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Show BRILLIANT FUTURE I AHEAD OF IDAHO ; l Pocatello Merchant Tells of What la ' Being Done in tho Way of Re-claiming Re-claiming Arid Land. ! H "Thoro has been a good deal said about tho devolopment and growth of Idaho, j H but there are fow persons outsldo of thn Stato who have an adequate Idea of what ,( that development really means," said J. jJ C. Weotor president of the Wootcr Lum- t ber company at Pocatello. who 1b in this ' city for a fow days on business. "It Is 1 1 safe to say that during the next Avo years IIUI IViiB lliiill IW.WJ ii;;c:j ui uiu muni. I H productlvo lands In southeastern Idaho I , will bo brought from the desert state to I a high state of cultivation by new lrrl- jH gatlon projects, which will mean a mil- lion added population. Such a growth a growth of so permanent a character , Is probably unprecedented, even In rapid Wcstorn progression, and it Is difficult to , I ostlmato the results In matters of trado and Industry. Already wo aro seolng ,1 somo of tho results of this development fl of agricultural resources. Last year a , new sugar factory was built at Idaho I 1 Falls and this year another Is being built , I at Rcxburg, and wherever ouch Improve- j monts aro started prosperous communl- I I ties spring up In a very short time, com- JM munltlcs which become at once great pro- ducers. Why, more than 2000 carloads , of produce were last year shipped from Idaho Falls alono, and It Is only a fair 1 oxamplo of scores of other communities 1 which aro being brought Into existence 1 r by tho extending of irrigation and the ' . building of branoh railroads to tho new, I country opened up. "Among tho moro. prominent Irrigation 1 projects already undor way Js the one 1 undertaken by tho Government, south of Mlnnldoka, which will bring In 100,000 I ncres of land; othors taken up by private , enterprise are at American Falls. Twin I Falls and Glenn's Ferry, which will bring I, In 100,000, 0.000 and 50,000 acroa, respective- ' IH ly. and thero aro many smaller ones ,. which do not attract much attention, but I which will help to swell tho grand total. II ll I might add that these Irrigation projects ll aro all In tho territory which Is tributary to Pocatello, and I believe that wo may 1 1 confidently anticipate that our little city 1 r will recelvo its full sharo of tho benefits 1 which are to accruo from tho remarkable I developments which are to make Idaho 1 tho richest Stato in ttjo lntermountalD . country." ' |