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Rh found great improvements had been made here, being a great vegetable raising country, made productive by irrigation. Its progressive citizens have since put in a beet sugar factory, in fact "the half has never been told" of the improvements I notice each and every time as I pass through the many Idaho towns.

A branch line runs from here to Rexburg and St. Anthony, where, by the construction of ditches and canals for irrigating purposes, the waters of the Snake river are utilized. If my readers have followed me, they will find this river in evidence in three different States, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, where it connects with the Columbia at Pasco. And in many sections, by the aid of irrigation, it has made the sage brush desert change to productive farms, thriving villages and populous