Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-15
new LAND IN The NEW WEST
Great Growth of Idaho Makes Even
Owners Marvel.
TOWNS SPRING UP AS BY MAGIC
Burnley, One of the Latest, Is Already
Market Place and n Railroad
Center and n MetrOp-
oils.

hurley Idaho, May iA-(special)- !
New towns spring up in southern Idaho as
If by magic. Papers of Incorporation of
the Kenyon Townsite company, with w.
d. Kenyon as president were filed at Boise
to-day, and the map makers will have TO
go over their books on Idaho.
Kenyon is located midway between oak
ley and Burley. on the Burley branch OF
the Union Pacific railroad and lies exactly
on the edge, or between the edges Of the
great oakley project, financed by the Kune
millions OF Pittsburg, and the sSOO0,OOO
Minidoka project built by the United States
government. Within market distance of
Kenyon there are over 100000 acres of
land. The turning on of the water by the
United States government through the new
canals and laterals of the Mnidoka pro-
ject; the opening of 1900 acres of land
near Kenyon. together with the opening
of the townsite OF oakley, which occurs
on May Is, provides Kenyon with an i'm
mediate future.
w. ID. Kenyon, president of the Kenyon
Townsite company, is an Omaha man.
known to thousands OF the residents of the
Gate City Mr.. Kenyon was general cashier
of the Pacific Express company at Omaha
for many years, where both himself and his
charming wife were well known in society
Leonard Fowler, an Omaha newspaper
man. is vice president of this company,
and j. r. Glen, after whom is named the
Glendale syndicate, owning and operating
a 5000 acre ranch along the shores of the
Snake river from Burley to Mixer, is
secretary and treasurer.
Electric Railway Service.
A line, running from this city to Albion,
| t1ofH al EeI,. a.,
United States government and developed
at the great Minidoka dam, has been
financed by j. w. Van Cleve and other
Chicago and Springfield Qll) capitalists.
J. w. Van Cleve Is a wealthy banker, and
is the head of what is known as the Van
| Cleve group of Chicago capitalists. This
electric line will connect Burley and Albion,
! the latter of which is the county seat for
| Cassia county and will penetrate and
| provide cheap transportation for the
whole of the great Minidoka project.
| This project is so large and the Minidoka
! flat Is so wide that some means of cheap,
| quick, easy transportation from the farms
became necessary, hence the Inauguration
1 and financing of this electric line.
Plans for the building of the terminals
for the passenger and freight traffic, round
houses and transfer sheds were received
! here at the Union Pacific headquarters to-
day. Burley thus becomes division point
! of the Raft river cutoff of the Union "a
cific railroad, now being built between Is,
den Utah, and Portland. Ore.
This Raft river line will be used as a
| short line from the east to the coast and
Burley becomes main line passenger and
freight station and a main line division
point.
Development Is Fast.
In this section of Idaho development is
going on at such tremendous and such
an unusual pace, that II is difficult for per-.
sons to keep track of it. 1t is expected
| that the entire 1900 acres of land which
will be offered for sale by the state of
| Idaho on May % will be purchased by
persons living in and around Burnley.
The eastern man does not grasp the ex-
traoldinnry wealth value and fertility Of
the soil on the Mindoka flat therefore
when the state of Idaho appraised this land
at from So. 80 to $40 per acre, without the
waten it was readily understood in the
west that the eastern men would wait until
the western men had bought it and then
pay higher price IL he wanted to get in.
The eastern men have been doing this for
SO long thst the western men rather laugh
at them for not learning some sense"
The opening of the Oakley Townsite COM
pany lots will occur on May O. and so
little advertising has been done for this
opening that common knowledge of 1t is
confined to the people in southeastern
Idaho. At this, it is more than probable,
that almost every lot will be purchased.
The commercial clubs organized in
southeastern Idaho for the"purpose of fur
nishing information to eastern inqurers
are showed under with inquiries. This is
true Of Albion and Oakley, well Bur-
ley Thousands will take advantage of
tho great opportunities which the latter |
part OF the month will offer those who |
are seeking locations in the Last Best
West"