Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-04-30

lAIS Nal bSI VI A<uSu, anu ttlS tIo-
neers cherish the memory of Clear
water basin. With the art of irri-
CATION to assist nature, there could
be no more happy combination of
earthly conditions than will be
here presented. The worlds best
authority on agriculture has said
in effect that perfection would be
attained in his favorite science
when man could control sunshine
and rain. The husbandman in the
Lewiston valley, in the future, will
control the moisture that will nur
ture his crops and perfect sunshine
is an assured blessing. With a
perfect soil, perfect climate and
moisture at command, man can
plant, water and confidently eX-
pect God to send the increase.
If the man is honored who null
tiplies the blades Of grass, he who
builds happy homes i'll natures
waste places must be doubly hon
ored. Lewiston Flat is being plat
ted as artistically as city park.
A typographical survey is being
made. The trackless plain will be
divided into five and ten acre tracts,
and each of these will be arranged
for beautiful landscape effect
bitches, mains and laterals, will
carry water to every subdivision,
and it is 10 prophecy that pictures
three hundred gorgeous homes
within five years on the bare plain
where, today, the wind plays with
wild weeds, the jack rabbit crouches
in his lair, and the coyote sends up
his dismal cal, to echo from the
hills.
In the breast o. every man there
is a longing for a home of his own.
After the rewards Of business have
been gathered and all the honors
have been earned, the sweetest OF
life S pleasures are to be found in
lovely country home. Balmoral
has no charms that may not be
enjoyed by any owner ola farm i'll
the Lewiston valley. The eXuber-
ance of verdure, the fragrance of
lovely flowers and the flavor of
fine fruits appeal to and cultivate
the most refined tastes of refined
humanity.
Wealth will be combined with
beauty in these little irrigated
farms. Fruits of the highest stanl-
ard are grown upon limited areas
at best. Where conditions are per
tect, only can perfect color, texture
and flavor be attained. Even the
rpple, the fruit of the cosmopolitc,
IS imperfect and unsatisfactory
over more than half of the world.
The peach, the apricot and the
grape, the fruit of The aristocrat
are grown to perfection on only ;
few sacred garden spot, of the
world. One of these is the Lewis
ton valley.
An acre of land in this valley
with facilities for irrigation, i
worth five hundred dollars for the
production OF any one of a dozel
crops. A peach or an apricot or
chard, in full bearing, will yield
profit of FIVE hundred dollars al
acre annually. The market 70
these fruits is in no sense a coWec
ture. The variance of climate re
sultng from our low altitude elm
mates the item of freight expendi
ture for a thousand miles of trans
portation. There is vast regiol
almost surrounding us. which /
too cold to produce the finer fruit
and vegetables, but populous SET
Elements are attracted by other re
l sources. and they afford certai
5 markets for the products OF Tn
:. valley.
In the Clearwater basin thcr
: are at least three rich minin
. camps. When the goldbearin
: +ledges, which are now being deve
5 oped, are worked for their wealt
y there will be hundred thousan
: people to buy the products OF th
e farms of this little valley. If ever
!; acre should yield a full quota OF
e thousand bushels there would stl
v be shortage OF every variety
5 fruit and vegetables An acre
: pear trees i'll full bearing wou'
e support in plenty family OF five
:. an acre i'll sweet cherries woul
II be even more profitable.
" Our grapes are the graudeat iru
e Of all. The foxy natives, the on
e varieties that can be produced ca
o of the Rocky Mountains, compa
Ie with our grapes no more tavorab
d than sour crab apple compar
y with mellow Northern spy. +
/ black. luscious Hamburg grape "
II grow here in clusters that welj
X seven pounds, and yield a hu