Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-13
IDAHO BOOSTER AT WORK
immigration Commissioner Ricf Tells
Zion Residents of Gem State

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ing in Salt Lake. where he has been
for the past few days in an effort to
persuade the Oregon Short Line Of
fcials to allow stopovers in this state
to coast bound passengers and to per-
NIT the free distribution of Idaho
It is likewise the purpose of Mr..
Rich to make an effort to have the
schedules OF the Yellowstone park
train changed so that the passengers
will get an opportunity to see the
Snake river country by daylight rath-
er than pass through it, both COM
ing and going, in the night.
In an interview with a Salt Lake
paper Mr. Rich is quoted as saying:
During the year just pessed the
immigration to Idaho surpassed the
immigration to Montana, Utah, Wy
oming and Nevada combined, with a
has increased in population 400 per
cent in the last 20 years and in as
small percentage to spare. The state
sessed valuation 63S per cent. This
affords a basis for future estimates.
''The principal attraction to the
state consists of its farming possib-
ilities No doubt there are more
people who came to Idaho to engage
in farming than for any other reason.
While there are vast areas in the
state which naturally can be farmed
and which are made up Of some of
the finest lands in the state, still for
the most part the practice Of irriga-
ion has brough Idaho the front
from an agricultural standpoint,
II has opened up so many thousand
acres which, added to the former
brings the total up to an enormous
figure. Idaho leads all the states in
the matter of irrigation, having more
han 1000 miles of canals and ditch
es and more irrigated land than any
other state.
Idaho is shown by the figures of
the United States department of agri-
culture to lead in the yield yer acre
Of ali the principal agricultural prod
ucts. including wheat, oats, potatoes
and hay. In some parts of the north
ern portion of the state unusual
Yields are had in all of these prod
nets on non-irrigated lands. A new
harvester which has recently been IN
vented by a resident Of Latah county
ana now being extensively manufac-
tured there, has proven its capacity
to harvest grain fro mthe fild to the
sack at the very low cos of 70 cents
per acre. greatly increasing the prof
It's Of those growers of this commodi-
ty. Eugar Leets are grown in the
southern part of the state to he ex-
ent of keeping four sugar factories
constantly busy, but considering the
advantages which the state offers for
the growing of this article the In
dustry is not fairly started.
Idaho apples are famous the void
over and perhaps no place 1.-the
world is better adapted to the cul-
ture of this variety of fruit. The yield
is very large and the flavor and beau
ty of the apples grown in Idaho are
unsurpassed Apples are grown thru
out southern Idaho, the upper Snake
river valley. in eastern Idaho and in
different sections of the northern
part of the state. Except in the north
they are grown on irrigated lands en-.
tirely but the quality is of the same
uniform excellence regardless of the
section where grown or the conditions
of the culture.
"The apple is by no means the onl,
fruit of unusual quality which il
crowns in Idaho. The prune, almos
worthy to be called the staff of life
figures prominently in Idaho's pre-
eminence as fruit growing stat
( to different parts of the United Stat
es and Europe annually. The othe
" varieties of fruit, such as pears, cher
d ries. peaches, apricots, melons, ant
> small fruit are found in the sam
q abundance, and. in fact there
scarcely any variety of fruit witt
the exception of the tropical varietie
u which does not thrive in Idaho sol
= and under Idaho sunshine.
L. Though farming is playing sue
/" prominent part in the destinies O
u this great state. this alone could no
: have accomplished the Transferring
~ ton which has taken place durin
the last 20 years. nor assume to flu
+, fill the expectations of the future i
the matter of growth and prosperity.