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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

So one can be assured of having
l lot of food for the family, the
very first year; and if one finds
time to work out a little, that money
will be mighty good friend.
AS to the amount of money one
should have for really successfully
opening farm here, it depends on
the Individual.
One will have to invest anywhere
from $13l on new filings on the
company land, up to several thou
sands of dollars for some of the
we'll improved farms near town.
To buy rnimproved or raw land,
one would at least need to have the
cash for the initial payment, what
ever it was; and the maintenance
fee of IS cents all acre for the
first year. Then, one will need
house. Some houses on the tract
have not cost as much as $1O0; but
that doesn't really buy very much
NOilliOll NOilF CLlNl1CO - d - =
where from $3.50 upwards would
probably build comfortable little
cottage. A stable would cost from
$50 up. Fencing, including the
work of setting it, is estimated at
approximately Sl00 a mile; that
would fence 40 acres. A team
will cost anywhere from 5000 up;
and the other farm equipment caii
be just whatever the new farmer
is willing to buy.
One could not see way to make
a start such as this, with much less
than $1,000 cash. Some have
worked with far less, and have
succeeded by hard work and good
management and deprivation. II
would not be the wish to discouf-
age any one from coming who did
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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
Helpful Facts for the Prospective New Settler

to put up suitable farm buildings.
buy a team, one or more COWS, two
or three brood sows, fence-in yo'l
land, buy wagon and other farm
machinery, and have enough for
feeding the family and the stock
for good part of a year. 1t is
of course true that there is consid-
cradle work to be had, at good
wages; but the farmer can't al
ways leave his own fields to go out
for some one else. So one ought
to have enough to carry hin
through with the minimum Of
worry.
1t takes money! or its equivalent,
time and labor, to clear a sage
brush farm. An average of per-
haps S12 an acre for clearing,
plowing, leveling and corruga
ting ready for irrigation, in addition
to the cost of the alfalfa, clover,
or grain for seed, would probobly
be fair for the whole tract. MANY
fields are put in for much less
money, but as a rule they do not
pay. The ground is not we'll
enough leveled for easy, econon-
ical irrigation; spots will be missed,
that are too high to be watered-
and one loses the use of all such
land. And there may be holes
that are too wet for a good crop.
The time and money spent in good
leveling is most valuable.
You can count on a ton or SO Of
alfalfa the first year, if it is sown
before midsummer. That will
make some good feed for the stock
for the next winter. And one can
raise potatoes, and beets. and al!
kinds Of garden, if here in time to
put out such stuff in the family
garden.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
Alfalfa, the Farmers Gold Mine
The Most Wonderful Crop The Irrigator Can Raise-s
Food for All the Year for All Farm Stock

falfa is especially good; probably
the best of all, because of its prolific
yield, and the fact that the nitrogen
GUS nodules on the roots form faster
on the alfalfa than on any of the
others. So alfalfa is usually the
best crop to put out-best in its
immediate profit, best in what it
adds to the soil
While a good many have been
tempted by the rapid growth Of al
falfa, to let it grow even to the end
of the blooming period, when the
stalk is too woody to make much
other than weight, with little food
value. By cutting when only a
small part of the field is in bloom.
some say one-tenth, some as much
as one-fourth in bloom-the hay is
of so much better quality that stock
will clean it up in the racks with al
most no waste. Three cuttings can
easily be secured by cutting at this
stage of growth; and while the total
yield per acre is not much if any
greater, and the cost per ton is per-
haps little greater owing to the
fact that it means three mowings
and three times setting up the stack
ers and handling all the hay ma
chinery, the hay has far greater
food value.
Only two crops can be cut if the
alfalfa is allowed to become SO
ripe in the fields, while three crops
can always be cut if the alfalfa is
cut at the proper stage for making
the best hay. Alfalfa has sold on
the Richfield tract at as low as
SIS ton, delivered for a short dis
tance. But it is worth more than
that, to any one who has stock to
feed it to. Usually, too, it sells for
a better price, delivered loose; an
average of probably better than
81 a ton. One year it went above
$40 a ton; but that was the first
year alfalfa had been raised here,
and there was little hay or other
feed anywhere else, for an abnor
NAL winter-and the stocknan had
to buy fed at any price. 1t isn't |
worth that much to feed.
The farm that is we'll set to al
falfa, is money-maker; either for
the owner to operate for himself,
Or to rent it to some one else. For
alfalfa is the King of all crops in
this section, and it is a sure, pro-
ific, fool-proof crop that anyone
Continued on page 81
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
THE RICHFIELD BAND
Public Concert Saturday Night
Be Sure to Hear it

The Richfeld Cornet Band will give
an open air concert on the Richfeld
Hotel porch Saturday night June 9Th
beginning at 7:30 1t is the purpose of
the band to give these open air concerts
from time to time, provided the gener-
al public manifests an interest in them,
and much will depend on the interest
taken Saturday night how often the
band will appear in public. So if you
want these concerts continued during
the summer turn out, give the boys
your support and they will do the rest
Remember the time and place---Satur-
day night, June 9Th, 7:30, Hotel Porch.
James Leitch, Leader
The band came out to greet the Salt
Lake Commercial Club, and made
very great hit. 1t was the first town
that had greeted the visitors with a
band, anywhere in their itinerary; and
they appreciated the honor. The leader
of Held's Band, the famous organization
that came with the Salt Lakers, inquir-
ed OF Kew. Leltch, leader OF the local
band, how long the Richfeld boys had
been organized. He wonld scarcely be-
lieve when told that they had been play
ing only since December, and that there
were only four or FIVE old players in the
whole band. 1t is genuine tribute
that he paid the Richfeld boys, when
he said that they had made really
marvellous progress, and that their dis
position to get out on such an occasion,
in the face of bigger, older organiza-
ton, was the finest thing he knew in
musical circles anywhere.
The people of Richfield have a reason
to be dee-lighted with their own band
both for ability and for disposition to
serve. The Salt Laker was right when
he emphasized the unusual standing of
Richfeld
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
"Cashing In A Vision =
By Farmer Bill'' CIV. S. Parkhurst)

where the stream is teeming with
their kind, and game could be had
in plenty.
Well, many is the time, when
in company with our dear ole
friends, the Judge and Low, the
mighty nimrods of the Solomon
Valley, and as we cast our lines i'll
that placid stream, to be rewarded
with, perhaps, carp or buffalo,
then would appear that vision.
A Realization.
AS time in her mad flight rolled
on, we, i'll our mad career being
pitched hither and yon, were at
last landed at Richfield, Idaho.
A few words here might be ap-
propriate in describing the beauti-
full valley wherein we have real
lied the first part of our vision.
Here, bounded on the East by the
Little Wood River having its
source at the head of the Wood
River Valley, starting in south
easterly direction, she makes an on
bow curve and passes by the busy
hustling town of Richfield, thence,
on to the great Snake River. On
the West we find the Big Wood
and Malad Rivers, joining their
Continued on page 81
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

"We sometimes feel we'd like to &C
Where bells don't ring nor whist
les blow"
When Eugene Field wrote the
above words he spoke our senti-
ments. A few years ago, as we
were doubling the line between
Belleville and Phillipsburg, there
would creep into our minds eye q
vision: Not of great wealth nor
brown stone fronts, with a retinue
of serfs to wait upon you, but a
vision of a quiet retreat from the
strenuous life, the mercenary, dol
lar-chasing life of greed and ava
rice that leads one into the pace
that wrecks body and soul Then
would come a vision of forty
acre farm located in some produc-
tive valley, a cozy cabin, good team,
a few COWS, chickens and hogs-a
place where Dame Nature would
respond quickly, and pay dividends
according to the demand made and
energy expended. And yet this
farm must be in close touch with
nature in its primeval days, when
one could go into the mountain
fastness, revel and rejoice with
nature and the life that she offered,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
Richfield Entertains Saltlakers
Big Salt-Seaers Find Notable Reception Waiting for
Them When They Sail Into 'sThe Best Town

Richfield entertained the Salt Lake
Commercial Club, Tuesday, for almost
an hour
The train was scheduled to reach here
at lilo, but did not get in until about
( IL o'clock. The band turned turned
out, in uniform, and number of people
came in from the country; while almost
everyone in town was down to the de-
pot to greet the visitors.
When the train came in, and the
guests disembarked, all formed in a
procession and marched up the street
In front of the Commercial Club Room,
Held's Band which was with the visi-
tors formed in circle and gave some
fine music; and male quartet also fa-
vored the crowd with a good selection.
DR.. Davies as president of the Com
;nercial Club, called on some of the
Salt Lakers to make brief addresses.
Mr.. G. S. McAllister made brief talk,
and then called W. F. Corbett to the
stand. He made an especially fine plea
for the uniication of the West, and the
development of all Western industries
by keeping our trade as close to home
as possible.
The Salt Lakers were really wonder
fully taken with the development of this
section of the country; with the big re-
ception given them, with the band and
with the looks of the town. They said
it was the first place on their trip where
a local band had met them. Not few
expressed the very sincere hope of in
vesting in land here; the impression of
the clean streets, the interested and in
teresting people, the good buildings,
the beautiful farm country around on
every hand. 1t is safe guess that no
where on their trip will they be better
received than they were here.
Some very enthusiastic questioners
wanted to know all about the good roads,
the rest room, the commercial club, the
schools, the municipal band, the early
closing, and all the good things that
make life here so different from so
many country towns. And of the 100
visitors, not one faillsd to express the
belief that such community spirit as
shown here in Richfeld, would make
this the ideal community in which to
live.
AS a contrast, one gentleman here in
town tells of when the same Salt Lake
boosters train visited another town in
Idaho, year or two ago. There were
four business men at the train to meet
them, and few boys and their dogs.
The band got off the train, played
piece, and then put in their allotted stay
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

The Recorder remembers read
ing the glittering prospectus of a
copper mining company, that had a
vein of copper, almost chemically
pure, from 400 to 500 feet wide.
four miles long, and as deep as the
earth's crust" So ran the tale of
the promoter who was willing to
sell few shares at cut price to
few specially selected friends. to
get money to develop the prop
erty. And one even more philan-
thropic promoter had diamond
dredging proposition-he wanted to
sell few shares to mysterious
few favored ones, to buy dredge
to scoop UP the diamonds by the
half bushel.
Almost equally beautiful pros
pectuses and circulars and other
literary gems have gone out from
Idaho, based on the possibilities OF
irrigated lands that would make
you rich over night.
Reason will tell nine men out OF
ten, that these highly colored pro-
ductions are untrue, impossible. 1t
is quite true that sometimes one
can make wonderful killing Oh
even ordinary crops. In no place
was this ever more true than III
Idaho. 1t is true that farmers right
in this county, have raised alfalfa
from which they cut one slashing
early hay crop, and then let the
second crop 60 to seed and that
they have realized as much as $3.50
an acre from the seed alone. And
it is true that farmer down at
Gooding, on the Idaho Irrigation
Company segregation, made $500
in one year from an acre of torna-
toes. And it is true that two farm
ers at Burley. just across tie river
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

in throwing stones at a mark; after
which they crawled back on to the train,
and set sail for some place where there
were human people living. They would
MT go back to that place on bet, some
of them wouldn't. But they would
come to Rich6eldl It's a safe guess
that if any man in the lot wanted to in
vest, he'd come to place where the
people were companionable and united
land give the quarrelsome, dissatisfied
communities so severely alone that
they'd never know what they have
missed.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

When the poet wrote Knee Deep
in June y he must have had in mind
a tract of Idaho alfalfa for nothing
else that is known to man, can quite
match a field of alfalfa for vivid
refreshing green, knee-high and
wanton in its riotous growth.
Here is such a field on the COM
pany farm adjoining Richfield ;
with the town of Richfield in the
background. w. P. Burke, the big
Missouri farm manager, is the first
character in the picture; and Man
ager Kays of the company, is the
other.
The field in this picture, cut six
tons of hay to the acre, in 1913; and
it was only the second year. The
land lay idle for two years after the
town was established, as the land
belonged to the company, and it
was feared that the town would
grow out over the tract and spoil
fine farm. But as the townsite was
already large enough, this part was
withdrawn and set out to alfalfa.
Alfalfa is the same to the Idaho
farmer, that potatoes are to the
Irish peasant. If there were such
thing as a philosophers stone"
that could transmute common things
to gold, alfalfa would be it. For a
good stand of alfalfa will fatten the
hogs, feed the horses, COWS, chick
ems, enrich the soil, sell direct for a
good enough price to furnish the
ready money the farmer may need,
and it is thing of beauty and joy
forever.
Back East, it would be held as
cruelty to animals, and treason, and
insanity and several other things
that are bad, to consider any social
ed grass" product as a complete
food for any and all kinds of stock
the year round. But hogs winter
finely on alfalfa; hens lay bushels
of eggs, with almost no other food
through the winter than alfalfa hay i
and cows and horses thrive wonder
fully. Most stock will do little
better, with some other grain food
for change of diet; but the alfalfa
is sufficient to keep them in good
shape.
The soil here is somewhat defi-
cient in humus, and in nitrogenous
plant food and some of the legu1nes
like alfalfa, clover, vetch, peas,
make the best and quickest growth |
to supply these demands. The al
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

ords just as fast as they can get
their lands into shape for that kind
of prosperity.
But for all this, it isn't true that
one can come here with no capital,
and in a year or two expect to
make anything like these records.
It takes years to get fine fruit
trees to bearing; it takes years of
experience to know how to raise a
banner crop of potatoes, how to
make an alfalfa field produce its ut
most. Irrigation is real business.
and needs to be studied as such.
And it takes some capital to do it,
too.
1t is not the wish of the Rich
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

from old Lincoln county before it
was divided year ago, raised 8O5
bushels of potatoes to the acre,
which at the cuurrent market price
were worth more than $500.
Also, it is true that l. B. Per
rine's Royal Anne cherry trees,
at his Blue Lakes farm in this
county, have netted him $50 a
year to the tree; and that one year
his Jonathan apples made 1000
boxes of AL apples that netted him
at the farm, $3 box. And right
here on the Richfield tract, newer
than any Of these other. localities,
but just as productive, farmers
are making the same kinds of rec
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

field Community Development
League to misrepresent the case SO
that anyone shall come here under
false notions of what he will find.
A disappointed, discouraged settler
is much worse than no one at all
on the land worse for himself,
and worse for all his neighbors
and the whole public. So what
ever may have been sent out BY
promotional enterprises, the people
of this community will generally
approve of statement something
like this,
You should have little money
before coming here to buy farm
You should certainly have enough
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
The Optimist Wins In Richfield!

little more than three years ago. number of the
Detroit, Chicago, ST. Louis and New York capitalists
who backing the Idaho Irrigation Company, held
meeting in Rchfeld 1t was the dead of winter, and
deader than usual because Of the storm that raging
One r-cad representative of inherited and unearned
increment millions, who had been reading the optm-
istc Recorder finally said in disgust, NVel, I'd like
to the who could write that kind of stuffabout
such country thisl' He actually did get to see
him; and perhaps neither well satisfied with
the other---certainy the Recorder wasntl
Yet three months ago, national magazine published
article written by Richfeld man, describing
ditions here, and it heraded all the nation
a notable showing. And another national magazine
will in September tell its five million readers the story
OF Richfeda story which the magazine editor says
literally too good to be true
The cheerful optimist winsl
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-20

Alexander to the National museum and
the libraries of her husband and her
son to the Academy of Science at the
Servian capital. 800
Natalie became the wife of King
Milan Of Servia in 1875 at the age of
sixteen. Her son. the i'll fated Alex
ander, was born year later, but by
that time she and her husband were
scarcely on speaking terms owing to
his dissolute life. They separated in
1886 and Natalie went to Wiesbaden
with her son. Two years later Milan
succeeded in getting possession of
Alexander and induced the metropoi-
tan to grant him "a divorce. This d.
vorce was later declared illegal
Milan abdicated in 1889 in favor of
Prince Alexander. Queen Natalie, who
thereupon returned to Servia. was fore
ed to 60 into exile.in 1891. but in 1894
both she and her husband returned in
triumph to Belgrade and they were
apparently reconciled. Their triumph.
however, was short lived The hand
Of Russia was seen in Servian politics
under the sway of Alexander. who
drove his father into exile, and Queen
Natalie again left the country, never to
return. The tragic death Of Alexander
and Queen Draga followed in 1902 and
Peter Karageorgevitch was called to
the throne. the Obrenovitch dynasty be-
ing extinct. Milan had died in Vienna
in 1901
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-20

If you are going on the boat excur-
sion to be given by Frederick Douslass
Lodge, Odd Fellows, next Wednesday,
make up party of persons and you
can get reduced rates. A penny saved
is a penny made.-Advertisem
Mr.. Hugo Williams of New York q
brother of DR.. H. l. Williams, is in the
city to make his future home. He is
practical plumber and steamftter
and will open plumbing establish
ment in the near future. Mr.. Williams
will doubtless prove to be quite an ac.
QUESTION to St. Paul.
The people generally are very
indignant in regard to the out
rageous attack that was made
upon Evan Anderson and Miss
Constance Crane last week, and when
the case comes to trial some great de-
velopments may be expected. It is
understood that Hon. Daniel Lawler.
the Democratic candidate for govern
or, has rendered his services free of
charge to prosecute the prejudiced
hoodlums who attacked the Young
couple.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-20
THE REASON WHY.

Segregation has come to Louisville
because the Afro-Americans in that
city have not been aggressive in their
fight against injustice.
Some years ago proposal was made
for jimcrow library and it was &C.
cepted without protest.
Residential segregation came as a
natural sequence.
The idea of the Caucasian fiends of
the South is that persons with an ad-
mixture of African blood must be kept
in a separate social status subject to
their whims and caprices.
The Afro-Americans who accept
public segregation in any form, WITH
OUT PROTEST are doing themselves
a great wrong and hanging a mill
stone about their children's necks.
EVERY KIND OF JIMCROWISM
SHOULD BE FOUGHT TO A FINISH.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-20
is CASTE BREAKING UP?

Sir George Macalpine says that caste
in India is breaking up and that Chris.
tianity is doing the work. He gives
caste ten years to die and says that
when it is dead there will be great
influx from India into the Christian
church.
The Hindu who gives up his religion
and even his caste to get into the
Christian church is a fool-he's jump.
ing out of the frying pan into the fire.
The Christian church is really the
greatest promoter of caste in the world
and if great numbers of Hindus break
into the Christian church they will
promptly be organized into segregated
churches in violation of the alleged
basic principle of Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-06-20
FILIPINos USE. LESS OPIUM.
Habit Checked, Consumption Reduced,
Says Governments Report.

Habit Checked, Consumption Reduced,
Says Governments Report.
ton.-Consumption of opium
among the Filipinos has been complete
~ checked. If not entirely eradicated,
says report to Brigadier General Nc.
1ntyre, chief Of the bureau Of tnsular
affairs, from the collector of internal
revenue in the Philippines. He says
that as result of laws on the subject
1.-The use of opium is now confined to q
comparatively small number of con-
firmed users of the drug, practically all
OF whom are Chinese, who cannot give
up the vice and who will go to any
length to obtain it,
= While there are in many parts of the
Islands scattering instances where Fill
pinos still indulge in the use of opium,
1t is reported that less than 5 per cent
of the former Filipino users, who had
numbered 10000 in 1906, were still vic
tins of the vice in 1911 and that since
then conditions in Manila have greatly
improved. Conditions in the provinces
are said to be fairly satisfactory.
1T is perhaps too much" the report
says, Ito suspect that the opium evil
will ever be absolutely suppressed in
the Philippine Islands. It may be said,
however, that almost without excep-
ton Chinese users of opium in any of
It's forms are today using much small
er amount than that used by the same
persons few years ago. This is
shown by the comparative ease with
which Chinese users sent to the hospi-
tai today are cured. The only hope of
approximating total suppression lies in
making indulgence in the habit so diff
cult that the younger generation will
not acquire it, and in this direction the
progress made has certainly been most
satisfactory