The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-10-08


|. Ing in Idaho, Before you've cleared
; the sage brush from YOUR 100 II
you're fortunate enough to draw one.
. an electric, standard guage railroad
. VIII be built through this Salmon river
tract clear up to the dam. | am reli-
ABLY informed that from the Salmon
. river dam this electric railroad will be
run down to Wells, Nevada, on the U.
r. railway, 92 miles south Of the dam.
When this is done then the mining
camps OF Nevada will be the markets
Tor the Salmon, Cedar Creek and the
Twin Falls projects surplus produce.
The other day told you a little
about the Boone project. /
want to add little more, for some
thing happened in that section on No
vember IA, 1907 that may interest you.
This project is called the Idaho Irri-
cation Co. and its headquarters are at
Gooding, Idaho. On November 14th
last they had drawing OF 10000 acres
that will be supplied with irrigation
water in May next, under the Carey
Act law. The drawing took place at
Goodink. In twenty-eight hours the
whole 10000 acres were sold; the
state sold the land for so cents an
acre and the irrigation company sold
the water for each acre at $35 on ten
years. time.
This 10000 acres joins in part the
North Side Twin Falls tract OF $50 900
acres. The town Of Gooding is to be
the metropolis of this Idaho Irrigation
cOmpany's project. 1t can't be other
wise. Gooding is on the main line of
the o. S. l. railway and the junction of
the Milner-Gooding electric railroad
now building. Over 100000 acres of
} intensely cultivated lands will sur
; round and must be tributary to this
!; town OF Gooding.
The experiments of sugar beets at
Gooding show the soil and climate
particularly adapted to this vegetable.
| doubt If any portion Of the state
can surpass this section for sugar beet
) culture. This state has five big beet
sugar factories now running night and
day and in a few years it will have
many more and Gooding will have one
Of them. Keep your eye on Gooding!
There isn't any business houses at
GoOding yet; just neat little frame
hotel and blacksmith shop and grocery
store. With over 100000 acres depend
J ent on this town for its supplies if you
} are a merchant, banker, real estate
man lawyer, doctor or servant girl |
, think you can see what's ahead for
} GOodingS new inhabitants.
; Everything has it's price. Even poll
; tcians, it is said. So have water rights
A few years ago no one thought of in
vesting in irrigation projects in the
arid west that involves a cost of over
. IS an acre for water rights. Why?
Because there was no chance to sell
: these water rights at profit if they
; cost over that sum. Now it's different
Idaho irrigation projects are being con-
: structed that will involve a cost of $50
. for each acre of water right. WEv?
!. Because the demand for these Idaho
. sugar beet, apple, prune, peach, alfal-
.. ia, wheat, oat and barley lands is so
great that the cheaper water right
: lands are all gone and now the higher
. priced water right lands must be
brought forth to satisfy this demand
+. Down on the Snake river valley Is,
Washington county, with a $500 popu
lated county seat, named Weiser. Here
}. until few years ago these rich fruit
lands with water sold for $40 to SIS All
d acre. These Weiserites did not apple
ciate what land advantages they pos
sessed. They are just coming to know
g their own" This fall hundreds of APP
: pie orchard proprietors are receiving
# from SITS to 5000 an acre for their
d Jonathans and Roman Beauties. Wei
: ser orchard lands have gone to dizzy
e prizes and yet prices that will yield
g 20 to 25 per cent per annum on the
S investment net.
: All the low costwater right lands
n are gone and now the people are de-
n handing water at any price in the vic
unity of Weiser. A project is on foot
r in which the writer is interested IL
e supply water to $4,000 acres of Weiser
t lands at cost that would not have
a been justified by the demand of five
years ago.
: Weiser section is essentially a fruit
I district. From this and the Payette-
e Boise valley section thirty cars of
(; purple prunes went direct to London
S and Liverpool, England, besides mil
0 lion pounds were shipped in the un-
5 dried state to eastern cities and mil
lions of pounds were dried here and
e you, Iowa readers of this magazine,
S are no doubt eating your share OF them
now.
q From these valleys hundreds of car
d loads OF Idaho splendid favored and
It perfect colOred apples go to Chicago
n annually for distribution and sale.
/ The residents of these three valleys
have only lately came to the realiza-
0 ton that they did not appreciate the
S value of their land holdings, and now
# wherever it is possible to conduct
e water for irrigation over these higher
i sage brush benches it is being done
k and no one stops at the thought OF the
S cost of the water right.
7, When orchard lands yield 400 boxes
d of Jonathan and Roman Beauties to
: each acre OF land and sell for $20C
n box in the orchard it is not ques-
8 ton of the cost of irrigation water
e Get the water at any price.
e These valley bench lands are worth
n les without water; with water every
ten-acre tract is equal in worth to the
It life savings of many Industrious mer
d and women. There's one more subject
n that l knew will interest you. The
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
: road Is building to the Pacific coast
through northern Idaho. l was over 9
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