| Show ACRE lAND DEAL Salt fealt aIt Lake and Logan Capitalists Acquire Emery Em ry Tract in Northern Utah NEW EW RAILROAD INTO IDAHO 1 Final inaI Survey for Jor Line From Saline Through Raft River Valley Proposition Dam POH Po 1 and mill the General B of or the Country I The fhe Pacific Land and Water ater com coin company pany recently organized with a capital of ot and composed or of Salt Lake TAke Lakei and i Logan capitalists has Just com corn completed a big bl land deal by b which It acquires the Emery tract In South Southern Southern ern erti Idaho and northern Utah comprising log ing in all acres The consideration tion Is not named but as there are aro several thousand acres or of Irrigated fruit and farm lands In the Raft river valley valle Idaho and tho the same samo amount in county Utah Included In tho the property the tho amount paid was evi 01 evidently evidently dently In six sic sl figures The Tho company has hn for Its president James Junes H Patterson Robert Hobort A treasurer C N Strevell secretary F A Druehl gen general cral eral manager Harold A Lafount of or Logan The general offices of ot tho com company pany l n aro In tho the building tho active management man gement to bo from Logan This new company Is evidently going Into Inlo business on a very largo large scale for in addition to tho the purchase of the Emory EmerY tract It has bas acquired several thousands of acres oC or the best farm tarm farmlands farmlands lands In various parts of ot Utah adapted both to fruit and grain growing NEW EW The deal for the Emery Emel tract Is tho the Inception of an activity which tho the expenditure of ot a great amount of or money and the opening up of or new country of many man thousands thou ands of The Idaho lands are watered by lW byThe bythe The he Raft river Clear creek and smaller streams having their sources In tho the Raft Haft River mountains And through this country a new line of ot railroad is 11 to be built The final survey has just been completed for tor the new n W lino line from Saline Utah on the Lucin cutoff crossing the tho and traversing tho the Raft river valley valle 7 It Is uld said that work on this line wilt will start In the spring that tho the very VOl heaviest steel will be used In its build building lug ing and that the tho construction coni through throughout out will be of tho the highest class It will materially shorten distance In this country and afford valuable trans transportation transportation facilities facUlties to a remarkably fertile ferUle country which has heretofore been beon handicapped because of tho the want of or a railroad 1 DAM AND POWER POWEn PLANT The Pacific Land Water company will develop all of ot this country along liberal lines A part of ot the property adjoins tho the claims of the Century and andt t Suzanna mining companies A dam damand damand and power plant Is to be built buill In this vicinity and a laid out In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Immediate vicinity are thousands s sor of or acres of ot land suitable for grazing with many man springs of fine water The company also owns a large body of oC fine line pine timber Hero Here sawmills are areto areto areto to be erected shortly and tho tim lumber prepared for tor market It Is planned by tho the company to es CS establish establish xi n largo large demonstration farm farmon on jin tile the Emery EmelY tract where It will bo be just juat what these lands lan s are arc cap caT capable capable able of or producing As soon as the re remainder remainder of the lands land are appraised they will 11 be e offered for sale As AI the tile theland theland land lies lie Immediately to the Fouth routh of ot the tho Minidoka project It teems a fore foro foregone era gone bOno conclusion that within a u ow ew years ears there thero will be a solidly settled country from Promontory to Minidoka Harold Lafount manager of ot the com corn company company pany who was the tho active agent In Inclosing Inclosing inclosing closing the deal has been endeavoring to acquire tho the Emery tract for or sow nov eral erat years ears without success until a few days ago Tho The entrance of at the tho Pacific Land Water Vator company com pan Into the real estate field means that one more very vel active aggregation of ot men pica backed by ample capital has lias been added to the tho development resources of oC the country |
