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Show SAYS SHELLEY, IDA., IS HAVING BIG BOOM Publisher of Paper Describes Impetus Given to Town by Installation of New Sugar Factory. Joseph Adams, publisher of the helley, Idaho, Pioneer, reached the city yesterday yester-day for the purpose of getting out a boll-day boll-day edition of bis paper, and incidentally incidental-ly notes the growth of his town within the past year. Mr. Adams says that the population of Shelley has increased 25 per cent within ! the past twelve months and that the I town has advanced surprisingly in an in-! in-! dust rial way. The L: tan-Ida ho Sugar j company, says Mr. Adams, has begun t he erection of a new factory at Shelley. The company is now at work on the founda-I founda-I tion of the new plant, from which it is j constructing a drain to the Snake river, I upon which work lifty men are employed. I Rights of way were purchased by the ; company for the drain and a track connecting con-necting the factory with transportation facilities, and it is expected that the new Plant, which is to cost $1,000,000, will be completed in ample time to take care of the li 17 crop of beets. T. YV. Shelley, manager of the Shelley Mercantile company, which has put in an electric power plant on the Snake river, is preparing to furnish electrical current for lighting and power purposes to the adjoining towns of Goshen, Basalt, i Firth and YV oodville, according to Mr. I Adams. , I For the settler jvanting to make a home, Mr. Adams says, Shelley offers unusual un-usual opportunities, as that vicinity Is i possessed of all the essential elements of I community growth and is taking on an ! impetus which has found added force in j the new sugar industry now under way. ! |