Show VICTORY OVER THE mm DESERT to 0 Be Celebrated Next Next Year by bya b ba a Great Sagebrush Fiesta Fl esta COMMEMORATE NEW ERA ER OTHER iTHER STATES IN ARID BELT IN lN INVITED INVITED TO PARTICIPATE T I A corporation has been formed In Po Pocatello Pocatello Pocatello catello for tor the purpose of promoting a great Creat Sagebrush Fiesta to be held some Borne time during 1908 1008 in honor of ot the thc conquest of ot the desert Idaho ranks rank high among irrigated states and its It people peoples after about for tor some fit fitting fitting fitting ting means meane of ot marking the great re regeneration regeneration regeneration generation of ot the states stats sterile area have bave adopted the idea of I 1 L Bush LIv LIvermore Livermore Livermore editor of at the Pocatello Trib Tribune Tribune une line The services of ot foremost boosters have been enlisted in the thc movement nt and it is Ia purposed to make the Sagebrush Fiesta one of ot the most mosi memorable events in the history of ot the westOne westOne west westOne One of at the principal promoters of at the Fiesta is th Blame Blaine Phillips of Boise for formerly formerly merly editor and publisher of ot the Northwest Magazine Mr Phillips was wa waIn In the th city yesterday esterday preparing to un undertake undertake Undertake some literary work for the Oregon Ore Oreon fion gon on Short Line He Me is to make several trips on the lines JInes and write articles which are to appear in a Union Pacific publication Before his departure for Granger last night Mr Phillips had the following to say re regarding regarding garding the proposed Fiesta Expositions exhibitive enterprises of smaller scope and conventions have become so numerous within the past few years that one might almost ex expect peet the tho birth of ot a calf to be observed with some fitting celebration Not Notwithstanding Notwithstanding withstanding the Sagebrush Fiesta is presented without diffidence It will r commemorate something of far tar greater importance to humanity than the mere promotion of commercial relations the exhibition of from foreign climes or the assimilation of foreign ideas and customs It will mark primarily marily marll a triumph of science that takes precedence over any of the later dis discoveries discoveries which have taxed the credence of the layman It will observe an achievement that is more vitally re related to the welfare of ot civilization than the discovery of ot the elixir of ot Ufo life or the fountain of ot Ponce de do Leon Other States Invited There is something about this ren this re of ot the desert that is wo wonderful and inspiring It is not mere mer tb ory oly that has been repeatedly demonstrated Where but a afew afew few tew years ago even the sagebrush struggled to exist now spread acres upon acres of ot growing crops and or orchards orchards orchards Every acre redeemed has been beena a contribution to a better humanity to toa toa toa a higher civilization The development of ot irrigation projects has Introduced millions of ot capital Into the west and given great impetus to evolution In ev every every ery cry field The problem does not con concern concern concern cern Idaho particularly It is something some something something thing that has haR furnished an epoch In American history and therefore we think it timely to observe the mighty advancement with a celebration of some sort Our plans are In a state of tion We have only a vague idea of what we wish to do and we wish sug suggestions Sugg g from the other arid states We in the first place to have the co cooperation cooperation cooperation operation of every cery state that is con confronted confronted confronted fronted with the desert problem It Is Intended to make the Fiesta unique distinctive of the west and original In Rome some respects It will be a small ex exposition exposition exposition position patterned after the Midwinter fair at San Francisco It will be held near the center of the me Fort Hall Han fed ted federal eral reclamation project a locality that will afford aford strangers an opportunity to f see Jee ee the old and the new Moreover It will be at the door so to speak of the Twin Falls country which has been blessed with prodigious development Primarily the Fiesta will be for the purpose of ot educating In behalf of the Fiesta I request that Utah and all an allarid allarid arid and semiarid states assist in some someway someway someWay way If It you OU merely merel send an exhibition exhibition exhibition tion of irrigated farm products that will ill bo be a splendid textbook and you might take away some more cups |