The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-09-03

a good-sized depot and large freight
house. 1t will soon need Touring
mill or grain elevator, or both, to
handle the large grain crops. Sugar
beets are being raised and a loading
station is situated mile above town.
The climate is mild and pleasant and
mountains on both sides of the wide
valley afford an inspiring view from
Pingree. 1t is on the direct line of
auto travel from Southern Idaho to
the Yellowstone Park. When the
town was laid out, large number of
trees were planted for shade.
When we write about Pingree we
usually write too much and people
don't believe it, but if people looking
for a good place to live would go out
and look over the Pingree country,
they would agree with us that the
half has never been told. We have
always noticed that people who look
at the townsite with its little shade
trees and occasional loose rocks stick
out, they have misgivings, but If they
ride out mile and begin to examine
the fine soil and great plains, and
think seriously of what can be made
'of them, they begin to be interested
and then to liven up with enthusiasm
Only last week gentleman named
Gardner, who thought he knew the
situation pretty well, spent two days
riding among the farms in all direc-
tions from Pingree, and he came back
a most enthusiastic back to the soil"
man. He kept gathering souveniers
all the while he was out, and had
sugar beets as large as eight pounds
weight; mangels up to ten-pounders;
turnips, sweet, round, flat and other
wise up to the size of wash basin;
grain, alfalfa and other things that
were wonders. 1t was plain that he
had never been there before in August
or he would not have been so excited
about it this time. He was some
thing of a soil expert, and he kept
trying to convince himself that the
soil might not be SO good as it SEEM
ed, and made what he called tests,
at depths of six, 12, IS and "a inches.
and said they would rate high, but
when we see deep fine soil and all
kinds of abundant products growing
in it, that is as far as we care to
test the soil; 1t Is good enough. Many
wells have been drilled on the tract
and the best of water is found at from
40 to 80 feet.
About the first OF June lady from
Goldfield seeking to recover her
health by travelling in the open air,
took a trip to Pingree, Idaho, to see
what some of her friends were "up
against" in some investments they
had made without seeing the prop
erty She was more than half ex-
pecting to write back and tell them
to "never again." etc., but when she
got out there, one of her first Inn
pressions was that she was hungry.
She was SO pleased at having an ap-
petite once more, everything looked
hopeful to her. She went out and
roamed through the wheat fields and
beet farms and at meal time ate
everything in sight. When she
journeyed east south or southwest a
few miles she arrived at good trout
fishing. When she went west, north
or northwest she found plenty of
claims waiting to be taken, and when
she went out of town in any direction
she saw fine crops, so she always con-
cluded that it was a land of plenty,
and all that was needed to make a
good town was more people to settle
the country. Her appetite remained
keen, her health improved and she
went back with firm convictions that
the Pingree country was all right.
It takes hungry person to figure
out how to live anyhow.
A good many families have settled
near Pingree the present season. Dur
ing the past four months 40 families
have come and IA more are expected
by the fifteenth of September, all
from Kansas and Oklahoma The
settlers around Pingree are doing
more by their personal endeavor to
secure new settlers than all the COM
merrcial clubs in the county and they
are getting them. Each man seems
afraid that his friend or his brother
back east will not get there soon
enough to get the choice piece Of land
he has picked out for him.