The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-28
WONDERFUL WEISER VALLEY.
Forty Bushels of Wheat to
the Acre.
A Reporter Out Spying
Among the Farmers

1t was our pleasure this week to take !
a round among some of the farms on
"The Flat" as what will yet be the
most beautiful valley in south Idaho
is bluntly called. When the King
boys had the Leader, they rose up
and shook their fist under the public
nose and swore that locality should
be known as "The Weiser Plains"
but their edlct rebounded from the
blunt public like hollow rubber ball
and has never been heard of since,
and in truth that is almost as unro-
mantle a designation as the tFlat.
1t is neither fiat Chat worthless
sounding word which always gives a
mental vision of wastes of alkali or
long stretches of red, repulsive beds
of clay, that balls up by the peck on
your boots or clings in great rolls to
your wagon wheels in the sticky
spring time, and yawns in big deep
cracks in the hot summer, with yell
low tar weeds and sickly sunfowers
the sole vegetation) nor plains; but il
is the best valley in the state with
many young and budding farms, and
acres upon acres of good soil covered
with the deceptive sage brush await
ing but the magic touch of irrigation
to yield nutriment to great fields of
the plumpest of grain, bending
boughs of luscious fruits and endless
vineyards of purple grapes.
We did not succeed in getting
around to all the places we desired,
and were compelled to forego them
until some future time and content
ourselves with few mental notes of
those spots we did visit
Mr.. Abbott, who purchased forty
acres of Megorden last spring, we
found at work on a comfortable
story y-and- "a half house which he is
erecting. There were about !, 400
young trees on the place and he has
put out about 300 more, broken W
new ground, and in couple Of years
will have one of the finest places il
the valley. His trees will begiI
bearing next year. Mr.. Abbott ssiC
: he had received abundance of waite
this season.
Across the road Mr.. Kurtz ha
had a part of his school land broker
= up and will put it in trees mex
spring. Opposite Kurtz, across tn
railroad track, Fisher has his youn
prune orchard planted.
= S. A. Swauger was at home an
took pleasure in showing us what
. the largest and most promising youn
!, orchard in the neighborhood, mostl
!. prunes and in the most gratifyin
h. hourishing condition. We measure
on one of the trees an actual growt
for this year of five feet nine inches
some show two distinct growths, I'll
=. latter commencing about the last
q, June. Mr. Swauger is of the opil
:. ion that trees here should be prune
=. at least twice year. He has me
=. on patch which came up volunte
=, and from which he presented us viii
,al couple of 40-pound melons. L
to said he had plenty of water with Il
cir exception of two weeks early in Il
season. Swauger is baching ju
now, his wife and family being
IN, the east where Mrs Swauger's sist
az l,N is sick. They have been absent sin
+he the middle of last month.
ty. Butterfeld's place across the tra'
1er is being taken care of by Mr. BE
no az, nett. His prune orchard, plant
.d last spring, is on gentle slope ia
fer ing the railroad where every tree C
ee, be seen and, of our own certa
lall knowledge, creates much fayoral
rs = comment among the passengers
,ol. every passing train.
m Bud Dickerson cultivated a part
her his 40 acres, for the first time, Il
year and raised 300 bushels of whe
.ha Got very good supply of water.
az Nj. L. Dickerson was found co
ned planning some of poor health. lie
not drying a little fruit and has ma
III bushels going to waste because th
NV nu is no way of handling it, He ST
/ of he had got nearly his full amount
water except two weeks when