The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-04

| people came out here and after fully
Investigating the country tributary K
! Idaho Falls. made up their minds thai
! this particular section had a bright
| future before it. The migration firm
of Emerson & McCaffrey in Chicago
/ has done much to set forth the adyant-
! ages of this section and has succeeded
| in bringing out here many hundreds OF
actual Settlers-settlers that came here
! to develop and add to the wealth OF
the country-let us see if this is being
done. Some weeks ago | met Mr.. Me
! Caffrey at Pocatello, and conversed
! briefly with him on his western inter
! ests. He said:
''The western country will continue
! to build up in way surprising to all
/ and the next few years will witness
F! wonderful results in the advancement
Of the agricultural district so rapidly
! being filed with settlers from the old
eastern states. Water is all that is
needed for the so-called arid lands
and by the way, if in your peregrina-
/: lions about Idaho in search of know
| ledge you chance to fall into Idaho
Falls meaning this town., go forth
and there learn something that will
we'll nigh astonish even a newspaper
man.
Mr. Mccartney then climbed into the
Chicago sleeper attached to the Union
Pacific "Overland''-a self satisfied
smile lighting up as it were, the interior
of the darhened Pullman at the mid
night hour. He was off to Chic2 go
again. He makes a trip TO Idaho Falls
every sixty days. The writer studied
| long and earnestly over the glowing
accounts rendered of Idaho Falls by
the gentleman, and while not intending
to visit the section this season, finally
concluded to do so in the interests of a
public cropping for knowledge and actual
facts. as set forth by one who has no
interests to subserve other than the
public-actual facts are what the people
reach out for.
A DRIVE AROUND.
Being fully determined to see the
country drove about this Idaho Falls
section for three whole days, and
covered in the aggregate 200 miles l
was accompanied by Hon. George
Chaplin, editor of the Idaho Falls Times
who will any time forego his office
duties to extend courtesies to the fra
ternity. We covered fairly both the
east and west side of the river, and
was given an insight to western farm
ing as conducted here, that sets clear
to. my mind the people located here
made no mistake in their selection. The
yet its growing properties are fully
equal to other sections of Idaho on the
same parallel having a full 1000 feet
| less elevation. This is a we'll known
fact, and though no literal interpreta-
ton of the fact has as yet been set
forth, L am inclined to advance a
theory that is both applicable and
| logical, from my point of view In the
first place, all this country is ENTRUSTED
with a lava forma ton at different
depths below the surface-this fact
stands out in bold relief against con-
Trajectory assertion. From that great
body of lava underlying the growing
crops, is impaired an invigorating heat
that adds to and nourishes all vegeta-
ton. / will cite to eastern people in
! substantiation of this, the fact that in
| the older settled states they have early
! Learned that limestone land" or land
having below its surface vast deposits
of that stone. was warmer and more
kindly disposed to growing crops than
land not having such deposits. Corn
wheat, oats, potatoes and all the differ.
ent products of that section admitted
of earlier planting. The seed took life
quicker, grew more rapidly, and was
harvested earlier in consequence. That
same condition applies equally to this
section, only that it is more favorable
on lines described. Here the moisture
precipitated by natural laws is not
| drawn off so rapidly by lava formation
as it is by the limestone-the latter be-
ing an entirely different and softer
composition and less impervious to
moisture. That is my version of it
and l patiently await clearer solu-
ton from those more gifted in the