The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-03-06
TWIN FALLS PRIDE
OF THE GEM STATE
Boost for City and Tract by N.
B. Yeaman of Idaho Falls
DESERVES REPUTATION OF BEING
A PROGRESSIVE CITY.
Idaho Falls Editor Present at Potato
Breakfast and Tells Of the Wonder
ful Country on the Snake.

Aui SuuHtI1 VII bne SHdht.
Twin Falls has rightfully earned and
well deserves the reputation it has
gained-that of the most progressive
and wide awake city of the state, if
not of the northwest.
! The results are there to show for
| themselves, and it needs but one visit
to Twin Falls and the Twin Falls
country to make the skeptic believer.
Blessed with great natural advant-
ages, equipped with sufficient capital,
people with those of the go-ahead
spirit, the result is nothing short of
marvellous and the visitor to Twin
Falls is convinced prejudiced though
he may have been against it, that the
Twin Falls country is today the pride
of Idaho. The objection is made, or
rather the constrast offered in COM
pairing the Twin Falls country with
other sections, that the early settler
there found things done for him; that
the canals were built; that vast
amount of outside capital paved the
way, and that it is not fair to COM
pare the conditions there with those
of the community which had to first
create its own wealth before it could
hope to take a place in the forward
procession. Admitting that all those
facts are true, it does not detract one
/ lparticle from what has been done by
the people fortunate enough to be con-
frQnted by the conditions mentioned
outside capital has not done it all
in Twin Falls. Even brief acquaint-
ance with the people there will soon
convince one of that. The fact i'm
presses the stranger that the Twin
| Falls people, men and women, are
pround of their homes and their coun-
try, and they have the right to be.
Considering the fact that the city is
but few years old-less than tent
is away and far ahead, a generation
) ahead, of communities of similar pop
| ulation throughout the east and mid
t dlewest, where most of the Twin Falls
| people came from, proving the fact
} which has so often been voiced, that il
, is the best element of the east and
} middlewest which is making the north
!, west what it is today-the most prom
/ ising section of the United States-anG
showing greater development an6
-Agreater resources.
= 1t is one thing to build city, quite
a another to keep it building and te
9 keep it clean and attractive to such {
e degree that it attracts favorable at
!. tention.
+ Twin Falls, with all its business
1 would be nothing without the countr,
around it, and that country is probab
e ly no better than great many othel
: sections of Sunny Southern Idaho
: within the irrigation belt but it mus
: be admitted and said that the people
y who farm the Twin Falls tract hav'
taken more advantage of the oppor
tunity offered than have the people o
: some sections of the state.
y Better roads, better cared for ca
nails, better fences, bigger and redde
barns, more attractive farm homes Sc
among beautiful lawns and youni
q groves, making the general scene on
i of prosperity and attracting tn
stranger, and, above all, making tn
T. farms more valuable.
1t is all worth while, making lif
,, worth living. Farm life can be mad
and in many instances is made NOR
c attractive than life in the small tow,
or the city. If attractions are offere
q by the city which appeal to the ma
and the woman on the farm, it is with
in their power to enjoy them. Goo
roads and automobile or plain two
horse power makes such things poss
BILE. That it is possible1is proven rigf
% in our own state, in the Twin Fall
country
One fact that was very noticeable {
:. the recent potato breakfast held
:. Twin Falls, the fifth annual affair {
y the kind and attended by men from a
:. over the state, and that was that
- great proportion Of the men who a
- tended the breakfast were farmer
y ~ showing the spirit which exists b.
;, tween the man who works in town an
= the man who works on the farm, a
y, working for the common good.
ls Twin Falls has set the pace, she d.
- serves the place she has won, she d.
y serves to remain In the lead and wi
le continue In that place just SO long |
the present spirit Is manifest. tt
Twin Falls spirit is one which CO
at we'll be followed BY M. B. Yeama
b editor OF Idaho Falls Register.