Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-01-16

fair profit, even at the low price now
prevailing. The development of the
industry is, as yet. only in its infancy.
With an increase in the product, better
transportation and perhaps wooden
manufactures at our very doors, this
will prove great industry and yield a
handsome profit.
1t is no exaggeration to say that the
agricultural lands of the Clearwater
basin are not excelled in the world.
The same conditions that render the
Palouse country famous exists here.
Irrigation is unnecessary. The annual
rainfall is sufficient TO secure crop.
Rye, oats, barley, timothy and wheat
are grown. with an average acreage, that
excels that of any other state North of
the Clearwater these cereals yield this
year 40, 60 and even so bushels to the
acre. South Of the Clearwater the great
Nez Perez Indian reservation locks up u
half million of acres just as productive,
which within the next year will be
opened for homesteads. About the
reservation boundaries lie the fertile
sections known as Weippe, Camas Prai-
RE, Craigs mountain and Waha districts,
embracing II million acres of the finest
agricultural lands. These lands are now
being rapidly settled and the advent of
railroads will hasten thousands of home
seekers into this section. The soil is
prolific and the yield in many cases
phenomenal. A careful computation of
averages, recently made, establishes that
the average yield per acre is as follows:
Wheat forty bushels, oats fifty bushels,
barley fifty bushels potatoes 200 bushels,
hay five tons, and so on through the list
OF farm products. The two grand trunk
lines of the Pacific Northwest, with their
half dozen branches, penetrating partial
ly into this region, are to-day totally
blockaded with the immense grain pro-
duct OF this country aud eastern Wash
ington, and it is safe to assert that be.
fore another year hundreds of miles of
railroad, on branch and competing lines,
will penetrate and open up this country
to ready and convenient market.
Here homes are cheap and land is
plenty, crops grow in abundance and
labor reaps rich reward. What more
can the homeseeker ask for? Here YOU
do not need to wait for millions of
capital to open up water bitches and de-
velop system of irrigation. Here
nature does the work, and the bursting
granaries, over crowded barns and the
happy and contented farmer can testify
how generously the work has been
done.
Low in the River valleys along the
breaks and bottom lands are the homes
OF fruit culture. Orchards line the river
banks, and system of irrigation is fast
developing what will prove one of the
most profitable industries in Idaho.
The low attitudes and sheltered con-
dition of these valleys insures against
frost. Blight is unknown and there is
never failure in the fruit crop. The
varieties are of the finest kind and the
crop finds ready market, at good prices,
while with increased means of trans
portation an immense traffic in vegeta-
bles can be developed. Lewiston is the
center of the fruit growing industry and
the natural distributing point for the
whole Clearwater country. Located as
1t is at the head of river navigation, the
competing lines of rail and water trans
portation will forever insure for it the
center of shipping and transporting the
immense product of the country. From
Lewiston diverging lines will soon be
built TO develop this vast territory and
draw the traffic that naturally tends
toward this point. Here naturally with
water power so available will soon de-
veiop great manufacturing center as
well making ready and available
market blessing alike to tie producer
and consumer.