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Show I uu HELPING THE FARMERS. Two hundred farmer uu the Burley project have been granted the use of water by Secretary of the Interior Fall, although they arc delinquent in the payment of ihr-ir water charges With adverse mnditlons during the past two years, the farmers of south em Idaho have had a severe snuggle and many of them have been reduced io bankruptcy . When a i-ondltion of that kind arises, it is the duty of the government to extend a helping hand Home building is the finest field of effort of the government and the besi of home building is the safeguarding of the fanner's home. the ;ounda tion of our civilization Is the tiller oi the soil with a family in his keeping. Until the crisis is passed, the fanners fann-ers of all southern Idaho, depending on water from government irrigation works, should be granted an exten sion of time in which to pay their wa'er charges. rn . |