The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-12
LAND AND ORCHARDS

potatoes between the trees The potato crop paid for the
cultivation and Of both crops each year. and the age Of
five years the began bear Every year they in
with larger cash through the sale Of apples and al
thoug three heavy fo late the present
the apple loaded heavily that has become
sary remove Of the half developed fruit wecklng
the The soil prolific that but for the kind intervention
Of osts kill part Of the boom the trees would be ruined by
their load OF fruit before it to maturity he OF the
orchard would sell the tract tor several times twenty
dollars acre. and the sweet and
green apple pie which appear his table may be Of the
reasons why he will not sell.
Across the road from him twenty nursery Of which
the same things might be said except that there endless
variety Of fruits flowers and shrubs There are all the hardy
variety Of apples loaded with fruit belts of strawberries rapbe
e goosebcrres currants backbeme and oveles Of
growing between Then there the shade trees elm, maple
mountain ash and many others besides the seedlings by the
of thousands including pear peach apricot mulberry hack
berry and the wild black cherry There block ochery
which all look alike 4O Of them, and they bore bushels and
bushels Of fruit this year Notwithstanding the late spring os
GROVELAND
mile north Of this and about three miles from Blackfoo
is Croyeland which until recently just big school house
set down the plain the end Of orchard but few weeks
ago Adam Yancey who owned tract OF the land laid out
eighty city blocks and lots The streets
made eighty feet WIDE and the tract up into foryhve
os forty of which have already sold hundred dollars
apiece have been aside for public buildings and three
are for sale Six Of the purchasers have built cottages their
os the heeroom country school house has become the
school, hall 3Ox6O feet has been completed the telephone
company has extended their line the village and will put
lot of instruments this themanuacurers will supply them
for market and the American Falls be
ed by wire light the village winter the children,
bless their little bodies can read their Christmas books by
"water-ig ght"
Sugar beets tomatoes alfalfa growing all streets
and os and spring the fences will be built around the
ea blocks water will be made bitches each side Of
the Streets and fruits and flowers will grow within the lots
Mr. A. Yancey, the promoter has let contract for SIX
thousand dollar brick house which now being erected and an
eight acre orchard bordering the house which years
ago contains 800 trees fine condition Out of the 800 trees
thirty had be the second year, and five died during the
second year The cherry bore well the second year and
again this season. which is their third year. Between tina rows
Of fruit trees are sugar beets and just what the profit the
tract this year we can tell you better in November,
The bees yet maured harvested, but expert
ence and gang systems have shown that cold weather does
not come too soon and that the crops when
it wanted the prospect for the beets igh and the price Of
the crop liked.
There is now and then who says that much fruit
being set that the market will be ovesocked and that
will 90 to waste These fellows said years ago that
too much alfalfa being sown; that the day would
when everybody would have from hundred FIVE hundred
tons to sell and there would be but few purchasers but con
tons changed both sides Of the equation The sheep indus
try took greater proportions which called for much hay and
some grain the building Of lines Of railroads and the i'm
Of old lines made great demand for hay and gan
so that the farmer who prepared overstok the market
was the one who made the money and his land fine
condition the sugar beet any the other crops which
may be considered more profitable than hay and grain
1t conceded few years ago that the agricultural landin
this locality about all taken up, but the opportunity for
the settlement Of lands great and the
work Of getting settlers populate the land already taken has
commenced on new scale All this greater market
at home Each family that here to settle adds to the
market for fruit and produce till he has something SELL and the
old settlers using fruit each year. The opening Of
mines and the settlement Of lands along the line Of the Salmon