Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-03-16
NEZ PERCE RESERVE
Products Of Two Zones Grown
IN Its Fertile Valleys.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
: "a Which L. Never Exhaasted. tiimat.
uasarpss.ed aud IN. Graad a
of Opportunities

Genesec. Idaho. March i0.-The Neg
Perez reservation will soon be opened.
with 542.o74 acres OF land for actual
settlers. The United States govern
mert Is TO pay the Nez Perce Indians
si.626. 222 for this valuable tract OF agri-
cultural land: ss2e.222 TO be paid 10 the
Indians In actual cash during the spring
of 1896. the remaining si,oco,e 600 10 be
paid TO the Neg Perce Indians in INSTALL
ments OF si5D.e0o each year. II will fur
nish homes for $500 families
What the Umatiila reservation Is 10
eastern Oregon the Neg Perce reserva-
tion Is 10 northern Idaho. The Nez
Perce Indian reservation lies within a
short distance OF Genesee tone and one
half nities)s the nearest railroad point
to II. and 1t Is known as one OF the rich.
est bodies OF land In the northwest.
The soil is black loan and easily titled.
The average wheat yield In the vicinity
Is IS TO 40 bushels per acre. while rs 10
so bushels OF oats have been raised,
and SO TO rs bushels OF barley per acre
are an average crop. All kinds OF cereals
Will grow and do well on these lands.
There are thousands of acres of good
land TO be secured here at very low
price. consideraing the fertility OF the
country. The Nez Perez Indian reser-
walton will be thrown open for settle
ment this summer. When this great
event occurs 1t viii make Genesee the
leading town of the Panhandle OF Ida
ho, being so close to this great body of
land 10 be opened by proclamation, for
u VIII be the headquarters for the stage
and freight lines running In all dlrec-
tons and viii become the wholesale
point for one Of the finest agricultural
reservations In the United States. All
that applies 10 the Paiouse country IN
Idaho will apply 20 the Neg Perce In
dian reservation.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Herbert c. Gregg. In n recent article.
says:
The Paiouse country. which has 80
recently become famous at horne and
abroad for It's excellent cereals raised
aud lis wonderful productiveness, is a
belt lying adjacent to the Coeur d'Alene
mountains. on the east, and has It's
northern boundary about 20 miles south
OF the city Of Spokane. Its southern
boundary Is the Snake river and about
20 miles OF the western end OF the Clear
water. which Joins the Snake at Lewis
ton, Idaho. The western boundary II
one OF opinion. various minds differing
as 20 where the territory of assured
crops from rainfall merges into the arid
plains. Some contend that range AZ
shall be the extreme western portion
and shall designate the western bound
AIRY of the Palouse. 10 this be conceded,
the width OF this territory win average
not TO exceed 90 miles: its length would
be about 100 miles This win give an
area equal TO the state OF Connecticut.
Its general contour Is a succession of
small and large hills. with occasional
outtes. To the easterner II appears
next To impossible Ia TIL these small
mountains, as they term them. But the
average farmer soon adapts himself
TO the lay OF the ground. and sows and
reaps with as great ease as does the
Nebraska or Iowa farmer.
Among the first surprises that await
the newcomers is the fertility OF the
soil He is accustomed to the loans of
the eastern states and naturally won
ders how IL is that these hills are NOT
impoverished as they are elsewhere
He fights stubbornly the idea that the
hills are more productive than the yal-
leys. and win only concede the fac,
when unmistakable proofs confroa.
him. He forgets that the soil Ia moi
loan. but basaitic. Were he 10 grasr
this idea to begin with, and bring tc
bear his knowledge of ancient history
ne would not compare the resources OF
the Palouse with those of the Mlssis.
sippL Ohio or like valleys. 1t is true
any quantity of afiidavits corroboratina
this statement may be had. that the
more the soil IL titled the greater is It's
fertility. The only fertilizer that In re-
quired is the action of the sun upon the
soil The oftener Il Is stirred the more
fertile II becomes. Rotation of crops II
not necessary, as In other states, and In
a majority OF instances II In not expert.
mented In.
Wheat. oats and barley are the sta
ples, In the order named Foremost il
wheat. II II 10 this district what corn
ID 10 Nebraska and Kansas. IL In king
Sown with any degree of care IL will
yield as high ms 100 bushels per acre
and viii average over the entire area
about 40 bushels for winter wheat and
rs bushels for spring wheat. There il
no denying that this average Is thus
lowered because of the shiftiessness OF
men who nretnd 10 cultivate the soil
Were all equally guarded an to the seed
used and the method Of planting the
same. II would be no difficult task "a
bring the average up to nj least 81
bushels per acre. The writer has known
Of fields OF zoo acres yielding 60 bushels
TO the acre. He has also known OF one
measured acre to have Yield
ed s7is bushels. which was
the 18th consecutive crop. There need
be no question about the fertility or the
soil nor Of its lasting qualities without
the aid of fertilizers. commonly and en-
tensively used east of the Rockies.
Oats rank next In order, and the Yield
averages not less than 80 bushels. The
market for oats as feed IN ever good
the price ana demand heing highly sat.
isfact0ry. Barley comes third on the
list. and Is raised hut occasionally, Ii
yields wonderfully well. but II needs
only small quantity TO glut the mar.
ket, thare being es yet few breweries
20 create demand for the cereal. Flax
Il raised quite extensively and Yields
about 20 bushels 10 the acre The price
does not exceed 81 per bushel. In grasses
there has been but little experiment
but II IL believed that red clover, aifalfs
and timothy win at least do moderated,
well All the harder fruits do particu
iariy well. especially the apple. Tn,
writer has no recollection OF ever natic
ing a single wormy apple which wal
raised Ia the Paiouse country. Prunes