St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-21

by all reliable and positive evidence
and official statements. This is be-
cause in Idaho you can live at any
elevation, constantly bright sunshine
with no swampy lands for malaria,
and everywhere a. dry, pure air. Health
is the greatest resource we nave for
success, and Idaho's offer is uneX-
, celled.
|. While the great plains of Southern
Idaho are treeless, she has vast for
ests in the North. Her forest area is
computed at 100000 acres. 1t consists
of white and yellow pine, red and yell
low fir, white cedar, spruce and tam
arack. White pine logs 10 feet in di-
ameter and 100 long are often RATED
down our streams. The cedar and tlr
attain marvellous heights and thick
ness. A lumber expert who has invest
igated our timber says the plner1es
Of Michigan look like open parks be-
side it, Nowhere else except perhaps
in Western Washington can be found
such prodigious amounts Of timber to
the acre.
The soil of Idaho is of the same fer
tile character as is found in the vol
canic regions of the Northwest. In
the valleys it is the aggregated and con-
densed richness of vast areas OF Vege-
table growth that accumulated Tor
ages on the mountains Skirting them.
Plain and plateau soil contain n great
amount Of vegetable mold. THESE SOILS
grow every grain, fruit and vegetable
in the grea test perfection suitable to
the climate and are the most orId gaaur
those parts of the state known as
arid, irrigation still farther enriches
the soil and renews its fertility every
year. This method of agriculture Is
largely used in Southern Idaho and
produces almost sure and heavy crops.
1t eliminates all chances of failure
from drouth, for with bright, warm
sunshine, deep side soil and plenty OF
water, crops never fail. Under 1rrlga-
tion small farms are the rule, for forty
acres Of irrigated land generally pays
J better in Idaho than the best 16O acres
farmed the ordinary way.
Idaho produces wheat with berry
plump, hard and bright, that cannot
the acre, oats 60 bushels, corn 30
bushels, shelled rye 25 bushels, barley
40 bushels, faxseed 80 bushels, potatoes
600 bushels to the acre, Alfalfa (Ch1lian
tons; potatoes 600 bushels to the acre,
and so white, mealy and delicious that
when once eaten no other satisfies.
Onions grow 1000 bushels to the acre,
and pay more net profit than any
mild climate of the Boise valley, sweet
potatoes, cotton, sugar cane, peanuts
! and tobacco are successfully grown.
Idaho is a great stock-raising state,
and offers wonderful inducements. Cat.
tie range in her valleys all winter, and
always find pasture. Her wool clip this
year was 100000 pounds. Hogs and
poultry fatten on Alfalfa alone, and
are immensely profitable. Bees feed
on Alfalfa and sage blossoms, and
make the clearest and most delicious
honey ever eaten. Cabbage average
twelve pounds to the head, and sweet
corn, lettuce, melons, radishes, egg
plant and caulifower have a. size, ten
derness and flavor that is very superior.
Idaho has millions of acres open to
settlement of as futile lands as there
are in the world, timber, agricultural,
mineral or desert lands, so called, that
being the term for the vast arid sage
brush plains, that when touched with
water that great magician's wand the
irrigating ditch, spring into matchless
fertility and "blossom like the rose"
Idaho has taken advantage of the act