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Show IDAHO'S GREAT ADVANCE. No di vision of this whole mountain country has, as a whole, progressed so fast tho past year as Idaho. Through her man.y reclanintion projects under government control, through tho enterprise enter-prise of private companies, and through operations under the Care3' land act, vast .-irons hnvc been put and are being be-ing put under tillage, and fortunes were made l,y those who got in carl3' and were lucky in selecting lands that were later converted into town sites. All through tho Snake Vail 03' this hns been tho great sensational advance of tho year. Tho Oregon Short Lino has built tracks for (ho accommodation of tho business that is thus afforded. It is now building across from southwestern southwest-ern Idaho to a connection with tho Southern Pacific main lino in Nevada. Railroad progress has thus kept up with the general progress of (ho Stato in increase of population, prosperit', and wealth. Tho mines, also, have yielded well, and tho Stato is vasll.y richer at the close of tho year than when the year bogan. As a grazing State Idaho excels, nnd the live-stock industr3' has been ver' profitable there this 3ear. Idaho's forests, for-ests, also, havo proved a great source of wealth;, and her natural rosources in general have been developed more in .1909 than in a 113 former 3'car. Educationally, morall.v. and in all forms of charitable and Christian work, Idaho has received its full share of benefits during tho year. In the increase in-crease in population, the added area for settlement, for new towns, and for nil tho various entorprises that natural' attach to a rapidly growing communis, Tdaho has been in tho vanguard of progress and achievement. It is a well-watered well-watered State, and water is tho life of this whole great region. Tho Tribune this morning presents from its special traveling correspondent in Idaho a fine account of the progress of the State iu general and in detail, during tho past .year. It is a marvelous showing, ' one that proves the wide-reaching wide-reaching and energetic advance of Idaho. And tho prcsonl year will undoubtedly un-doubtedly keep tho ball, rolling as swift-I3' swift-I3' as in the year just past. The Tribune-felicitates the people of Idaho on tjie splondid showing made, and it hopes for them a full continuance of tho prosperous- times that they havo orijo3'cd, and the advance that tho3' have so magnificentl.v made. |