The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-13

was uOC prOHLdDl6 until ABOUT the
beginning of the present century, ow-
ing to insufficient knowledge and the
high cost of producing crops in a
small way.
Land Prices Double
A sugar factory was established at
Blackfoot in 1904 and the price of
land practically doubled in a few
months. Up to the year 1915 the
prices of agriculture land turnout the
county varied from about $50 to
1925 per acre, according to location
and the amount of improvements.
Land that sold at 1925 per acre two
or three years ago now sells for
$3.50 per acre. Two or three years
ago the average field of sugar beets
yielded $45 worth of beets per acre
and the farmer sold his beet tops for
pasture for about $500 per acre.
The most successful beet raisers Sc
cured 1925 per acre from their sugar
beet crop and sold the tops for $500
or $500 per acre, or fed them to his
own stock and made more money.
Now the average beet raiser realizes
about $50 worth of beets per acre
and sells his tops for about $500 per
acre, for pasture. The more sue
cessful farmer secures. as high as
$3.50 per acre for his beets and silos
the tops, making them worth about
$50 per acre. By feeding the beet
pulp and alfalfa hay he nets fine
profit on all his productions, besides
fertilizing the land.
Firth Spells Future
Firth is one of the places that
grow up in the life time of their,
founders, whose "old timers" have
a unique pleasure in recalling un-
thinkab BILE transformations. Even
two years ago nobody would have
pictured Firth as a community using
a score of businesses, and whose
people are crying for houses, houses,
to live in, while travelling twelve
miles each day from their homes in
'Blackfoot and Idaho Falls to work.
Firth has bank not year old,
whose assets touch $4,000. 1t
has two big lumber yards; two pro-
duce houses; two garages; four
stores.
Firth has commercial club that
every man braced behind the wheel
to put Firth on the map. And Firth
is on the map, because capital seek
ing opportunities has begun coming
in, and Firth is on the main trunk
railway line too.
Firth needs a hotel and a drug
store. But they will be supplied
it is chance in a million to get into
a community with such spirit and
such promise. There's no hurry.
When the right gentleman comes,
they'll open the door and let him
into the inner circle.
Firth is on the Snake river, in an
ancient valley that has been worked
down fiat as a floor for the distance
of a good look in all directions. A
rich blue-brown loan, some places
sandy, has soon brought recognition
flying and large farming concession
aires are making the region a name
in production of seeds, sugar beets
and alfalfa. A good seed country
soon gets to be a millionaire concen-
tration camp. Firth Rurals are the
finest spuds you will see in any
diner.
A new store, 3Ox90 up as far as
will be occupied by the
Basalt cooperative store. Another
is planning to dig in while the dig
ging is good Ramsey and son are
building an addition to their general
store and the Firth meat market has
just finished new home.
Firth is one of those places where
the "old timers" are not very old in
years, they get there SO fast.