Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-10-01

for $95. 50 and 5000 for water right
and land together.
Each project opened is more expen-
sive than its predecessor and the future
will see prices range from $75. to 500.
per acre for Carey lands.
These lands are close to railroads
and lie contiguous to growing cities.
They are near old ranches that have
been cultivated from 10 to 20 years.
Unlimited electric power is already de-
veloped. Fortunes are being made on
the rise of real estate.
The development of latent resources
will push prices of lands to undreamed
of heights and the fortunate possessor
of Carey claims willreaps rich harvest.
Labor is in constant demand at high
prices. They cannot be secured fast
enough to supply the demand.
It is safe to predict that the cam
paign inaugurated by R. H, Kipp, the
manager of the Land Sales department,
to close out these unsold lands will
prove most satisfactory to the company
and all interests concerned.
The Idaho Irrigation Co., is fortunate
in securing very desirable class of
settlers on their several segregations
along the water courses of the Big and
Little Wood rivers. Many of them are
from irrigated states and they are
familiar with irrigation methods and
know the value of irrigated lands.
They come from states as Washington,
Colorado and Utah where cultivated
lands under the ditch sell from one
hundred to five hundred dollars an acre
and where fruit lands in bearing bring
almost unheard of prices.
The Twin Falls South Side project,
the first Carey Act project to be
opened in southern Idaho, was settled
by similar class of people and now
after five years of settlement it is one
of the finest sections ofirrigated Idaho.
The people who bought the land knew
what they were about and they made
every dollar and every days work
count. They settled on their claims and
made homes of them. Irrigation me-
thods were familiar to many of them
and the others took lessons of their
neighbors who knew The project is
now model for other and newer pro-
jects and is the admiration of all who
view it.
The Twin Falls North Side project in
Lincoln county which received water
for irrigation last spring was not quite
so fortunate in the class of settlers and
its development will probably be some
what slower than that of its neighbor
on the south. There were fewer ex-
perenced irrigators and many of the
were spectators who will
hold their claims for high prices instead
of moving on them for the purpose of
making homes thereon. The develop
ment will come all right but it will not
be as rapid as in the other case.
While the settlers of the Big Wood
river project of the Idaho Irrigation
Co., are of the same kind as those of
the Twin Falls South Side project that
is, those who are practical farmers and
also what is of still more Importance,
practical irrigators they have a de-
,ided advantage over their South Side
leighbors in one very important parti-
,ular. There are ranches scattered
along the entire course of both the Big
md Little Wood rivers that border
every segregation of the Big Wood
liver project and these ranches have :
)een in successful cultivation for many
Tears and the different methods of irr;- ,
cation are practiced on these ranches
md afford object lessons for the new }
.omers who are ignorant of practical r
irrigation. Again, these ranches are =
PRACTICAL examples of what crops do
he best in this part of Lincoln county /
md these crops include many varieties r
# fruit although they are raised on a +
mall scale as yet.
AS an example of what new conner /;
an do the case of Mr. Baldwin who I
WINS desert claim of 320 acres five
niles north of Shoshone near one of the
Iovinger & Darrah ranches and within !,
he North Shoshone segregation of the >
iaho Irrigation Co., might be men, +
oned. MIR. Baldwin moved on his =
anch the 10th of last April and on raw y y
lge brush land watered from the :,
ovinger & Darrah ditch he raised 40 +,
res of wheat and oats and Is acres .,
potatoes. He estimates the yield of h
heat at 40 bushels per acre and on 9.
lie potato patch he will realize an even
90. per acre or a total of $500. 1t .
well known that both wheat and !,
,tatoes yield much heavier on old al
1fa land And the same is true of .