Show DEVELOPMENTS IN i iI I SOUTHERN IDAHO I Prosperous Settler From Twin I Falls District Discusses Railroad Projects R S Humphreys one of or the prosperous settlers on the famous Camous Twin Falls irrigated irrigated Irrigated gated tracks who gets his mail mall at Je Jerome Jerome Jerome rome Ida arrived In Salt Lake yesterday on his way wa to Denver on business He says sas the outlook agriculturally In south southern era ern Idaho this year ear is excellent Farm Farmers Farmers ers era and merchants are all confident of an unusually successful season He spOKe spoSe of the great amount of ot railroad activity in southern Idaho and said that the prop proposition proposition proposition of ot the Oregon Short Line to build from the town of Lucin Is caus causing causIn leg ing In a n great deal of or comment on the tract SIf U It all aU the railroad schemes that are talked aboul for southeastern Idaho come true said Me Mr r Humphreys that part of the state will soon be a perfect network of steam and trolley lines Unes We Ve consider most of the reports we hear as pipe dreams but it seems apparent that the thc new branch link from Burley to Lucin Is a go so If It It Is it will mean great things for the new town of Burley Burle That road would make Burley the commercial ceo n ter of ot southeastern Idaho all alt right And the road would also mean much for the development of or the country south of Bur Burley Burley Burley ley in Idaho and also I 80 in northern Utah At this time Ume the thc Short Line either hauls Its freight to the Pacific coast by b way of the Portland gateway or makes use of the Southern Pacific via Ogden but with the proposed cutoff the freight would be taken out of our territory by byway byway byway way of Burley and Lucin Another proposition preposition to extend the Ore Oregon Oreon Oregon gon on Short Line In Idaho which Mr Humphreys regards s as a sure thing Is the building of or a n branch from Mated Malad northward and westward through the Twin Falls tract The Short Line officials elate have also contemplated building from the Buhl BuhI end of their Minidoka I project to Lucin but Mr Humphreys says sayil it is generally understood up there that this route has been given up In southeastern Idaho the people arc are also talking very strongly of ot the proba probe probability probability of the Harriman people taking up the work on its extension from Buhl BuhI west along the Snake river through the Twin Falls project to either Orchard Nampa Caldwell or Ontario passing either through or near the Grand View country and serving that section of the state south of the Snake river and nod practically paral paralleling paralleling its main line for many miles |