The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-11-14
\. F. SAMUELS GAINS
LARGE HOLDINGS OF
BONNER COUNTY LAND
WALLACE MAN MAKES INVEST
MENT IN BIGGEST FARM IN
PANHANDLE.
Company and in Addition Purchases
Many Homestead Holdings-80o0
Acres in All.

When Henry +. SamuelS or TINS clty
gets ready to retire from the manage
ment of the Success mine, he will be
able to realize an ambition long cher
ished and become rancher on big
and doubtless profitable scale. He in
tends to spend his days after retiring
from business on model farm the
biggest in the Panhandle, which it Is
his intention to stock with fine cattle
and to devote his time to stockraising
and grain raising. The details of the
extensive deal, as we'll as some of the
plans for the future are given III the
last issue of the Pend d'Oreille Review
of Standpoint, as follows:
TIL biggest land deal in Bonner
county since the Humbird Lumber
company made it's purchases from the
Northern Pacific was consummated.
this week when H. F. Samuels, the
Wallace mining millionaire, closed the
purchase for $500 acres from the
Humbird company and purchases from
individuals in the Pack river country
which will bring his total holdings
with those of John Bush, who pur-
chases the 4S0 acres in section and
who will be manager of the big farm,
which will be cleared and put under
cultivation and made into a grain and
stock farm, in the neighborhood Of
5000 acres. Mr.. Samuels purchases
from the Humbird company all of sec
tions 25, 81, 33, "a, q, portions OF ~, IL
and 10, fractional part of section 21.
all in township 20, range / west. All
of section 20 was purchased from the
Northern Pacific and options and pur-
chases of homesteads embrace the
most of sections 30, % and 20.
The land included in the big pur-
chase extends from Little Sand creek
on the east to Pack river on the west
and embraces a tract the center OF
which is about at lola. Among the
homesteads embraced in the purchase
is the May property. The only hitch
in the numerous sales and negotia-
tions has been the purchase of the
William Henneberry place and sui,
was started in district court this week
in which it is alleged that Ben Thomp-
son took an option on the Henneberry
place and that there has been a breach
Of contract in the failure to turn over
the property at contract price. The
purchase was to have been made as
part of the samuels deal.
Mr. Samuels and Mr.. Bush will al
once start the clearing up OF the DIE
tract and it is the intention to conver
it into a grain and stock farm. Mr.
Bush was in Spokane yesterday ant
bought plows and other machinery fol
work which will be started this fall
A large force will be put on immedi
ately clearing the cut-over land. /
is the intention to make the handling
of fine-b -blooded cattle and hogs one
of the features of the big farm.
With another season Mr.. Samuel'
intends to build a handsome countr,
nome on tne pace anu VIII iie@ho ~
headquarters here for the most part
Mr.. Bush has operated extensively IL
grain and stock farming in the. Palous
country and recently sold big farm
near Oakesdale.
The event Of the purchase is tn
most important business transaction
that has occurred in this country thi
season Mr.. Samuels means will b.
at the command of the big project ant
he has the money and the nerve t.
rnake 1t a success and the model farm
of this whole country.
The Miner is informed by Mr.. Sam
uels that he estimates five years as tn
time necessary to clear and prepar
the land for its highest stage of pro
, ductiveness. He has let contract 70
large part of the work to Myrol
i'ropliffe, who, with his son, George
las left for Bonner county to begll
the work Mr.. Samuels is enthus1as
=. tic over the project, in favor OF Wh1c'
lie decided after looking over variou
ections of Idaho, Montana and ore
Gon.