Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Editor Maverick: The opportun-
ity of placing before your readers
something about the work of the
Mountain Home Commercial Club in
the year 1909, and what is contem-
plated for 1910 at this time certainly
is appreciated by our club, and parti-
cularly so in being able to have an
article in your Special Edition on
Gilmore County and Mountain Home
in general.
While the depression the past two
years in the irrigation system, on
which we are dependent as a source
of obtaining water for the agricul-
tural and horticultural needs of the
large area of lands in this vicinity.
has been a serious drawback to the
development of this rich and fertile
land. it has been fully demonstrated
to the great satisfaction of the many
farmers residing on the land the
value of their holdings, and they
have met the reverses cheerfully,
knowing in a short period all the
difficulties in the future obtaining Of
water will be overcome, as the nee
essary amount of snow and rain has
already fallen to guarantee a plenti-
full supply of water for next years
crops, as far as the capacity the
three reservoirs will hold, and the
land in the valley being full of mois-
ture causes an expression of cheerful
ness on the faces of the farmers that
look good to every person. In a
way we are all indirectly benefited
by a bumper crop from the farm
when placed on the market, and this
is certain for 1910. From present
indications there will be a large
amount of new land placed under cul-
tivation the coming season.
Our club has seriously felt the
local issues of the two years just
passed, and was much handicapped
by the same But as the members of
Mountain Home Commercial Club
have had local depressions to meet in
times gone by, they do not quit, but
continue on the work of pushing
their town to the front. Each year
certainly shows marked improve
ments in the growth=better business
blocks, better residences, new
churches. increase in capital stock of
the banks, new cement sidewalks
No empty houses can be obtained for
families to come here and live-all
of this at a time when some citizens
thought our town was going back
ward, and hardly can you point to a
sale of property in the town during
this depression being made at a loss
to the owner.
Our club was instrumental in hav-
ing the county commissioners this
year expended $4,000 improving the
wagon road between Rocky Bar and
Atlanta. Already good results are
coming from this. and we hope to
have about $500 more appropria-
ted by the commissioners in 1910 to
make a further Improvement on that
mountain crossing, and when this is
finished. teams can go into Atlanta
much earlier in the spring and later
in the fall with easier grades and a
possible chance some winters of
sleighing the entire winter from
Rocky Bar to Atlanta. BY this
energy on the clubs part it has set
tied the cry heard in the past Of
Boise going to control the shipping
and hauling from that place to At
lanta. AT present time the road up
the Middle Boise river is badly
washed away and will be so expen-
sive to repair that it is doubtful of
it being made a road further than a
trail for emergency use in the winter
months. BY the road our club had
improved makes a quicker and easier
route to Atlanta, and there being no
doubt hundreds Of men are going
to be given steady employment by
the new mills and mines opened up
there the coming year. 1t will also
enable the farmers, ranchers and
business men from all parts of Ell
more County to find a market for
every kind of produce. vegetables,