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TWIN FALLS, IDAHO. 



Progress on Two Big Tracts Under the Carey Act Work 

 on the Salmon Dam. 



This has been a busy year in the Twin Falls country 

 of southern Idaho. A large number of settlers have been 

 added to the original South Side tract, where some 20,000 

 people have established their homes in the last four years. 

 The city of Twin Falls celebrated the fourth anniversary of 

 its opening on August 29, estimating over 4,000 population. 

 The town is now equipped with good waterworks, sewers, 

 electric lights, banks, newspapers, hospital, churches, schools, 

 and all that a live modern town should have. A second 

 school building costing $60,000 is in process of construction. 



On the North Side tract of 180,000 acres the great canal 

 system is being completed and will be in use early next 

 year. The railroad from Gooding, situated on the main line 

 of the Oregon Short Line, to Wendell and Jerome is almost 

 ready for the rails r.nd will be in operation before the close 



for the use of the superintendent of construction and his aids. 

 Water will be delivered to the canal system from a tunnel 

 outlet from the dam. The entire system is to be completed for 

 the season of 1010. These two projects have behind them 

 the great financial organization of J. S. and W. S. Kuhn, of 

 Pittsburgh and New York. The bonds are guaranteed both 

 as to principal and interest by the American Water Works & 

 Guarantee Company, which owns some fifty municipal water- 

 works systems in the cities of the United States and has a 

 paid up capital of $2,000,000, with a surplus of over $2,000,- 

 000. This company is largely owned by J. S. and W. S. 

 Kuhn and J. H. Purdy, the general manager of the Kuhn 

 properties. 



GRADER AND DITCHER. 



The 20th Century Grader, manufactured by tlie 

 Baker Manufacturing Company, 277 Dearborn street, 

 Chicago, is proving a very popular and profitable 



Land Hunger as Demonstrated in Idaho Scene Showing Part of Crowd of Land Buyers at Twin Falls, Salmon River Tract, Twin Fall' 



Idaho, June 1, 1908. 



of the year. Jerome has several hundred population and 

 building operations arc going on actively both at Jerome and 

 Wendell, although not an acre has yet been irrigated in the 

 second segregation. All the tract will be under water next 

 year and as some 2,000 water contracts have been signed to 

 date, it may be inferred that the tract will be one of the most 

 active spots in the country in 1909. 



On the Salmon River tract, where some 70,000 acres were 

 sold at the opening on June 1, good progress is being made. 

 The great work here is the construction of the dam in the 

 canyon of the Salmon Falls river. At the site of the dam a 

 complete camp has been constructed, including a bunk house 

 for 200 laborers, a house for engineers, cook house and 

 pavilion, a storehouse for 10,000 sacks of cement and other 

 buildings. The electric power line from Twin Falls is com- 

 pleted, being some 35 miles long and 40 miles from the 

 source of power at Shoshone Falls. A traction train is 

 running regularly from Twin Falls to the dam, carrying in 

 supplies and materials. Automobiles have been provided 



machine to irrigation farmers. 



While designed primarily as a road grader, it 

 has been found well adapted to the work of grading 

 fields and cutting and cleaning ditches. 



It is light, weighing only about 600 pounds, yet 

 being constructed of forged steel it is exceptionally 

 strong, and its makers guarantee it both as to strength 

 and efficiency. One man handles it and for a good 

 share of the work two horses can draw it, at the most 

 only four are required. One of these valuable machines 

 will be given away as a trophy at the National Irri- 

 gation Congress to be held at Albuquerque in Sep- 

 tember. 



The company will be glad to send free of charge to 

 any irrigation farmer a copy of its handsome booklet. 



