The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-18
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Special Contribution The Times By juneau H shnn

, model of rural school life Free trans
portation for the scholars to and from
the school is one of the features used
/ by this and various other school dis
tricts. At Moroa the school building
contains besides the school rooms, a
large auditorium, used as social cen
ter, fire-escapes, laYatories, and spe-
cial waterworks system. There is Il
teachers dOrmitory. with gardens,
janitor's quarters, and stables. Stu
dents may augment their noOnhOur
lunch with hot soup or cocoa, served
by the domestic science department. at
two cents, the actual cost These facts
are given so that the outsider may
Judge for himself the type of progress
sive citizenry that make up the popu-
lation of the eight rural school dis
tricts directly tributary to Filler
A large tract of land, southwest OF
Filler, and lying between the Salmon
River tract and the high line canal,
/ has been reclaimed by the simple ex-
pedient of forcing water up on it by
the means of electrically driven hy-
draulic pumps. The segregation in
cludes about $500 acres and has all
been put into cultivation by the High
line Seed Farms company. This
company seeded the entire acreage
principally to clover; fenced each
forty acres with woven wire; built
nine miles of telephone and electric
lines; guaranteed the establishment OF
an electric railway, connecting with
the Oregon Short Line r. r. and has
now sold most all of their property,
principally to German farmers from
Nebraska The community has Il
church, school house, and hotel, and
is known as Glover, so called from the
main product of the outlying farms.
Clover and other seeds has proven
| in the past season to be one of the
most profitable crops in the Filler sec
ton. Last fall the worlds record for
the production of white clover seed
was made on a holding of the High
line Seed Farm at Glover, sixteen
acres netting over $35700 per acre
Many fields netted over $4,000 pei
acre, and not a few persons hau 3
nice income from the sale of ordinary
white clover seed gathered from along
the road and waterways. So import
ant is this particular industry becom
ing that the Denney company of Chi
cago, have a branch warehouse a
Filler, where they keep force o
about twenty-five girls employed il
the fall sorting beans. peas, and 9th
er seeds. The Volger Seed compan.
of Salt Lake, have purchased front
age on the o. S. l.. right-ofway, ant
will erect warehouses before the rex
harvest season.
Beans are also an exceptional croI
netting the grower from $500 t
$11S.00 per acre.
The prosperity OF the Filler section
can well be gagged by the substantial
improvements being put upon NOS
farms. Modern homes, large barns
deep wells, gas engines, pure-bre'
stock, and automobiles are the har
bingers which cannot but token sue
cessful industry.
There are Corn, Pig, Canning an
Farm clubs for the boys and girls, IN
der the supervision of the school;
| Farmers organizations include a Frui
| Growers association, Honey Producer
| association, Holstein- Friesien associa
| ton, and the most active is the Potat
| Growers association, capitalized at IS
900, and incorporated under the law
of Idaho. The company owns larg
potato warehouse, and are shiprin
constantly. L. NJ Smith is their man
ager.
Hog and sheep raising are two {
the principle industries and is pei
haps the most profitable manner {
disposing of the enormous tonnage {
alfalfa hay.
Filler ranks seventh in the state as
shipping center, and in 1915, ther
were handled at the local station
total of 1905 carloads.
1t is no wonder therefore that III
commissioners of Twin Falls count
in 1915 accepted the offer of Filler fc
the Twin Falls county fair, perhaI
the greatest accession that ever cam
to the town. Citizens of Filler an
/ community subscribed $10,000.00, an
purchased a forty-acre plot adjacer
to Filler on the east, and gave it graft
to Twin Falls county for county fai
purposes. This county has heretofoI
been without a fair, but dating fol
1916, the county fairs of all Idaho, wi
have as a strong competitor the Twi
| Falls county fair. Filler for the las
seven years has held an annual fai
called the Filler Field Day, the sue
cess of which eventually brought III
location Of the county fair grounds
this point
1g15 has hoon prOsDerity year fC