The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-02-27
RECEPTION GIVEN
Il. |. HOLuST[R
By Members of Commercial Club
Saturday Evening.
MAKE THIS CITY HEADQUARTERS
FOR SOUTHERN IDAHO.
Mr.. H0llister is Of the Impression
Bruneau Project Will Be Started
Within Year.

A particularly bright future for the
Twin Falls country was painted by H
l.. Hollister of Chicago and New York
at a reception rendered him by the
Twin Falls Commercial Club Saturday
evening. Extensive plans for the col
onization of the Twin Falls country
now under way by his company, pros
pective Oregon Short Line extensions,
suspension bridge at Shoshone falls,
and the investment of much Eastern
capital on the tract, and the starting
OF the Brueau project within the year,
were among the subjects discussed.
Mr.. Hollister said that he had with
esraWn from active participation in the
CALIFORNIA projects of the Kuhn Bros.
and would devote his entire time, in
CONJUNCTION with !. B. Perrine, to the
develophrent of the Twin Falls country
and Southern Idaho, new branch
office will be established at ST. Louis
and an active campaign begun in that
territory. The present offices at New
York, Philadelphia and Chicago will
also increase their activities, so that
IN four of the largest cities of the Unit
ed States a continuous, aggressive
campaign will be carried on and the
gospel OF the Twin Falls country will
be spread far and wide Mr. Hollister
said he began the exploitation of the
Twin Fails country twelve years ago
and he believed in it more and is now
more enthusiastic than ever over it's
future. He paid a high tribute to l. B.
Perrine for his courage and indomitable
perseverance in conquering the al
most lnsurmountable obstacles that
confronted him and his associates in
the work already accomplished
Mr.. Hollister said that he was not
satisfied with the results of the past
year in the colonization efforts of his
company, but while Idaho had not re-
ceived its quota of SETTLERS he had
found on investigation that the entire
Northwest had suffered, and that the
flow of settlers had been to the South
Recent developments in the southern
territory he believes will effectually
turn the tide back to the Northwest,
and even now the people are beginning
to inquire more specifically about
Idaho
Arrangements are now complete for
the establishment of a headquarters
for Southern Idaho at Twin Falls and
all colonists for the Kuhn holdings
in this state will be handled through
this office.
The advertising value of the Ruqert-
Bliss cutoff to the Twin Falls country
was mentioned. Heretofore tourists
have not been able to see any portion
of this tract unless they left the main
line and in consequence their impress
sions were not of the best Now, with
through trains going over the new
cutoff the traveller can look from the
car window and see the broad ex-
panse of fertile land dotted with hay
stacks, fields Of growing grain, herds
OF dairy cows, hogs and other evidence
es of prosperous country. A view of
the Salmon tract for 40 miles is pos
sible from the Rupert-Bliss cutoff.
Other extensions contemplated by the
Oregon Short Line will give better
and closer opportunity to see the Twin
Falls country proper as well as the
contiguous territory.
The building of the suspension
bridge at Shoshone falls will bring
the North and South sides of Snake
river into closer communication, max
ing the two practically one. Mr.. Hol-
lister spoke of Shoshone falls as the
greatest scenic wonder Of America, far
SuIpdSSluS Niagara Ill STduucuT, anu
destined to be even more of an attrac-
ton for tourists when they learned
of it's existence. He believes it will
not be long until through trains will
run to Twin Falls.
The awakening of the moneyed in
terests of the East to the possibilities
in Southern Idaho was mentioned and
the assurance given that there are
large investments contemplated for the
near future. The Bruneau project was
referred to as certainty, but the start
may not be made for several months
or year.
Accompanying Mr.. Hollister was
Mr.. H. ]. Hooker, of st. Louis repre-
senting the company which will have
the business of Hollister and Co. in
charge in that territory. Mr.. Hooker
expressed his surprise at the marvellous
growth of the country and pledged his
best efforts toward It's upbuilding. He
urged upon his hearers the necessity
of planning for city Of nifty thousand
people. as he believed Twin Falls
would reach that in the not far distant
future.
Professor Wells Sizer, OF Chicago,
compared his farming experience in
Michigan with the opportunities offer
ed In Idaho. and said he would start
q propaganda for this state when he
returned East.