The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-04-18

TOR required, the hO,nesteader may
L.ai,c improvements such as slashing.
! clearing, fencing, erection CT build
ings, setting out trees for orchards,
cultivation and other like improve
ments that will tend to make the
homestead habitable and capable of
production to the extent OF $3.50 per
acre per year, excepting under the en-
! larged homestead act where the i'm
provements shall be rs cents per acre.
Another bill provides for the home
stead entry OF large area of land
CLASSIFIED as phosphate land and
Withdrawn from entry with the re-
servation of the phosphate deposits to
the government, allowing the right
under the government to prospect for
and remove the phosphates but pro-
tecting the homesteader in his rights
to the surface.
The third bill provides for an ex-
tension of the number of annual pay
ments required by law for water right
charges from ten to thirty, upon
projects completed in course of de-
velopment or hereafter to be devel-
| oped, where no annual payments have
been made and extending the number
| OF payments unpaid to three times the
number of annual payments DUE The
bill as will be introduced also provides
the same extension of payments to
owners of private lands but who have
purchased water from reclamation
| projects.
| Mr.. French intends to make an ear
nest effort to have these measures en-
acted and will devote considerable at
tention to them SO that the home
steaders will undoubtedly have the
benefits sought to be accomplished by
these bills In the near future.
i Congressman Addison T. Smith, who
Is especially interested in legislation
beneficial to hOmebuilders on the pub
Tic domain, Is preparing several bills
for introduction which, If enacted,
will encourage settlement of the pub
lie lands and make farm life more at
tractive, and make unnecessary many
Of the hardships which are now i'm
posed by stringent laws and regula-
tons upon those who are endeavoring
to development the resources of the
country.
II In order to make possible the rapid
extension of the reclamation of the
arid lands by the government it is
necessary to increase the amount
available each year by the issuance of
additional reclamation bonds. SEN
ator Borah succeeded several years
ago in securing legislation for a $780,
100000 bond issue which has made
possible the construction of the Ar
row Rock dam near Boise, and the
completion of the Boise-Payette pro-
A ject. He has introduced in the SEN
\ ate bill providing for the issuance
Il nj GQ0 0A0 mn ,y,1i re
which Congressman Smith has intro
4 duced in the House, which, il enacted,
will make possible the undertaking
i of number of vast irrigation pro-
i jects upon which preliminary work
has already been done, but the con-
4 struction of which has been deferred
because of the lack of money.
II Congressman Smith has also intro
duced bill appropriating money for
the construction of federal building
at Caldwell and Weiser.
4 Senator Brady has just returned to
Washington after an extended visit to
Idaho. While in the state he visited
PocatellO, Boise, lewiston, Wallace
and Occur d'Alene and had the pleas
ure of meeting many of the citizens.
He feels that he came in closer con-
tact with the people of the state on
this trip than ever before, and that
his visit was most profitable to him.
i While there he talked with num-
Der Of leading men who have made a
study of the tariff question as it af-
fects the products of Idaho, especially
with reference to lead, wool and SUI
gar, and received much information
which will be of benefit to him when
these schedules are up for discussion
In the Senate.
The Yellowstone park is justifying
itself in ways not thought OF perhaps
by Its projectors. When Gen. Wash
burn, Lieut.. Doane, N. P. Langford
and the remainder Of the Washburn
uoane exploring expedition returned
to Helena, Mont, in 1870, with the re-
port of their wonderful discoveries,
the geysers, mud volcano, Yellow
stone Lake, and the marvellous Grand
Canyon and falls were the objects that
most Diseases them. While these
features Of the park are still FREEDOM
inant ones, the wild game found there
is rapidly becoming not only mat
ter of>interest to park tourists. but a
valuable item to the country other
wise.
There are 500 or more antelope. the
same number OF deer, more than 500
moose, nearly 200 buffaloes, 200
mountain sheep. any number Of black
and griszly bears, and $4,000 elk by
actual count, that make Yellowstone
park their home under government
protection.
These animals are now being used
as nucleus herds for other parks-na-
tional, state, and city-au for xoolog-
teal gardens, by the government. In
the last two years many Of them have
thus been quietly taken captive and
shipped away to various parts Of the
country. Az showing what the gov
eminent has done, the following in
stance will prove interesting: In 1911
twelve antelope were shipped to the
Montana national bison preserve and
eleven to the Wichita game preserve
lln Kansas. The funds for these ship