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Show MALAD VALLEY. The Total Acreage Under Cultivation Increased One Fourth. J. "W. Dudley, of the firm of Dudley & Co., Malad City, Idaho, was down from that valley, Monday. Mon-day. He brings an encouraging report of the prosperity of that section. sec-tion. Considerable money has been spent thereabouts this season by big cattlemen. Good prices were paid for steers. One buyer invested $tl,000 in cattle, mostly yearlings. The agricultural portion por-tion of the community is not idle either. Large tracts of new land have been broken. There is :in increase in-crease of at least twenty-live per cent., to the thousands of acres under cultivation last year. This progressive pro-gressive people want a railway and telephonic or telegraphic communi- I cation and they arc certain to se-: cure these .conveniences ere long. |