The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-04-22
Payette valley-the Gem county coun-


per Payette valley is paradise.
don't want you to think that | thin
that it is a land of milk and hone
without effort or without price. 1t
nothing of the kind There is plac
in Idaho or any other state wher
: people can live without work-eithe
their own or Of some one else. | al
ways want you to remember that her
as in other places you must pay-pa,
with your sweat and toll and effor
for what you get from the earth. Tha
is the price at which Eye shall ca
bread" and if you do not pay it yol
are thief If you do not pay it yot
have stolen from someone their life
to sustain your own!
"But l do say that in the Upper
Payette valley there is peculiar com
bination of soil, climatic and other
natural conditions which make I'M
usually light the Adamic curse Of la
Dor. The earth there yields wonder
fully in response to the effort made.
"The Gem county country is not a
one-crop country. The peculiarly ia
vorable climatic conditions makes it
country Of diversified production.
Wheat and oats and barley return
splendid yields along with prunes,
peaches, nectarines, Flame Tokay and
other tender southern grapes ana
fruits. Alfalfa, clover, timothy grow
luxuriantly on the same soil that will
produce cantaloupes, melons, toma-
toes, celery and other vegetables. That
is why say the Upper Payette valley
is "home country" for home coun-
try is a place where you can raise
from the soil most of what you eat.
A home country is country where
you can have vines over the cottage
porch, strawberries and cherries, and
peaches and pears and all manner of
fruits and vegetables in the garden
and orchard plot. You can do that
in the Upper Payette valley and your
home can be just as honey" and
pleasant as you wish to make it. Your
Iabor-your ambition, your energy
and intelligence alone are the limita-
tions.
Seem county, which, by the way,
was created by the Thirteenth session
of the Idaho legislature just adjourn
ed, from northeastern Canyon and
western Boise counties and of which
Emmett is the commercial center as
well as county seat, is miniature
Idaho. Within Gem county are noun
tains and valleys, orchard districts
along the slopes of the foothills,
meadow lands out in the heart of the
valleys, grazing lands up along the
sky line of the mountains, grain areas
where irrigation is not required on
the rolling benches, timber over the
high hills, springs, hot and cold, gush-
ing out from the rocks in the narrow
these and more, and the
Payette river coming down through
,he heart of the county, even as the
Snake river winds its way through
he greater basin of which the Pay
lite valley is part.
And it is the Payette river, next to
he Snake itself in Importance as
ource of supply, for water for irriga-
ion that furnishes the water which
edeems the $4,000 to $4,000 acres of
rrigable lands directly tributary to
,mmett in the southern and western
art Of Gem county. With that source,
he Payette and it's tributaries, to
raw from there can never be threat
water shortage in the Gem coun- n
Y country which need cause the irri- K
ationist moments uneasiness.
And back in the northern and east
IN part Of the county where the
ountains hug closely the valleys, the d.
luaw creek valley, rich and fertile vi
I'd verdant, is an invitation-an al F
ost irresistible invitation to the man
no loves to live close, close, to
e silent, eternal hills where the
randeur of Gods mountains con- 81
antly rise before him, reminding =
m of the infinite power of creation.
No man with soul and mind and
tn sight can live daily within the
adow of the hills, can live in the yo
cen and sweet and clean valley, and tn
ar the song of the crystal stream, tn
e the changing beauty of verdure sa
veloped slopes, the massive walls M
imperishable granite, breathe the Sc
re air of the fragrant pines and on
sordid and cold and selfish. Sc
No wonder those hardy pioneers
10 came struggling across the Great WI
axe river basin when it was new vac
raw and desolate and lonesome Ia
tn the gray of the sage and wall of Cn
vandal wolf should turn their ~
airy bulls toward the mountains and Sn
low up the winding streams until
'ir eyes rested upon such primal no.