Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-14
TOWN FULL OF BUYERS
FROM EVERY QUARTER
All Here to Secure irrigated Farms Special
Gar Load Will Arrive on the
Nineteenth.

For week past Mountain Home
hotels have been crowded. Among
the visitors have been thirty or
forty people who came here in
search of investments, irrigated
farms and homes in town, coming
from a half dozen or more states.
Friday night three different parties
arrived on the same train, from
North Dakota, Iowa and Montana.
They were w. A. Johnson, Lloyd
Morton and his son Melvin, L. V.
Brown, Valley City, Peter Ottinger,
Oriska, B. V. Apfeld, M. E. Cox,
Hawkinsonville, North Dakota; F.
M. Conroy, F. ]. Turver, Fonda,
Iowa, James Fitzpatrick, j. r.
Couhgiln, E. Casanaw and R. E.
Sherman, Fort Dodge, Iowa; H. ].
Murray, Anadarko, Oklahoma, D.
Salmon, Fowler, Colorado, with the
Iowa party; P. c. ellis, c. E.
Beebe and Thos. Lavell, Butte.
Later came Waldo Wintersteen, of
Fremont, Nebraska, accompanied
by ]. c. Stoetzel and Adam Hass,
from the same place. Monday there
arrived here from North Yakima E.
A. Ferris, c. L. Barnett, D. r.
Barton and L. Ballinger.
Some of these North Dakotans
had already invested here and came
out to look after their h h)ldings.
This is the case with Lloyd Morton,
who is treasurer of Barnes county.
He has twenty acres in crop this
year, owns another forty and has
taken a homestead of 100 acres. He
and his family will come here to
live as soon as his term of office
expires.
L. V. Brown had also bought
land here. 1t was through his eff
forts that the gentlemen from Butte
visited Mountain Home. They rep
resent syndicate of wealthy bus
mess men in ''the greatest mining
camp on earth," and are themselves
on the sunny side of easy street.
Their plan is to acquire large hold
ings jointly and farm by proxy.
They took fifteen day options on
everything in sight.
Waldo Wintersteen, of Fremont,
Nebraska, who bought land here
months ago, is an attorney. He
says that farm lands in his section,
the heart of the corn belt, is now
so valuable that poor man has to
hustle in order to get enough in
which to bury him; that the owners
have become rich, moved to town
and rent their farms. Land sells
readily there at 500 an acre and
rents for from five to six dollars.
He is now working among these
tenant farmers, who wish to own
to Mountain Home. Both Mr.
Stoetzel and Mr. Hass took up land
and bought water rights. They will
return in the fall to reside. The
former also bought an acre and half
in town and let contract for i'm
provements. His family will live
in town.
Messrs. Conroy and Turver were
here several weeks ago. They
brought in lot of their neighbors
and will bring more. Most of
those who came on this trip bought
water rights. These gentlemen,
it will be remembered, were beseig-
ed by the knockers when here re-
Gently. They say one of these
nuisances pulled his hammer on the
train, but that they have kept away
from them and their people since
arriving here.
A special car of home seekers
from North Dakota and Minnesota
will arrive here on the nineteenth
instant. They are all well fixed
farmers, who have ''put in'' their
crops and come here now to look
around for homes in a more genial
cline.