The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-24
LIKES TWIN FALLS COUNTRY.
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on an SO-acre farm and. have some
very fine stock. Mrs. lgesby TOLD me
that she picked 153 peaches eff three
trees that she planted herself three
years ago.
Albert Heller is the boss farmer at
the Ferguson ranch and is delighted
with the country.
l won't attempt to tell you what
they do and can raise on the land
for 1t might sound exaggerated, but
while We were there, one farmer sold
his crop of SO acres OF potatoes for
$4,000. Mr.. Perrine, who is one of
the pioneers, has an orchard which
will net him $4,000 per acre. | asked
him if the trees got very old He said
he didn't know how old they would
get, for he had one 26 years old and
just picked 43 boxes of apples off of it.
The scenery is something wonderful,
the great Shoshone falls won't take
back seat for Niagara at any time.
Then they have the Twin Falls, the
Salmon falls, the Thousand Springs,
Balance Rock, the famous Blue Lakes
and the great canyons themselves are
a magnificent picture.
From Twin Falls, after investing
our money, we went to Boise, the me-
tropolis of the state, and a very pretty
city of about 10000. They have some
OF the finest hospitals of the west, and
some very elegant new buildings.
DR.. Theo. kroeger has a large place
in South Boise and is selling lots and
picking fruit in spare time.
P. N. Quasi and Alfred are showing
shoes at the Golden Rule store and
Henry is employed at Folks shoe coun-
ter, one of the largest in the city.
Gustave kroeger is one of the own
ers of the Security Abstract and Title
company.
DR.. August Heine located in Boise on
June l, and is doing very nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ravens have a large
Suit House and are well pleased with
the country.
Mr.. Spieldberg met some old friends
from Newman Grove and we had
most delightful time during our short
stay.
Salt Lake City was our next stop,
and here | met my old chums, Frank
Hegmbotham and George H. Dern.
Frank is auditor for the Garfield
and Bingham railroad company
which has just completed twenty miles
of road at cost of $4,000,O0O, so you
may know it is not over prairie, but
is one continuous climb, although they
have reduced their grade to 2R per
cent
We made the trip to Bingham and
1t would take week to tell all they
have up there and the wonderful
things they are doing. 1t is the great
est copper camp in the world, and the
payroll of the Utah Copper Co. runs
about 100000 per day. Here we met
DR.. A. l.. Ingelsby, who at one time
was the printers devil in the Sentinel
office, and he is coming money in the
mining camp. In Salt Lake we had an
opportunity of seeing the great Hotel
Utah, which is reputed to be the finest
hotel west of New York We looked it
all over from the suite recently occu-
pied by President Taft and the price of
which is $50 per day, down to the base
ment, where they prepare the fine
wines and frog legs.
Through the courtesy of Judge
Prick, formerly of Fremont, we went
through the state penitentiary, and
saw many things of interest in one of
the best penal institutions of the west.
Judge Prick is chief justice of the
supreme court and member of the
board of correction, having charge of
the penitentiary.
The Twin Falls country looked so
good, that / couldn't resist the temp
tation and have decided to move to
Idaho. | have seen several different
parts of this country, but have never
seen anything that looked as good as
this. They don't have many corn cobs
out there, still we saw one field that
yielded Ill bushels to the acre, anoth-
er that went so bushels, oats from so
to 40 bushels, and weighed A pounds
to the bushel, volunteer wheat that
cut from 20 to 80 bushels.
There don't seem to be any limit to
the possibilities of the country and
one must remember that all of these
things have been accomplished in the
last three or four years.
Doctor Hauser. Chas Lyman, Jay
Denslow, John Matzen and Bucholz
Bros. all have nice farms there and
now have them all in cultivation. You
can't raise these bumper crops without
any work, and any one that thinks he
can is very badly mistaken, but you
certainly are we'll repaid for your la
Dor.
The altitude at Twin Falls is $40
feet and the climate is ideal, the sum-
mers are warm but cool nights, and in
the winter the government reports
show the weather very seldom reaches
below zero.
Thy have some dust but no thunder
storm or billiards, and, while they
have good SHOWS, it comes straight
down.
After making Hooper my home for
more than twenty-nine years, it seems
little hard to think of packing my
goods and travelling westward, for
have many, many warm friends here.
but / believe the opportunities for
young man are now ripe in the west
and am going to try and pick few
of them ]. HOWARD HEINE.
Hooper (Nebr) Sentinel.