The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-01
JUDGE PRICE TALKS
OF THE GEM STATE
Says Idaho Towns Are Growing
and Entire State Is
Prosperous.

Judge j. Singleton Price OF HALEY. Ida,
spent portion OF last week In Salt Lake
on business, and incidentally 10 enjoy the
holiday season. He left for his home In
Haley Sunday night. Judge Price. In an
interesting talk with Tribune man at
the Wilson hotel said that his term as
Judge expires with the end OF the year
He VIII be succeeded by Judge II n. wal
tcrs OF Shoshonc. who VIII enter upon inc
duties OF his office on January 5. Judge
Price expects TO go TO Boise, In tact mas
already rented offices there. where ne
VIII resume the practice OF law. Asked
as to business conditions In and around
Haley Judge Price said
Mines are good. Every kind or husi-
ness Is flourishine and prosperous. Stock :
men are all doing we'll and making money.
The mines OF Wood River are responding
splendidly to development work, and me
year now closing has been an active and
In many instances prosperous one, in min
Ing circles.
':The Government has done great deal
toward completing It's projects for inc
storage OF water and the reclamation OF
arid lands. But aside from the reclama-
tion work performed by the Government:
private corporations or companies ana
Individual efforts have succeeded in bring
ing 10000 acres under irrigation. and TINS
will be twice doubled in the near future.
isn't there some dissatisfaction re
specting forest reserves in your state
Forest Reserves.
THE forest reserves did create some
controversy among some OF our people.
In the Judgment OF most OF us, however,
II is sure to lead to a great advantage 10
farmers who are irrigating and 10 recla.
nation companies, and In the end VIII
prove OF lust as much advantage TO the
stockman as TO any one else. In some OF
the details In the management or some OF
the ranges which are included In the re-
serves. the stockmen are feeling ag-
grleved They feel they have not heen as
well treated as they should or as they
undoubtedly VIII he when all the neces-
sary details are worked out. The men
who are handling these reserves are IN
telllgent. patriotic men of sound 1udS-
ment and are as anxious as anyone that
the labors they have in hand shall oe
worked out In such a way as seems 10 all
concerned. those advantages which are
sure 70 flow from the conservation OF the
forest and ranges and the water supply
from injury and impairment which, In
other sections OF the country, have led 10
their practical destruction.
Idaho. generally speaking, has never
enjoyed such universal prosperity as now
The rapid increase in population Is from
the very best class Of people in the coun-
tTy. and are Of a high order OF citizen
ship. They have means with which to
work and they know just what is needed
TO put q new country in a prosperous con-
dltlon.
Towns Are Growing.
The towns are everywhere growing In
population and increasing in business In
the north. mining is more active, II pos
sible than in Nevada. The mining in the
Occur d Alene, especially In new discover
les, Is nothing less than marveloUs-abso-
lutely amazing. We need transportation
In Idaho more than any other one thing
The great interior OF that State Is un-
workable for want OF IL. We have the
greatest and finest forests Of pine that are
left In the world. In mines we have only
touched the fringe adjacent to the Oregon
Short Line railroad on the south The
Great Northern and Northern Pacific or
the north. and the region between from
Oregon to Wyoming is known only to
few hardy mountaineers who have from
time 10 time broken into II, and who brins
satisfactory evidences OF Its immense
wealth Unless the policy OF the power:
IN control shall be such as TO discourage
! transportation enterprises. without which
nothing can he done. this practically un-
| known country will soon be opened uk
! and developed"