The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-02-18
WONDERFUL GROWTH OF IDAHO
An Idaho Newspaper Man in Maya
zine Articles Tells Of the Many
fs Wonder Of Idaho

That versatile artists of the pencil
are consistent boosters, whether in
harness or not is evident from an ar
ticle appearing in the January issue
Of the Coast Magazine, says the Idaho
Falls Times, and written by q. II
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 fol-
lows:
iIdahO'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 loot seems a
long time to US who look back-a
man in far-off Sharon, Pennsylvania,
F.. HI. Buhl, saw vision, and that
vision was an irrigated Idaho. In
duced BY IdafOans 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 a
paradise which has been for SO long
In the minds eve of few sturdy
believers in an irrigated empire. We
stop today where, at that time was a
summer range, and find an up-to-date
city where the upbuilding 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 different places from time to time
until the vast Idaho desert has been
transpOsed into a veritable garden,
and those canals which carry its life
blood have extended themselves until
their symmetrical lines form con-
tinuous chain from the eastern to
the western confines of common
wealth that could move on indepen-
IDENTIFY 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
grandfatherhavein the past 20 years.
The old timer tells US: "Why when
I came to Idaho" but we have all
heard 1t and know his experiences al
most as well as If we had accom-
panied 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 pro-
gress and the poetic nature of the
present generation are so overshad-
owed by reaching out to grasp the
presented opportunities that they
have gone to their last estate sadly
unusing and much less honored.
And the answer is: What's the
use? Get It before the other fell
low beats you to 1t.
The present dav Idaho offers you
all the opportunities Of our fathers,
and more, unattended by the hard
ship they had to overcome and with
COuHIleSS IdcfIltleS OF Wn1cn tnoy
never dreamed. And when we search
for the source from which many of
these witnesses have estimated. we
must give due credit to and show
respect for the Idaho state land
board. This BODY has been the men
tor of the people where questions
have arisen through which they
might suffer and labor under hard
ships. And while there are those
who would possibly disparage them,
the masses of the people know that
their council has been wise and their
actions just. Their work has been
for the farmer and an easement Of
the conditions surrounding and at
tendant upon him.
Not that Idaho is entirely depend /
ent upon agricultural pursuits, for
she has other resources to which she
can point with equal pride. from
which revenues are derived that /
would equal kings ransom. Hides,