It is a theory on the part of those living distant from a State that no other State except their own affords any satisfactory opportunity for settlement. I can say to the Senator from Nevada that there is room. when the door is opened again in Idaho. for a million pebple to make their homes. that they are making them as fast as they are permitted to make them. but that. as in Montana. they are hampered and driven back by onerous conditions. by prohibitions. and closed areas. so that the growth of the State is being impeded. I had a letter from our Commissioner of Immigration a few days since in which. he says. "I do not think it wise to send out for publication that the public lands of Idaho availableto settlers are exhausted. but." he said. " it is becoming painfully apparent that unless Congress can relieve us in the near future there will be no room for more settlers except such as may come from the dividing up of existing holdings." That is a painful story to tell for a State as large as Idaho. with such a variety of natural resources as that State. It is true of the State of Utah . it is true of the State of Colorado. We have not been able to secure the survey of the lands in the State of Idaho.
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