Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-18
SENATOR BORAH TALKS ON OUR
FUTURE.
Disc0urses on the Wonderful Advance
Made i'm the Irrigated
Sections of State.

for homeseekers.
"Well, let us illustrate: Twin Fills .
is a city of 5000 population-with.
every convenience. comfort, advan-
tage and pleasure offered by the older
cities of the East. 1t has good
schoos, modern hotels. electric lights
and highly cultured, law-abiding,
people. 1t is surrounded
by a thiclxly settled community with
farms, rich, marverously rich, in
productive power, where you viii
find country homes such as you find
in the old and established commun-
tiles.
Five years ago, where this thrifty,
prosperous and stable community
now exists, community well
ordered. and as settled in the rou-
tine of it's successful industrial life
as you will find anywhere, there was
a desert as sad and sombre as a
tariff bill. 1t was a sage brush |
desert. Few men believed that it
could be successfully irrigated, and |
none dreamed of such a sudden and
startling achievement in industrial
life as is now a realized fact.
l doubt if there is an instance
anywhere to be found of such a sud
den and permanent and substantial
growth of a community as is found
here.
What has been done here will be
done, and is being done, elsewhere,
Such towns as Gooding, Jerome,
Wendell, Hagermap, Bull, Burley,
Hepburn, Rupert and others are
forging ahead / name these towns
particularly because they are assoc
ciated with irrigation enterprises.
There are thousands of acres in
this great state awaiting the restless
energy and integrity of purpose
which made the city and community
of Twin Falls. other irrigation en-
terprises may not be as successful
in as short a time, but the natural
resources are there if the same class
of men take hold of them and have
the same opportunity.
"Our arid lands are taken up
under both the Carey and the recla-
nation law. Under the Carey act
it is in the nature of a private en-
terprise. The bitches are built and
water put upon the land and the land
and water is sold to the settlers
...5o,. +o-,.,~ o,d oo,dftfove oontroI
led by the state. Under the reclama-
ton law the settlement takes place
under the administration of the ma
tional government. / am not going
to discuss here the advantages OF
disadvantages of either system, but
under the two there are thousands
of acres yet to be reclaimed that are
as rich and productive lands as car
be found anywhere.
1.-THE Minidoko project, which is
government project, covers about
r $4,000 acres. The Boise-Payette
! project will cover about $4,000
These projects having a unit of from
: forty to eighty acres, you will read
f lily see will give permanent homes t.
r thousands of people. There are alss
! a number of private enterprises un
e der the Carey act being initiated an'
. carried forward This land whel
f properly irrigated will produce al
{ kinds of fruits, vegetables and Ger
e calls
4s,4 +1oro o.~oo- of ,~ooIofr,o.
+ lands should not be regarded as oasi
in a mountainous and otherwise un
productive country. When a man Sc
n cures a home in Idaho he has a hom
e in one of the largest and riches
q states of the Union. Our area
4 greater than that of New England
II Our unsurveyed lands alone excee
r in area twenty times the area c
q Delaware. We have the greatest lea
- producing mines in the world, ais
Z some of the richest gold mines
IS Every mineral imprisoned in tn
If earh is found in Idaho. Almost one
Al third of our land surface is covere
= by yellow and white pine forests.
Is "Our fruit crop last year was e
,e innate at more than 100000.
J. eve have therefore combined il
x dustria1 resources composed of OF
D. mining interests. our timber and
se our grazing lands, our agriculture
10 lands and our grazing lands, whie
must inevitably insure a great an
Of prosperous commonwealth"