The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-04-06

it has to buy goods for home con
sumption. That in itself would give
him a profitable market for his prod
ucts, but in addition he has hungry
world abroad to supply, and for them
it is not question of prices but a
question of getting the food prod
ucts at ALL | note that you are ad-
vising the farmers, thru your paper
to raise all the crops they can and
all the livestock they can, and to
make the effort of their lives at pro-
duction in every way. You are doing
more to advance their interests by
following up this work from week to
week than the government and both
branches of the legislature all put
together. | know from my observa-
lions and my extended travels that
the Snake river valley affords as good
opportunities for the farmer as any
place in the United States. 1t is rich
in natural resources and is open for
| improvement and development and
perhaps is as good as, if not better,
than those of any other section | have
ever seen, and you can make no mis-
take in advising the farmers TO con-
Centrate their energies on better
farming and better stock raising. The
world will have to replenish it's sup
ply of livestock of every kind and
refill its granaries and other reposi-
tories of imperishable food and it will
take many years to do this, and for
prices to adjust themselves to the
cid levels, if they ever do There
is no reason to fear collapse of the
prices of farm products"
At this point in the conversation
the writer said, "Mr. Hagenbarth,
how did you come out with WOur big
ranch in Mexico? Did you sell your
Mexican lands before the revolution,
with the attendant losses? The last
time | talked with you was about 12
years ago. you were then shipping
some 20 carloads of barbed wire into
Chihuahua to be used in fencing your
ranch" Mr.. Hagenbrath smiled and
replied 1--WE put up 500 miles of
fence down there. We fenced the
border between the United States and
Mexico for 200 miles. | built the
first house in the now famous town
of Colombus, New Mexico. l built
the famous gate Just south of Colom-
bus, thru which Villa and the United
States punitive expedition passed.
We developed our herds of cattle to
where we had $4,000 besides a lot
OF horses and mules, and just before
the revolution began, or the series of
revolutions, we sold out to a Los
Angeles syndicate, and cleared up a
million and a quarter on the deal.
A few months ago | was talking with
1 representative of the syndicate and
ne told me that out of $4,000 cattle g.,
hey bought of us, the herds had :
lWlndled down to about 5000. He >
'aid that during the revolution the :,
HeXlcans would come in and drive :
III as many as they wanted, and some G
ines slaughter 100 head at a kill =
ng, and that they would sometimes =
AXE the foreman and hold him for
ransom. Five thousand dollars was -
the ransom they had to pay =
save him from torture and MUIR
err !
The SAitor replied, 81 am glad you \
lade some money and sorry the other n
elbows lost. Probably you remember h
nat when we were talking in 1905, s.
bout the Mexican lands, and your p
lipment of barbed wire, that we ri
ere also laughing about a conversa- n
on we had had IL or 10 years before a
lat in which | made reference ITO a 81
loice of occupation. You and your
rother had long before chosen the M
leep business, and my brother and Fl
had chosen farming, which yielded Fl
much less of profits that we consid- :
ed it joke: This is about the n
ird time in 80 years that we have u
'tten together for a few minutes ~
Tx. At the rest of the meetings 81
have simply said how do-you do ~ ~
Id goodbye. While you are down ~ ~
Washington advising the president ~
'out the wool supply l will be here W W
wing to show the farmers 81 reasons w.
ny they should raise all the wool ~,
d other farm products they can" ~
Mr.. Hagenbarth is native son of sv
aho, having been born at Salmon Ls