The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-25

while the opinion and views of nom
resident of your section may not have
much bearing upon the situation, still
| cannot refrain from at least express
ing myself and thanking vow for your
sincere efforts While l have been
moved to the point of writing you
letter on this subject, I am going to
take the liberty OF giving you an ex-
preston of my experience in oonnec-
ton with my Salmon tract purchase.
People from this section were at
tracted to the irrigated lands through
great inducements and promises held
out in literally distributed literature,
and many of them not understanding
fully the Carey act law assumed that
the Carey law was law in which the
federal and state governments safe
guarded the public and saw to it that
the promises made by the promoters
were kept within safe bounds, and that
| the federal government and the state
of Idaho would not palliate anything
that would entice people onto the lands
and then leave them there to shift for
themselves and starve if the promoters
saw fit to deprive them of what they
contracted to deliver to them.
In July of 1911, went to Idaho with
my entire family for the purpose OF
proving up on my land, and lived on
it during the month of August My
object in taking my family was with
well-defined thought and feeling that
if conditions proved satisfactory in
Idaho we thought very seriously OF
leaving Wisconsin and locating per-
manently in your vicinity. We felt
that this thirty-day residence on the
land would afford us splendid OPP
portunity to determine our future
course.
The next thought was, if for any
reason the family did not feel fay-
orable to locating in Idaho, after
proving up on the land and getting
title, we expected fully to be able tc
get Wisconsin settlers, of kind that
would make a success on the land, tC
move to Idaho and work the land. as
we hoped, with success and profit. But
while we were in Idaho we were made
aware OF the appalling conditions, due
to the non-fulfillment of contracts or
the part of the promoters, and we lef
Idaho very much discouraged as fal
as the irrigated land proposition Ii
concerned, but with a growing i'm
preston of its delightful climate
While we were in Idaho, and in fac
since returning home, l always fel
extremely confident that the Idaho
state authorities would realize theil
duty toward the entrymen and see t
it that Justice was done them.
After the promoters had exploited
the project, as it occurred to me IL
1911, in the manner that they did,
did not for minute consider tina
they would ever show a disposition t
give the entrymen what they we're en-
titled to, unless forced to do so b.
state authorities and the courts, AM
when Judge Dietrich's decision wa
rendered l felt that this was merel,
one step in the battle. Later, whel
the good governor of your grand state
with considerable buster took whir
through the tract / expected that hi
cheering words to the entrymen an
settlers were sincere and that h
would exert himself to the utmost i
their behalf, but subsequent event
rather remind me of the great dus
clouds that one sees in your countr
frequently during the summer, and tn
governors trip seems to have don
about as much good as those cloud
have done to the settlers.
do not wish to do the governor o
any public official an injustice, bu
when one sees so much insincerity an
SO much buster for effect and for pc
litical gain, as we too often see on tn
part of officials one naturally look
with suspicion upon such affairs III
less evidence of good faith is forth
coming
1t now looks very much to me a
though the promoters are going
considerable expense in litigating tn
matter in the hope of tireing out tn
entrymen, whereas If they were di:
posed to do the fair thing and live u
to the provisions of their contract
the money they are spending for lit
cation they could put to valuable us
in cooperating with the settlers an