The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-02-04
THE GROWTH OF IDAHO
TOLD IN AN INTERESTING MAGA.
ZINE STORY.
The Coast Magazine for January Con.
tanned Splendid Boost for the
Gem State.

That versatile artists of the pencil
are consistent boosters, whether in
harness or not is evident from an arti-
Gle appearing in the January issue of
the Coast Magazine, and written by E.
H. Hancock, formerly of the Weiser
Signal but now chief clerk to the sec
rotary of state. The article which
contains an interesting account of
Idaho's wonderful growth and all of
the opportunities in store for it's citi-
zens as viewed by the writer follows !:
IdahO's Offering to the Settler.
More water, cheaper water, deeper
soil, better soil, cheaper soil, more
sunshine, no tornadoes, less zero
weather. more schools, better schools,
more churches.
Away back in 1900-it seems a long
time to us who look back-a man in
far-off Sharon, Pennsylvania, F. H.
Bull, saw a vision, and that vision was
an irrigated Idaho. Induced by Ida
hoans who were seeking capital to
carry out their plans, he paid the state
visit. The result of that visit was
the lighting of the Aladdin lamp in
the waste places and the blossoming of
the desert into the paradise which has
been for so long in the minds eye of a
few sturdy believers in an irrigated
empire. We stop today where, at that
fipnn ipnnfinn nf ho 2yoi l5
the winter and summer range, and find
an up-to-date city, where the upbuild-
ing of the country is uppermost and
property values higher than the back
of the proverbial cat.
The Bulls were the forerunners of
the greatest development that any de-
cade has witnessed. Their work was
as the proverbial flash that ignited the
magazine which has broken out in diff
ferent places from time to time until
the vast Idaho desert has been trans
posed into n veritable garden, and
those canals which carry It's life-blood
have extended themselves until their
symmetrical lines form about con-
tinuous chain from the eastern to the
that could move on Independently of
her sister states; and one that will
continue to grow until the young man
of today will gaze in awe and wonder
more than his father and grandfather
have In the past 20 years. The OLD
timer tells us: why, when l came
to Idaho" but we have all heard 1t
and know his experiences almost as
we'll as II we had accompanied him in
his wanderings and shared his trials
and tribulations. But the day of the
bull whack and the mule skinner has
gone. They have passed before the
march of progress, and the poetic ma
lures of the present generation are so
overshadowing by reaching ont to
grasp the presented opportunities that
they have gone to their last estate sad
ly unsuning and much less honored
And the answer Is: What's the use
Get 1t before the other fellow beats You
to it.
The present day Idaho offers you all
the opportunities of our fathers, and
more, unattended by the hardships
they had to overcome and with count
less facilities of which they never
dreamed. And when we search for the
source from which many of these wit
nesses have, emanated, We must give
due credit to and show much respect
for the Idaho state land board. This