The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-11-16
Eliminate Agitat0rs
More Expensive to Idaho Today Than
He Ever Can Be Later---No Ca
lamity Howlers Here.

all present legitimate claimants, some
day it will not be so, when the CON
tract land is all titled, yet some of the
Carey Act owners have stupidity joined
forces with these other claimants, in
an association that takes the water of
the rightful owner and gives it to
others. In this agitation they have
virtually damned the value of their
own Carey Act holdings. Other
owners, some of whom have really tried
10 farm, and others have been specula-
tors who are now disappointed have
gone to law, or at least talked of it, to
refuse payment for water delivered
No company can guarantee crops, or
increase of land values, or community
prosperity, against back-biting, against
political agitation, against water theft,
against incidence or inexperience or
misfortune All of these symptoms
have helped to make a amentable con-
dition of affairs at Gooding; that many
real Carey Act farmers have prospered
there from the first is sufficient argu-
ment that it need not have been so.
The Recorder has good reason to be
lieve that overtures have been made to
stop this agitation on the part of the
Settlers" for price From what the
Recorder knows of the Idaho Irrigation
Company honestly settling individual
cases on their merits, and its belief Of
the real motives that led to the so
called community agitators, it is. i'm
possible to doubt this charge. If Presi-
dent Stafford, as reported, is preparing
a list of questions for the Recorder to
a date and list of names may
be presented for him also to answer,
or officially.
1t does not need argument to prove
that the farmers Of the Richfeld Tract
have no sympathy with this political
and financial agitation. They are here
to farm their lands; not to pay court
fees, or blackguard their own COM
munity by proving that their holdings
rights are of little or no
worth
Some day the farmers will own this
whole water system, as they will own
every other similar Carey Act system.
The people of Gooding, of Dietrich, of
of jerome andessWendell and
Every other Carey Act community,
lave the same interests, the same
to face. Raising crops and
elling lands is in way Christian
Science proposition. one can delude
limself into doubt, and SO not plant or
end his crop, or inspire buyer to in
'est; or he can SOW, and cultivate and
ioost, until he simply can't fail :. Idaho
las been so completely damned in the
'ast two years, by the agitators for
olitical or financial profit, that today
here isn't one new immigrant where
here should be twenty; not one dollar
f new investment where there should
e fifty. It's time to change, to cut
ut the agitator-for- profit, and look out
or the real welfare of the State.
There will be wide field for the
Water Users Association, when the
roperties come into the settlers hands.
hen the question of responsibility for
or unavoidable happenings,
Or the collection of dues, for the full
llment of contracts, will be vital, and
will be seen through eyes that do not
'ok favorably on the agitator who
osts money and prestige every time he
rms. He is more expensive to Idaho
'day than he could ever be later
here never was so good a time as
ow, to eliminate the element.