Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21

choice of range to the man who
lives nearest to the reserve and
who owns his own lands upon
which is raised the winter feed for
his stock. These regulations place
the settlers on the lands of the
Idaho Irrigation company in posi-
ton to have first choi of these
rich government pasture lands.T The
regulations of the forest service are
such that these settlers will have
practically perpetual right-at a
small rental-to a never-falllng
summer pasture. 1t has been
from these rich pasture lands of the
mountains that the great fortunes
of the present sheep men of Idaho
have been harvested, and there is
some left there yet for you, Mr..
Settler. on these Carey act lands
in the northern part of Lincoln
county.
The comparative absence of al
kali is another feature of these
lands that adds greatly to their
value in many ways. Their clim-
attic conditions specially adapt
them t. beet culture, and the alb
sence of alkali in beet lands add
greatly to the sugar producing
quality OF the beets so grown.
A sugar factory is already as
sured for this tract, as there are
already in cultivation some 10000
to $1,000 acres of fine lands in the
immediate vicinity of these lands
to be opened Monday. If you
come to these lands you do not
have to wait for a railroad to be
built, as the Oregon Short Line
has road already skirting these
lands, and at one point the new
town of Alberta has been estab-
lished. This town lies some 16
mi es up the road from Shoshone
and no new town in the west has
greater possibilities before it. Sur
rounded as it is by more than 5O,-
0U0 acres of agricultural lands,
10000 or 10000 of which is al
ready in cultivation, insures it
place on the map that will easily
be seen from a distance as one of
the great cities of the state.
The town site of Alberta will also
be opened for the public on next
Monday and the present indica-
tions are that it will he one of the
greatest land and town lot sales of
the century out there at that time.
Already the rush has begun. Ida
no irrigated lands are no longer an
experiment-they have been fully
tested and proven so that no irri-
gated acre of Lincoln County lands
goes begging now for purchaser.
There will be two buyers at AL
berta next Monday for every tract
of land to be sold. The lucky man
is the one who gets in before the
last tract is disposed of and his in
vestment will be safer and more
profitable than any deposit in
savings bank. And he can make
this investment on the installment
plan too. He pays but one-tenth
Of the price at time OF purchase,
and the remainder in ten annual
tallments with low rate of in
,erest. These particular lands I
nave been, by q fortunate accident
ii several years ago, already ,
cleared of sage brush, which of ]
tself saves the settler FIVE dollars
Der acre. He can hitch his team {
o pillow and get right to business.
These lands are what is known {
IS Carey Act lands-that is they I
re reclaimed from the desert under |
he provisions of the Carey Act, {
which is the best land law ever en- ,
cted for the redemption of desert {
ands. You don't have to wait the l
,leasure of lot of reclamation ]
mp loyes who are drawing salaries J
S engineers. You don't have to
i've on the land five years before e
he water is ready and then live d
mother ten years on it to establish o
our residence, and then lie buried t
n the land for another twenty-five W
ears in order to show god faith
18th the government and that you II
ave no intention of deserting your 81
lain or of giving Hartman or o
an option on it. You Ii
an get title to these lands by p
lirty-days' residence on them and VI
ou must establish your residence p
a., :. l..