Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-06
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MCGUIRE 10
Leyellng Device.

The population of Mountain I
Home continues to increase at the
rate of ten per cent every month,
and as each months increase is
compounded, the wheels of progress
grind out new responsibilities
Daniel Webster opposed the an
uexatiou of this sagebrush country
because he I ihgt "a jack rabbit
could not live here. People, pass
ing through on the cars five years
ego were frequently heard to remark
This is the country that God for
got. - A famed lecturer told a
Boise audience that he considered
Mountain Home the end of crea-
ton.
Time has proven that good things
sometimes come out of Nazareth.
God sometimes uses the weakest
things to confound the mighty and
has no doubt saved the best for the
last.
If Webster could today see this
favored spot producing more than
three times greater than his own
Massachusetts,, or any of the states
not employing irrigation, he would
surely say Behold the desert bios
som like the rose.
But all is not gold that glitters.
New questions are yet to De solved.
How shall we clear the sagebrush
from the land? How shall we level
the land to receive the water
These are questions which come
home to us and involve the most
thrilling inquiries of every earnest
farmer. The eye is so often de-
ceivcd in measuring distances and
. calculating elevations, that the
water sometimes appears to run up
hill and the lands are not properly
leveled to receive the water.
This question however has been
solved by a citizen of Mountain
| Home MIR. A. A. Brothen, a young
y man reared in Norway and educated
= in military school of Christiana,
: has recently secured patent which
o will add it's millions as labor saw
n er I'D wealth producer in showing
the farmer exactly how to level his
land and to correctly build his
. bitches, laterals and canals. 1t is
i, small, simple cont ivance anc
&c can be easily used by any person
a whether skilled or inexperienced
&c 1t is always accurate and within tht
reach of all in price. The simples
of anything is usually the best anC
no doubt the name of this youns
Norweg len will be handed dowi
with Morse, Edison and others WIN
have blessed the world with genius
A leading member of the Govern
ment Reclamation Bureau has tn
e following to say: ''This is ste
- in the right direction and its us
: by the farmers throughout the ir
rigated section of the countr
should become general. Indeed
:. ought to be found on every ranch
-. big or little, as, by it's applicatio
- irrigation can be made perfect with
- out unnecessary experiments.
lit / ne ps,en, oiiioe seems 10 .nln
it the best thing of modern time
and has the following to say
"The instrument described is {
very small cost and may be used
all persons, whether or not they al
skilled in the art OF surveying.
is specially adapted for use by pei
sons unskilled in the art of surve
ing and was particularly designt
for use by farmers and others in Il
irrigated sections of the countr
1t will enable them in the first il
stance, and without experiment,
accurately run their bitches al
laterals so that they will car
water, and by its use the farmer
other person Can also readily dete
mine where his ground is imprope
ly level apd unfit for irrigation a
this without waiting, as has be
- customary, for a year or two,
order to see where water W
flow and where it will not flo
In this way the farmer will be
sured good crop the first ye;
whereas, on much ground whi
would, under the old practice, I
be productive because not prope
leveled for irrigation. The insti
ment will also save farmers {
others surveyors fees and will
on hand when needed. "