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Show lank and distributed over the town through a Ej'stem of water mains. Oood opportunities are offered here fur all kinds of buslneaa that a growing grow-ing town demands. Grain and potato pota-to buyers would find especial oppoi-tunltles oppoi-tunltles and a. good flour mill is needed. 'The new railroad that runs from Moreland on the .Mackay branch of the Oregon Short Line la now completed com-pleted to Springfield, which is a new town Just starting twelve miles north-cast north-cast of Aberdeen. Work on this road is being pushed a fast as material can be obtained and men can build it toward Aberdeen, which will be Ihe terminus lor the present. Later It is to be extended to American Falls, where it will Joiu the main lire, going west bo Boise find Portland." Port-land." The Aberdeen Springfield Caual company is new, having been organized or-ganized by the settlers to operate. the canal system which has been built nnd Is now practically completed by the American Falls Canal and Power company. Improved land ia selling t from Ha to $150 an acre, whi'e tho American Falls company sells s?gebru6h land, including water right for $40.50 an acre. Other towns along tho new railroad line are Rock- I ford. Plngree. Springflold and I Rocbelle. I ARBERDEEN, IDAHO HAS GOOD CROPS daho Visitor Tells of Progress That Is Being Made In His District,' D. H. Blossom, manager of tho Aberdeen. Ab-erdeen. Springfield Canal company, w!th headquarters at Aberdeen, Ida., which controls 6.", 000 acres of land, is in Salt Lake City on business connected con-nected with his company. Mr. Blossom reports the crops to be the best ever had on this tract "There will be from five to seven tons of alfalfa on land that was seed-eu seed-eu last year," he said. "Wheat will po from forty to 6lxty tmshels on land that has been plowed up after having hav-ing been in alfalfa for two years, cud from ten to twenty-eight bushels on sagebrush land without water. In addition to these rnalu crops, thcie is a lot of land planted in potatoes which will go from 200 to 300 packs to the ucre A number of young or-ibardj or-ibardj have been set out. these which have been out for four to five yeai are bearing this oa Lots of raspberries rasp-berries and strawberries and all kinds of garden truck are being grown there this year. This state of affairs af-fairs is especially noticeable, since this has br.-en an exceptionally dry j'iinou. The land under tbe American Ameri-can Falls canal has had ample water, however, during thia season, although other companies in the neighborhood have had to do considerable work In order to got an adequate supply, owing ow-ing to low level In Snako River. "Aberdeen Is the center of an irrigated irri-gated tract about twelve miles iu diameter. dia-meter. In an ideal location for a. t.iwn. It now has throe general ftores, a po&tofflce. two lumber yards, o bank, drug store, hardware sfor, meat market, hotel and livery barn. Plans for a new three-story hotel will Mart within the next two weeks. The town has cement sidewalks, and a water system has lately beeu Installed, Install-ed, which Is supplied from a well drilled to a depth of seventy feet, tbo water holng pumped Into a stc-el |