Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-12-20
SHORT LINE WORK.
To Populate Idaho---No Limit
to Good Land and Irrigation
Facilities in the Gem
of the Mountains,

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of the Mountains.
Salt Lake Herald
General Passenger Agent Burley
OF the Short Line says: "We are
turning heaven and earth to attract
settlers to Utah and Idaho, and can
say that we have the best PROPOSE.
ton for settlers to be found any
where on the North American con-
tinent. Our colonization business
is growing every day, we expect to
do all that we have claimed to do
in the way of building up this
country, and some day I've no
doubt the Short Line will be com.
PEELED to go west of Salt Lake for
agricultural lands.
WORK IN IDAHO.
But at the present time we are
most interested in Idaho. | re.
ceived word today that rapid pro-
gress is being made in the con-
struction of the American Falls
Land d Water company's canal.
In addition to the half hundred
other irrigation companies and their
work, representing an outlay OF
about $3,500,000, and providing
water for 100000 acres of land
100000 of which lie under cultiva
lion, the Great Falls company is at
work from Blackfoot, which takes
III big basin on the north side of
the Snake river extending to Amer
lean Falls. The canal will be over
thirty miles long, twelve of which
have been completed. This com
pany was organized under the
Carey act and the land is sold by
the state land board at SO cents
per acre and a perpetual water
right is secured for $40 per acre. 1t
therefore costs a man $1,000 per
acre. | can safely predict that
within a couple or three years the
land he gets at that price will be
worth four times as much. There
are 100000 acres of the best land
in the state obtainable under these
terms. The canal will be finished
in the early spring and that gives
us just that much more room for
the steady stream of colonists into
this region"
There is no limit to the irriga-
ton facilities of Idaho" said he,
land there is practically no limit to
the available lands for agriculture
purposes. The Short Line has sent
out about 10000 copies of the
booklet 'lrrigators of Idaho mailed
to that many separate addresses,
which were procured after some
trouble and expense from the reg
listers kept in the various state
buildings at the Omaha exposition.
Most of these went to farmers in the
thickly populated western states,
including Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas. North
and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illi-
nois and Oklahoma, from which
states we expect to get our heaviest
emigration.
Il predict" continued Mr.. Bur
ley, lin fact, offered to bet man
the other day that within three
years, granting a continuation of
present conditions, we will double
the population OF every county adj
Jacent to our line in Idaho. We are
going to work with everybody, irri-
CATION companies, land agents and
anybody else who is responsible.
One-half the population of Idaho,
$4,000 people, are located on the
Oregon Short Line. and to make
my prediction good we have got to
bring in that many more people in
three years. haven't doubt in
the world that we will do it,
Within the past two weeks the
Short Line has brought forty-three
colonists from Oklahoma for
Nampa, Idaho, and twenty-seven
families from North Dakota. All Il
sorts of inducements are offered by
The railroads engaged in this bust
ness IN the way of rates.