Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-04-19

The following article, which APP
peared in the Grangeville Stand
ard on March 18th, is the best ex-
PLANTATION why Camas Prairie farm
lands are for sale SO cheap that we
have yet seen, although the part
referring to mossbacks is not APP
plicable here, as our people are
live, energetic, uptodate class who
are willing to work for the common
good;
Whenever a person of ordinary
intelligence sees the farm lands of
any locality on the market to any
considerable extent, he Immediately
arrives at the conclusion that some
thing is wrong, or why should this
(so-called good land be for sale;
and as rule they are right. There
is at least an explanation coming
to those enquirers who cannot visit
the location in person. For in
stance, what stranger would believe
that there was such a vast guam
tity of land for sale at such low
prices on Camas Prairie unless
there was something wrong with
the land or climatic conditions2
Now there is a great deal Of land
for sale all over the prairie and at
very low prices strangers want to
know why? We all know why
here, but our knowing is OF little
use to the homeseeker unless the
information is impaired in some
manner. They should be informed
in some manner that Camas Prairie
has been settled up for the past
forty years-that until the past
year or SO the nearest railroad
points were Uniontown and Gene
see, over hundred miles away
that nothing has ever been done to
induce immigration into the coun-
try, but on the contrary, we have
the old mossback here who don't
believe in inviting strangers to
come. lie says we have enough
and we don't want any railroads
they ruin country etc. THAT a
great area of Camas Prairie has
been used merely as headquarters
for stockmen and sheepmen, in
fact, none of it has ever been cult.
waited for any other purpose than
raising hay, little wheat for -four
and feed for hogs, for the simple
reason that it would have been
highly Improbable to have indulg-
ed In growing general farm produce
with no market save the mining
regions, which were little developed
on account of the great distance
from railroads and that many of
the original locatore of Camas Prai
RE land have scattered far and wide
after selling their ranches (vou can
not call them farmsl for little or
nothing. Therefore large tracts
are held by people who have no
earthly use for the same, except for |
speculation, and there is such n
thing as man being land poor, so
the sooner he sells part of his hold
ings the better for his purse and
for the country ut large, especially
II the purchaser intends to improve
and cultivate The land he purchases
Perhaps no section in the west has
been SO handicapped as Camas
Prairie and the Clearwater basin in
general. A rich and fertile farm
ing country, surrounded with thous-
ands of acres of the finest timber,
and with mountains carrying rich
lodges of mineral; until recently
lbeanded on tho north and west by
the large Nez Perez Indian reserva-
ton, on the east and south by the
enormous Bitter Root Forest Re-
serve, through which no railroad
could pass without special permits
sion from the government, which
was not obtained until after the
of the reservation to settle.
ment, no industry could be carried
on with profit except stockraising.
AT last nearly all Of these obstacles
have been removed and the few re-
are fast fading away. 1t
merely devolves upon the people of
this county toinform the world of I
one mite of our numerous great
natural advantages and the result {
will be their development--the set |
Element of Camas Prairie and sur i
rounding country.
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