Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-05-31
YER
SUS BOOSTING
New Time Visionary Views Are
Knocked Into A Cooked
Hat

iating to the colonization of this
section, as well as the taking over of
The Mountain Home Cooperative Ir
rigation company by the Mormon
Church.
We cannot of course say anything
iefinite as to the Mormon Church
considering the placing of colony
in this section, but we can emphati-
cally state on the best OF authority,
hat there Is no pending sale for the
irrigation system either to the Nor
mon church, any other church, any
corporation or any individuals.
1t is well to boost your home town,
out such articles as have been ap-
bearing in the New Time" for sever
al weeks, are misleading, and rather
.han being Of benefit to-. the com
.nunity, they have a tendency to ma
lerially injure 1t.
investigation will show that the
Mountain Home Cooperative lrriga-
lion Company is the only Irrigation
Company or Project in Idaho, or an,
other section of the irrigated west,
that has not penny Of floating In
debtadness against it. Investigation
will also show 1t is the only lrrga-
zion Company that has made such
liberal concessions on interest pay
ments, and WHERE is THERE AN
OTHER IRRIGATION COMPANY
THAT is MAKING NO CHARGE
FOR MAINTENANCE.
The Company from the first has
promptly paid all claims against It,
and the thousands of dollars SO far
expended by the Company have done
much to relieve the stringent con-
ditions that existed. The system un-
Ter the new owners has been thor
Jughly repaired. Little Camas Res
ervoir has been materially enlarged
and those that have seen the COM
pleted work, pronounce the Idttle
Camas Dam one Of the best In the
State In order to demonstrate the
character OF the permanent work to
De installed, the Company removed
one of the best wooden fumes on
the system and replaced the wooden
structure with modern and up to
late Steel Flume. This Steel Flume
ia across the main travelled road to
daley, and where 1t can be readily
seen and inspected by the travelling
public. Many other improvements
lave been made amounting to thous.
ands of dollars. Within the last
month the Company has condemned
and purchased from the State large
racts of school land embraced IN
the Little Camas and Long Tom Re
,eryoirs, and within. the last week
has paid for the Hubbel ranch which
also a part Of the ltng Tom Re
seryoir. It Is Gao klCwn that tiis
Company has tc5. aimed what II
known as the Senator Bailey rancn
and 1t is ready at any tine TO pay
10 the Senator the amour. the Com
} missioners have placel as the marke
. value of the property.
To the unprejudiced mind, 1t shouk
} De apparent that the Company Is EN-
ploying sane and conservative pusi
aess methods and steadily getting tn
odds and ends in shape SO that whel
conditions warrant, the system ma
be enlarged. What the people 0
this community should desire Is 10
he Company to go on and enlarg
its system. We cannot expect muc
benefit from the small acreage nov
irrigated from the system, Dut
| doesn't take a very wise man to appr'
ciate. that the Mountain Home "
operative Irrigation Company, or an
i OLleF company, WAL ASOA HA~D~~
venture in the expenditure OF a larg
sum in improvements and enlarge
ments, with would-be wise men dom
all in their power to knock and han
per the Company.
The water rights OF this compaE
are being held at $500 an acre. w
were all at one time, very anxlou
to pay considerable more, The Ne
fine" says, that under this new co
onization scheme they will be sol
| for half of that amount The Repul
lican wishes to say at this tn'
| that when they do, those owning pr'
perty in this community had bette
move out. There Is not the remotes
possibility of any Irrigation CON
pany delivering water in this con
nunity for any such figure. I'M
under-valuation has been the dow
fall Of this Irrigation system unde
former owners; it tells the story
conditions that have existed here &c
i an long and explains why so man