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Show IRRIGATION PLANT IS SOLD FOR $60,001 Spokane, Wash.. July 2S Spokane-Idaho Spokane-Idaho Irrigation & Power company controlling 30.000 acres of land an water rights along Little Lost rlvei In Custer county, Idaho, has beei sold by Benjamin E. Hervey of Spo kane. to a Kansas City, syndicate headed bv E K. Taylor and J. Wiles for $60,000. Mr. Hervey acquired th' property early in July for $19,000. Mr. Hervey said on his return ti Spokane from Boise, where the da tails of me eaie were humju . "The crops in southern Idaho will be generally good, although In some localities only two crops of nlfalfi will be cut this year, owing to thi scarcity of water. The early meltln of the "snow this year bad Its effect "The farmers are contracting their new alfalfa crop to tho sheep ownerfl at $7 and $12 a ton loose In the stack. ' When at Mountain Home. Idaho. T was told that a company of Seattle Is putting water on 70.000 acre. Southern Idaho Is rapidly becoming a vast field of Jrrigated land and it l reported now that 1.000.000 acres of lands are being put under water t the average cost to the settlers of $4" an acre " |