Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-10-02
$500 Per Year

situation, and especially since one Dis
trict Judge has held that the Company
cannot foreclose for more than the actual
cost OF reclamation OF the lands.
And now for the Rot about the Kuhns.
Our distinguished State official stoops to
quote Major Reed, the mouthpiece of the
Kuhns here. He says: at was a sad
day to Idaho however, when these en-
pire builders failed, ETC., etc." We all
expect Major to talk this way. He is
paid for it. No one listens OF pays any
attention to what he says. But a State
officer giving you this kind of dope
If the great State OF Idaho had, as the
National Carey Act contemplates, re-
claimed this tract and the other vast
areas subject to reclamation under said
Act, and the Kuhns and their wildcat
operations in Idaho, had been dispensed
with, the fair name of the State would
not bear the blemishes and stains it now
bears and that it will take years and
years to efface.
But-they have loaned the settlers
money, have sold them dairy stock on
credit, and all this. When? HowP
Where? Yes, they made some loans in
settlement of damages they owed and
some bank perhaps with which they had
some connection, helped finance a COW
deal after some Creamery Company had
done most all of it. But they always
took good security.
But say do you know-Taylor does
that if these same Kuhns had paid $3.50
OF the damages actually sustained by the
settlers by reason OF their misrepresenta-
tions and failure to carry out their con-
tracts, as honest men are made to pay
1909 on their debts, mighty few settlers
would ever have needed loan or help
to get cows.
And the stream of money that poured
in, with the expectation that much
: larger stream would flow back, and it
will. This philanthropy exemplifed.
But Taylor doesn't mention but he
= knows, that for every dollar the Kuhns
have poured into Idaho, the settlers
have poured several dollars in money be-
side these four or five best years of their
life so far.
And by the way, it wasn't Kuhn's
money. They sold their bonds to wild
ows, orphans, estates, poor laboring peo-
n pie OF the east who had saved few hun
K dred dollars for investment. 1t WAS their
: money that came into Idaho.
Z l think that possibly have answered
It all portions of friend Taylor's letter
worthy of answer, in fact, none of it was
u worthy of even passing notice, but
- written to you as strangers to conditions
u here required reply in self defense.
It But now its over, very disagreeable
u task, and we shall send Taylor copy
= for his perusal, We want to say that we
y are here upon the tract to stay. That
. we have all confidence that it will all
u come out we'll in the end, and that in
~ spite of the hardship, privations, wor-
o. ries, and losses, all incident to pioneer
=" life in almost any new country, we shall
e' yet see this the richest valley in the land,
C and shall look back upon these incidents
~ with pleasant memories, for you know
time softens all the hard places.
Vi But there may remain one thing, which
Nc we can never forget, We hope we may
~ but possibly We cannot, and that is the
pc ignominous treatment the settlers on thes'
~ tracts have received at the hands of the
." State Land Board in the past, WHOSE
duty it was to have protected and shielded
Ter them, Never finer class of people evel
settled in any new country than hav'
TO- settled here, but had we been bunch o
le. illiterate "bohunks" from the crimina
We classes of southern Europe, we could no
nj have been more shamefully treated thai
i've we have. But let it pass. These condi
an tions will change.
ow With kindest regards and best wishe
the for the success OF your Association, l an
to Yours truly,
the L. 7. ALEXANDER, Sec'y,
t Twin Falls North Side Canal
ese Users Association.
Ter Having covered the field quit
thoroughly in the above letter, W
me- had supposed the matter closed
,ie- But having a desire to be in I'll
and lime light, MIR. Taylor rushes int
not print with his reply which contain
'ne so many illogical assertions th'
';ns m we will take them up for consider;
the ton next week.
hey
mn. PROJECT GIVES UP GHOST.