Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-11-26
A GOOD JOKE ON
THE BOISE VALLEY
Shipping coal into Pittsburg.
Or shoes to Brocton.

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Or macaroni to Rome.
Or Patrick O'Shaughnessys to Cork
Or sausages to Hamburg.
Or wheat to Dakota, or praties t.
Dublin, or champagne to Paris, o.
oranges to California, or any of those
improbable things.
On par with this is the shipment Of
apples from Carey. up theLittle Wooc
river a few miles from Richield tc
''Boise the Beautiful" the purportec
home of the big red apple, of the fra
grant peach, of the durable prune and
the luscious grape and the melon and
the tomato and every oscuient, sucu-
lent, excellent things that grow.
But it is lruei
Large quantities of apples are actual
ly being shipped from the Carey and
Picabo sections. over to Boise, the CEN
trail market of the state. The Carey
apples are several years ahead of those
from ..Richfeld-indeed most of the
Richfeld apples are yet in the graft"
stage, the trees not having yet been
grown but their growing conditions,
soil, climate, horticultural skill and
everything that makes apples grow big
are hardly on a par with the advan-
tages at this place. They have several
years the start, indeed, for their coun-
try was SO easily irrigated sthat they
could do it by small private capital or
CO. operative effort among the settlers,
while it had waited for the coming of
the big corporations. But we could,
can, and will go them one better, and
while the whole Richfield tract will
soon be abloom with the best selected,
best tended orchards in the West.
1t is noticeable fact that in all the
higher attitudes, there is good crop of
fruit this year while the lower attitudes
have suffered. Payette and Emmett
and other highpriced sections of the
lower Snake river valley in Idaho, have
this year come through with hardly
enough fruit to feed the birds, they are
likely to have to ship in grain and spuds
and other good things from the higher
countries to keep these insect eaters
over to try and save their next years
crops. Over in the Lost River country
there IS some as fine fruit as anyone
could wish. At BIackfoot, an elevation
of 4400 feet, they have more apples
as they market them in Boise and Pay
cite and other apple countries. The
common farmers over in Preston, at an
elevation of about 5000 feet, have car
loads of apples to sell or give away.
And it is so all over the higher sections
of Idaho. Almost every year they can
count on good crop of excellent, worm
less fruit, and year like this, they can
reap such harvest as will buy them
all the automobiles and flying machines
and pianos and blooded horses and other
luxuries that the farmers think of buy
ing.
There are no better apples than those
that grow in the higher attitudes. There
are none other so good, in fact, the
keeping qualities and freedom from all
kinds of pests make them the most de-
sirable of all apples for home or mark
ct. 1t is not quite worth while to claim
that the altitude of 1000 feet or higher
will be suitable for the tender, early
fruits like the peach or apricot, but
they will grow apples to perfection.
During the coming season, severa
hundred acres in all will be set out 10
apples on the Richfeld tract. For peo-
pie have had the benefit of some good
advice. Alexander Mcpherson and
other well known horticultural experts
have given them the very best they |
had. There will be plenty of water
next season, for the whole 10000 acres
of the Richfield tract, enough water,
enough good land, end enough clear,
blue sky to grow the apples for the
whole state and have enough culls and
windfalls left over to make cider and
Jelly for two or three neighboring
towns
The Recorder has had some excellent
advise from W. S. Guilford, head of
the agricultural experiment work for
the North Side Company, with large
farms at Jerome and Wen
dell He says that long and careful
study of the fruit situation at all the
elevations in Idaho, Washington and
Oregon, as well as Colorado, lead him
to believe that the premium apples Of
the whole world can be grown at alti-
tude close to what prevails over practi-
caily all of Lincoln county. This is not
q guess, but the result of a careful
study, right on the ground, of all the
great fruit growing sections of the
Mr.. Guilford recommends