Hopkinsville Kentuckian

Seventy Thousand Acres.

The State of Idaho will throw open for public entry, on March 25, seventy thousand acres of irrigable land under the Twin Falls Canals. This is the third opening of 140,000 acres having been previously opened and so generally taken up that it was decided to extend the area. The state will also place on sale twelve thousand acres of school lands on March 22 in the same tract. The Twin Falls tract borders the great Shoshone or Snake river in the northern part of Cassia county and is the largest on Western Continent under one irrigation system. The land is sold at 50 cents an acre by the state and the perpetual water rights cost a total of $25 an acre, the payments extending over ten years. The soil is a fine lava ash, very productive and the home market takes all that can be produced. All Idaho is on the Pacific slope and the climate is mild in winter and not oppressive in summer. The altitude is less than 4,000 feet. Inquiry about these lands may be made at the office of the State Land Board at Twin Falls, Idaho.

A new railroad is now being built by the Oregon Short Line, into the heart of the tract.

Twin Falls city was opened August 29 last and now has about 1,000 people. It was estimated that it would take 15 years to develop the tract, but it will take less than three. Any person 21 years of age or over may take up not to exceed 170 acres. Most of the people come from other irrigated states, but a number of colonies have come from the East. As high as 78 bushels of wheat to the acre were raised last season, other crops, including fruits, in proportion.