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Show H lUll IDAHO. I fJit!f Utah will have to look to her laurels or she H . ! r'l ' wi De efc for behind by Idaho as an agricul- Hk r, 1 ! tural State. Only a little of this State can be B fy 'wml put under cultivation at best, only a little of that m I '! amount is at present under cultivation Idaho is B Iff I' beginning to talk of reclaiming her land ly tlve B i : million acres as though it were merely a matter jjH iff, J of course Idaho has two very great advantages B 'I'll over any other of these intermountain States B i M t - Sne has a great deal of land convenient to two B i 1 i 1 or three great rivers, then much of her land is Hi 1$ jijt J 1,000 feet lower in altitude than the average valley iB f Mm 1 land in surrounding States, making her crops, B J1 iH 1 especially her fruits, more certain of bringing a B MHhI return for work. When Idaho succeeds in re- B i$H0 claiming all her land that is possible to reclaim Hi : 'HIRi sne w have more land under cultivation than B 'iiflfl a New England nas more than the total area B MP of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and B ' Rhode Island And she will still be one of the B i'-U great mining States of the Union |