Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-07-17
GLIMPsES OF NORTH SIDE.
Lincoln County to be Prosperous
and Wealthy.
BIZ MAJoR FRED R. REED.

fdiudDiS paper " Hic VI SHltctii
impossibilities, but to calmly and dis
passionately call to their notice plai
facts that can be readily proven upo
investigation and fully satisfy all ia
minded people that a recital of fact
and truths has been made and only val
nish enough used to make a creditabl
presentation of the picture to be draw
of the North Side of the great Twi
Falls system of irrigation. This grea
tract consists of 180, 000 acres of fertil
volcanic ash soil which, when irrigate
and properly cultivated, becomes
veritable garden. The water to irrigat
the tract is furnished by "Old Reliable,
the Snake River. The towns of thi
project are Miner, Hillsdale, Jerome
Wendell and Gooding-an interest il
Gooding being recently required by Mr.
Kuhn, president of the Twin Fall,
North Side Land and Water Co. II
order that the settlers may be provided
with transportation facilities an electric
railroad is now being constructed-pass
ing through all the towns, the distance
being 81 miles from Gooding to Miner.
The grade is about completed between
Gooding and Jerome, distance of 26
miles, and by Jan. 1st. 1909, it is ex-
pected to have the cars running from
Gooding to jerome, using locomotive
for power until the electrical equipment
can be placed and poles distributed and
set. Of the original $50, 000 acres in
both north side segregations $50, 900
acres have been sold during the last 10
months, and in II months more all the
remaining 40 and 80-acre tracts will be
filed on and under cultivation. 1t is a
stupendous thing to contemplate, this
reclamation work. Less than two years
ago the North Side tract was an unin-
habited stretch of desolation, uninvit-
ing, and absolutely valueless except as
public range for sheep and cattle and
only good then when there was snow or
rain, for otherwise animals were COM
PEELED to go miles for water to drink
Today all is changed Men, brains
and money have conquered the desert
and made valuable and habitable a land
that patiently awaited the aid of water
to become the pride OF Idaho. To the
this savors of the fiction of
the Arabian Nights and yet thousands
of good people bear testimony to the
truth of this statement. The company
have sold most of their land. their en-
terprise has received a general endorse
nent from the public who focked to
he land sales from every state in the
Union, willing and anxious to purchase
he acres and cast their lot in land
.eeming with opportunities so generous, |
10 kindly, so practical. Confidence is a |
,hary thing in the beginning, but when !
bestowed, becomes factor of collosal 1
in the upbuilding of nation,
tate or community. Confidence has |
,een fully established in the Twin Falls
North Side Land and Water Co. The
easons are that the company have kept /
very promise made by officials in au
hority to the settlers and those with
Vhom it has had dealings. However,
ve are only as yet in the swaddling
lothes of infancy.
The canals for this great system en-
racing over 400 miles of main canals
nd big laterals viii all be completed
nd ready for the distribution of water
S prescribed by law and by contract
nder the bonds between the state of
iaho and the North Side company, and 1
ne company and settlers who have pur- 1
lased land and water contracts by
pril lst, 1909. When the water dis /
-ibution system is completed there viii
e no finer or more perfect system in
le world.
To J. S. and w. S. Kuhn, the well
ID favorably known financiers of Pitts
irg, Pa, is due the credit for the vic f
ry, for without these far-seeing and G
ccessful captains of finance present c
nditions could not exist. With credit to 4
cry man connected with this great j.
iumph Of mind over matter, this grand a
ID successful conquest in the kindly o
I'D of ready and willing response. t
The real milk in the eocoanut is the V
and success of the man on a
e acres. To the mind of the writer, [
success is the vital point of the D
lole matter and on his prosperity lives p
dies the enterprise. Fortunately for "
E settler its up to him, and if he as q
individual fails there are many who Ii
II pick up his burden and carry il to il
rcessful finale. There never was t,
eat enterprise launched under more OF
forable circumstances. Soil, climate O,
d physical conditions, favorable and HI
opItious for agriculture and horticult- al
q great water powers being harness d
to assist faithfully in=the- transform lis