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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26

ETC., all of which command the hb
est prices in the large markets Tas
growing of these seed crops, thcsS
requiring care and intelligence, isytq
profitable and gross yields Of iron
$500 to $500 per acre are not UNION
mon.
Recognize Desert az Asset
Popular conception Of the geatAn
erican desert has changed material
since the facts concerning its SUPP
CATION have become more W'da
known. This vast empire is now -
orally recognized as an asset #ss'
once it was held as a liability III
marvellous development which ha 2
ken place in numerous valleys % y
arid west has sounded new mote .
agriculture, and already has pfoda'a
a new phase in rural life. Asaw
pie We are slowly beginning 70 =
gard the great American Desert ~
heritage of enormous value the y
ture granary from which we ~ y
gather the harvests for millions Of ar
people. The exploitation and pe
manent development OF q million y
res of the richest land it contains ~
matters of profound economic W
portance not only to the STATE Oa'
the nation as well.
The Snake river valley Offers y
engineering and sociological pfoDs,
OF a magnitude which calls io' :
the wealth of experience gained !.
the irrigation engineers during y
past is years. Its successful SONNY
will entitle them to the ENTHUSIASM
encomium of a grateful nation
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26

show places of the great American
desert. The Minidoka and Twin Falls
projects, containing $4,000 acres OF
irrigated land, produced in 1918 crop
valued at $40,00000O, or an average
of $50 per acre according to the state
engineer. The Boise and Payette val
leys are equally well known for their
abundant and valuable crops.
In the upper valleys, where the sea
son is somewhat shorter, the crops
are restricted to cereals, sugar beets,
hardy vegetables land forage crops for
live stock, which latter constitutes an
important and profitable industry. TIL
accumulated data by careful investi-
cation and study furnish indubitable
evidence that if the engineering works
can be constructed within the esti-
mate of 500 to SIPS per acre to fur
nish guaranteed water supply, the
lands benefited can easily bear the
charge, together with interest on pay
ments spread over term of years.
Has Interesting History.
Geographically the whole region Is
II extraordinary interest. In ages
gone the Snake river valley, which is
400 miles long by 40 to 90 miles wide,
was an arm of the sea which slowly
rose above the waters. It's climate
was semitropical, as evidenced by the
remains OF prehistoric animals OF
volcanic eruptions, during which the
period covering millions Of years was
the scene of series of tremendous
volcanic eruptions, during which the
mountains in the. north, east, and the
south belched forth rivers of molten
lava which flowed out and covered II
hundreds of feet deep. Not less than
IL of these flows have been definitely
ascertained.
The soil of the valley therefore IA
largely residential, that is, it is the soil
which is composed of decomposed
rock which has not moved from where
it was originally deposited. This rock.
is known as Columbis river lava, or
basalt and 1t is overiain in many
places with volcanis ash borne by the
winds and distributed generally over
the lava plain. The combination Of de.
composed basalt and volcanic ash fur
nishes an excellent type of soil for the
production of all varieties of crops
which are dramatically adapted 10 the
region. The most valuable crops are
the seed crops in the growing Of which
the Snake river valley Is becoming IA.
nous. All the country Is familiar with
the perfection, excellent quality, and
high percentage OF termination Of nu.
merous seed crops like red. white and
alsikc clovers. alfalfa. beans, peas,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26

sentiment of the landowners as re-
Gently expressed in public meeting is
that the reclamation service shall con-
struct the larger works which are to
act as conservers of the floods, and
to administer such works in distrib-
uting the stored waters equitably. All
interests are to share proportionately
in the cost.
The plans, outlined as briefly as
possible, are to begin at the headwa-
tiers of the Snake river in Wyoming
and by constructing necessary reser-
voirs in high attitudes in that state
and also at advantageous points in the
valley in Idaho to store approximate.
ly 100000 acre feet of water which
now flows over Miner dam and is
wasted forever.
Tunnel Mountains.
Additional storage is to be provided
by tapping lakes whose waters now
belong to the Atlantic drainage and
bringing these waters through tun-
neled mountains into Pacific drain
age. These stored waters are to be
released in the summer to irrigate
lands in Wyoming and the vast and
fertile areas Of desert in Idaho. A
real beginning has been made already.
Through cooperation of Wyoming
state authorities the government has
created in Jackson Lake a storage res
ervoir holding 100000 acre feet of
water. Part of the expense of this
work was borne by the south and the
north side Twin Falls projects, and
contracts have been made also by
other canal systems in the valley TO
shart in the surplus waters of this
lake. So great, however, has been
the draft upon the present normal
and stored flow of this stream, due
to unprecedented development, that
y -. ASeS ohoi tdSc Oh water was mar
rowly averted the past season only by
the most careful and intelligent dis
tribution of the water. Late crops
under many irrigation systems in the
upper and lower valleys were short
md the losses to the farmers ran into
Millions of dollars.
Within the past few years the de-
'eiopment in the valley has been
lmazing. 1t has focused the atten-
ion Of the whole country. From the
wonderful subirrigated Egin bench
bout St. Anthony and Rexburg down
o Idaho Falls and Blackfoot vast ar
as have been transformed from sage |
rush to prosperous ranches whose
'wners are taking in values of $500
nd $500 per acre.
What Has Been Done.
Minidoka the electric project, now
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26
LEGION posTPoNEs BIG =
CHRISTMAS ATHLETIC sHoV

A .4IF
Because OF the unsettled aud 'e.e'
weather and the inability to ooa" !.
satisfactory card in sufficient !, .'a !. !, I,
advertise the venture as wen ~ !,
should be advertised, the Loren
Trotter post Of the American Ls N
has indefinitely postponed 10 a'n ~
carnival which was to have been MN. IN
the afternoon Of Chistmas day Wa
the project has been put on 49, -,
fairer weather and more ausp y,
conditions prevail. the PROPOSE ~ \
not been entirely given up, aee0.. -
to officers Of the post. The Dig w. -.
fit will be given at some fuiufs -
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26

CLEANS like star amid the desert
waste which lies around it. One hun.
dred thousand acres, producing crop.
valued at 500 per acre, have sprung
from the desert in less than a dozer
years. The handsome farm home:
and commodities farm buildings, the
progressive and up to date towns at.
test the sound and substantial founda.
ton upon which this new empire i.
erected.
The Twin Falls South and North
Side Carey Act projects little farth-
er down the valley embracing nearly
100000 acres, are the best examples
of the law which bears the name Of
Wyoming's chief executive. On these
projects the best lands have attained
values one expects to find only in re-
gions of subtropical Vegetation. Ranch
es are passing into hands of experien-
ced Mississippi valley farmers at from
$3.50 to $500 per acre, and the demand
exceeds the supply at even these tow
ering figures.
Empire Waists Water,
PJoining the Twin Falls country on
the west and extending down the val
ley almost to Mountain Home is an
enormous area of virgin desert con-
tanning 100000 acres, on the south OF
the Minidoka project are 10000 acres
as fertile as can be found in the va,
ley and now withdrawn for future in
clusion in this project. In the upper
valleys extension of present canals
and some new construction will bring
many thousands of acres into cultiva-
ton. In the surprising valleys of the
Payette, Boise and Weiser there are
large areas which are susceptible Of
reclamation when the funds are avail
able. A toti of 100000 acres of
land in this famous valley, now desert.
to be transformed into $4,000 prosper
OTIS farmsteads and occupied by con-
tented and satisfied citizens and their
families, are the goal and aim of Ida
hos executive and state officers and
the rank and file of her solid citizens
Secretary Lane has evinced great
interest in the plans and has cooper
ated with the state in conducting a
joint investigation and studies of stor-
age views and irrigable public lands.
The result of these Investigations in
dictate the practicability Of controlling
the larger portion of Snake river wa.
tiers, now wasted over Miner Dam,
and their utilization in the valley
above.
Big Dam is Feature.
One controlling feature of the en-
work to be done 10 the con.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26

feet high at American Falls, where a
reservoir covering 65,0 900 acres of bot
tom land and with a capacity of s.
100000 acre feet, is to be erected
This will be the largest reservoir for
irrigation in the world. The cost of
the dam is estimated at $15,OOO,O OO
The construction of the dam dooms
the resent city of American Falls to
destruction, as large part of it lies
within the area which will be below
the surface of the lake created by the
dam. The present site is not an ad-
vantageous one. The city occupies a
depression, and at certain seasons is
mosquito ridden. A splendid site near
by, level and on commanding plat
eau, is available, and it is proposed to
lay out new town and transfer the
old one to this site. The planning of
new city is to be done by the best
known experts in thes country in or
der to assure the American Falls cft-
liens that their new home will be the
last word in city planning. It is es-
timated that the removal will cos,
81 100000 at least.
The successful carrying out of all
these plans for tanning the Snake in
part only are dependent upon congress
sional appropriations. A large fund
for construction can be provided thru
the sale of rights in the reservoirs.
The requests for such rights already
amount to from 100000 to $1,000.
ooo. The state has approved the seq
regation of 100000 acres for develop
ment under Carey Act by private cap
ital involving. expenditures of $685.
100000. The Reclamation service has
Withdrawn 10000 acres in the Mini
doka project, the reclamation of which
may cost 100000. This is prac-
tically all public land, and is BEING
considered in connection with Score
tary Lanes soldier-settlement plan.
Funds to reclaim these lands must be
provided by congress.
In the development of large areas
in the valleys OF the Boise and Paw
cite rivers and elsewhere in the Snake
river valley the formation Of irriga.
ton districts will enable fhe land ou,-
ners to finance the work, especially
It It Is known that the construction
work is to be under the supervision
OF the reclamation service.
Results Show Wisdom.
Large as the cost estimates are.
the faint hearted who are likely TO
predict failure should not forget that
In the Snake river valley today It's ir. |
risated sections from the Wyoming
line to where Snake river forms the
boundary ~ aastss. n.. a
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26

First Roommate--"I say w. 49,
would you kindly lend me your
necktie this EVENING" II.
Second accountability ee'
ly, Ed, bnt why all the formaii'y I.
First Roommate--"I can't ina
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26
Sees infinite
FUTURE IN BIG
RIVER PR0JECT
Southern Idaho Worlds Garden
If Snake River Can Be Used
TO Reclaim Million Acres
From the Reclamation Record.
By c. ]. Blanchard, Statistician,

This is the huge engineering feat
which today is absorbing the attention
of state and federal engineers and the
population of the great valley of the
Snake river in Idaho. 1t is a feat
which Secretary Lane would describe
as challenge to the capacity of de-
mocracy. Its successful consumma-
ton means the control of turbulent
river, the reclamation of 100000 ac-
res of dusty desert, and a guarantee
of an abundant supply to the $780,
600 acres now under ditch in thrs
drainage basin.
To carry out the plans as roughly
sketched by the engineers from pre-.
liminary studies and surveys will call
for an estimated expenditure of $780,
100000. In magnitude and cost of
construction and area of land the pro-
ject falls into class by itself as one
of the greatest irrigation works in the
world. 1t will rank the tremendous
achievements of English engineers m
Egypt and India. For the first time
since national irrigation was written
in our statutes, here is plan afford
ing the engineers Of the service an
opportunity to consider irrigation de-
velopment from the standpoint of a
whole drainage basin rather than
from that of a single small unit.
Gigantic Plans.
The fact that the plans are being
worked out in cooperation with the
state authorities, the Carey Act peo-
pie, and with all the private compan-
les whose interests are important m
the valley, is interesting as indicating
the pronounced change in public sem
Iiment toward the federal service. The
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26
Results Show Wisdom

Large as the cost estimates are
the faint hearted who are likely to
predict failure should not forget that
In the Snake river valley today lis ir.
risated sections from the Wyoming
line to where Snake river forms the
boundary Of eastern Oregon are the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-12-26
Big Dam is Feature.

One controlling feature of the en-
cheering work to be done 10 the con.
struction Of a mile long dam 100
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-27
To Harvest Kansas Wheat Crop

To Harvest Kansas Wheat Crop
Kansas farmers will pay IS a day,
room. and three meals a day for har-
vest hands this year. This is the rate
fixed by the wheat growers OF the
central end western part Of the state
at the preliminary organization meet
ing at Hutchinson, when the FARMERS
of 30 of the so wheat counties organ
ized for the distribution Of the har-
vest workers. Five dollars a day In
cash, 10 hours is days work, really
means nearly 81 day to the harvest
workers in the state. No restaurant
could provide meals the equal OF those
furnished by farmers to harvest hands
at less than so cents each. The rate
WAS fixed at so cents an hour on a
basis of 10 hours work day. If the
men are willing to work longer, they
will receive the same pay an hour for
additional work and bonus OF an
extra meal during the day. 1t is esti-
mated that at least 100000 men will be
required to complete the harvest.
Kansas has approximately 100000
men and boys on the farms Of the
wheat belt and can expect to raise 5O,-
600 more in the cities and in the dis
tricts where wheat is not the predom-
mating crop But at least 100000 men
will have to come from outside the
state. Most of these must come from
short distances, as the railroad fares
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-27
ONE OF AMERICAS GAINS.
The War Ha. Made the Country the
l Worlds Field Seed Centre.

\ Kansas City seed firm once enter
cd into active competition with lts own
lnroduct in a Brazilian market. That
was il. the prc-war period, when HAM
buro was the field seed market of the
world when seed merchants there
were the princes of the industry, own
cd Yachts and signaled the world what
it should plant for pasturage and spe-
cial grain.
In those days Kansas city seed mer-
chants were content to ship grass ana
field seeds assembled here for distri-
button, to accept the premium the
Kansas City market carried and let the
Germans stimulate the sale and SOW
ing.
Hamburg, proud, naughty and strong
as it was. sought products in quanti-
tics in Kansas City and did much TO
establish this as one Of the real seed
markets of America.
Conditions now have changed.
Hamburg no longer has field seed nor
can those former princes Of trade pro-
cure even the smallest fraction of the
product which a few years ago made
it powerful. Whereas, five years ago
Hamburg controlled American grown
grass seed timothy and clover, handled
all the seed products of Ukraine and
bought and sold back the seed from
the vast pasturage acres of Great
Britain, today it begs for even a Thin
blefull to remind it of the days when
great warehouses were overstocked.
America now is the field seed centre
Of the world and Kansas City an i'm
portant part In the West Bottoms the
telegraph office tells lucid story of a
| transformation due to peace. Cable
grams have almost supplantcd tele-
grams in appeals to seed merchants and
and this market already has become
direct shipper to foreign lands.
Field seed is the product that draws
the eyes of foreign nations to Kansas
City. Grass and timothy are the seeds
principally begged. Missouri grown
seed, as we'll as the Kentucky and Eng
llsh variety of blue grass, have a ready
world wide market.
Can Kansas City answer that de-
mand?
It can in part measure this year and
with fair return on the 1919 crop can
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-27
THE GIRL AT NEUvILlY CROSS
ROADS.

New York Times.
stood at Neuvilly Crossroads, that wild Sep
tember day.
When the transport lines were solid from
Claremont all the way
Solid up to the blazing line. waiting a mo-
ments chance
To edge along. to grind along, to follow the
big advance
When out of the toll and turmoil there the
word was passed about:
There's something doing down the road !!
They're passing the doughnuts outp'
Though the doughnuts had all departed before
I had found the place.
The girl with the scarlet band was there with
smile upon her face.
She joked with the tired soldiers and their
curses went unsaid.
For there wasn't a man in the army who
would harm a hair of her head
don't know where she washed her face or
brushed her bonnie hair,
For Life was too full to wash just then, and
we hadn't the time to spare:
Or where she slept with fearless heart, alone
in the Argonne food,
For the only flop was a cold stone floor or a
pup tent out in the mud
But she found herself a ruined barn and part
of broken stall,
And the roof that filtered the moonbeams in
was never a roof at all.
But perhaps her thoughts went wandering
back to the manger of long ago
Where the Child of God. in his humble place.
gave birth to the love we know.
And her heart was steeled by her sovereign
faith, till the drone of the Hun up high
Was lost in the pulsing majesty of her hearts
sweet lullaby.
She didn't have much to give or sell, for the
transport lines were slow:
But what did the dirty doughboy care, if she
was part of the show p
So long as she was in on the job and her fig
ure neat and trim,
Then she was part of the Argonne Drive and
that was enough for him.
For she was the symbol of things he had left,
over across the sea,
And here she stood when the hand of Death
was clasped on his shaking knee.
And for that he loved her with all his heart.
which all he had to give.
So he pledged himself to carry the word, If his
God would let him live.
And the word of one was passed along; over
and under the ground.
Till the curious World has asked at last the
source of the strident sound.
Then the word comes back that "a girl has
done all that girl can do"
And as he kept faith in the days OF death, she
expects the same from you'll
William v. v. Stephens.
Co. F. l1th Engineers. U. S. A.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-27
auses OF AeropIane Collapses.-

Causes OF Aeroplane Collapses.-
Charles H. Payne. an insurance eX-
pert. told the delegates to the Pan
American heronautic convention here
at Atlantic City, n. j., last Friday that
from 1908 to 1913 both in military and
civil aeronautics 60 per cent of the
casualties were due to the collapse OF
the plane as the result Of faulty con-
struction, while from 1913 to date only
per cent of the casualties were caused
by such collapse. OF present-day ac-
tidents, according to Mr.. Payne, ap-
proximately 40 per cent due to tail
spins entered into close to the ground
or by inexperienced pilots who are un-
able to extricate themselves; 25 per
cent through lack of judgment in land
ing; 10 PEI cent to forced landing
caused by motor trouble; per cent
by fire: 2 per cent by collapse of the
planes and u per cent by lack of juds-
ment in various maneuvers by pilots
still training.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-27

Newberry, May 81: T. M. Mills,
farm demonstration agent of this
county. had his first cooperative
shipment of hogs today. Farmers
having hogs for sale had been notifi-
ed to have them here this morning for
shipment to Richmond, Va Hogs to
the number of 10 were brought in
and were graded by an expert from
Clemson college and were then loaded
for shipment and started on their way
this afternoon. 1t was a fine looking
lot of hogs; a few large ones, but the
larger number Of medium size. One
weighed over 700 pounds; that one
came from the w. P. Smith farm near
Kinards. The number of farmers who
brought in hogs was 35. The weight
of the hogs totaled 23,490 pounds and
they were graded as follows: Grade l.,
Il, 402 pounds; grade 2, 1,450 pounds;
grade 8, 1883 pounds. The hogs were
sold here at the following prices:
Grade l, at 1888 cents; grade 2, at
1925 cents: graz 8, at 1925 cents;
these prices were net on the gross
weight of the hogs the total net price
being $3,s37.29. There were three buy
ers here and q number Of bidders be-
sides here. The buyer was an Orange
burg broker, who shipped the hogs on
to Richmond in two cars over the
Coast Line just as they would nave
been shipped If they had not been sold
here Mr. Mills and the selling farm
ers are pleased with the days work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-27

Hawker and Grieve.-When the
news came that the Australian, Haw-
ker, and the Englishman, Grieve,
had scared into the air at st. Johns.
in their frail biplane and sped
away on their perilous attempt to fly
the Atlantic, without patrolling ships
to guide and aid them, without even
a pontoon to float them If they were
forced down to the seas surface, the
heart of every red-blooded man leaped
in his breast. That picture OF the dar-
ing shipmates dropping the under
carriage which was used in making
the start and would have served TO
make a landing in Ireland safe, and
sweeping out to sea above the New
foundland cliffs, resolved to do or die
on the sea and take the risk OF disas-
ter If they ever reached Ireland, will
live in the memory. The risk was
desperate, but the spirit was the spirit
that Is stronger than fears OF the
flesh and triumphs over 1t, so that
full success becomes OF minor import
ance when the record is made up.
If, as now seems apparent, they fell
short by only few miles, their feat
is hardly less remarkable than If they
had actually reached Ireland. They
have come nearer to accomplishing
trans Atlantic flight" (the term is
somewhat ambiguous) than any one
else, and have established a distance
record for nonstop flying. 1t Is to be
hoped that the eleventh-hour succor
sent by the Admiralty will have been
in time to save both men alive anG In
good health.-New York Times.