Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-27
NOVEL TRUCK AND FRUIT
GROWING TRACT

The Idaho Real Estate & Produce
Company of Twin Falls has taken over
600 acres heretofore known as the
Bowers land, which is to be transformed
into one of the most novel truck and
fruit growing sections of the world,
the metropolis of which will be Artes-
ian City, located 21 miles from Twin
Falls, and six miles southeast of Muir
taugh.
c. w. Parkes Of the Idaho Real Es-
tate & Produce Company says that
forty acres of the Bowers land are be-
ing plated into city lots and the bal
ance divided into five and ten-acre
tracts which are expected to serve as
extremely prolific and very profitable
producers of early vegetables and fruits.
Here in these tracts explained
Mr.. Parkes, ''there will be developed
an agricultural and horticultural COM
munity that will become richer and
yet different from any other in the
universe, and in quicker time, | con-
fidently believe, than has ever been re-
corded anywhere. The tract will be
irrigated from artesian wells flowing
an aggregate of 400 inches, at a tenn
perature of 110 degrees.
The warmth of this water will en-
able the gardeners to bring into mar
kets their crops at least three weeks
earlier than if the irrigation were eff
fected by cold water. The warm water,
being always available, will also serve
as an effective and always positive
guarantee against frost damage, even
when the same may possibly be threat
ened during the early spring periods.
''Our expectation is that Aretsian
City, possessed of this wonderful ir-
rigation resource, will soon become
thickly populated, inasmuch as the soil
is extremely rich, and the water supply
sure. The hot springs have been flow
ing for centuries probably, and are a
well-known local landmark. They send
forth the largest flow of either cold or
hot water that is known in the west, so
far as | have been able to discover.
The work of plating and creation of
necessary improvements, Mr.. Parkes
added, is proceeding at Artesian City
as rapidly as possible. Their opening
to mans uses suggests that these 600
acres will soon be the scene of another
Southern Idaho agricultural
than which there are none
more happy and contented in the world.
Twin Falls will welcome this new
neighbor city with glad hands.
In development of the Bowers ranch,
as announced by the owners, the better
will the development of adjacent rich |
territory be effected. In the vicinity |
are 300, 900 other acres calling for the
hand of capital and the pIows and the
hoes of settlers to come, get busy and I
become rich, happy and contented with
in few years. Undoubtedly in these
already prosperous colonies on the
irrigated lands of South ern Idaho, it is
demonstrated that only fraction of |
the time is required for farmers to
amass financial independence than were
necessary for the attainment of the
some ends in the pioneer days of Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska.
In Twin Falls but four years have
been spent by the men and women who
arrived in 1906 to become quite indepen-
dent as whole and comparatively rich
in>nany cases, their success depending
On their various energies and abilities.
And these opportunities are many.
There is room for thousands to get in;
but as in everything good which Nature
bestows, first comers are securing the
best and at less cost. Twin Falls News. !
sM0TuEp IRRIGATION TRAIT