The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-08
GREAT CROWDS To
VISIT SALT LAKE
Robert H. Murray, Magazine
Writer, Says Many Thou
sands Will Be Here.
LITTLE KNOWN ABOUT
81 IRRIGATION PROJECTS
Mr.. Murray Has Been Investi-
eating Various Projects in
Southern Idaho.

salt Lake undoubtedly accom-
plished one Of the most notable achieve
ments Of its career when il succeeded
IN bringing the National Grand Army
Encampment here" said Robert Fl
Murray Of New York last evening, to
reporter from The Tribune Mr.. Muir.
ray, who is magazine writer and cor
respondent, has been in Idaho for some
time investigating the various irriga-
tIon projects in the southern section of
the state, and also the operation of the
Carey act laws, under which majority
of the segregations in process of de-
velopment have been made.
81 doubt if anything could have adj.
vertised the city better than this said
Mr.. Murray. You will see an influx
of eastern visitors here during the en-
campment that will surprise YOU. Rail.
road men In New York and Chicago
told me that their canvass of the pre-
lIminary situation convinced them that
the traffic to Salt Lake would exceed
their previous high estimates. More
than that, they said, a good percentage
of the Fasteners who will 90 to the
Seattle exposition would come or re.
turn by way of Salt Lake So, alto
gether, you should have a brisk time
mere all summer with correspondingly
lively business -
Bigger than Expected.
Mr.. Murray said that the conditions
IN southern Idaho, in the irrigated sec
tions, including the Twin Falls tract
and the Gooding, Richfield and Dietrich
segregations, which last are being de
veloped by the Idaho Irrigation com
pany. were vastly in excess of any
thing which he had thought reasonable
from his advance knowledge Of the sub
Ject He also inspected the huge dam
That is being built for the company
across the Big Wood river by J, &.
White a Company of New York for
the purpose of impounding flood water
with which to irrigate these tracts
TO most Fasteners, the mention of
Idaho today suggests little but a vague
recollection, possibly, of the Hayward
trial, = said Mr.. Murray. "Thcy do not
and is being, duplicated the develop
incnts of irrigable territory which has
made the Salt Lake valley famous for
fertility and productiveness. 1t is
amazing for stranger TO see what can
be accomplished on sage brush land by
the use Of water. If | had not seen
these things for myself, / should be
loath to believe them Settlers are ar
riving daily to prove up on their al
lotments on the Richfield tract. The
Dietrich tract. one of the last of the
Carey act segregations TO be developed
in this region, will be opened early
next month. About $4,000 acres Of land
identical with that in the Twin Falls
tract will he drawn for | was told
hat GIuIf do
veloped properties in Oregon and Wash
ington to point where they were
worth as much as a thousand dollars an
acre, were selling their holdings and
taking up Carey land about RichGeld
and Dietrich, the two new towns near
SboshoDe, to repeat with the raw land
there what they had done in the two
states | have mentioned.
Water Is King
- Former Governor Gooding of Idaho
made remark TO me the other day
which seems to fit the case exactly.
water, he said, is king out here.
Ana it is king, sure enough. Sage
brush land and water form combina-
ton that is making thousands of per
sons rich in southern Idaho. The de-
velopInent of the townsites is keep
ing pace with that of the agricultural
lands at their back. J. was shown fifty
foot lots in Twin Falls that cost a
Thousand dollars four years ago. which
have just sold for nearly five hundred
dc;lsrs a front foot Richfeld is only
six months old. yet it has n thousand
inhs t:tants, while new forty Thousand
dollar hotel Will be opened next week,
There is o bank there IN q thirty thou
sand dollar building, with deposits of
ninety Thousand dollars, and brick and
concrete business structures arc gong
up in all directions. Work is just start
ing on Il thirty thousand dollar hotel
in Dietrich, which is few miles east
Of ShoShone, on the main line of the
Oregon Short Line.
fsThe dam over the Big Wood river
is 90 PEI cent completed. 1t Will be
the largest earth dam in existence. and
viii form lake eleven miles long and
In places two miles wide. II is the
water from this river which is being
used TO irrigate the Richfield and the
Gooding segregations, and which Will
be turred on the Dietrich tract next
spring. Irrigated land is surely Il good
brv anywhere in southern Idaho, either
for agricultural or speculative purposes.
should Judge that the demand largely
exceeds the supply. They are looking
for 9 BIZ. rush in Dietrich next month.
\ good many Utah people are going in
there ] saw fine crops Of alfalfa grow
ing upon land which received water
only this .spring, -
Mr.. Murray will leave for the East
TO-DAY Several articles which he wrote
after Il visit TO the Panama canal zone
were recently printed in The Tribune.
Mrs. Murray was formerly Miss Jane y.
Martin of Salt Lake,
EXCURSIONS EAST
From OGDEN. Salt Lake and Joints on