The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-12-18
OUT IN THE Wild
AND WOOLlY WEST
Tales Of the Twin Falls Country
Aborigines
WATSEKA, ILLINOIS. MEN SPREAD
WONDERFUL TALES
Picture Drawn Of Sagebrnsh Plains
and its Game Population to Say the
Least is Vivid,

The following article taken from the
Watseka. (Ill) Times Democrat fol-
lows visit paid to this section by four
men from that city under the guiding
hand Of Ben Ward. From the impress
sion given out, Ben must have been
generous with the information given
his guests. And the tales Of the game
bagged would suggest that Ward had
a contract for a movie scenario, and
carefully staged the show for the oc-
casion. At least the local sportsmen
will cheerfully employ Ben as guide
II he will agree to duplicate the bag
claimed by his friends in the east
w. H. Hogle, Ned McCracken and
Col. c. H. Payson returned Friday
from an extended trip to Idaho.
They bring back some roaeate re-
ports as to the country and the kind
OF trip they had. incidentally they
also brought back some sample ap-
pies and potatoes, now on exhibition
at Hogle's store, which make ones
mouth water and his heart long for
residence in that far distant state.
There was a party of eight, including
teamster and cook, that left Twin
Falls, Idaho, ON Nov. 9Th, for sew
enty-five mile drive, by wagon, out
into the desert.
Twelve days later the same party
returned to the Falls with expert
ences such as none OF them had ever
had before. They had slept out doors,
under the stars, and had satisfied
their hunger in the broad opeN
places. Their food had been cooked
over sagebrush fires and the mourn
full voiced coyote sung them to sleep
each night. Two small black bears,
countless mountain hare, sage hens,
jack rabbits, cotton tails, ducks and
whisper it, because it involved a
possible minimum fine of $500 for
each offense) three fouT-legged ami
mails with antlers were bagged by
members of the party. These strange
animals we're brought down purely
in self defense. And there were,
and still live, eight witnesses to prove
1t, in case OF necessity. The Twin
Falls country must be paradise II
the stories told by our friends are one
half true and they insist they cannot
tell half the glories and promises Of
that region. II the farmer there
does not raise four or five hundred
bushels of potatoes to the acre, he
feels that he has had crop failure.
Thousands Of bushels of apples, on
farms somewhat distant from the
city, are this year going to waste.
The crop has been over-abundant.
And such apples! Take 2 look at
them in Hogle's store! One man
raised $1,100 worth Of clover iced
on ten acres of land-$110 return In
cash per acre. The lands near the
Falls are very high. selling in nome
instances at $500 per acre and even
higher. Twin Falls is beautiful
city OF some 5000 people, built DUR
ing the last ten years. In what was
for long ageB q worthless sage brush
desert. It owes 1t extstence to the
courage and perseverance OF l. B.
Perrine, who is affectionntely spoken
sf out there as The Father Of the
Twin Falls Country" Through his
efforts some 100000 acres Of deHert
land was given water to drink. An
enormous dam, nearly 200 feet high,
was built across the Snake river at
Miner, and great irrigating canals
carried streams to the arid and
s3arched sage brush plains. And the
hands drank thereof and became the
teeming home OF fruit, grain and
flower. According to the stories Of
the boys, it Is very. very wonderful.
Twin Falls city has finely paved
streets, elegant business butldinea,
and fine residences. 1t has m $50
900 court house and an 986 ,Oeo high
school building. 1t has churches for
all the great denominations and no
saloons. The county of Twin Falls
Ia as dry as the desert uGed to be. A
minimum fine OF $500 h iunpoaed for
the first offense Of tho bOetlegEer and
q year In the county Jail TOR tha Sec
ond offense. Few care to take
chances OF incurring these penaltiea. 1
and when q WatsekA man cannot nnd i
wet spot IN q strange town, Il II .
safe bet that It ID awfulty and cQnsci-
entiously dry. Such Ia Twin Fails,
Idaho.
An electric railway runs from the
city to the wonder ShoshOne falls,
some five miles from town. Iheae
falls are among che wonders Of ma
ture's most magufficent scenery. Thei
snake river drops over - precipace
212 feet straight down. Niagara -
only 1856 feet Snake river at this
point flows through q chasm, but ht-
tie wider than the river itself, whose
mighty, rocky wallis ascend almost |
'pofpendicularly for over - feot.
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