The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-07-09

near Goodlng. lie packed up what
stuff they had left and, with the
five toddlers, two teams, COW and
a dozen chickens, made the long
hike. They arrived on the job
April II, 1910, with the above
named goods. and chattels and just
fifteen iron pieces of the standard
coin of the realm.
Mrs. S. said, pointing to where
now stands a fine, substantial
granary: THAT is where l first be-
gan housekeeping, starting by grab
bing an ak and cutting off the sage
brush to clear a space for our beds
the first night. Aaron was looking
after the stock. 1t is mighty pleas
ant, Bill, to think of that first night
and the first meal | prepared out in
the open with a fire of sagebrush
under a kettle of spuds. Now we
own this piece of ground clear
down to the center of the earth
and our crops get better and better
from year to year."
The next forty was owned by
young doctor who gave Aaron the
job of building his fences, check
gates, and so on, which brought
him sixty-nine dollars. With this
he built a twelve-by-twelve shack
and then started in grubbing his
own land. One of the horses got
killed, SO he hitched up the other
three and went at it. He would
swing the grub ak for few days
and then pillow, until he had broken
up enough land and prepared it for
three acres of spuds, grain, garden
truck, and all the incidentals to
keep down the cost of living.
Then he took the contract to ir-
rigate and harvest the hay on the
doctors forty, and for this he got
500. While his wife piloted the
water around that field of alfalfa
Aaron continued to work on his
own land. Mrs. S. said that if anv
woman needed exercise in the
tango dip or glide she had better
tackle the irrigating game to get in
condition and have an appetite for
sleep when night came.
Well, the alfalfa sure did go
some on that young doctors piece.
He got a hundred tons of hay.
which he sold for 5000. This was
from the first seasons seeding, and
goes to show what Idaho soil with |
the right kind of muscle, our ia
nous climate, and never-failing
water supply will do.
In the spring of 1911 both Mr..
and Mrs. S. got into the collar and
the way they made things hum was
a caution. They finished breaking
up their land and planted seven
teen acres of alfalfa. This cut
seventeen tons of hay. Twelve
acres of oats netted $50 bushels
five acres of wheat los bushels,
and they got 300 bushels of spuds
from three acres. Moreover and
olus, they have set out five acres
% orchard.
This put them in shape to buy
some brood sows, a few pieces of
and to pay their bills.
they opened UP the year 1912 with
/ full head of steam.
Bill" said Disqualification,
we just sit down sometimes and
lold hands and congratulate our
elves that we don't have to run to
he corner grocery and buy things
It nickel throw. Nothing do
ng with that city life for us any
more. Why, if the people in the
tiles would just get hump on
themselves, break away from the
Id rut, get out in the country, grab |
piece of land and 60 at it with
heir whole hearts and souls they
you'd win independence before t
hey got cricks in their backs" /
Then he took me out and showed
he forty-one hogs and eight head t
+ COWS and calves, three horses S
nd colt, also one hundred chick t
ms. Besides, they have nice r
tile four-room house, a barn, \
ranary that will hold 1900 bush t
IS, enough grain and feed to carry h
lem through to the next crop,
400 in the bank to invest in cows l
/ the spring, and not bill out o
We could go right on and tell J
the success of scores of home b
eaders in our country who came t.
with a shoestring and stout h
carts and are now half way down il
lie avenue of independence. There t.
as young couple who ran res
urant before they came out here G
Id filed on a forty-acre tract q
Ear Gooding Now they have
1e hundred and sixty acres and
e paying out on it rapidly.
Don't delude yourselves, dear &