American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-12-23
two coming side by side along the road?

irrigation can be-under certain conditions, an intri-
cate, a complicated, a brain tagging proposition. A lot
of you people down east have a bunch to that effect and
your bunch is good.
Because you have that bunch you've been sort of passing
Idaho up and hunting for a country where you could 90
out and plow up your land, plant your crop, drag the drill
into the machinery shed chow many of you leave it in the
corner of the field to rot out and rust out from the wealth
er! Then cuss about how hard up you areD and spend
the rest of the summer wondering if it's going to rain.
That's the kind of country you've been used to and natur-
ally that's the sort of section you want to move to when
you go west-for of course you want to go west. Every
body has that "out-west' pull Juggling at them-every-
body always has had it. That's the reason the eternal
surge of the race is forever onward along the Golden Trail
that is FURNISHED by the glow from the setting sun!
Well because you have been passing Idaho up on account
of imagining there wasn't any chance to farm here unless
you irrigated, this edition of the Homeseeker's Monthly
is telling you about the American Falls country-Southern
ldahos wonderful dry farm grain district.
For the thing we want above all things is to get you
folks to cut out this assingup-Idah business and stop
of twenty or thirty or forty of fifty years somewhere
along the line and visit awhile. We're a sociable bunch of
critters in Idaho and want a chance to be sociabler. That's
why what Idaho wants is You!
That is why this edition of the Monthly contains the
classical story-a true romance of development, captioned
Turkey Red" and written by O. H. Barber, the American
Falls man "who knows" And why shouldn't he know?
Hasn't he been there ever since Clark-wah-ee-lah SWIM
the Snake when he was racing with the speeding sun west
ward to the Weiser and Wah-tah-wah-mee the Mountain
Rose OF the Nez Perce-the dream maiden of his passion
ate primitive heart? And wasn't it Barber who built Am
erlcan Falls-built them by hand so that thew would be
good and solid for Jim Brady to use when he walked up
from That power SleSta and started to work tO make hc
dreams come true?
OF course Barber knows and he has completely-that is
ne thinks he has-shut me out from any chance to put
words together and give you any ideas about American
Fails and dry farming you haven't already gotten from
his masterful description, featured as the leading story
in this edition. Something I've never done before for any
other writing mlcrobe on earth-surrender the title page
OF this publication. That has always been my own private
location from which to lombard an unsuspecting home
seeking public with figures, facts and fancies in an effort
to shoot an irresistible impulse into them that would make
them migrate to Idaho and happiness!
I'm going to try anyway.
When God made Idaho he knew exactly what he was
doing.
There wasn't any guess, or if or perhaps or maybe, none
of that uncertain monkey business like just people get
tangled up In sometimes. He knew what he was doing.
Now l know there are human bacilli who claim to think
that He didn't. Yes, there are some animals who enioy the
voting privilege scattered around over the Idaho land
scape who insist that God wasn't paying much attention
to what ne was doing when he made Idaho-they calculate
that the job wasn't finished up just right, that he left a
good deal to do when he turned it over to the sons of Adam
and other folks.
Generally you find mavericks of that kind congregated
pretty tolerably thick around the soft drink emporiums
If the weather is slushy or sort of chilly. When it's warm
and sunshiny they are usually lined up in a row on a string
of soap boxes in front of the village ~postoffice, but rain
or shine you're bound to flush a covey of them at the de-
pot when the train comes in-they just have to go down
you know, TO see If she gifts in on time alright-an' be-
sides, well, y can't never tell, there's liable to be one of
them female drummers or a bunch of movin' pictur vaudy-
Willy actresses git off anytime"
It's the same crowd that are so busy bowling about high
taxes, and cussing the burned fool legislature" they hav-
MT time to hustle around and accumulate ANYTHING that
makes a noise like a bank account or that the assessor
pays much attention to unless he has taken to classifying
an ingrowing crouch as personal property.
Do you know them? There are some down in Iowa Mis-
souri, and Kansas and other settlements just like the Idaho
variety. All countries have them.
They are so blamed unfinished themselves being human
only up to the point where that one thing which a real,
genuine he or she specimen of the specie must have to be
complete and which is called WILL involves. that thew
imagine everything else is like they are-only about half
moulded.
1t is a bitter disappointment to this aggregation that