The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-06
THREE THOUSAND WILL
BE AT THE OPENING
Kings Hill Extension Irrigation Com
pany Expects a Big Crowd on
November Sixteenth.

MEDBUR9, Nov. 6.-The King
Hill Extension Irrigation company is
making preparations to take care of
three thousand people at their open
| ing November 10th at Medbury, Ida
no. and Mr.. l.. G.. Bradley, manager
of the company, stated today that ne
expects fully that number Of people.
He stated that he expected even
larger crowd than that because of the
large number that will come from
Boise. Mountain Home, GlennS Fer
ry, Gooding, Shoshone, and other points
where the railway Accommodations are
such that the people can come and
return the same day. A number of
these towns are making preparations
to c,ose their business houses on that
day, and if the arrangement is per-
fected, practically the entire town will
be at the opening. The Oregon Short
Line has granted excursion rates to
and from the Medbury opening, and a
large number Of people will take ad-
vantage of the excursion to see the
tract of land that is attracting such
wide spread attention at this time.
The opening at Medbury is the last
event of the kind that will take place
in Idaho this year. This opening was
scheduled to take place in October,
but owing to delay in the land office.
arrangements could not be perfected
until this time. Mr. Bradley was
asked if he did not fear to hold the
opening in November, for fear of bad
weather. Il really believe" he said.
that it is a good thing we were de-
layed, for an opening in November
will give the people an idea of our
climate. When the weather is bad
in other sections very close to us, we
have a pleasant and mild climate. l
have no fear of a bad day, for any
one who has lived in Medbury Valley
for any number of days, knows that
we have pleasant weather right up
until December In fact, there is no
time, winter or summer when / would
hesitate to invite prospective purchas-
ers here, unless it was during an eX-
traordinary storm, and even then, the
contract between Medbury and the
surrounding country wiuld show up
greatly to our advantage"
The Medbury opening is different
from ordinary Carey Act openings in
that all of the land will not be opened
for public drawing. Settlers who had
homestead or desert filings before the
segregation was applied for, have
preference right of entry on consider
able of the land. This enables pros
pective settlers to come before the
opening and select land they wish to
file on, and make their filing on open
ing day.
An especially attractive feature o1
opening day will be the tracts Of
decided land offered for sale bv the
company, in small acre tracts. A
large body of land adjoining Medbury
Townsite has been divided into tracts
ranging from IL to % acres. Every
! tract will be sold for exactly the same
price, $105000, and on five yearly pay
ments The regular form of Carey
Act drawing will be adopted. No tract
will be sold until the drawing and
every one will have the same chance
to get the tract desired.
Considerable interest is being TAX
en- in the Medbury Townsite, as this
town will be the trading point of the
new tract. The fact that the land adj
joining it is already divided into acres
age tracts is an indication of the large
population that will be supported by
the land adjoining this town. Aside
from the Medbury segregation, the
town of Medbury will be the trading