The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-03-21

hills CT the Rockies stored thousands
of tons of just those things that give
to the land its primal fertility The
sill is strong. Yields SO, 60. 70 bushe
CT wheat to the acre; two and as much
as three hundred sacks of potatoes
from an acre; raises four, five and six
tons Of alfalfa from every acre of mea-
dow; produces berries and apples, pea 5
pumpkins, sugar beets, cabbages. l
could show you fields where 1S to 20
tons of sugar beets were grown to the
acre of ground-worth $3.50 per ton;
where an acre Of apples return to
the owner $11O0 in cash. What's the
use? The profits Of farming are proven
| in Bingham county where water and
work are applied to the, ground I
could name ranch after rahch where,
rewards are certain and sure. This
sentence tells the whole tale: Bingham
county. upper Snake river valley. is
diversified farm country that produced
in the season of 1911 $4,000. 900 worth
Of wealth from the land and less than
so per cent of the farm land is titled,
That gives you a hint of opportunity
for you r..
There is plenty of water. Water is
the life of the land. The Bingham
county rights are decreed, established,
fixed to the farms by the judgments of
court. unassailable, unimpeachabla.
abundant Two hundred and eleven
thousand and eight hundred inches.
spilled the whole stream on you when
l started this story.
The Splendid Climate.
And the climate is good. The sun
shines in Bingham county in the sum-
mer season and lot of the time in
winter. Rain falls in spring and aut-
umn and during the winter the rain is
generally snow When the Chinook
wind GENES and the snow turns to
slush and the wetness pours down frcr
the clouds there is mud on the fields.
in the lanes and roads-the whole
country hasn't yet been paved, only
parts of the streets in the cities and
towns. When the temperature drops
down to zero, which it does for a few
days about every winter, water has
been known to freeze. Also when the
mercury slides up to the 80 mark and
the rays Of the sun come straight from
the sky in the months of July and
August, butter that's not in the shade
is liable to melt. But, really, the eli
mate in the Blackfoot country-is good
very good, with the bright, sunny days
of summer and winter, roads that are
fine nearly all of the time, little vino
but never cyclone, twfster. or blizza
cool, pleasant NIGHTS during the season
when the days are hot. and likewise
nights that are cool while the gound
+. is covered with snow It's "a good
climate, matching soil that assures
good crops. 8-l e.~ ~ j..
The price Of success, in Fthe Snake
river valley, is work.
You can't get rich in Bingham
county loafing in "the shade of the cid
apple tree although the tree will help
you all it can. You can't farm from a
hammock. on. the cool front porch .wher
the fields are calling for water and
work. You can't start with nothing
and win fortune in a single season.
1 ovon ~ vori ,ovron< oyo, "a ,n,uoh p..s
you can go onto a 40 or so or an 80 OIL
/ the 100000 acres that have, wafer. and
which cost $40 to 500 an acre. apply
energy and effort direct to the earth
put your muscle and brain into action
stick to the Land like death hangs on
to dead Ethiopian, and win home
With peace and prosperity md .pleiitY
That IS the price the earth demands ia
Bingham county. upper. Snake river Va
ley, and when you pay nature always
delivers the goods.
!. Methol Of Payment.
There's Q let Of choice as to the
method Of payment. You may farm
. for alfalfa OF its seed; for sugar
beets at $3.50 per ton; Tor potatoes 1t
$50 an acre: Tor apples that often pa,
four times that amcnnt: for 50 and 60
Bushels wheat or oan9 sobvshetoatl
? for clover and the rich, yellow butter
; that comes from the dairy; fer onions
, cabbage, carrots or chickens; for bar
, ley and hogs. or berries, or even farm
the busy little bees that hustle the
I honey from the blossoms that bow, to
the bree7s. You naynwiu wealth. from
t any Of these CT the whole, combinatior
, all farmed together. And I want h
repeat-whensver you pay with you
] lAhor, nature. always. always deliver,
the goods.
: SO. land Is cheap, soil is good. waite,
3 abundant, climate right. SUCCESS .cer
( tain for those who .aSjtate TIE Earth il
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