Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-10


to get home in the Truckee-C Carson
valley that will support you aud your
family I'm great comfort, Is Il strong
team, a few tools, money enough TO
build a little house with the necessary
outbuildings and support you till
the crops come; for they will come.
never doubt 1t, in such profusion that
you will wonder what TO do with them.
Remember that when Mr.. Taylor gets
thru. you are absolutely certain OF so
many inches of water for your land,
properly distributed thru the year. He
told me that ne had the measure of the
flow of both rivers for the last ten
years, and that he knew to a mathe-
NAUTICAL certainty just how many acres
he could water.
The settler does not need a great deal
of capital. OF course he will have to
spend part of first season In prepa";.
alton Lumber is not high AS soon as
the family and the horses are housed
and In such country nothing needs
much housing-he must lay In some al
falfa for the COWS. and build a protect
ing corral for his chickens. The next
thing will be dwelling his land. II he
can do this in the fall or winter, he will
be ready for farming operations In the
spring. If he can't go till spring, he
can make his preparations and then
turn in and secure work for himself
and team every day In the year on the
canals for the next three years at big
wages A man gets s1.50 and a team
ISL a day and everything found" For
man and team who boards himself
lxp 10
IS. but 7 Judge about 81 to $3.50 per
day. You need big horses, they have
no use in that country for bronchos or
light horses, except for livery horses
They ship these to Iowa and sell them
to suckers.
Would ] advise one to go there? Yes,
and no. If you are robust In health
and have an Iowa farm paid for or
partly paid for-stay where you are.
If YOU are not strong: If you are tron-
bled with asthma, or with cough: II
Won have any fears that your lungs
are not strong, or If you have any
tendency to consumption. If you are
a moor man and can gather together
homesteader's outfit; II you are
renter with $4,000 ahead: If you are
mechanic living in a town and getting
wages only To every such man
would say, if you get together $2,o00,
or even less, go. Co by all means. go.
You can get along with less than $4,000
IL you are willing to endure little
hardship With 1t you are not called
on to endure any. But hardships or
no hardships you will be independent
and free.
Will your children have schools?
Not at present. unless you can get
within a mile of Fallon. But just as
soon as your neighbors are on the
ground you will have schools and
churches, and everything else. for this
valley is going to be thickly settled, 1T
| is going to be a veritable garden and
| within FIVE years the land will
all be taken.
l. have a sister living in Idaho. Years
ago her husband took up claim three
miles from Nampa just exactly such
land as / have been telling you about
| 1t was a sage brush desert of sand
They got water in crude bitches and a
very irregular and uncertain supply
from the Payette. They are now sell
| ing this land in ten acre lots at $500
an acre. Do you know of any reason
why ldilu III Tue '7OiI '''i
| lev won't bring 500 an acre in five or
six years? If you do. | don't, and you
can now get it for nothing.
There is some talk of limiting set
tiers to forty acres. l don't think this
will be done. / think the department
and those carrying on the work are al
ready convinced that such a farm is
| too small 1t doesn't offer sufficient
inducement. They may make an eighty
acre limit This means land under the
canals If you are Son the border you
can. of course, file on eighty acres
more outside and you can use all you
want.
The shrewd man who goes to stay
has a great opportunity, for in all such
places there is unrest and change as
there is everywhere. All the slayer has
to do is to buy out less fortunate neigh
Dor as fast as they. prove up. Many
will take up claims With the intention
of selling after five years. ] am thor
oughly convinced that these irrigated
valleys offer splendid opportunities for
the classes of people I have described.
and at the risk of further reducing
Iowa's population. ] say to all such
men to go.
One thing more, you will want to
know about markets. The railroad peo-
ple laid stress on the fact that the
mining camps 200 miles to the south.
where cities are springing up as if by