Alvarado and Santa Fe Station, Albuquerque. 



this happened in New Mexico and that is where we are 

 all going to the congress. Our advice to readers would 

 be to keep their "eyes peeled" while in that territory 

 for just such opportunities as were taken advantage of 

 by the individuals mentioned above. 



We would suggest to all our readers who contem- 

 plate visiting Albuquerque at the time of the congress 

 to make arrangements as early as possible for hotel 

 accommodations. The good citizens of that commun- 

 ity claim to be able to handle crowds, no matter how 

 large, but it is our impression that there will be such 

 a large attendance at the congress that it will be just 

 as well to arrange for space in advance. 



A complete report oi the Sixteenth National Irri- 

 gation congress will appear in our issue of October. 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE headquarters during the congress 

 will be in Room 16, Alvarado Hotel, where all our 

 friends will be welcome. 



North Side Tract is well sold out and the new towns 

 of Jerome, Wendell and Milner are becoming daily 

 more important as business and social centers. The 

 Kuhns are constructing a railroad from Gooding on 



J. S. Kuhn. 



W. S. Kuhn. 



Send $2.50 for The Irrigation Age 

 1 year, and The Primer of Irrigation 



the Oregon Short Line through the Twin Falls North 

 Side Tract. They are also building a large power plant 

 at Lower Salmon Falls. They have established banks 

 at Milner and Jerome and take a leading part in all 



