The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-05
IDAHO Is PROsPERING

The prosperity wave has made it's
elf manifest, in Idaho, according to
reports from many branches of in
dustry.
A report from Payette is to the
effect that two poultry concerns paid
out $225,000 to farmers of that sect.
ion for poultry and eggs during 1916
Banking activity in Idaho is mark
ed. The Pahsameroi valley shortly
will have a $4,000 banking house.
Wilder has a new $4,000 national
bank. Lewiston bank deposits show
an increase of 100000 over Sept
ember reports.
Governor Moses Alexander and a
large percentage of the newly elected
legislature strongly favor the con-
struction of the north and south high
way Blaine county will construct a
six per cent highway over Galena
Summit. A bridge Is being con-
structed over Clearwater above Lew
iston. Lapwai valley residents are
considering bond issue of $150,00O
to be expended in road Improvement.
A number of new industries are
being established in the state. A
-four mill is to be started at Bruneau.
faris is figuring on financing local
dairy. A cold storage plant will
double the size o fthe ice house at
Nampa. The Eastside Lumber Com
pany contemplates building ware
house 100 feet by 800 feet at Idaho
Falls. Thomas brothers plan to build
a grain elevator at briggs. Citizens
of Hagerman are, working indust-
riously to assure the establishment
of a cheese factory. Salmon is re-
joicing over the fact that Lemhi
county has sent three carloads of
wool to mills at Cleveland, Ohio.
Standpoint is considering the con-
struction Of a 100000 school house.
Incidently this town is sitting up
and taking notice of the fact that the
federal government has completed
arrangements to construct sixteen
miles of telephone. line from .Moyle
to Leonia.
Boise valley beef cattle raisers are
well pleased over the fact that Seattle
dealers recently paid $97, 900 for L.
900 head of cattle from this ter
ritory.
A correspondent at Sites, Idaho,
calls attention to the prosperity of
Central Idaho. He states that twenty
four-horse teams are now engaged in
constantly in hauling parcel post ship
ments to interior points. The town
of Mullan also wishes to be consider
ed. It's payroll is now $4,000 a
month.
That more fortunes have been
made in Lemhi and Custer counties,
Idaho in the last few years in agri-
cultural pursuits than in any other
section Of the country at any stage
of its agricultural development is
the broad statement made by Newton
Hibbs, an investigator of repute,
whose conclusions are evidently based
upon sound facts. He declares that
fortunes of from $4,000 to a half
million have been made in this ter
ritory by farmers. Even more to the
point is the insistence that the road
to fortune is till open and that the
opportunities to accumulate wealth
are more certain than ever in this
favored territory.
. Whereas the pioneers estimated the
value of land at the government price
of 1925 an acre, this land Is now
worth hundred times the govern
ment price. The increased valuation
is based upon the certain hay pro-
duction. The argument of lnvesti-
h. i, Fol
Hay production is the simplest OF
all the business propositions. 1t is
an automatic business proposition.
Irrigated lands cropped to clover or
alfalfa draw their fertality from the
air. Such lands are self-fertilizing.
Such lands grow richer every year
while producing the most profitable
crops that can be grown in any coun-
try in the world.
"The average acre of hay land
in this district will support two cows
and grow and fatten their increase
for the beef market The cultivated
areas of Custer county have turned
off four beeves to the acre for the
cattle men-an everage of 500. The
sheep farms for the past season pro-
duced lambs and wool valued at more
than $500 for every cultivated acre.
These figures are high record in
return from agriculture. But with
every acre Of hay goes permit to
pasture rs acres of government grass.
with every acre of tillable land
in Custer and Lemhi counties such a
permit is a perpetual asset to double
its production of meat values.
"The production of hay and the
protection of the range for the use
of the farmer by the forest service
makes this a surer land Of fortune
than it was in the days of the pion-
eer that laid the foundation of the
fortunes that have come without any
effort in the past.
Every farm in this great county
Is sure foundation OF a fortune,
as it has been for the past forty
years. Land is cheaper now at $500
an acre that it was to the home
,teader twenty years ago."
The entire upper Snake River Val
ley, and in fact all of Southern Idaho
as well as the entire state and the
northwest. are rolling in luxurious
prosperity. Farm and ranch pro-
lucts are above the average and are
hiding a good demand with, unusually