Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-05-24
PLENTY OF MONEY TO
COMPLETE THE SYSTEM
Contract Signed for $4,000 a Month";
Fifteen More Teams put to
Work on Canals.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Garrett and
son returned home Sunday. ]. II.
had been in Minneapolis for several
weeks, Mrs Garrett and Carvel have
been spending a couple of months in
southern California They met at
Salt Lake.
Regarding the business features
of his trip east, Mr.. Garrett reports
that things arc oming the way of
the Great Wc5,ern Beet Sugar COM
pany; its agents all through the ag-
ricultural regions of the middle
west are meeting with unprecedent-
ed success in securing settlers for
this section, and a number of excur-
sion parties will come out during
the summer. These people are the
most desirable class of citizens that
could be secured successful farmers
with ample means, who seek a
pleasanter climate than the semi
frigid regions along the northern
border; people of intelligence who
have learned from investigation
that irrigation farming is the surest
source of income that can engage
human effort, offering the pleasant
est occupation and a life with the
minimum amount of care and
trouble.
AS to the finances of the COM
pany, for the completion of the irri-
cation system, that is all satisfac-
torily arranged for and on unusually
favorable terms. A contract has
been signed between the company,
George j. Shearer and Henry Os-
wald to furnish $40, 600 month up
to $50, 600, the former to act as
disbursing agent. Water rights for
10, 600 acres, to be sold by these
gentlemen, is the security for this
money. Mr.. Shearer is the vice
president of the Peoples bank of
Minneapolis, and also of the North
ern Display Advertising company, a
concern that does a business Of bet
ter than million annually. Henry
Oswald is treasurer of the Mime
apolis Brewing association. Both
are entirley responsible and able to
make good.
Since his return, Mr.. Garrett has
sent fifteen teams and more men to
work on the canal from Camas prai-
rie to the Long Tom, and will have
that work completed in sixty days
The company will then have res
ervoir capacity of 100, 600 acre feet
of water. The peculiar advantage
of this irrigation system, however,
is that it utilizes the late flood water
from Camas, Cat and Lime creeks,
rendering it unnecessary to draw
on the reservoir supply before the
first of July. Even after that date
a large supply from these streams
will be available.
This week Mr.. Garrett has
been as busy as the proverbial old
hen with one chicken. Scores of
men have been laying in wait to
get a chance to talk business with
him on many propositions. He had
his hands quite full, however, with
the party of gentlemen from Iowa,
whose names are mentioned else
where. Notwithstanding they were
beseiged, assaulted, bombarded by
knockers armed with hammers, he
landed them to a man. They called
at Maverick office Tuesday evening,
before leaving, and gave their ex-
! perience with those who sought to
induce them not to locate here.
They investigated everything thor
ouhgly, satisfied themselves that
all is as represented and as it should
be; volunteered the opinion that j.
H. Garrett is world beater, has
accomplished more here than any
other one man in ten thousand
could, under the circumstances, and
gave the major of the hammer bri-
gade a verbal roasting that is re-
served for future reference. These
men are the forerunners of a hun
dred families who are seeking
/ homes on irrigated tracts of the
west.