The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-29
some WEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Editor Of The Republican Writes Goshen Jameon
Parts of the County Get
ting Drinks Dry Farmers Printers
Ink. Foot Well

Joe, now does 1t make you fee
to sit on the wagon and drive horse
with heavy load, all the way fron
your farm to Shelley town."
Johnson: at makes me feel as
was never going to get there"
Editor: "After having driven owe
the road as you have been doing IL
your automobile, it must be some
thing of shock to sit still and not
the progress of a loaded wagon witt
horses"
Johnson: "Oh, it is. It is a pun
ishment. Just try it yourself. Nov
since you have travelled over tn,
county with your Tin Lizzy. just tax,
team and buggy and try driving
from Shelley to Blackfoot and yol
will worry and chafe all the way.
Editor: Now that brings us tt
the point where l have been wanting
to get somebody. When we get oul
roads graded and crowned wher
this war in Europe is over and ceases
to consume the American made
motor trucks by the train loads;
when the horses are scarce and high
and the makers of motor trucks have
to choose between shutting down OF
selling their trucks to the American
farmers at a price they can afford
to pay, do you suppose that you can
stand it to haul your heavy stuff on
these long hauls of several miles by
the team process when you know
that you can write your check for
motor truck?"
Johnson: Sure not. Why I have
half dozen horses boarding on So
hay at my place and they have been
loafing now for four months. There
is an investment of $1,000, and be-
sides, there are the harnesses and
wagons, making a couple of thousand
dollars tied up in order that I may
have my work done at times when
such force is needed. They eat a
ton of hay every few days, and a
motor truck doesn't eat except when
it works. Then truck would move
the stuff quickly, and without cutting
holes in the roads the way the
wagons do. Sure I'd buy motor
truck"
Editor: when Henry Ford gets
that tractor ready for market, for
on roads and fields, adapted
to blowing and some other farm
work, don't you think you can get
along with just few horses and
taper off till you have
motors and tractors doing most of
it?"
Johnson: Certainly I do. It's
coming as fast as it can and as GER
tain as the automobile is taking the
place of the driving teams"
Better Roads Needed
We claim that a hungry man with
4 meal in sight comes nearer having
4 perfect vision, and courage to say
What he thinks than anyone else, and
he fact that nearly all the other
'armers to whom we mentioned mo-
or trucks and tractors secuted the
idea, does not persuade We editor
hat motor trucks are going to be
impractical for heavy hauling in
Bingham county a few years hence.
We shall have to hurry to get our
'oads ready for them as fast as the
iced arises for hard smooth roads
With the pot-holes left out. Bing-
lam county has spent a pile of
money for grading roads and prob
Lbly has more pot-holes filled with
yir and dust than any other county
n the United States. We predict
hat the Jameston country will be
oremost in adopting motor trucks
Then they are offered in practical
orm for farmers. Jameston has it's
order of dry farms lying on the
lopes of the mountain range to the
astmard, ranging from few humid
ed to few thousand feet above
he valley. If the view of the dry
arms from the valley is interesting,
ne view of the valley from the dry
arms is magnificent. Ye editor is
lannino to visit each of the dry
'rms, expecting to make rather
omplete study of the conditions
nder which they work, and the pos
bilities of the enterprise to which
ley have addressed their energies.
should make many interesting and
aluable chapters, but just now we .
'e most interested in the same thing ,
lat troubles the old topers-how to
1T drink. And in particular, how ,
get drinks on the elevated dry !
rm. We have written much on the 4.
lestion of how they provide water )
l the dry farms in the desert, but !,
suggested itself to us :
w days ago when two girls and ,
cir brother set out from the valley !,
it'll two barrels of water and ,
ur-horse team, taking luncheon and :
inks for two days sustenance on :
e dry farm on top of the range, !,
I'd it took nearly half of their time :
go and come. In other words, =.
ey would go up one forenoon and
ok the next afternoon. They could u
lily haul enough water to last the :,
70 days, and back they come to a
It new supply. q
Water for Dry Farmers 3
How would you like to drill a we'll 4
the top of the range? How far O
'wn do you think you would have c
drill to get constant supply of t
ater? Look at the top of the range t
st of Bingham county and make O
less. Five hundred? Eight humid i.
d? Three thousand feet? There v
ust be other ways of providing v
ater for use up there and not have r
wait for the wind to blow it up L
her. We have concluded that tho n