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Show -oo COLONIZING NEAR SPRINGFIELD Pocatello, Idaho, March 11. A large colony of Flnlanders. comprising about thirty families from the Black Hills country of South Dakota, passed through Pocatello yesterday on their" way to their new homes near Sprlne-field, Sprlne-field, where thoy have purchased a large tract of land under the Aberdeen-Springfield ditch. Of over G000 acres of land in the district only a small portion Is under un-der cultivation at present. It Hes about two miles east of SprlnEfieM The older of the colonists are Sgn born, but have lived In America for I some time and are familiar with tho language. lua |