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Show LINE OF RAILS FOLLOWS DITCH Mr. Bancroft Gfvea Cheering News of a New Idaho Kail-road. Kail-road. TirUST .13 soon na irrigation plana I demonstrate the development of the region, construction will commence on the Mlndidoka & Southwestern road," said Vice-President Bancroft of the Short Line system sys-tem last evening Just as he wao goine; home after his arrival from Chicago. Continuing, he said that the rood was organized for the purpose of huilding the line, about seventy miles or more, through the heart of. the region to be watered by the Twin Falls project, which is backed by some prominent local and Eastern capitalists, but until the land is watered it will be impossible impossi-ble to do anything on the construction of the line. The plans of the irrigating company Include the converting of 270,000 acres to good farming land, which will be thrown open to settlement settle-ment and will be a big thing for that section of Idaho. "It is'Mr. Harriman's plan," said Mr. Bancroft, "to make every effort to develop de-velop such a country nnd for this reason rea-son the whole of the section Is eventually event-ually to be tapped by the Short Line system and work Is to be commenced immediately upon the staisfactory completion com-pletion of the plans of the land and ilrrlgation company for watering the land. Then the road will be able to see something very bright in the prospect and will do its full share In building up what Is now practically a desert section, sec-tion, but what may, in a few years, be one of the rich spots of Idaho," As to his visit to Chicago, where he met other officials in conference with Mr. Kruttschnltt, Mr. Bancroft stated that the matters discussed were entirely en-tirely of a private nature, referring to the general operation of the road, and of which he had nothing to say. |