The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-03-18

caSO ana every real estate agent III
all the towns of that country wa!
made agent of the passenger depart
ment of the Short Line and they were
paid commission upon every sale Of
Idaho land made through them. They
exerted every energy to induce people
to visit these wonderful lands. Passes
We're given the agents SO that they
might come and see for themselves
and might know that they were not
being asked to misrepresent. The!
came and, of course, were more than
satisfied. The stream of immigration
was started.
Then the new and more extensive
irrigation plans were made and car
ried into execution.
The dreamer began to see the reall-
cation of his dreams.
He is dreaming again now. He
sees Idaho producing potatoes to feed
the world. This dreamer who has
the habit of making his dreams come
true, thinks nothing but potatoes, he
can talking nothing but potatoes
he dreams potatoes.
Satisfied that no other country is
so well adapted to potato culture, this
dreamer sat in his office in Salt Lake
City and planned campaign which
in the end will tax the full capacity of
the railway which he in part repre-
sents to make provision for.
He got into correspondence with
the best potato raisers the world
knows. He studied the question I'M
til Grubb, the Potato King" could
sit down and take lessons from Bur-
ley, the man who never raised a po-
tato. He knows to pound how
man potatoes are required annually
to feed the people of America. He
knows where those potatoes are rails
ed and he knows how many bushels
per acre can be produced in every
section of the world; he knows who
has raised the largest and the best
hill of potatoes in the world and how
he did it, and he knows who has rails
ed the largest and best acre of pota-
toes in the world and how it was
done.
He engaged some of the most sue
cessful and best posted potato raisers
in the world and ordered special
train and sent them to every village,
hamlet and town along the Oregon
Short Line in Idaho to tell the peo-
pie about it.
He didn't end there. He has offer
ed cash prizes for the production of
potatoes. These prizes are not to be
paid by the railroad company, they
are to be paid by D. e. Burley, the
dreamer.
He has studied how to make ship
ments OF these potatoes cheaper. He
knew that car could not be filled
more than about a third full, or
something like that, because the
weight of the potatoes above crush
and bruise those below; he has had
worked out new kind of box, cylin-
drical in shape, which will cost no
more than the ordinary potato sack
now In use, which will hold half bush
els and bushels of potatoes and which
can be stacked into car to the very
roof, protecting the bottom potatoes
as completely from bruises as are the
lower ones.
These boxes can be shipped in fiat
and are to be SO made that they can
be readily set up and filled with the
finn product of this irrigated Idaho
soil.
He learned that ambitious but un-
scrupulous potato raisers elsewhere
had injured the market for all pota-
to products by first packing the best
potatoes at the top; when discovered
at that by opening the bottom, they
learned to put good ones both at top
and bottom, and finally when sacks
were opened on the sides they learn
ed to put stove pipe down the CEN
ter, filling it with stones, scrubby po-
tatoes, dirt or anything which would
give weight and add to dishonest |
prices.
To guaranty this Idaho product he
Is preparing to have established at |
potato centers in the state-at st. |
Anthony, Idaho Falls, Twin Falls,
Boise and other places, a machine for
packing potatoes.
He learned that orange growers
had machine which first took the
orange, cleaned and polished it with
a brush, then passed it along a car
rier until the largest struck an cleo
trio pin, which caused that orange to
drop to one side into a box prepared
for it. The others passed along un-
til the next largest was separated
from the rest and so on down to the
small ones which were dumped into
the last receptacle.
AS the oranges were turned to one
side, they passed onto basin where
a machine picked up a wrapper al
ready printed and prepared, placed 1t
over hole, rolled the orange onto
the hole over the paper, dropped it
through into the packing box, where
it was placed. all wrapped and ready
for shipment.
That is just the thing we need"
said this dreamer 1--WE will clean,
polish and pack these Idaho potatoes
that way, and thus will establish
Idaho potatoes the world over as the
best market potato produced and the
most reliable"
And again this dreamer of great
Idaho will make good to an extent
not vet dreamed of by most Idaho
people.