Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-06-18
STREAMS TOF[OW
IN LONESOME
VALLEY
From Fridays Dailv.)

Lana anu ]iOl III
of Prescott, promises to be sue
cessful fact and within a short time,
was the consensus of opinion en-
unciated at an OVERLOOKING meeting
of the Prescott Chamber of Com
merce last night by such we'll
known and conservative captains OF
industry as R. N Fredericks and
Judge Ed. w. Wells,
Ringing speeches were made re-
garding the plans OF the company by
its president. Ex-Congressman James
Watson, of Indiana; Ex-senator ].
R. Burton, of Kansas, who will man.
age its affairs, with this city as his
center, and others.
After the routine business of the
Chamber had been transacted, Sec
rotary Fraser read short report of
what the committee which visited
Twin Falls last week had observed
of the work OF Messrs. Hollister and
Perrine, the men who transformed
the Idaho desert into a garden and
who have been engaged to make a
similar change in tine fertile reaches
of Lonesome Valley for the Indiana
Company. The report follows:
What Two Men Did.
The Chamber OF Commerce party,
composed of Messrs. R. n. Freder-
ticks, James A. Hope, Judge Ed. w.
Wells and NJ A Fraser, arrived at
Twin Falls, Idaho, June 3, at noon
and was met by l. D. Perrine and
other citizens of that city.
After luncheon at the Perrine Ho-
tel, one which would do credit to
any city of 10000, trip was made
TO the Salmon River project and dam
which will irrigate 10000 acres.
This project cost something over
100000. Already, over 10000
acres are under cultivation to alfalfa
and orchard, wheat, oats and other
forage crops. We learned that three
cuttings of alfalfa are harvested each
season, making about FIVE and one
half tons an acre, with an average
price of $3.50 a ton.
This project was finished in 1912.
Now there are two towns on the
acreages under the dam, HOLSTER
and Amsterdam, the latter colony
OF thrifty Dutch farmers, whose
places reflect what industry and in
telligence can accomplish. A branch
of the Oregon Short Line has been
constructed to Hollister and over its
right of way, two Edison storage
battery electric cars, belonging to
Mr.. Perrine's Twin Falls Railway
Company, carried us.
Grain Galore.
From Hollister, we took automo-
biles and made the journey of eigh
teen miles to the dam. Here, the
party inspected the latest and great
est work of Mr. Perrine. The dam
is 225 feet hi0h and over 600 feet
across and forms a lake seven miles
long with an average width OF
mile. There were 100 feet of water
at the dam on the day of our visit.
Wheat, we were told by many
farmers with whom we talked, make
an average of 60 bushels an acre
here. There have been crops of 90
bushels and many of 20. Oats is
the banner crop for tonnage, appar
emily, there having been several in
stances OF yields of 100 bushels and
one or two OF III.
Present with the Prescott party,
were the colonization agents of the
Union Pacific and Oregon Short
ago, there was hardly ton of pro-
duce in Twin Falls county, for ship
ment over their lines. They said that
the territory now known as Twin
Falls County, ten years ago, carried
an assessed valuation of but $4,000;
today, it is over S28.000,000 The
average rainfall in this locality, is
less than ten inches.
We were surprised to note that
the soil is exactly of the same for
nation as ours of Yavapai. There
is considerable malpais; more, we
thought, than we have in the neigh
borhood of Prescott. Precipitous
banks of lava rock. of pretty nearly
uniform heights, from 300 to 800
feet, line the Salmon and Snake
Rivers for many miles.
There are altogether about $780,
600 acres in the projects surround
ing Twin Falls, which is probably
the most modern city in the West of
its size, $500 The court house and
high school buildings would be a
credit to a city of ten times its
size; it has two flourishing banks,
one daily and two weekly newspap-
ers; bituminized streets, good and
abundant city water; splendid hotel
and all other necessaries and con-
veniences.
Water Everywhere.
On Wednesday, June fourth, the
party drove to the Shoshone Falls
carrying a crest OF foaming water
over 700 feet in breadth. The falls
have 2l0 feet drop. From the pow
erhouse at the foot, $50 miles of
high transmission line radiate, serv-
ing eighteen adjacent towns with
power. Over the falls tumbled 3d.
900 second feet of water. The waste
which flows into the Columbia river
and thence into the Pacific, is esti-
mated at 100000 acre feet a year,
The hydraulic work, now in, will de-
velop $4,000 horsepower.
Of the visit to Mr.. Perrine's ranch
OF over 1000 acres, which possesses
probably the most picturesque situa-