Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-16
MINNESOTA VISITORS
PRAISE IDAHO.
Men Prominent in Minnesota Affairs Visit
Mountain Home and are Pleased.

the average man more than dis
couraged. The natural result is
evidenced on every hand and Noun
tain Home as well as the surround
ing country is to enjoy the results
of his untiring labors.
To control the waters that have
been going to waste for years on
the nearby mountains Mr.. Garrett
has spent both time and money.
After years of hard and sometimes
most discouraging work he has at
last reached that stage in the
game where he has controlled the
mountain waters and instead of
having them going to waste now
has great reservoirs located in the
mountains where the water is
stored ready for the use of the set
tier and those who in future years
will occupy the once desert land.
This project, it would seem to the
broad minded citizen, is one of the
greatest possible boons to Noun
tain Home. Without water the land
is useless ut with it. is the best 10
productive.
Men who are boosters for a
country are tine ones that do
things 1t is due to their untir-
ing efforts that villages, towns,
cities and states have forged to the
front Their entire interest is
with the town, the city and the
state. They live to see their great
projects completed and their fellow
men benefited.
"A careful and unbiased inspcc-
tion of southern Idaho leads us to
believe that water is it's salvation.
To the easterner this would seem
most surprising and unreasonable.
Not being familiar with irrigation
and its blessing to the sun-baked
plains the easterner would have to
be shown. However to go over the
ground and see the irrigated patch
surrounded by the sagebrush terri
tory the salvation of irrigation is
clearly demonstrated. The most
surprising fact is that the water
is also here but the problem to solve
is to devise some way in which it
cna be haruessed. These problems
are being solved and the so-caIIed
power behind the throne are men
like Mr.. Garrett.
''To culog ize is by no means the
purpose of anything that should
say of men or cities in southern
Idaho. However after seeing the
great work that is being carried on
here to reclaim southern Idaho it il
most fitting to give those engaged
in this y.ol k their due. To an out
slider 1t Is great work that is be-
ing carried on and in years to come
will bc far more realized than it Il
now 1t means more land opon to
cultivation and this in turn II cor
tain to bring desirable settlers to
tho state - <nle up tho lands and
live and prosper as residents Of
Idaho.
Mountain Homo has reached
that stage where IT IL beginning to
feci the thrill Of importance and
to look towaras the future and
understand what the great irriga-
fiou project means to all of the res
idents and those that are sure to
become future business men and
settlers. Progressive men in a city
should at all times be encouraged
in what might be termed work of
a public nature, or men OF the
Garrett stamp. They are needed
in every section of every state in
the union and are found in many.
1t is for this and the reason that
this city has an excellent reprcscn-
tation of progressive business men
that gives this little city such
bright outlook.
Mr.. Dynes as well as msyclf
feel that there is little question
as to the future of this section of
the state. Although we knew
little or l might say practically
nothing about southern Idaho, cx-
cept possibly what little we read.
still we are convinced that with the
present plans completed to water
the sagebrush lands Mountain Home
Al well as other southern Idaho
cities will flourish. Progressive
business men and settlers, men
who do things and not dream
them all day long are the ones
who ~in buiid up this section Of