Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-11-18
FROM LOST RIVER,
Sixty aud Sevtsiy Bushels Of Wheat
per Acre Over $4,000 Acres Of
GMd Lad QnapprMprlatr


To the Editor Of the TlxEs:
From this the most isolated locality
within the borders of the most isolated
state in the Union, but little that is
either new Or interesting can be gath
-red for our r. aders 1t this time.
! The past season has heen sltou ether
favorable for tho tarm-rs aud the
crops are by far the hest ever raised
h-r--in fac, the yield Of grain has
been almost double that of any pre-
vious year. Moreover, the yield per
acre largely exec eds that of any State
or Territory - in many INSTANCES
amounting to sixty ant seventy bush
-ls to the acre. and =" average Of from
th''tv to forty bushels is quite common.
The thr-shers report the entire y,rld
Of the valley at about $4,000 bushels,
aud there were not exceeding 1910
acres in cultivation.
Would it not seem incredible to
people else here to be told that lands
capable of producing such crops If
grain, ~ we'll rs almost every variety
OF vegetable indi +nous to the .sprth
temperate zone, should--ven now at
this late stage OF the worlds d-veiop-
ment--have no value whatever? That
ranches in such a valley are being
sold for less than the cost OF improve
ments? Probably similar conditions
have existed elsewhere, but surely
nowhere else can they be found At
this time, and scarcely anywhere have
they ever Continued for 50 long q
time.
Notwithstanding the good crops
and tho great abundance of ev-ry>
thing which the soil produces, the
farmers seem poorer than ever. There
IS no cash market hero for anything.
and the situation reminds some of our
neiR hbors OF old times in Utah, where
potatoes, oats aud carrots were legal
teud-r-even ut church fairs and for
ball tickets. So It is to be, even in
such country as th,s-so far from a
raiIroad-at u time when the mines
are sll suspend d. However, such
conditions surely canrot last. even
here, much longer. Such a valley as
this cannot r. man unaFpreciated and
neglected, long after every other
available area Of Uncle Sans broad
domain is settled and cultivated. We
will have a railroad here soma time.
Thousands of home. seekers will vet
he attracted to Lost River. Over
25,oOO acres Of good land are here to
tie put in cultivation with an sbund.
ance Of water for the purpose; and
besides all this there are mineral
resources whose possibilities are un-
limited. S, me of our old bachelor
ranch.rs ma. not live to see the reali.
cation Of all this, but I'VE young
fellows" are still full of hope tina,
we may yet see the pr missed land.
Social and personal IT. ms are very
scarce. None Of our old bachelor
friends have got married yet, or
young ones, either, notwithstanding
the fact that Lost River has more
bright, pretty young girls than can
he found among population of equal
numbers al. where else. Rumor has
ii, however, and circumstances point
to it as . certainty that our friend
Tom Ferpu.on will soon become q
happy benedict. No confidence is
violated in divnl ring this. but We will
refrain f.om mentioning 9th. rs which
rest upon l.ss assured basis.
In and about the island neiel Dor.
hood it is often remarked that the
people generally arc working harder
and With more vim and energy than
ever before. MANY Of Il en- are haul
ing their grain to Wood River aud to
Blsckfoot IL search of a market, and
all who are in y condition to do SO
are putting in fall grain.
The school district quarrel of six
years duration is at last amicablv
settled and two new schoolhouses are
Ut once to be crested.
The erection of . Touring mill is
again h.ing talked of, and there is
every probability that i. will be
secured by another year. 1t is indeed