Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-10

completed, the farmers expect the
! water right to cost from seventy five
to one hundred dollars per acre.
Twin Falls, one of ldaho's Garden
spots, 1000 feet bove sea level, is an
other case in point. Alfalfa land
there is actually selling at 800 dollars
per acre and orchards are held at
IRON four hundred TO one thousand
dollars.
lhe city OF Twin Falls Is a buStl-
ing pace where everybody boosts"
and nobody knocks" Facts are
soubborn things. Becoming familiar
With another mans wife often causes
man to better appreciate his own.
From our lessons learned from the
| worlds war, we shah soon find out
That other sections can do nothing
that we cannot When we find this
out and believe 1t, we shall meet
every emergency by rising TO the oc-
lAsiOn and manufacturing our goods
at home. What can be done else
where can be done at Mountain
none. We can not believe ourselves
lacking in intelligence on adaptabllIty.
| why not get busy and snow others
what We can do.
AT Wenatchee, Washington, water
r-gh.s are now he'd at drom ITO to
100 dollars per acre and at North
Yakima water is sold nearly as high
dow can these localities live and
prosper and make money while We
lie down and 'oroak" with our wate4
right at IS to 50 dollars.
1t Isl up TO Mr.. Brady to give us
good system. We will live If he will
give us the water, This he says he
can and wdll do. Mr.. Brady has had
his troubles. The financial world has
been in a near panic for some montl q
and money is hard to get, but he
says he wall do for us all we can ex
pect and that, as soon as possible.
We must have a good and substantial
system turned over to us when Brady
is through. his we must see to In
the meantime.
There are some other things we
must not forget in this discussion
and one is that we expect perfection
under an irrigated system. 1t may
nelp US if we consider some OF the
sad vantages of non-irrigated tracts.
| have triend who owns a half sec
ton of so-called good land in South
Dakota. He has had crop failure for
three consecutive years because of
drouth. Having suffered from these
conditions he thought farm In North
Dakota or Minnesota in the Red
River Valley would be the proper
thing. He bought quarter section
south of Crookston, Minnesota. Last
year he seeded this latter tract. The
crop came along all right until 1t was
cut and in the shock. Then the rain
began to TALL l saw him about the
first of December of last year and
his grain was not then threshed, as d
machine had not thus far been able
TO go onto the ground. His crop was
total loss, later learned.
We have heard of the rich land in
the state of Washington and as some
years ago | had the foresight to To-
cate my friends in convenient places,
made visit a short time ago to a
brother at Burlington of that state.
/ learned from him and others that
the virgin soil (cut over) Is held at
one hundred dollars per acre there
abouts. also learned that 1T costs
from eighty to one hundred dollars
per acre TO remove stumps and sub
due the land. This is not all. Dur
ing this last summer that part Of
Washington was without RAIN for 81
days. Then it began TO rain and
was raining still when l left the
state. Grain was sprouting In the
shock and in the stack. Have we
had that experience at Mountain |
HomeY Josh Billings said about the
flea, when you find him and try to
put your finger on him he aint there
and when you go where he Is and try
to put your finger on him "he aint
there too" When we look for per-
feet conditions and do not find them,
we go where we think they are and |
try to put our fingers on them and
"They amt there too"
With plenty Of water / can raise
40 bushels of corn 10 the acre and
grow almost anything known to the |
horticulturist right here in this val
ley. Plenty of sunshine to ripen |
our crops, plenty to cure them, mild
and pleasant winters, healthful and
delightful summers. With water
can cut down my orchards and still
make the ranch pay.