Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-18
Letter from vaIIey City, N. D.


Editor Maverick: After looking
over the country pretty thoroughly
surrounding Mountain Home, l am
more full convinced than ever that
the resources of that beautiful val
ley are simply past figuring out.
On recent trip south westerly
on the Bruneau roa where Messers
Corey, Jones, Kimcbly, Sawyer,
Wheeler and Lsmberton are located
and where they are clearing vast
stretches of that fine amid l realize
more than ever that that soil is
good. A few days ago on the depot
platform at Mountain Home await
ing the vest bound Afternoon train,
l was intro uced to Ex-Governor
Mcconnell of Idhao, we in company
with MIR. Sawyer had a friendly
visit during the conversation he
said, Gentlemen, there is not
prettier valley anywhere in the
west than this one right here at
Mountain Home and the soil is
unsurpassed. | knew it when l
was Governor of this state and
have often wo dered why l did not
try years ago to set capita inter-
es ed TO develop this land. am
getting too old now and il is up TO
such men as you, Sawyer and MGR
ton to take hold OF it and you can
have this whole valley covered W 18th
tine farms and orchards in few
years.
That is almost Identical with the
advice given to my father by DR.. D.
X. Pearson of Chicago IN 1871
while he was acting as agent for
the Illinois Central Ry. Co. selling
their lands in the prairie region
along their line in Central Illinois
al that time, he had difficult JOB
t. close a deal with father for
small tract of land at 81 per acre
on easy terms, but he made the deal
and father unlike the young man of
today moved onto the land and built
house among the tall grass where
snakes were troublesome and the
prairie wolf MADE the night hide
GUS, he stuck It out and he found
Pearson's advice, as years rolled by
was coming true and twenty-five
years ago that land was worth SIS
per acre and today ii is worth $175
I per acre.
] And yet the land adjacent to
Mountain Home will produce three
cuttings of alfalfa per season where
that illinois land produces one cut
ting of red clover and slight CT op
of after feed in the fall. See the
difference
Well, but you say they are close
to Chicago markets. Your markets
are equally as good, you have those
vast stretches of mountains and
hills where the shepherd will Craze
his flocks 70 ages to come. He
will want hay for winter feeding
for his flocks and herds and provis-
ions for himself the year through.
The same is true of the miner. He
will be taking valuable metals
from Atlanta, Rocky Bar. Gold
King and kindred others yet UNI
known long alter our time dear
reader, and he is the man that has
an appetite am he has also the
whrewithal to psJ for what he
wants, he is not much like the poor
fellow VINO is obliged to subsist on
charity and live at the soup houses.
Get hold on piece of land and
hang on to it. 1t is the only thing
that is safe to buy on time and the
only thing on this earth that we are
justified in giving mortgage to
secure. And word as to the water
supply for believe the people need
ing water in or adjacent to Noun
tain Home will get water for their
crops, but if the should not of
course it will be bad, but it might
be whole lot worse. Take, for
Instance, the Government irris alton
project at Huntley, Montana. The
work was well under way on that
project in June, 1906 and the land
was thrown open to settlement in
| July of that season. Forty acres of