Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-01-08
SHOSHONE LAND OFFICE.
Good Promise that Hailey's Prize
Will Come to Better Place.


The people of Shoshone who have
worked strenuously for the location
of the L. S. land office in this city
are feeling encouraged over the
prospects at the present time.
A semi-official announcement has
been made from Washington that the
office will be changed from HALEY
owing to its inaccessibility.
If location is to count, then Sho-
shone has the drop on all compet-
ing towns and she has the backing
of large majority of the people
living in the land district.
The Twin Falls South Side project
is practically solid for this city and
SO are the people of Cassia county.
Nearly every business man in Twin
Falls lent his name or influence go
on record in favor of Shoshone and
many of them signed telegram to
the secretary of the interior only a
few days ago urging him to make
selection Of Shoshone for the new
location.
There is no question at all as to
the views of the settlers of the Mini
doka project, both on the south and
north sides of the river, concerning
the location of the office in this city,
because this place is within easy
reach of the project by railroad, and
within days drive by team from
the north side tract.
During the year 1908, the Hon
Secretary of the Interior withdrew
from entry over 100000 acres of gov
eminent land in Lincoln county ly-
ing between Minidoka and Sboshone
to be used in connection with the
Minidoka project, and A. l. McMa-
hon, register of the U. S. land office
at Haley, is responsible for the
statement that over 100000 acres of
that withdrawal have been selected
by the reclamation engineers for irri-
cation by pumping system operated
from the government dam of the
original project, and that this land
comes within a few miles of Sho-
shone, wedging in between the two /
Carey Act projects of the Twin Falls /
North Side project on the south and /
the Idaho Irrigation project on the /
north. While this information from |
Register Mcmahon is not official it
is just as he understands it, and is
VII 10Th he ,,1 Of i.T
This will raise the Minidoka
project in Lincoln county to 10000
acres besides the portion lying across
the Snake river in Cassia county
Probably three-fourths of the bust
ness of the U. s. land office located
in this district will bed erived from
this project alone and the people of
Shoshone feel that this city is the
logical place for the location OF the
mad office.
All other large projects in this
county and also in adjoining cOun-
ties are Carey Act projects and the
settlers thereon have no business to
before the Z. S. land office, !
hence the settlers on the Minidoka
project should have a choice in the
location of the land office and they !,
have expressed themselves in favor
If Shoshone
AS each homesteader on a govern
nent reclamation project has bust =
less to transact with the land Of .
ice in his district for thirteen diff
erent times during the life of his
,ntry it is important that the land .
,ffice be located within easy reach Il
# the project.
This new government segregation =
les on both sides of the main line of
he Oregon Short Line and the old Il
egregation is crossed by the Mini y
Ioka branch line, and any part of y
he project is within a days drive "
f Shoshone except that portion lying y
outh of Snake river. y
As Shoshone is easily accessible II
rom all other parts of the land dis u
rict and lies contiguous to the gov ,
rnment reclamation project that III
the greater part of the p
usiness coming before the office, it
ems plain that her claims for the W
)cation of the U. S. land office are 81
ell founded and deserve recognition. N
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