The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1883-12-22

about one acre IN twenty, the Dalance
consisting of mountains and their foot
hills, which cannot be reached by irrl-
eating bitches. None of the valleys are
wide, and large portion of them have
to be irrigated TO raise crops. However,
irrigating is not near so expensive or
troublesome as had supposed before
| came here, and with the main bitches
once made, the farmer has but little
trouble and can control the flow OF
water as he pleases; and with an abso-
lutte immunity from ram in the sum-
mer, he can count with reasonable
certainty on a pleasant time for harvest
and the number of bushels he will
raise.
"The crops generally raised are
wheat, oats and barley, and all the
vegetables common in Iowa and IL
linois. Owing to the cool nights in
summer but little corn is raised. All
kinds of fruit trees and shrubbery grow
| finely here; the finest varieties of rose
bushes, which can only be raised in
Iowa with extreme care, live through
the winter without any protection.
While fruit is not a certain crop, owing
to the mildness of the winters which
prevents the ground from freezing to
any depth, and retarding the too early
| blossoming of the trees, which some
times results in the fruit being killed by
frost, yet the varieties grown here -
greater than any portion of the United
States If we except California; fire.
quently in the same garden you will
see trees loaded down with apples,
pears. peaches, nectarines, apricots,
plums and prdnes. The fruit yield of
last year was simply enormous, while
the crop of this year Is good. 1 fully
| realize the difficulty of explaining the
climate so that it will be understood
by an Iowa man. In mid
| winters we may have one day snow
from five to eight inches deep and will
wonder how on earth the cattle, sheep
and horses are to live out on the range
without feed, when in perhaps twenty
four or forty-eight hours we feel the
"chinook" Coast windy commencing
to blow, soft like an evening breeze in
summer, but steady, and in short
time the snow will disappear and the
ground become. completely dry. AS
you are perhaps aware. all kinds of
stock are allowed to run out on the
range in winter without feed, and as
rule come out fat in the spring. You
can perhaps get q more correct idea of
the mild character of the winters here
when l tell you that birds which are
usually migratory remain here summer
and winter. The wild geese breed and
remain here ut all seasons. --
"a man coming here fom Iowa
would at first dislike the country, and if
profane. wo---G re fates or more
lily the fellow who tempted him to
come. If in summer the roads will be
deep with dust, the valleys will appear
more narrow than they really are, and
when not irrigated the grass will ap-
pear like dry hay, while for miles some
times he will see nothing but sage brush
and jack rabbits; but take out irrigating
bitches and cover the sage plains with
water and the sage will disappear and
the land which before appeared worth
less will produce upon an average twice
as much wheat to the acre as can be-
raised on the best Iowa lands, while the
farmer and stock raiser have the
endless mountain range n. free of
taxes to raise their stock I
The real business will be farming
raising and mining. While fo
will be made for perhaps ages to
at the last named business, stoc
ing and farming will be the MOI
tain investments. Stock-raising
always be good, for as said befS(
costs nothing to raise stock, and fariii-
ing will always pay well as the mines
will consume all that can be raised IN
the valleys, and the produce will COM
mand higher rates than can be obtained
in the states.
81 could pick out here and there, all
over the territory, valleys that whole
from the states could
move into and find homes, which in a
short time they would not exchange for.
their old ones. But Iwould not dare to
DO it, because everything here is so DIFF,
'erent from what they kave been usedk
% that for few months after their ar
'ival, they would lie awake nights on
purpose to hate me for deceiving them.
IS they would at first suppose [ had.
There IS one thing that would startle a
newcomer, the meats which he would
ind on his table in winter would be fat
nd juicy, superior to the famous steaks
# the Palmer and Grand Pacific, and
lie would be informed that they were
ut from cattle killed off of the range;
7hile if he would go and inspect the
ange from which they were taken he
'ould see nothing that he would deem
possible for cattle to live on, and if
would turn a COW fresh from the
ates ON the same range and tell her
lat she must care for herself, she =
ould commit suicide AT she very
fought, and her owner would not
anne her,
He Knew the Habits of the Family.