The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-17
INVITATION TO PICRPOCKETS.
COVE AND MEET THE BEARS on
THE HEIGHO RANCH IN idaho.

nssldes, There's an Absolutely Untitled
ItcId IN Boise CITY, the Only City IN
the world With Natural steam Heat
MIR. HelghO Is Getting HOmesck.
Edgar NJ. Heigho. the vice-presldent,
general superintendent and treasurer OF
.5e Pacific and Idaho Northern Railroad.
somewbat distracted himself yesterdgg
nom the modification caused by the SEQ
raid upon his pocketbook at the Rector
street elevated station last Wednesday.
For the fret time since that unprecedented
incident in his career he was willing 10 talk
about his experiences, but his mind was
more 10 Idaho than in New York.
when you remind me Of those who dis
oourteously encountered me- be said, Il
have TO say. now that II Is all over, that
bear no malice but would like to entertain
them on my ranch In Idaho.
The ranch Is In the jackson Hole dis
tdct and adjoins Yellowstone Park. On
il there are hundreds Of acres OF timber
swept by forest fires many years ago and
killed. the roots then rotting away and the
trunks topping over. A thick under
brush has grown up among them and It Is
the anest habltation 10 the world for GIN
namon and grizzly bears. These are all
the more plentiful because the bears In the
park are protected against the hunter and
frequently wander beyond It's limits.
Not long ago I went out hunting with
camera and gun and shot three bears, fst
with the camera and then with the rife.
Then como on East and get touched by
rickpockets. Just 10 test the mettle Of
these gentry would like 10 turn them loose
out in the jackson Hole country. We could
then discover whether they would be- as
much Disconnected as was by local environ
ment.
NO, / haven't anything against New
York. but for the last day or 80 everything
reminds me Of Idaho and I must 90 back
pretty soon. This morning, for instance,
J noticed pushcart vendors selling those
nubhin rlssets, two for FIVE, and thought
II the apples out In the Council district,
where they grow the finest fruit In the
world Do you know, In that whole dis
trict there has never been a wormy apple,
not n speck Of fungus or solitary speci-
men Of the tent CATERPILLAR
1t is a land where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt interposed his attorney,
W. L. Taylor. 'and thieves do not break
10 and steal
Exactly" assented Mfr. Heigho, 1T has
not yet quite emerged from pioneer con-
ditions and Is free from the clever contriv-
snces Of civilization. And the climatel
There are none Of the damp mists and the
raw winds Of the East, but air that IL dry
and pure and mornings as clear and sweet
as the Lord knows how to make them. II Is
more like the climate Of the Riviera than
anything else, with long SUMMERS a semi
trouioal sun and cool nights.
Even In Boisa City, or largest town,
the work OF nature Is more In evidence
than Is the work Of man. That IL the only
place in the world with natural steam
heat.
isn't II about time 10 wake up from the
tranoe?' remarked Mr.. Taylor.
i am speaking the exact truth, retorted
the Westerner. @Scalding water from
natural boiling springs Is plped to every
house IN Bots City and used for heating,
tot ct and cooking purposes. When. you
want 10 boil eggs, FOR Instance, you simply
turn on the faucet and nature does the
rest
But Bots, City does not depend upon
nature alone. It's population u but 1900,
but doubt II many Eastern cities Of ten
times It's size are more modern. IL has
cement walks, sewers, gas, electricity,
trolleys, asphalt pavements, good business
blocks, fine hotels and two excellent theatres.
Always excepting piokpockets, Il has every
Paris
Mr. Heigho was quite as enthusiastic
about Idaho's possibilities for mineral and
agricultural development. II was unfor-
tunate for the wealth Of the State, he says,
that the railroads traversinR il cut through
the northern and southern parts, leaving
the vast interior section without railroad
facilities. This section he declares to be the
richest in the State, the mountains con-
tanning the largest body Of low grade gold
ore outside of the Rand district in South
Africa that Is known in the world to-day,
and the valleys being fertile and finely
adapted TO both farming and grazing. In
some sections rains are not very plentiful,
but these sections are excellent for what he
terms dry ranching with the ground moist
ened by sub-irrigation from streams.
Mr.. Heigho is an Englishman by birth.
His railroad DIVORCES from the Oregon
Short Line at Weiser and extends 10 Council.
While In New York he Is making arrange
nents for the financing Of q forty-mile ex-
tension from Council 70 Payette Lakes.