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Show PROGRESS OF IDAHO. A friend from Idaho tells of the wonderful progress of our sister state on the north. He claims for it the greatest lead mine known, several sev-eral others only a little smaller; insists that by and by, Idaho, next to California, will be the greatest fruit state in the Union; that it is the ideal spot for raising the sugar beet; that it has the largest area of land suitable for cultivation of any of the states in the arid belt, and that it has more water to irrigate Its land than any other Inter-mountain state. He says that the great canal to be taken from the Snake, through which it Is proposed to convert three hundred thousand acres now a desert into a Karden, ia but a preliminary, that it will be followed by others and that the work will go on until all the great valley of the Snake river will be transformed. trans-formed. Then again Idaho mountains are cov. ered with magnificent yellow pine trees and her lumber industry is assuming great proportions which will, in future, be indefinitely extended. But her greatest industry now is her mining. The lead and silver in the north is supplemented supplement-ed with her gold and silver and copper in the south, and this year many new discoveries have been made and some old mines that have lain idle for years are being re-opened and with new facillti d for reducing rebellious ores, promlso generous results. In point of climate, too, Idaho Ida-ho boasts over all her sister states. The altitude of the great fruit belt around Boise City is only 2,900 feet or 1,400 feet lower than Salt Lake valley, val-ley, which almost insures the fruit crop against the frosts that afflict higher altitudes. No friend of Idaho can say too much In its favor to offend us. There is no doubt about the excellence of her soil, the wealth of her mines, the special virtues of her climate, or the sterling people who are transforming "The Gem of-tho Mountains." Idaho an'cfUtah" always ,..- , . , been close friends, very many Idaho people are old Salt Lakers and, as the railroad has reduced the distance a few honors only are needed to go from one capital to thex other, which makes of Idaho Utah's most convenient suburb. We hope every dream of her people will be realized, first for their own sakes and secondj if they are we summer homes in Salt Lake City, are sure that many of her residents will have |