Show IDAHO WEALTH IS ISNOW ISNOW NOW ON INCREASE JOEL t. t L. L PRIEST PLACES VALUE E OF STATE AT MORE THAN Many Commodities Go To Make U Up p Enormous Wealth Of Gem State Last Year Will De Be The Banner Dan Ban ner nor Year Bait Ralf Lake City The The value of ot Idaho's Ida hoe ho's o agricultural and horticultural crops livestock wool lumber and min oral prod production Ion for 1025 1925 Is placed n at atmore t moro more than by Joel I. I Priest general a agent of ot tho the Union Pacific Pa Ira system In Idaho in a special report report re reo port just announced from the general genera l offices of the Union Pacific at Salt Sal t Lake Generally Improved conditions ta a are aro cited In the authoritative and complete com corn plate report by Mr Priest who concludes con dudes that the close of ot 1926 1925 will sc see seethe seethe the state us liS a whole on a sound Bound satisfactory satis factory financial basis Idaho's estimated productivity valuation val is divided as us follows Wheat 2797 bushels Hay flay tons Potatoes bushels 14 14 Beans bushels fleets Beets tons Fruits Oats 1000 bushels Barley bushels Onions bushels Dairy products Wool Lambs lamb Cattle and hogs Bees floes Mines Lumber Total deposits of the tho state stab banks In Idaho were 7 higher at the close of business Se September Sep 28 than they were on June 3 30 0 and approximately higher highe r than they were on September 28 1924 tho the report continues Assets Asset s of the banks showed a total o of f an Increase of ot 2364 2369 over June 30 and 1 over assets listed a year ago Since Sine September 28 there has been o ot of t course an nn enormous increase due t to returns from abundant high priced d crops and the close of ot 1925 will se see S I the state as a n whole on a sound satisfactory financial basis Conditions in Idaho's lumber Industry Industry Indus Indus- s' s try are much Improved over those o oa of ofa ofa t a year ago with lite layette Iloise Lumber company estimating its 1925 5 business at 1000 cars larger than i in n 1924 according to the report Th Tho Eccles Lumber company expects t to 0 ship hip a minimum of cars per mo moth month mono mon n th as soon Boon as ns the company's Cascade mill is s able to operate on a normal basis The spectacular advance in the price of potatoes Is pointed to as the outstanding feature font urn of Idaho's cultural situation In October by Mr 1 Priest who says At the beginning of the month farmers were getting an average of per hundredweight but during the closing days of October they were receiving from 3 to While WIllie of course a n considerable amount of the crop had been disposed of previous to the price advance there yet remained remained re reo a n goodly portion to be bo soldat sold eold soldat at the regular figures Idaho's production pro this year Is estimated at 12 12 bushels I do not recall any former years ears when the price has been so high so sc early In the season Fortunes are being boing be bo- ing made by many growers A case caso casein casein in point is that of the St. St Anthony farmer who is reported to have bavo harvested bar har vested an average of sacks per acre from acres for which ho lie will receive a minimum of Ills production and marketing cost Is figured fig tig not to exceed which will wll leave leavo him hima n a net return of ot at least The Tho 1925 legislature author purchase of ot a quarter section o of farm land for the Industrial school at St. St Anthony for This year the school schoot raised on twenty eight acres sufficient potatoes to pay for tor forthe forthe the entire quarter section The former former former for for- mer owner of the tract planted sixty acres of potatoes on other ground and from the proceeds of his crop he wants to buy the ICO acres back from the state and pay a bonus of With a heavy hell acre nerd yield and hIgh higl prices the Idaho potato grower is sitting on the top of the world and Idaho Falls arlly known as Spud Alley has been dubbed the Farmers Farmers' I Klondike Shipments for forthe forthe forthe the month totalled 2386 carloads |