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Show A NEW TOWN IN IDAHO. There is to be a new town in Idaho the town of Burley in Cassia county 21 miles south and west of Minidoka on the Minidoka and Southwestern South-western Branch of the Oregon Short Line now building into the great region which the Minidoka government project and the great Twin Falls irrigation irri-gation project, together costing many millions or dollars, are to redeem from desolation and give over to husbandry. Altogether 400,000 acres of the fertile valleys of the Snake river are to be reclaimed re-claimed by these two giant enterprises. Burley is the namesake of Mr. D. B. Burley. general passenger and ticket agent of the Oregon Short Line railroad, and promises to take on the push, vim and energy which has signalized the career of the man whose name it bears. Burley is to occupy a town site of 640 acres in the very heart of the great region under reclamation, recla-mation, and will draw to it the tribute of a vast country rich in fertile lands and surrounded by mining and stock growing Interests of tremendous Importance. V The town site, beautifully situated on lands that gently slope towards and drain into the ever flowing Snake, is now being platted, and will be ready for lot selection on May 1, when speoial .-.. - ,.. -. I, I, - 1 f? trains will be run from Minidoka to Burley and a sale be held of choice lots close about the site of the proposed new hotel With which the new city is to begin its career. About fifteen of the most ohoice corner lots will be auctioned to the highest bidder. There wi'i be a drawing for the choice of balance of the lots which will be sold at regular listed prices; the only advantage in the drawing being that persons having the first choice will be entitled to make first selection of lots. Already applications for the purchase of lots and proposals for the establishing of a variety of business concerns are flowing into the town company, com-pany, and almost before the lines of streets and alleys are laid down, a boom is threatening Burley The region around Burley is so rich in resources and so certain of rapid settlement under the stimulation stim-ulation of reclamation that Burley's speedy growth may be taken for granted. Equipped with ample capital and composed of men of great influence, there will be no lack of push on the part of the town site company, whose immediate affairs will be in the hands of Major Fred B. Reed, a veteran in the art of city building The Short Lie will build an attractive station in the new town, and will complete before snow flies nearby across the Snake river a steel bridge more than 800 feet long. A long distance telephone line is completed, and the daily stage lines now" operating from Mini doka south to Albion, the county seat, Oakley and other settlements distant from the railroad, will hereafter operate from the town of Burley. A great railroad, diversity and wealth of resources, re-sources, a large and productive surrounding coun try, favorable climatic conditions, a rapidly increasing in-creasing population, are incentives to city building. build-ing. All these Burjey has and many more possessions posses-sions besides, and having these, jt goes without saying that Burley will thrive. |