The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-10-05
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<<s p'kart FOR Poor Farmer Declares
Writer.


Bs tsc Editor of the Pioneer Press:
~sA1 is not gold that glitters" may
knsszSuiiy apply TO the state of Cali
sxsraEl
~shc has not read and delighted in
Glss Dsantifnlly photographed booklets
zxxs 0Ct by the California, land agents
Ia 1o9e the unwary?
iAasf, also. how many have snapped
AZ aAse shining bait and have gone to
tSA& Jxnd of promise only to find it
;axssssker hades? Is it not time the
tsyfh were being told about this ne
sN&ss01s swindle? Too many have al
r-s@Ay sunk their little all in this los
i,xsy game
x,Nercfore, after three years of per-
aseWraz experience and close observa-
2aAssr, sxs would let the secret of Cali
l.0TEsa be known; to warn away the
ax.sp sfe,fler, to let him know that Cali
sszsgala is for the millionaire only
Unfortunately, one cannot eat either
sgKsrsaSe or scenery much less live on
sslasasa. and a man with but a few thou
sasads would soon starve in sunny
d.zlstefnia" What chance, then, for
Js2eG farmer?
FTs the great Sacramento valley the
Ba1sT Us subject to the most disastrous
hgAs2s2S, WHICH COlne, surely DIS ldLe. III
1.salay every third year, Overwhelming,
Z In ETy7ing everything, even the flowers
;aa,vse young ,fruit trees. The water
s.a4szds twenty-five feet deep reaching
Ag' the very roofs of homes and cover
Sg0g She great stretch of land like one
esas sea, the waves rolling and beat
asEgs ruthlessly, snatching one building
ssdsT1r another from its foundation to
sasrs II into a thousand pieces.
These floods remain on the land for
aslsc yps seven months, preventing the
y~ stability of crop for that year
Aysd yet they will tell you that there
lss q reclamation board" which sees
rissza the levees along the river banks
s1gsrg. built SO high that there is no
-f.saser danger OF flood" You are as
s4esseti from SIS to $50 an acre, annual
reclamation tax" and you have your
EsssSsSs just the same
Last winter there had been an I'M
fsl4sl fall of snow up in the mountains
szzsa IN February when that snow melt
s,1a swelled the rivers to raging tor
ysassEhs which fairly laughed at the lev
,s.sss considered 50 all-sufficient by the
;r-sssazamtion board, there followed one
ST Hne worst floods ever known in the
SsssISsJ. account of which was suppress
9sBxstlon might not be scared out"
This was an open secret, admitted
wasn chuckle by old settlers. For,
swss must know, no matter that the
Ss.ssss may say, the fact remains (as
.-ss7N settlers have discovered to their
s~rruw) that the old Californian does
tE@E extend a glad hand of welcome
s-ss Tire intruding new settler
Emis attitude toward the small buy
s.sus of the present day; these many
lslgssail items which go to make up
ssgzE6Ort, this reclamation, which does
rsyszss reclaim, yet which taxes so heav-
basy; none of these things is mentioned
ny the California real estate men. The
tgsuxSr of moderate means, yet with
lsssssN TO dream, thinks he has found the
1-sssslIZation of his dreams, and with
glowing heart crosses the continent to
yllftxs -]and of golden delight" to dis
-nsFsar 400 late that call is not gold that
ssas8ers" for verify.
TINS, between floods, sandstorms
.gat sun baked desert land, which re-
s1sr,es fortune for the irrigation abb
stately demanded in order to make
NG produce, the new settler goes down
snfg the black depths of utter despair.
TWICE STUNG