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Rh mines. Also from Nampa, the Boise special runs to the capital, a distance of twenty miles, passing Meridian, where a large creamery is in operation; and through extensive fruit farms.

From Nampa I passed through Mountain Home and Glenn's Ferry and on to Shoshone, where a branch line extends north to Bellevue and the silver mining towns of Hailey and Ketchum. South on the Snake river is Shoshone Falls, from which extensive electric power is being developed. At American Falls is another power plant. Here I again cross that noted Snake river and stop at Pocatello, the second city of Idaho.

Pocatello is the great division headquarters for the Oregon Short Line system, and where immense railroad shops have been constructed to