Show STREAM OF COLONISTS + Thousands of Homeeekers For Utah and Idaho 8000 DUNKARDS COMING r MANY LOCATE ALONG THE OREGON ORE-GON SHORT LINE + Committee Wel Pleased With Southwestern South-western IdahoRaiway Officials of Home Report a Steady Stream seeersetlng On Utah and Idaho Lands 4 A committee of four representing the Dunkards a strong religious organization organiza-tion of South Dakota have just completed com-pleted a tour over the Oregon Short LIne with a view of selecting a place for the members of their organization to settle and make homes These pe pie have made some tettlements along the line of the Great Northern but the rigorous climate of that section has been disagreeable to them and they are non desirous of moving and for that reason this committee was sent Into Suthern Idaho with a view of IndIn a suitable plate They were ery much pleased with the country and will probably report in favor or making settlements there Speaking of the matter yesterday General Passenger Agent Burley ot the Oregon Short Line said They are avery a-very desirable cass of people for such a purpose and we expect to get from 8000 to IOCO of them located along our line in the near future Stream of Colonists When questioned further about the coming of homeseekers this season > 11 Burley stated that there Is no particular particu-lar bIg movement this year but that people are coming In In a steady stream Two homeeekels excursions are run every month and already hundreds or people have come into this state The majority of those who have come to Utah have gone to Bear River Clear Lake or > 11 Nebo and of those who come out to examine the country there are but few who will not locate here All of the railroads are carrying these homesepkers into this and adjoining states hut Idaho gets the mot of them There are about fifty irrigation and I colonization concerns in I that state representing about 850 miles of canals with about 1200 miles of lateral ditches These canals represent an outlay of over 3000000 and Irrigate nearly 1000 000 acres of land The greater part or which Is not under cultivation as yet The people who are coming out on these lomescekers excursions are mostly from points west of the Is I soon river although a number of com panics have come from Iowa to settle in the country In the vicinity of Idaho I Falls The movement Is not of a boom nature but is the stead westward march of people who are looking for places where they can find homes and I make a comfortable living The desert Is being gradually reclaimed thriving orchards are taking the place of sagebrush sage-brush and happy homes are springing up all over Utah and Idaho as a re suIt of this movement |