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Show BANKERS ARE GUESTS kJ GABFiELD PLANT Eastern Visitors Taken for Long Automobile Ride; t Leave for Denver. D. E. Hurley, general passenger agent of tho Oregon Short. Line railroad, and Daniel C. Jaclclln, general manager of the Ulnh Copper company, wore hosts Friday, Fri-day, entertaining the party of twenty-two twenty-two N'ow york. Pittsburg. Chicago and other Eastern bankers, who tarried in Salt Lake City, en route home, with an all-day automobile ride. The visitors were taken to Garfield, where they were conducted through the big smelters and shown the extensive plnnl of the Utah company, after a trip to the various points of Interest in the city. They left at :t o'clock In the afternoon for Denver over the Denver & lllo Grande. General Superintendent D. C. Mac-Waters Mac-Waters and Major Fred It. Reed, general agenl or the Twbi Falls North Side Land and Water company, who escorted the party here from Idaho, loft for Mllner Friday night on tbe 11:45 o'clock train. Mr. Mac Waters said before his departure: "The party came directly lo the Twin Falls tract for the purpose of seeing the present development and obtaining a fair idea of the magnitude of the contemplated contemplat-ed work. They were all Impressed by the wonderful changes which have been wrought on the sagebrush desert with the Installation of dams and canals and the watering o'f the soil. The visit was fortunate fortu-nate for Idaho, because lhe Hlaie can now have all of the money It needs for legitimate development, every member of the parly displaying favorable Interest In the contemplated. S00,000-acre reclamation and other works. "There arc 100 men now al work for Donald Grant, the largest contractor who has ever come West of Chicago, and when (lie work of building the laterals and sub-laterals is begun, the little Industrial In-dustrial army wiK be Increased to 2500 men. There arc 100 miles of mnln canals, laterals and sub-laterals, about fifty special spe-cial structures, and fifty, bridges to bo built for the North Side. We will turn water Into the canals of the remaining liiO.OOO acres early next spring. "Work on the Goodlng-MJlhcr Interur-ban Interur-ban line is progressing rapidly. The contracts con-tracts were let by Mr. ICnhn three, weeks ago. and the grades arc now being made, forces working out of Gooding. Wendell. .Jerome and Mil nor." |