Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-16

mountain Home has great fu-
ture before it," was the statement
made by II. A Lawson, editor oil
the Journal-Chronicle the leading
paper of Owatonna, Minnesota,
who passed two days in this city in
company with w. A. Dynes, vice
president of the Owatonua Manu-
featuring company, which concern
manufactures the famous Disbrow
churn and butter worker. Both
gentlemen we're the guests of Miss
Vene Oppliger formerly of Ovation
ma and a we'll known resident OF
Mountain Home. They have been
spending several weeks in southern
Idaho looking over the country and
getting acquainted with the condi-
ions that exist here.
Messrs. Lawson and Dynes lett
Minnesota a short time ago at
which time it was showing in
their home town. Their destiua-
ton was Boise and the trip was
made via Colorado Springs, Ogden,
Salt Lake City, Mountain Home
and Nampa. They visited Boise
and after careful inspection of the
capital city express themselves as
being very much pleased to find
that city so prosperous. Both state
that Boise is in the midst of a
greater development and that there
is no question about her bright flu
ture or in fact anv of the sur
rounding territory. They made an
overland trip to Murphy, the
little Irish trading point located at
the foot of the beautiful Owyhee
mountains and while there had
their first experience of driving
through the sage brush and seeing
tie pack teams load up for the long
mountain trip to Silver City, and
county seat of the neighborine
county of Owyhee. They spoke
well of that section uf the state and
of the country that they saw be-
tween Mountain Home and Nampa.
''There is no doubt in my mind
but tina. inside of the next five or
ten years Mountain Home will ex-
perience great change for the bet
ter said Mr. Lawson when inter
viewed by this paper Wednesday,
this city, from all that l can see,
has reached its turning point which
means that IL will become one of the
leading cities in southern Idaho.
All conditions point conclusively to
this fact. In the first place you
are fortunate in having a delight
full climate and the term Sunny
Idaho may we'll be given to this
section of the state. Such days of
sunshine wonld De hailed with de-
light in Minnesota Mountain
Home IS surreanded BY Thousands of
acres Of land, whose prpductiveness
have ppsbably aeSer Been given full
oredits sAfthttEh covered with
sagebrush ~ fsr N the eye can 200,
yot with the water that will soon
lbe ditchod over this apparent bound
tess waste tho rich soil will bo
turned into . osaVasting paradise.
) =, .sSouthoru Idaho owes much to
%those men who arc expcnding their
money and time 10 chain the power
.of the mountain streams and direct
the Iife-giving wsters onto the
plains of sagebrush. They are the
men who arc laying the foundation
for progressiveness and prosperity
for the future residents of this sec
tion of the state who unquestion-
ably will reap the harvest. II means
much to every resident of Mountain
Home to see the mountain sire ans
diverted onto the surrounding coun-
try. II means the future of the
CITY and county as we'll as those
who are fortunate enough to be res
idcnts of Sunny Southern Idaho
which of course means Mountain
Home.
1Tn speaking of the great irriga-
tion problems that are being solved
by men in this state l might mem
tiou the name of your fellow and
nroercssive townsman ]. H. Garrett
of the Great Western Beet Sugar
company. am informed by the
most reliable authority that Mr..
Garrett has had some most dis
couras ing experiences while engaged
in tho development Of Mountain
Homo and the surrounding terri
tory. He hao facsd snd overcome
serious probsousI that vouid nas