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Show MILLIONS FOR IRRIGATION. Buhls Will Spend $24,000,000 to Water 700.000 Acres. Salt Lake City. According to a statement made by Lieutenant-Governor Sweetser of Idaho, In this city on Tuesday, $24,000,000 will be spent on Iho Bruno tract, near Burley, In southern Idaho, to develop 700,000 acres of land within from three to five years, under the auspices of the Buhls of Pittsburg, who have many millions of ready cash themselves and command still more. The Improvements Im-provements mean a $3,000,000 Irrigation Irriga-tion dam abovo American Falls, and a $2,000,000 syphon under the Salmon river, In Twin Falls county. The matter mat-ter was financed when Mr. Sweetser was In Chicago last week, and work will begin at once. Except those of tho government Itself, this will bo the biggest Irrigation project over undertaken under-taken in tho west. This new Irrigation Irriga-tion project Insures within from three to flvo years a total bf 5,o00,iU0 Irrigated Irri-gated acres In southern Idaho under the Carey and other government acts. |