Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-08-20
THE EXTENSION OF PAYMENTS.
What Another Non-Resident Entry
man Thinks of tho Proposition.

Being an original entryman and |
one who could never see his way
clear TO develop under the old con-
tract and one who willingly accepts
the new contract for the extension OF
payments on the North Side water
contracts, ! venture TO publish few
words which may be for the good OF
some who have suffered as | have in
the failure of the North Side Twin
Falls Land and Water Co. to make
the tract during the past years an OBJ
ject OF commercial attraction. No
one will deny that all entrymen, both
those who were developing and those
who were not. have suffered greatly.
Those who were living on the tract
and developing have suffered many
privations and those who have want
ed TO develop but were afraid to un-
dertake II under the circumstances.
have suffered because their invest
mant and prospects have not been
what they thought they would be,
but now with the extension and with
the contract binding the owners to
complete the system and the land
owners TO get the land under cultiva-
ton We will see an activity, develop
ment and prospects we have never
dreamed of. and there is absolutely
no question about the tract under the
new plan and conditions coming TO
the front as no other district has or
will because the North Side tract has
advantages not possessed by other
tracts in the state Not criticizing
our big South Side Twin Falls dis
: trict. but twenty years from now or
much less the North Side will be far
more attractive than the South Side
because development and use OF wat.
er will purify the North Side while
development and use of water have
e stagnated the South Side and there Is
= trouble because the land there is too
:. level and the North Side can TAXI
J. care OF all the water we turn out an'
d the broken formation on the Nortl
Side will prove. next TO the excellen
e soil. one OF the most valuable asset
d in the district.
n This writer argued the nature o
l. the old contract with the old manage
e ment and we now have in our oiiic
" over twenty-five letters written b
Ie Mr.. d. {. MacWatters in exchange o
n. our positions and we always mar
h famed that the only salvation OF TN
A. North Side would be in reconstruc
n ed contract and that II must come
f. we would never spend dollar MOI
in development than we had to
is maintain our interest and credit Wit
in the states side of the issue: but no
r we are different. We sign up the r'
ne contract and give our whole being
nt the contract and TO the developmel
or In connection with establishing co
ed fidence in the owners of the land
&C. present. and in prospective buyer
ne because we need to have faith nc
,rt in each other who own the prospec
cd and we need the confidence OF I
lly man looking for land. Most peoI
Sc. on the North Side control too mu
,ut land, and many of us need TO sell
mart of our holdings to help us ma
ith the other part a garden spot, and
iac having faith in ourselves and cor
ain dence in the company we will insp
nat confidence in the world and we c
Il cause people who have money TO
md ouire of us the price OF that ex
ore forty or eighty we have for sale a
Of while we improve we can sell pa
s,s and those who buy will improve
owe within a few years we Will have
ich erything improved and we VIII
be- want to sell 1t has not yet o'
be demonstrated what one can PROD
his on forty acres of that North 5
her land. as the ability OF the land Is
told. But right now we are at