The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-02-03
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 r.
IL. 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 its 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 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
a 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 q
few sturdy believers in an irrigated
empire We stop today where, at that
time, was junction of the trails from
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 yeritable garden, and
those canals which carry its life-blood
have extended themselves until their
symmetrical lines form about CON
tinnous chain from the eastern to the
western confines OF commonwealth
that could move on Independently of
her sister states; and one that will
TO grow until the young man
of today will gaze in awe and wonder
more than bis father and grandfather
have In the past 20 years. The ola I
inner tells us: why. when came
% Idaho" but we have all heard II 1
Ind know his experiences almost as /
veil as II we had accompanied him In |
lis wanderings and shared his trials /
md tribulations. But the day of the /
'ull whack and the mule skinner has I
'one They have passed before the I
march OF progress, and the poetic ma C
ures OF the present generation are so I
by reaching out to 4
rasp the presented opportunities that n
hey have gone to their last estate sad Il
Y unsuning and much less honored 4
And the answer Is What's the use
ct it before the other fellow beats you c.
} IT, (,
The present day Idaho offers you all +,
,e opportunities Of our fathers, and C
Iore. unattended by the hardships o
ley had to overcome and with count c,
'ss facilities OF which they never N
And when we search for the "
,urce from which many of these wit
esses have emanated, We must give S,
lie credit to and show much respect al
IT the Idaho state land board. This CT