The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-28

tho Twin Falls district known IN the
middle west that an Iowa farmer made
the significant inquiry of mo last fall:
is Idaho in the Twin Falls country?'
lis beauties have been explained in
magazine articles, Sunday syndicate
stories and hand bills, by moving pic
lures and lecture bureaus throughout
this great country Of ours.
As a result of this intelligent adver-
Using campaign the citizenship of the
towns and country on the original Twin
Falls project has moved here from quite
every state in the union. They come
with money md they arc here 10 stay.
Comfnmg ourselves in this article 10
the original project including 100000
acres of this land and TO the evidences
of substantially observed here today,
evidences of prosperity as 4 result Of
the efforts of Industries, ingenious
men.
Some versatile writer has previously
made reference TO this country III its
native crudCucSs as "A barren waste
covered by unslghtly sage and inhabited
by the iackrabblts. the horned toad and
Bob McCollum.
Through the splendid operations OF
The Carey Act, these barron conditions
have all been changed aud Il beautiful
farm region. abundautly watcrcd, has
Supplantcd these uusi"btly and useless
elements while Bob McCollum comes
IN for lIs share of praise and good for
tune for being among those whose in
dustry genius aud skin are responsible
for the wholesome transformation.
But seven years since. tho land in
this project was an unproductive part
of Cassia county. which paId no taxes
TO the county and 10 the state. To
day but little more land than shat of
the proicc constitutes one of the polit-
ical divisions of Idaho-rwin Falls
county-aud has total fax levy for
the year 1909 of SJ,OO0,O00.
Within this segregated area practic
alIv all tho land has passed into pri-
vatc ownership. Much OF IL has changed
hands number of times and there has
been a constant steady upward trend
in land values, based on the revenue
derived from It's husbandry.
The appearance Of the country is a
most pleasing one now, for rs far as
the eve can reach from the window OF
tho Short Line trains which traverse
the tract through the center practically
Ms entire distance, we see broad, level
acres Of stubblc fields, pastures and
meadows, on which are grazing high
! grade stock. The fences are new and
we'll built; thc houses and barns are
new, and, for the most part, well pant
ed and huge stocks of grain and hay
and an abundance Of vegetables are IN
! evidence on every hand,
a very high order OF workmanship
is presented by trip over tins rich
| new agricultural district and much or
chard planting and ornamental tree cul-
! turc is going on throughout the rural
| districts Of the tract
/ Modern convcnicDccs, such as The ru'
raj free delivery, the telephone and the
| centralized school, arc enjoyed by
these country folks and tho chief style
! of architecture adopted in building
! the rural schoolhousc is the attractive
| bungalow.
! The highways present neat appear
auco and are being put in good shape
and culvcrts and bridges built over
creeks and bitches for the convenience
OF the travelling public.
Twin Falls is the county scat Of this
! south side tract of new country and
has a population of 5000. Bull comes
next with 1900 people. Then Kim
berly with SEQ; Filcr and Miner each
with 500 and Hansen with 200.
BY these figures the towns Of the
tract have today population Of $500
and The surrounding country claims rs
many more, making the approximate
population Of the 100000 acres of this
initial withdrawal 10000.
These towns are so located over the
tract rs TO afford easy reach by the
country people for trading and church
purposes. They are all on the line OF
the Twin Falls branch Of the Oregon
Short Line railroad, which branches
from the mann line al MinidoSn, some
fifty miles west of Poc1tcllo.
The solution Of the problem Of this
and other like rich new irrigation dis
tricts OF Idaho is the reduction Of the
farm units The better and more scien.
tfic cultivation of the land, and the
raising of higher priced products is the
next step in the chain of progress and
development Of these productive pro
iccts. Rcducc these units 10 twenty
acres-some argue with great earnest
lness for ten--and YOU have. IN in
divIdual owners, 10000 heads of famil
les. or a total population on the land
alone (outsde these towns} of 10000
people, This applies only to the initial
Twin Falls project of 100000 acres
With the units reduced TO ten acres
the population would be doubled, total
ing 10000.
While all varieties Of farm products