Show STATEHOOD STA advantages FACES senator duboiss account of the advantages vant aCes which idaho has derived from statehood la Is very interesting he declares first that taxation has been increased only a trine trifle it if at all second that statehood draws people and makes it necessary tor for the government to expend thirty of 0 forty thousand th oil dollars a year in idaho in surveying y the public lands again the government ern ment even in tho the liard hard times last year appropriated a hundred thousand dollars tor for a public building at bolsa boise city ile he further says that idaho having teen established as a state on a permanent has foundation the result has been the bringing of millions of dollars to that region reelon with which to purchase in mines ines and with which to inaus inaugurate and build immense canals which when the work shall bo be completed and the lands shall bo be subdued will make idaho idabo one of the foremost for emott agricultural states in the matter of grain vegetables and fruit in the union this year the farmers and fruit growers of northern idaho are having a better belter market than probably any other people of the united states because their products aro are being rapidly purchased and paid tor for in gold from the coeur dalene mines in every way in his opinion statehood b has immensely benefited idaho it has given it character which enables it to have three represent Re presen alt ives in congress all the time it ches it a fair chance in national conventions conven tlona through statehood people have been drawn directly into association and accord with all the people of the united states his belief Is that utah will never regret the day when her people by an overwhelming majority voted to adopt the constitution that statehood might follow |