The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-24
A Running Description OF Things in
General and Particular.
COMPARISON OF EASTAND WEST
All Men There are Truthful and Die Happy


S. II. Bashor in Iowa Journal.
"Can poor man succeed in
Idaho?" That depends on the man
himself. If he goes there with 81,
900 and is willing to work he can
make money faster than he can any
where IN the cast First, il he will
buy s'raw land"-that is, land with
the sage brush on-he can get that
in either the Weiser or Payette val
leys at $25 an acre. If he wishes to
become an orchardist he can clear
his land and plant his trees. Then
while the trees are growing to the
bearing point, he can raise onions
and berries, and melons between the
rows. This we'll and wisely done
will more than keep him busy on
20 acre tract and bring him in
good living with generally some TO
spare. AS the years pass his range
of knowledge and experience will en-
large, and in five to ten years he
will be in comfortable circumstances
with growing bank account and
steady income from his orchard. At
least this has been the uniform rule
in the past. Many men IN these
valleys with whom | am acquainted
came few years ago without even
the small end Of thousand dollars.
They went in debt call over" as the
rancher puts it. They lived close
and worked hard, stayed out of the
saloons and in the held and when a
job of work offered outside, took it.
Today every man who did that is
living above water, and many Of
them are on the high road to fortune.
What has been done can be done
again. The opportunities are today
the equal Of any period of the past.
Society and schools are better That
is, there are more of both. The
character of Idaho's products is bet
ter understood, the demand outside
is growing. Transportation facilities
are constantly increasing, the cost Of
transporting products is cheapening,
and the marketable value of certain
products is better understood, so
the nav conner of today has the ad-
vantage of all the experience Of that
avocation knowing the country as l
do. | would make bee line for
one of the southern Idaho valleys.
l would secure twenty to forty acres
of land under a good ditch-farmers
cooperative ditch if possible, because
water Is generally much cheaper.
would go to some such experienced
orchardist as jacobson of Payette
and learn the best class of fruit tc
plant and plant, say ten acres of it.
The rest | would put in onions, mel.
ons, sweet corn and small fruits.
would keep three or four acres of al
falfa, as | would want team and 8
COW. l would put up as comfortable
a set of buildings as could afford
and then s'dig for high timber.
Chickens do we'll and two or three
dozen Plymouth Rock hens will
make more clear money for the in
vestment than almost anything else
I'd have few of those, and unless
the rule of that country is broken
would make make more money off O.
my little home than nineteen out o
twenty men will in the same time of
of an Iowa farm of 100 acres. Yol
will likely read this and dispute it
conclusion. But that is to be ex
pected You were never IN Idaho
. When l first reached the state an
listened to the stories from hot,
| men and real estate agents my pr
vate opinion was they needed sal