Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-12
BOISE VALLEY BANK DEPOSITS
NEARLY S22, 600, 600 WONDDEERFlAL
GROWTHOF COUNTRY REFLECTED
Remarkable Yield of Crops This Year Brings Large Amount of
Money to Valey-Dary Business Nets 100000 An
nuay-Many Farmers Pay for Farm With Returns of the
First Year According to Verified Statements.

I Caldwell, Oct. blank deposits in
the Boise Valley outside of Boise City,
which total S13,000000 now amount to
sS,S49,S12. OF this total the deposits
OF the different cities AID towns are
as follows Caldwell, $4052 200;
tNampa, $2,672,s12; Parma, 100000;
MERIDIAN. $625,000; Middleton. $780,
1000; Star $220,000: Eagle, 100000;
Ekuna, $4,000. These deposits are
largely those of farmers and are high
DIV reflective of the easy financial con-
Edition which exists. Indeed never be-
Ffore in it's history has the valley been
leo prosperous. In all of it's different
keection there have been bumper crops.
I'm fact, they always have such crops.
with an irrigation system second to
none in the United States, droughts
ARE unknown, for crops are watered
abundantly at will.
! From the two counties of Ada and
canyon, which constitute the valley A.
100000 bushels of wheat have been
harvested this year. The revenue from
the potato crop in the widely famed
Deer Flat potato belt near this city
has closely approached s1,oOo,o0O in
valuation.
DAiRYiNo BRINGS $sooo,ooo.
Dairy products are being purchased
by the local creameries and cheese
factories to the value of approximately
100000 annually. The farmers of
the Meridian country, alone. are being
paid by the mammoth cheese factory
at that place for milk with which to
ma nufacture the cheese which it is
shipping to all parts of the United
States the handsome sum of s264,000
year, while the milk condensery at
Nampa, operated by the Carnation
Condensed Milk company, and the sec
ond largest of the 20 condensaries
owned by that company in the United
States, together with the creameries of
that city, are paying out to the farm
ers surrounding the city for their milk
each day about $4,000. The creamery
at Star is expanding daily for cream
and milk $500, and similar sums are
being paid out at Eagle, Ustick, Nc
Dermott and Bowmont.
Heavy grain and livestock shipments
continue to go out to the markets from
all of these points. From this city
alone, since Jan. 1 of this year there
have been shipped to the markets POO
carloads of livestock, grain and other
farm products. One thousands car
loads of this total have gone out since
July /, and of these shipments there
were $50 carloads of potatoes and 125
of wheat. Similar shipments have
gone out from Nampa. Those from
Parma have been enormous and those
of about 500 carloads. The grain ele-
vators in all of the cities and towns
of the valley are still filled to over
Flowing and heavy shipments will nee
cssarily continue throughout the year
GREAT FOR CLOVER SEED.
Hundreds of farmers have realized
this year from their crops the full val
uation of their farms. Concrete ex-
amples are to be found in every local
fly. Even the most skeptical can nor
doubt. From an orchard of 1914 acres
near this city this year, DR.. 6. d. Pond
more than realized its value at an es-
ltimated value of $500 per acre. From
an orchard of II acres near the city,
G. T. Hawkes. will market apples for
O sum far in excess of its value Farm
er after farmer has secured yield
of so bushels of wheat to the acre
and many have reached yield of near
80 bushels to the acre. William Moore
land, a prosperous Meridian farmer,
has secured a yield of 240 bushels of
Red Clover seed from a crop of 20
acres which has realized him S676S
when sold at AZ cents a pound, the
prevalent price, or revenue per acre
for his crop Of $1,000.
Alfalfa has produced from six to 10
tons per acre and everywhere it has
been raised in protusioE. Honey will
be shipped to the markets 10 tine value
Of $4,000. IL is estimated that forty
carloads will go nit from iris im2nedi-
ate section and that eacn car will rave
a value of about sS.50c. The apple and
prune crops If the Valley are esti-
mated at about 900 carloads and hey
will bring in a fabIlo is sum ~ money.
RECLAIMED FROM SAGEBRUSH
4 1t cannot be star I'd too strongly CT
too often tina: the Boise Valley is an
inland empire WI lii, itself with TO
tentialities yet unreai..sd. 1t has about
q half a million acres Of as fine farm
ing land as as to he found in AL Of
,"Uncle Sans Broad Domain" and the
greater part of its area has been re-
lclaimed from a sagebrush desert with
lin the past nine years. A new coun-
TRY, comparatively speaking, and its
future can be but one of greatness
Land, of course. is enhancing rapidly.
but it is so everywhere. In Iowa and
Nebraska 1t is going at $500 an acre
and 1t wont produce one-half as much.
Illustrative of this is the comment
made today by c. r. Tourtelotte, of
Adams, Nebraka who is here inspect
ing the country. He declares that land
in his home section is going at $500
Der acre and that he comedies that
Its production will not be so per cent
rs great as that of this section He
Is impressed that when properly man.
aged the land of the Boise Valley will
profitably stand valuation of 81 900
per acre and he predicts great advance