The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-16
.,les. East and West.
Crow The Gent Luxury
' in Montana.
fBoston Transcript

lilies or so from Boston on the
Ss5t.s " 20, old Middlesex Canal is the
d In' Of the famous Baldwin apple
ttIpaet tb % woods the surveyors for the
I 10 ' mean canal found the Seeding
An l!ab are descended the millions OF
Ffal;;nb make up the bulk of New
: ln,rrcbards. Whatever else may
lsoa . ~ soil of Massachusetts and Of
~ i 'l dooryard contains a group
u kari hsr'}y pioneers, their red-cheek-
~ nnaning and coloring in the late
~ ! lnilomising the hardest of keep
y ail 4o w. the Baldwin was the great
{ . ags Shiploads and trainloads
1pt out from the New England
lass favored parts of the coun-
:; p " ike the settlers who grew it,
or' has moved west, and changed
FyD md has come to a new life and
lp5 .ysopment on the west side of
, ,.1sst,,aertal Divide. What it has
y WE rs institutes probably the most
n S,,s story in the horticultural his
\ America,
~ nav see the results of it in every
;, g,D1 the Pacific to the Atlantic.
li", go down to Faneuil Hall or
/. Market and see on the same
No. / Baldwins, Gravensteins,
s,j.Uas. Spitzenbergs, or what
sanpens to be in season raised in
,,5l1-etts and selling at the rate of
aarrel. And right beside
.oaes from Oregon and Washing
a.tirg rrecedence over them and
.e- rnts a dozen or even at 10
s..F A dealer expressed it to me
az New England apples are just
H. These things from out West
cent apple is a novelty of
-r. or three years in most of
s W. have been accustomed to
hat .rce abroad, but we have
hasted that in America, at least,
qarr so many apples that every
mi aft 1rd to use them every day.
fr. been our national "health-
,pr But the advent of the five
NH has changed all this.
r terts each"-the sign attached
oy Of apples-red-c heeked Jona-
made a sensation when it first
.qj Yet all last winter the house.
3 Of Chicago and other Eastern
.ook as fast as their dealers could
them trainload after trainload of
stern fruit at So. so to 81 box
6ac $40 a barrel.
rsly such a proposition did not go
sed among the young men of Chi
r # the East who are looking for
ICE TO make money. Apples at
-c- sounded like a bonanza. And
fact that the great Western en-
IS had no other publicity, no other
sement half as effective as the
4 Ten cent apples displayed on the
aads.
iaME or THE FIVE CENT APPLE.
+ the apples themselves came the
rs and books describing the man.
which they are raised, the profits
lade from them, the value of land
ah they are. Deserts newly irri-
Allsides in the rain country, set
4 schools of apple culture, and to
D locked what has developed into
able stampede of young couples
young men out of office slavery
}-acre outdoor independence.
a tremendous movement, now we'll
way, which is taking thousands Of
nd more often of young families
Chicago, out of New York, out of
into this wide land and setting
. III good fortune on their own
know of a single new irrigation
in the State of Washington on
among the ten-acre holders are
S and tellers from fifteen New
anks and the editors Of at least
radicals from the same city. And
jniy small group which could be
tee anywhere in this region.
+. are the people who have learned
acres of irrigated land we'll con-
will furnish good livelihood for
j, that the communities in which
II ind themselves will be closely
def good people, that the oppor-
Tor social life are attractive and
cry Convenience they need is at
.snasai in the West. And so they
e3 eeep coming in an increasing
ATTY WAY OF MONEY MAKING.
'1s reception and accommoda-
West has devised one of the hap
o1s5 Of money making the coun-
e.er seen. This is to take up
& under new irrigation projects,
,'Jm ten-acre tracts with a pro-
rat The seller will ditch it, break
0. i, With trees, and carry it to
! crop, so that the new owner
ii i've up his city position nor
res until his land is in a condition
money for him.
.a.a five years ago worthless
ISL aesert, today worth $3.50 an
'ar a prospect of water, can be
-lle year on such a proposition
at acre in five or six annual in
It's. In another year when the
7r and the trees just set out
5st Wisps of trecs-it will bring
are. In two years you will
pay $500 an acre, and there are
.ar old orchards not far from
write which have sold this year
VI an acre.
man who acquires the raw land
S it in such lots, proceeds in gen.
tins plan. If the water to be
~ the land is new government
under the Reclamation service he
Bout for a nearer supply for
evening years and very often
Aep wells and puts in pumping
which he can afford to maintain
tavernment project is done, for
f.ler turning over of his land.
breaks out the sagebrush-and
narkable that the brush never
Tres itself on the land after clear
Gets the necessary fumes, digs
res or puts in the pipe lines for
.'orary plant, and sets out the
1owJh of these slips is remark
Vo-year old trees in the rich ir-
SOIL anpear as large as fOur or