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Show EAST IS INTERESTED IN IRRIGATED LANDS J: D. Landes. president of the Twin Falls Shoshone Land and Water company, com-pany, who is at the Kenyon, in speaking to a Tribune representative of tho work being done In Idaho toward irrigation, stated that in a very short while over $1,500,000 acres would be under Irrigation, Irriga-tion, Six hundred thousand acres are located lo-cated in Bruno valley alone. The Salmon river segregation comprises one hundred and fifty thousand acres, of which eighty thousand acres were sold In June. Under the Carey act. all work Is done under tho supervision of the Suite, and the companies com-panies are required to furnish bonds nnd all plans must meet with the npprovnl of the. Stato engineer and land board, the Stato fjicn acting ns guarantor. Mr. Landes, who has Just returned from the East, spoke very" encouragingly of the financial end of tho work, and of the desire de-sire of Eastern financiers to know more about the plans of the different companies. com-panies. He also stated that there is a ready market for irrigation bonds and, coupling that fact with the productiveness productive-ness of tho soil, the outlook for Idaho lands is most promising. |