Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-11
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| )Rnartn0aF0t News and Notes of Progress
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pany's main line, distance of four
miles. A pay station can be put in
at the postoffice which will prove of
great convenience to the settlers and
to that rapidly increasing throng of
homeseekers and visitors which Med
bury valley is now receivig.
After winter spent at Mountain
Home c. F. Waller has returned to
the valley to put in crop and make
other Improvements on his ranch, which
is one of the first claims taken here.
Mr.. Waller feels much encouraged
over the certainty of water for irriga-
ton from the new system of irriga-
tion which is now assured.
With three crews of surveyors here
at one time Medbury valley presents
busy appearance. These surveyors
are here to prepare the way for an
irrigation system that will water most
of the lands in this favored and pro-
tected basin. The time has come
for the watering of the lands of those
who saw into the future and held an
abiding faith.
May first is the date set for placing
the new train on the Short Line.
This train will be the finest and
fastest to cross the continent on any
of the transcontinental lines. Med
bury will be one of the few places this
train will stop in its race across the
state of Idaho, for at this place a
helper engine will be attached to take
it up the hill.
The advertising committee of the
Development Assn. besides getting out
attractive printed matter relating tothe
valley have under consideration the
placing of mammoth signs in, white
letters on the face of the sloping rim
rocks near the Short Line track at
both ends of the valley. The letters
will be thirty or forty feet in height
and the signs will be easily read
at a distance of two miles or more.
These signs will be read by thousands
of passengers the coming summer.
Arrangements are being made to
put in ferry cross the Snake river
at the lower end of the Sparkling
ropob about +broo x,;loe fxox.o A.
station. This ferry will connect with
the old Oregon trail on the south side
of the river and afford the people of
the Bruneau valley the shortest route
to Medbury which will then be their
nearest station, and besides give the
settlers of Browns Flat a short and
direct road to trading point and
postoffice.
The Development Association has
had stationery printed for the use.
not only of the officers, but for each
member as well. The letter heads
have printed on them considerable
matter advertising Medbury valley.
so that nearly every letter leaving
this place will carry information
about Southern Idaho's favored spot.
Folders descriptive of the valley and
the irrigation sy stem about to be con-
structed are now being prepared and
several thousands copies will be used
for distribution on passenger trains.
A crew Of surveyors arrived Tues
day night to go into camp on the hill
above the McGinniss ranch where they
will make surveys of the capacity of
Cold Springs reservoir where the COM
pany headed by G. w. Thompson of
Lewiston intends to store the water
for the irrigation of Medbury valley
under the Carey act. Another crew
is camped at Medbury and their work
is to determine canal lines and general
feasibility of irrigation of the high
lands. This work will be under the
supervision of L. G.. Bradley repre-
senting Mr.. Thompson.
X. w. Slmpklns has opened an
Office at Medbury to deal in Medbury
valley lands exclusively. This has
been his business for several years
and he takes pride in becoming Med
bury's first real estate man. Ever
since Ralph discovered that Medbury
valley lands were equal to any in the
west for fruit raising he has been a
persistent booster for this section. |
The majority of the people who hold
claims here were located by him and
his intimate knowledge of the valley
thus gained will serve him in good
stead in future operations. When the
TOWNSHIP of Medbury is plated it is
understood that Mr.. Simpkins will
be sole agent for the disposal of the