The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-11-25
Idaho Country Life I:
PROFITS IN IDAHO ORCHARDS

Every year brings new proofs oil
the great profits awaiting the men
who put out orchards in Idaho. We
published an article last week about
the abundant yield of superior apples
with never a worm in a carload, and
now we find that A. e. Spaulding,
who was in the commission bust
ness last year, shipping apples from
Blackfoot and who is now secretary
OF The Illinois-Idaho Investment Co.
has become SO interested in apple
production that he is clearing and
preparing 100 acres of new land out
at our neighboring town of Pingree,
and will set 1t all to Jonathan and
Mcintosh Red apples in the spring
He Will give the matter his personal
attention. and cites cases all about
here of the great yield from orch
ards where ordinary attention has
been given them. Many of these
have been given from time to time
IN this paper, and the sum of It all
is that the trees begin bearing at five
years old, and the yield SO far as
observed runs from three boxes per
tree, up to about fifteen boxes, ac-
cording to the age of the tree. Mr..
Spaulding will set fifty trees per
acre, and expects to receive from
81. Is to $500 per box for the ap-
pies on board cars at Pingree.
The man who is skeptical about
prices keeping up needs only to re-
fer to statistics to see that the old |
orchards of the east and the middle
west are not kept up nor replaced
with new ones, that the production
of apples in the United States has
decreased from 60,0OO,OOO barrels
in 1890 to 100000 barrels in
1908, and at the same time new
markets for apples have been open
ing up. The Pacific states are COM
ing to be depended upon to supply
the great apple markets, and one of
the problems the western railroads
are now working on is how to trans I
port apples in great quantities in !
the best possible manner and main
tain their high quality and place
them uninjured in distant markets
where high prices prevail. What
do the shippers care for a freight :
rate of 20 or 80 cents a box when
they are receiving four dollars a
box at the end of the journey?
The Illinois-Idaho Investment Co. -,
will lay out its orchard to irrigate u
in five acre, tracts, and hopes to be r,
followed by others to put out such T,
an extended acreage that they can ",
'orm packing and shipping associa- st
Ion at Pingree and interest the pi
whole community in raising the best hi
and maintaining the best tn
of excellence possible so hi
hey can go into the markets year sa
fter year with an article of known
xcellence and unlimited quantities tn
1t Is safe to say there are many W
eople in various parts of the coun- DC
ry and especially in the apple dis VI
riots of Oregon and Washington I'll
mo would be glad to operate on
his plan if they were acquainted ol
18th the favorable conditions and Z,
he low prices at which lands and "
ater rights can be secured here
Ow. w.
tin
Geo. ID. Spaulding who has spent
Vo or three summers here, has Eo
wen considerable study to this MIA
latter, and we understand, is in ri,
rested with his son in the enter VIII
Use at Pingree. He is spending ov,
e winter at the Lexington hotel, 8
higan and 22nd streets, Chicago
ID expects to return to Blackfoot ,
the spring. tax
The 1llinois-Idaho Investment Co. Cal
S sold the aforesaid 100 acres on boo
easy payment plan to eastern peo-
2 and hopes to lay out still more
reage into apples and in the dis !
ct surrounding the town of Pin PRIV
90 in Tho ron t,,., feet
ing
AHO APPLES WINNING AT o~o