Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-27
IDAHO FRUIT LANDS GO.
Mr.. Wheeler Returns From Missouri
Where Trees Are Purchased.


fruit ranch of Mr.. c. F. Wheeler
announcing at that time that MIR.
Wheeler was then in Missouri pur-
chasing trees for his immense or
chard
Mr.. Wheeler returned last week
and announces that while in Mis-
souri, he visited several of the best
known nurserymen for the purpose
of placing an order for as many
trees as he could procure. 1t may
seem surprising that not one con-
Germ could be found with a suffi-
cient number of trees to plant the
orchard. Stark Bros, the largest
nursery firm in the United States,
came the nearest of any to filling
his order and will supply eighty
five thousand apple trees leaving a
balance of twenty six thousand
which Mr.. Wheeler will secure
from Washington.
Mr.. Wheeler comes from a fruit
country where immense orchards
to all parts of the United States,
and is practical fruit man. He
has been interested in the cultiva-
tion of fruit for number Of years
and thoroughly understands the
work of laying out an orchard, its
cultivation and the profitable mar
keting of the fruit. He says that
this vicinity affords ideal conditions
for fruit raising. The shipping
facilities are good, points in the
east can be reached by nearly a
direct route. The climate is ideal,
the soil rich and conducive, and
the irrigation as good as can be
found anywhere. These condi-
'tions attracted his attention to this
point and after careful investiga-
tion led TO the large investment he
has made in this fruit land.
The company will spend one
hundred thousand dollars in the
improvement Of this land and de-
veloping the trees. The contract
for clearing and putting the land in
condition for planting will be let
to local company and the work
started at once. Experienced fruit
men with their families will be
brought here from Washingto ton to
look after the care of the orchard
and give their attention to every de-
! tail.
The trees will be laid out accord
ing to a survey, as also the roads
and streets that will intersect the
orchard. Thus every tree will be
more easily accounted for and order
more easily maintained than other
/ wise.
The land will be cultivated and
narrowed by steam engines instead
of by man with the hoe and harrow
! as on smaller plants. This viii
make the work more easily accom-
plished and consequently the entire
orchard under a better state of cul-
tivation.
The preparations made by the
company, the previos experience OF
those in charge bespeak nothing but
/ success for the project. The bene-
tits to be received by Mountain
Home are not to be entirely lost
sight of. Several new families will
be added to our population. Ano
it is people that always make {
town or country. You may have
the finest land proposition in the
world but without people to develop
it, it will remain valueless. Cities
are built by the inhabitants, every
added head makes new demands ano
creates more business for the mer-
chant, and brings more money into
circulation and greater prosperity.
The fruit produced will be an i'm
mense source of income for this com;
munity and all will share to some
extent this benefit.
The climate in this valley is bet.
ter than that of any other portion oi
the United States. No place /:
better adapted for profitable frui'
raising. We have an excellent
water system irrigating thousand:
of acres Of land, and surrounding
this are millions of acres of grazing
and stock ranges which form, at the
present, one of our best money
producing industries. The millions
of pounds Of wool prove this asser
sion beyond a doubt. With al
I these advantages and the repeated
confidence expressed in our valleys
by conservative men of means VIII,
should we not look forward to th'
future with renewed confidence il
the possibilities OF a greater devel
opment and prosperity?