The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1905-04-20

will file for him. Those that ov.
forty acres are getting from $500 t
3 $1,000 each for their forty ovel
amount paid.
You will notice in the Times thi.
week that am building 4 nice hom.
here. l have half block that cos
me $1,000 and my house will cos
. line $1,000. Ihavs not made all thi.
money since 1 came here but l found
my credit Eas good, thanks to q
letter from Swift, 20 l am exercising
it. The weather is simply beautiful
down here and We are in the best
of health. 1000 acres are being
sovn here this week and on every
side you can see fires burning up
the old sage brush. Water is run
ming in the canal nov and in one
place they have turned the water
down \ draw to run back again into
the river. 1t plungss down a bank
of rocks 800 feet to the land below.
Now the road from Blue Lakes to
Twin Falls passes right under this
water fall at one spot where the
road is dug back into the solid rock.
So whenever you come to Twin
Falls you now pass back of 4 cata-
ract of water falling 800 feet. This
waste water il then taken into a
canal on the bench next to the river
and is used to water about 200 acres
of fruit land Just across the river
from Blue LAKES.
Mr.. /. B. Perrine is the owner of
Blue Lake Farm, about 1900 acres.
watered by river that gushes out
of the solid rock and flows about
200 yards and then disappears. only
to reappear again further down the
gully and at last flows into the
Snake river. This spring forms two
or three lakes the bottoms of which
are covered with some kind of blue
mud that makes the water look blue
as indigo. These lakes are per-
fectly alive With trout, some = good
fourteen inches in length. Mr.. Per-
rine is the man that got the Twin
Falls tract financed and he worked
on it for fifteen years before he sue
ceeded. People said he vas crazy
and would never get anyone to spend
a million or two on an experiment.
But he still PERSISTED until at last he
got it financed, and when it is COM
pleted it will be the largest irriga-
ton project in the world. 1t will
cost with all the laterals and head
gates 81 ,000,0 900 and will reclaim
nc, 900 acres of land which is With
out doubt the richest tract of land
n Idaho. 1t is not sandy and COM
Jared with its extent very little rock.
Most of it lays ~ level ~ the floor
md when under cultivation looks
imply magnificent. Mr.. Perrine
ow has the name Of bringing more
7ealth into Idaho than any one :
ian in the state. The railroad has
iven one fare rate to parties of
We or more coming to Twin Falls :
rom Lewiston. The Railroad owns
great amount of land around Twin ),
alls and are booming the country
Il they can. The grading camps :.
re in sight of town and no doubt
le road will be complete by July
The assessable valuation of Twin
ais is 100000 this year. We
i'll build a $4,000 school house =
I'd will probably open school next :,
II with six teachers where one is
ing the work now. n.
Twin Falls hotel is now under
and will be complete by .
ly l.. This hstel is built of con- n
etc brick and will cost $4,000.
is next to Idanha the finest hotel
the state. Psrrine's brick store
just across the store from it and
about three times as large Is MI
hultz's. There are four brick ~
ldings here now besides these ins
ng built. The electric light plant GIN
Utmost complete. This is gener- OF
d by water from Shoshone falls the
nut four miles from town. This
YER will also operate the street vii
line and electric car to Blue vii