Show BURLEY IDAHO some facts facia about tia the NOW new country minidoka MIni doka having spent a few ew days in this vicinity infix I 1 co concluded eluded that a short might be of interest to the readers of the news about 10 20 miles northwest ot of brigham snake river flows west through a wide level valley ot of fertile sage brush land A rew few years ago the goy eor eminent surveyed this land and found that by building a large data due east of and taking out a canal on each side ot the river about acres of land could be irrigated the tract was wag thrown open for homestead entries with the clause that no one could file on more than 80 acres and within a radius of 0 it ii miles irom from the towns ot of rupert and reyburn settlers are only allowed 40 acres each settlers refer to this as the Mini doks and imagine my surprise to find that every acre ot of the land Is filed on 00 the oregon short line people have just built a branch line from southwest it crosses snake river to south side tight where G goose ouse creek creak emptier into snake river then extends I 1 dowa squib tide to T twin biti rails falls etc rupert is the name nama of the first town that you reach af alter lija ving a and it 11 Is about 15 miles allua ironi from the inter place the town towa lots have not yet been sold and still the square Is surrounded by neat business houses they are literally built on tho the sand lor for people wont build foundations until they landd of the merchants d me that the business men had bad agreed not to compete when the lots offered for sale bale but each man buy the lot he be had bad built on in the centre ot of the public square the government has dug a well 94 feet deep and installed a gasoline engine that supplies the town and neighbor tog tag farmers with water of 0 excellent quality next kelt morning I 1 boarded the train tor for keyburn about six miles farther down the valley and situated near the river here the same conditions prevail ai at kupert only instead of being almost perfectly level the land is quite uneven and aad will require considerable leveling before it can all bo be irrigated hero here they reach water waitr at a depth ot at 25 or 30 feet beet and lots lota ot of windmills are going up while a little more than halt hall the land in the project Is on the north side of 0 the river its too sandy to suit we tar and after spending adif it day with the real estate yuen men in looking over their barg barcalo aloa I 1 sed the river and a three mile jurney journey brought roe me here bere to burley barley many years ago this tract was watered by goose creek and contained some borne excellent ranches it la Is claimed they raised as aa high as bushels ol of grain to the acre when oakley was settled its tanu tants bought the water in goose greek creek and soon ROOD sage brush was flourishing again in its pristine glory last it its to toffa tt burica Buri cr was plaited on oue of these old homesteads and the lots sold gold at public suction auction lots lota bold an ah bagh as 8 each and the town Is growing like a a in mushroom ush room burley ts Is getting the first depot BO 60 Rey burri and rupert kupert are very jealous claiming that tho the railroad favors favora it on every occasion I 1 also think that barley is 19 destined to get the sugar factory us aa it Is the only town having deeded land near by it Is now the ab shipping adl ag point tor for oakley ablon ella and hall half a duen dozen smaller settlements I 1 will write you next week in regard to canals climate soll and liaw w to obtain laed here bore now dow yours truly |