The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-04-10
make their own abiding places.

make their own abiding places.
But are we ready? We must estab-
lish first, state, and secondly al
local bureau, to assume this great re-
sponsibility toward bringing these
people to us. Our farmer needs them
in his field, and we as community
need them as citizens and tax payers.
Many of them will have the necessary
means to purchase for themselves
homes of their own, and they will
become master husbandmen.
Everywhere there is disposition on
the part of various sections of the
country to induce new blood to locate
therein, a healthy desire to interest
new people in the great west. 1t is
hearty spirit, and it is backed by
claims and actual benefits and reward
for improvement, as we'll as great re-
turn for him who seeks a permanent
home in the west. There is not so
VI IIO opCSuldtiNS PAOiiiob
as formerly, but rather more sub
stantial idea of securing for home
steads and ranch lands. All sorts of
plans have been promoted in the past.
and the proposition of inducing peo-
pie to camp with us has been fraught
with many difficulties growing out Of
peculiar operations in land promo
ton, as we'll as the greater matter of
finding the right sort for the individ-
ual. That is the keynote to the situa-
ton. The right spot for the right
party creates the real interest with
the outside world. Here in Snake river
valley are many thousands of acres
of fertile lands only demand ne, =
attention of sturdy and Industrious
armers with this great area of tillable
soil, that homes and cultivation may
follow with benefit to all. There is
} now doubly a great field for exploit a.
ton and the individual who locates on
a piece of Snake river sage brush adds
something of worth to posterity.
Now then, on the other hand let us
get little nearer home for the pres
ent, and | question very much but we
may be getting farther away from our
future population. Considering the
great opportunities presented to us
from the great armies about to arrive
in the west from which We shall draw
new blood, we have also to consider
, that the recent floods and cyclone dis
, asters of Ohio and Nebraska, and
; the almost certain repetition of the
J same, have resulted in the growth of
} desire in the minds of many to seek
} new conditions where the common lot
may be bettered where farming is not
a hazard, and where the elements do
not conspire to thwart the will of the
Woodworking and persistent farmer.
J Naturally people seek locality where
calamity does not befall, and where
the shadows of adversely are no part
and parcel of the operation of the
elements.
In short, a great many people Of
the stricken section of the south and
east would gladly exchange their lot
in the hope that they could escape
a conspiracy of nature to cheat
them of the product of lifetime Of
toll. Their salvation lies in county
where the riot of the elements Is un-
known, where there is regard for
honest labor and large return for
simple investment. But they need
know the country, and they will come.
, The vast opportunities of the west al
ways appeal, but they must know the
!. locality to feel secure on the venture.
It is the plan that is Of direct inter-
: est, and forms the basis for an inflow
of new blood. There is, then an OPP
, portunity for us to secure these peo-
pie from both ends and in the mid
die, from the east and the great in
flux to the west. Throughout this
broad valley it is entirely possible to
secure 1000 40-acre tracts, and fol-
, lowing a concerted effort and con-
scientious work, 1000 families from
, the middle west could be induced to
locate on these tracts, the land to be
placed at moderate cost to the buyer.
It is a locality where water shortage
: is unknown, where crop conditions
are secure, and where all other adj
vantage obtain, condition such as
. does not exist for the farmers of the
Mississippi and Ohio valleys, nor on
, the open stretches of Nebraska.
A systematic campaign for tho s.
: and farmers addition to tho popula-
ton of the Snake river valley shoul
bring at least 5000 extra people into