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an exhibit of grains and vegetables grown from soil soil which had been covered with sage brush until the previous March, but whose products would have made glad the heart of a Prairie State farmer. As we studied the faces of the men and women assembled, we understood that more than sun, water, and virgin soil had been factors in the phenomenal development of the community. No gathering of its size of people of the same status could have made an impression of greater intelligence and prosperity. There was, too, an air of pride; and justifiable pride it was.

One year before, on the present town site, there had been not so much as a road through the sage brush; every foot of timber, every load of brick, every pound of cement, had been brought twenty-five miles across the desert, ferried across the Snake, climbed the canyon wall, and been freighted three miles farther to be used in the town's construction. Here is a region of 250,000 acres of rich virgin soil watered by a river which is more than 700 feet below its level.

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In the valley of the Snake river. The water here shown is one of the springs that abound in the region.

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more than ten or fifteen per cent of the total annual flow of the river past these head works will ever actually be applied to the soil, a portion of which will again return to the river in the course of time by percolation from the irrigated fields."

To those with capital to plan for the less immediate future, the falls of the Snake river have proved quite as alluring as has its volume. The river has six goodly falls, three of which are within five miles of the new town-Shoshone Falls, of 210 feet; Twin Falls, after which the town is named, of 187 feet; and Augur Falls, of 140 feet. Already Eastern capital has organized a company which from the point of view of power distribution will rank with those at Niagara Falls. The electric plant at

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Shoshone Falls is already installed. This, of course, means not only a beet-sugar factory, flour mills, etc. for Twin Falls in the immediate future; but it means also the development of countless mining enterprises throughout this region so wonderfully rich in various minerals, for the present intention is to transmit the current as far as Salt Lake City.

One is not surprised, then, that the population of the new town of Twin Falls has increased over 1,000 since last September, and that the then unfinished $100,000 hotel is now having added the second Annex. Indeed, the sterile desert

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wherein no living thing save the jackrabbit delighted to dwell, now bids fair to become a Western metropolis.

The region affected by the Twin Falls irrigation project is truly a land of golden opportunity! Under wise provisions that have been made by law, no speculator can make this rich tract his prey, as has been done in other portions of our national domain. Only bona fide settlers effecting improvements can enter and in time acquire full ownership. Already 190,000 of the 240,000 acres involved have been sold; and every available foot will un

CONTROLLING GATES AT THE MILNER DAM, TWIN FALLS PROJECT, IDAHO.

doubtedly soon be taken. The soil is rich, the climate genial, and, with abundant water supply, all the conditions of rich agricultural and horticultural development are fulfilled. Nor are the results at all in doubtfor, in instances that might be cited, the fruition of actual demonstration has followed close upon the heels of anticipation and effort. In one case a man whose payments on his land and water rights had aggregated only $4 an acre, disposed of his holding at $300 an acre, and in addition sold his stand

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ing crop of alfalfa at $50 an acre, the purchaser agreeing to harvest the crop.

The formalities necessary to be observed in order to acquire land and get it under cultivation, comprise two methods of procedure. In either case, forms for filing upon land must be procured from the Land & Water Company -the agent of the Government-whereupon filing may be done either directly by one's self or through power of attorney granted to another. The maximum amount of land upon which any one individual may file, is 160 acres. For the land itself, the price is 50 cents an acre, one-half of which must be paid to the Government on filing. At the same time, one-eighth of the fixed charge of $25 an acre set by the Government as the price of the perpetual water rights, must be paid to the Land & Water Company, the balance to be paid in seven equal instalments, with interest at 6 per cent on all deferred payments.

The purchaser has now two courses open to him. He may within six months after the Company has delivered the water on his land, clear and plant oneeighth and reside on his holding for one month, or he may reside on it for five years before proving up. At the end of the month or the five years, as the case may be, the settler pays an additional 25 cents per acre to the Government; takes oath as to his residence, cleared land, and growing crop, in the presence of a representative of the State

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