The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-06-15
IDAHO ON HER WAY
PROSPERITY

Boise, Idaho, June 17-IdahO
coming into its own, and especial
in southern Idaho where this yea
there is more industrial development
than has been known in the past tel
years. The agricultural sections ar
hard hit by the depression that fol
lowed the war, but the farmers by re
trenchment and by different methods
of farming and diversified farming
along with the stabilizing Of the mar
kets and prices are on their sure way
to prosperity.
Beside a number Of small reclama.
ton systems being developed In the
state there are two which stand ou'
as major projects which mean thou.
sands Of new homes and better liv-
ing conditions for many who are now
working dry farms. These two great
er reclamation projects are the Am
erican Falls and the Greater Fort
Hall systems. In the Greater Fort
Hall system $350,000 will be spent in
raising the dam level and running
canals on a higher level bringing
more than $4,000 under water.
The American Falls reclamation
system will place small empire I'M
der cultivation for the first time, over
100000 acres in the first unit. How
ever more than one million acres OF
land will be affected in securing bet
ter and greater water service under
the American Falls dam. The great
district will be assured sufficient wa
ter and commensurate prosperity I'M
til the end of time.
The Oregon Short Line railroad is
spending several millions in the state,
first in double tracking a large Sec
ton of its road out of Glenn's Ferry
and in extensions. The main line
road to be built through Boise and
the line now authorized from the
Twin Falls country to Wells, Nevada,
mean much to the development OF
Idaho. The outlet through Nevada
will give another short cut for the
produce of Idaho to the markets OF
California and to the Orient and all
Of the construction work means bust
ness, present and future. A beet loop
extension of the Oregon Short Line
in the Idaho Falls section will be of
great service to that district and
goes far to insure the permanency OF
the sugar idnustry in Idaho.
The Idaho Power Company has al
ready authorized budget Of improve |
ments and new outlay in Idaho am
30 limo taIx fnn mil |
lion dollars. The power plant at Am
erican Falls will demand an expen-
diture of nearly one million dollars
and the other large item is the ex-
tension of the high voltage transmits
sion line from Caldwell to Ontario.
This will cost 100000 dollars and
will conduct 10000 volts Of electri-
city.
The Utah Power Company is install
ling the second great hydro, electric
power plant near Grace and for this
purpose approximately four million
dollars have been budgeted. The
Portland Cement company Is planning
on a mammouth cement plant at
Portneuf station, short distance
from Pocatello and number OF fac
tories and other plants are springing
ND in southeastern Idaho as direct
result of the American Falls develop
ment or the building Of the big steel
mills at Springfield, Utah. The litiga-
ton looking toward clearing the title
of the Teton Coal Mines will be set
tied this summer and these mines are
expected to aid materially in the in
dustrial development in southeastern
Idaho.
The agricultural prospects are ex7
bright and the immediate
future will see this fundamental in
dustry entirely recovered from the de-
preston following the war. Several
cheese factories and milk evaporators
have opened in the past few weeks in
the state and registered dairy COWS
ire increasing in the state very rap
div. Diversified farming, with no
upon crop, and an income
Ill of the year around to the farmers
viIl diminish the chances OF bank
allure and insure sound prosperity.
stock men are now beginning to real
~ upon their work and there are
FRIGHT prospects ahead for the sneep !