Show 80RSEY EULOGIZES IDAHO Former Congressman Says No State in Union Will Rival Gem of Mountains Col George Dorsey of Nebraska Is paying a visit to Washington where he has many friends You good people of the East he said to lie Washington Post do not realize how prosperous the States west of the Missouri river are at this time Nebraska Kansas and the Dakolas have Immense crops of corn wheat oats and hay for which they are receiving re-ceiving good prices Indeed no class of people In this country are in better shape than our farmers With no mortgages to worry them and plenty of money thty are on easy street The semiarid States since the passage pas-sage of the Irrigation law arc developing develop-ing very fast Millions of Eastern capital is going Into the canals and ditches of Colorado Wyoming Utah and Idaho A Sharon Penn company is now completing a canal sixty feet wide at the bottom 100 feet at the lop nod seventynine miles in length taking tak-ing tho water from the Snake river at Twin Falls Ida This canal with its ditches will irrigate 275000 acres of the nest land In the West l rowns have been started and a branch of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line railroad Is being built into thc country being opened up Senator Sena-tor Dubols and Late Pence are both engaged in Irrigation schemes In Idaho lhn1 will water many thousand acres No State In the Union will rival Idaho In material development during the next ten years With abundance of water the finest limber In the West and boundless mineral resource Idaho Is the State for ambitious young men to consider The mining industry Is yet in Its infancy notwithstanding the fact that the placer mines of Idaho have in the past yielded nearly foul hundred millions of gold dollars The great quart veins which fed those pincers in the ages past are now being opened up In l scientific manner and with most gratifying results The old camps that have been dormant 01 yearn are being occupied and worked and arc beginning to again give up their rlcheti The Thunder Mountain country has been liberally advertised but It is not a poor mans country for most of the properties that have been developed are low grade but with mountains o ore Men with plenty of capital have secured large areas and are at work Within the next five years there will be several mines In Thunder Mountain that will rival the Homcstake of South Dakota As to the fruits of Idaho nothing In this country compares with the apples peaches plums grapes prunes and other fruits raised on the irrigated land of the Snake river and its tributaries tribu-taries Go to the St Louis exposition next year and see Idahos fruit exhibit then call me down If it is beaten |