The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-05-20
GOVERNOR GooDING's ADDRESS.
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and yet we have a population of fully
1900. We have three banks here, eli
doing a splendid business; a school
house that would be a credit to any
city, even the capital Of our state;
and we have a press here which we
think is second TO none in Idaho, es-
pecially when the editor and manager
of that particular paper are taken in
to consideration. l leave you to pass
judgment on the Lincoln inn. 1t
has already proven inadequate to
meet the demands that have been
made upon it, and already work has
been commenced for doubling the
capacity of the hotel. Gooding pro-
perly styles herself the Baby Metro
polls of Idaho.
We have around the immediate
vicinity of Gooding 100000 acres of
land, which will all be reclaimed by
the Idaho Irrigation company. Some
of you, nearly all you, had the pleas
ure today of seeing the siphon thru
which they get water to the south
Gooding tract; that is a small part of
the work. A reservoir is being built,
which will have a capacity for hold
ing 10000 acre feet. Lying to the
north of us is the great Camas Prai-
rie with its 100000 acres. Gooding
is situated on the main line, with
towns lying to the south of us on the
Idaho Southern with 1900 acres
in what is known as the North Side
Tract. Lying to the west of us is the
Glover Creek tract with 10000 acres
of the finest land. And to the south
west is the Hagerman Valley, famous
for it's fruits and vegetables of all
kinds; probably no other community
will reach as high a standard of pro-
~ductiveness as the Hagerman Valley.
To the northeast is the Richfield tract
Altogether in Lincoln County there
will be more land reclaimed by the
government and the state under the
Carey act, and what old farms are
now in cultivation W. will have more
land under cultivation than any 9TH
err county in Idaho. 1t is a record
of which we may well be proud as but
a few years ago our assessed value
was less than a million dollars.
l have always said that some place
in southern Idaho there would be
built a great city. I want you to
keep your eye on Gooding, for Good :
ing is to be hat city. (Applause.) On
your trip tomorrow to the towns of
Wendell and Jerome you will be i'm :
pressed with everything you see. You /
will be impressed with the high stand {
lrd of citizens you will meet, as y
hink you have been with those you Il
met here. Idaho is especially i
.ortunate in the high class of people v
here to settle on these Carey r
Act projects. You will be impressed II
With the great canals you will see a
here, as that is one of the greatest Il
irrigation projects ever attempted.
scarcely two years have passed since ,
he state entered into this contract; =
nd l want to say that more has beer !,
ccomplished in those two years in Z,
he construction of these great canals !,
nd for the completion of so great an q
Enterprise thar has ever been done :
q that line of work in any place on >.
arth as has been done on the North -
ide Twin Falls tract. D
Nh Io~~0~t k~Ixv % 1a,1 nvo. 20 -
eceive water at one time was at Je- =,
ONE on the first of April, when the :,
ates were opened for 100000 acres
land. And | want to say that the =
IN shines on no fairer land, there is -
0 better soil on earth, as I think n,
will say when you pass over it.
are to visit Shoshone Falls, and g..
hen you do l want you to pause a -
oment there and think what the IT.
and of man has done in the last -
ur years. This great volume of wa -
r, which has been pouring over the ~
ais for centuries, will cease during =
lily and August, and will be turned =.
It on the desert to make it blossom :,
the rose. The great black rocks -
II all be barred to the summers -,
the scenic beauty of curse being -,
stroyed. but yet the purpose the ~,
tier is put to is that of building an -
lpire. I shall not attempt to tell 49,,
u anything about the South Side -
vim Falls tract, because l fell you -
We all watched the development in NJ
It country where we have fields dot 90
l with beautiful homes and a city 49,
S sprung up like magic, the pride w,
Idaho, the city of Twin Falls.
think I shall tell you something
a dream / had as l stood on the Oal
sat dam at Miner a year ago last VI
ril waiting for the Twin Falls eu
ter gates to be opened. I am not ano
sure whether it was a dream or gov
ether l was lost in Imagination. ! 70
7 saw fha great sOufh side tdS