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Show PQCATELLO BOOH ON CROP PROSPECTS H. C. Coker, Secretary of Commercial Com-mercial Club, Discusses Conditions. H. C. Coker, secretary of the Pocalello Commercial club, is in Salt Lake on business. busi-ness. Speaking of geenral business conditions con-ditions In Idaho and the crop prospects Mr. Coker said: "The abundant rainfall, with which the greater part of the western country has been blessed, and the continued cooler weather,' combined with an absence of severe frosts such as would be calculated to do damage to growing crops, assures a bumper harvest In the fall. Throughout Bannock county generally the crops are looking splendid, farmers are smiling all the time and there can be no (jucntlon thnt the yield this year will be above the average. indeeJ, I look for bumper crops and a banner year, On the tract to the north of Pocatello water has been turned Into the government govern-ment Irrigation ditch, and considerable clearing and seeding has been donu there. Large areas are already giving promise of good crops of alfalfa, grain and the like, nnd that the development of this laud will do much to draw the attention of visitors to Pocatello ami the surrounding country as a rich farming country there can be no doubt. I have been in most parts of southern Idaho of late and everywhere the indications arc this same, that good crops can he absolutely counted upon. "I have done a good deal aC work in connection with, the Western Development Develop-ment .association, of which Governor James 11. Brady Is president. Tho people peo-ple in Iduho are enthusiastic about the projected exhibition train. I feel sure this will be the greatest thing ever accomplished accom-plished In educating tho people of the cast and middle west states as to the actual conditions, products and possibilities possibili-ties of the west." |