American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-02-26
BIG RECORD
FOR LAST YEAR
lamp Of Approval Placed on
| Dry Farm Land.
S. Commissioners Office Here
SHOW, Six Hundred and Seventy
Filings Made During the
Past Year.

The record of the U. S. Commission
rs Office in American Falls shows that
Olpeople filed upon land in this vicin-
: during the past year and that Ill
ases for state land were made. The
ings at this Office will cover about
ghty per cent of the land filed upon
the vicinity of American Falls, and
is safe to say that the total would
bach better than 800 people who have
laced their stamp of approval upon
he farm lands here. If each filing
kpresented 100 acres the total acres
Aken would reach the sum of 132, 760
cres, but in some cases less than 100
tere taken, although this would not
ccur very often and as close as we
an figure the record there were in the
Ieighborhood of 10000 acres taken
uring the year. Besides this amount
hose to 20, 900 acres were leased from
he state for periods of years.
1 The lowest estimate for this years
Business of the office shows that 800
Aew homes will soon be established,
bart of these have already taken pos
tession of the land but those who filed
later in the year will not have to get
bn to their land until May Is. Any who
shled after June l will not have to es-
&ablish residence until the 18th of May,
according to ruling of the department
(which we publish in another column.
y The records show that nearly every
State in the union is represented in this
Vast army who have arrived and who
IRE yet to arrive to claim Idaho as their
home, but the majority comes from
khree states, Washington, Kansas and
Nebraska. The section to the south of
american Falls has larger percentage
pf Washington farmers than from any
pther state and this fact alone would
brand the section as perfect. Condi-
lions here are closely related to those
|pf Washington before development.
The sagebrush land and climatic condi-
lions are nearly the same, and when
people eff that wealthy state come here
md take up land which was thought
worthless some time ago, it is evident
chat the land is all that is claimed for it.
The record for last year means that
300 new homes will be erected this year,
and 100, 900 acres will be cultivated. 1t
means bounteous harvests and prosper
kty. 1t means more schools and
churches. 1t means everything that
goes with we'll developed country in
rich section. 1t means that people from
NEARLY every state in the Union were
attracted by the conditions and pros
pects which are offered here.
The land in the immediate vicinity of
american Falls is we'll taken up in the
dry farm district, but yet little fur
Gther down the valley, at present dis
Rance from the railroad, there is yet
2and in choice section. This land was
naturally left to the last, but when
railroad is completed along the line of
the present survey through that sec
|tion, this land will be as valuable as any
hn the state. The present year will see
nearly all the land which we claim un-
der our territory, taken up as the land
hungry are already beginning their
search, and even before the snow is off
the ground the people are here and
khaye taken their chances on the land,
not from what they have seen of it but
from what has been done on other land
an the vicinity.