Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-09-12
EASTERN MAN
TALKS OF IDAHO
interested in the irrigation Projects
and Predicts Boom.

''More money can be made from
the dry land farms of southern
Idaho, than on the '$75-per-acre
land of the so-called fertile east
says President ] c. Weeter of the
Weeter Lumber company, who re-
turned last Saturday from visit
with his family to his wife's old
home in Massachusetts. While
in New England he visited the
famous Berkshire Hills, which he
says are the most beautiful in the
world. On his way back to the
Gem state Mr.. Weeter passed
through the wheat and corn dis
tricts of, Illinois, Indiana, Nebras-
ka, Kansas and Iowa.
$50 far as my observation ex-
tended on this trip, "says Mr.. Weet-
er, ''the corn crop OF the middle
west will this year be very light,
and the wheat yield will also be
/ far below the general average. In
Nebraska, for instance, where last
year the wheat yield was from %
to 80 bushels per acre, this year
will only be about s to 20. | have
I it from reliable sources that the
oat crops of the middle west will
this year be only about IS per
cent OF the average. In southern
Illinois the corn is in good shape,
but in all the other states through
which l passed the outlook for this
Staple is exceptionally poor.
Cont asst this showing with
what saw while passing though
Wyoming, where the wheat gives
promise of yielding tremendously.
All this leads me to make the safe
and sane conclusion that more
money can be made from the dry
farm lands of this state than from
the $75-per-acre land of the mid
die west.
THE crop shortage in the east
this year means great things for
the west. | look to see dollar
wheat, which means that the farm
crs of the west w i'll convert their
immense crops of golden wheat into
more beautiful and more easily
4 negotiable golden dollars
Speaking of the vail from Wall
street, WHICH big financicrs would
have the people believe foreshadows
a money panic and hard times, MI.
Wccter says it amounts to nothing.
1t affects only Wall street. The
country never was so prosperous
before. In proof of his statement
that only the bankers in the east
ern money ccnters are affected, Mr..
Wcetcr cites the fact that $780,
900, 90 worth of automobiles owned
by stock brokers in New York and
Boston are for sale second hand.
Mr.. Wectcr says that the roads
in New England are almost per-
feet. eff it wasn't for the roads,
l wouldn't trade Idaho for all of
New England" he says.
A ''The labor shortage of which
\ the west complains, continued Mr.
Weeter, does not affect us alone
1t is felt all over the nation. The
farmers of Massachusetts, for in
stance, are offering 500 a month
and board for farm hands, and
can't get them.
New England is a great coun-
try. About it clings the poetry
and romance of olden days, when
history was made there. 1t is like
an interesting white-haired ole
man, kind and gentle in the de-
Ginning days of his useful life
and lusty manhood. But it is not
a country that appeals strong y
to an Irishman. One cannot helE
but compare the strong and healthy
and vigorous young Gem state
with the red hot blood of you'll
coursing through its veins, to TIL,
S slow going, almost senile Ba,
state, for instancc-and Idah
=. does not lose by the comparison
Great is Idaho-and how great
is can best be realized after a visi
E way down east. '-Pocatell