Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-05-28
GOVERNOR G BOOKINGS ADDRESS.
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Gooding is scarcely 18 months old, /
and yet we have population of fully
1900. We have three banks here, all
doing a splendid business: a school
city, even the capital of our state;
and we have a press here which we
think is second to none in Idaho, es-
pecially when the editor and manager
of that particular paper are taken in
to consideration. leave you to pass
judgment on the Lincoln Inn. 1t
has already proven inadequate to
meet the demands that have been
made upon IL, and already work has
been commenced for doubling the
capacity of the hotel. Gooding pro-
perly styles herself the Baby Metro
polls of Idaho.
vicinity of Gooding 100000 acres of
land, which will all be reclaimed by
the Idaho Irrigation company. Some
of you, nearly all you, had the pleas
ure today OF seeing the siphon thru
which they get water to the south
Gooding tract; that is a small part of
the work. A reservoir is being built,
which will have capacity for hold
ing 10000 acre feet. Lying to the
north of us is the great Camas Prai-
RE with its 100000 acres. Gooding
is situated on the main line, with
towns lying to the south of us on the
Idaho Southern with 10000 acres
in what is known as the North Side
Tract. Lying to the west Of US is the
Glover Creek tract with 10000 acres
of the finest land. And to the south
west is the Hagerman Valley, famous
for its fruits and vegetables of all
kinds; probably no other community
will reach rs high standard of pro-
ductiveness as the Hagerman Valley.
To the northeast is the Richfield tract.
Altogether in Lincoln County there
will be more land reclaimed by the
government and the state under the
Carey act, and what old farms are
now in cultivation ". will have more
land under cultivation than any 9TH
er county in Idaho. 1t. is a record
of which We may well be proud as but
few years ago our assessed value
was less than million dollars.
have always said that some place
in southern Idaho there would be
built a great city. want you to
keep your eye on Gooding, for Good
ing is to be that city. (Applause.) On
your trip tomorrow to the towns of
Wendell and Jerome you will be i'm
pressed with everything you see. You
will be impressed with the high stand
ard of citizens you will meet, as
think you have been with those you
have met here. Idaho is especially
fortunate in the high class of people
coming here to settle on these Carey
Act projects. You will be impressed
with the great canals you will see
there, as that is one of the greatest
irrigation projects ever attempted.
Scarcely two years have passed since
the state entered into this contract;
and I want to say that more has been
accomplished in those two years in
the construction of these great canals
and for the completion of so great an
enterprise than has ever been done
in that line Of work in any place on
earth as has been done on the North
Side Twin Falls tract.
The largest body of land ever to
receive water at one time was at Je-
rome on the first of April, when the
gates were opened for 10000 acres
of land. And 1 want to say that the
sun shines on no fairer land, there lie
no better soil on earth, as l think
you will say when you pass over it.
You are to visit Shoshone Falls, and
when you do want you to pause a
moment there and think what the
hand of man has done in the last
four years. This great volume of wa
ter, which has been pouring over the
Falls for centuries, will cease during
July and August, and will be turned
out on the desert to make it blossom
as the rose. The great black rocks
will all be barred to the summers
sun, the scenic beauty of course being
destroyed, but yet the purpose the
water is put to is that of building an
empire. l shall not attempt to tell
you anything about the South Side
Twin Falls tract, because / fell you
have all watched the DEVELOPMENT in
that country where we have fields dot
ted with beautiful homes and a city
has sprung up like magic, the pride
of Idaho, the city of Twin Falls.
l think shall tell you something
Of dream I had as l stood on the
great dam at Miner a year ago last
April waiting for the Twin Falls
water gates to be opened. I am not
SO sure whether it was a dream or
wh afho. uyoc Loot n, I'm n oiuof