The Caldwell tribune., 1920-12-17

"A snSSS SoAAhAuulticS nave feaI1ZeQ the
full value of their farms from a single
crop and under such conditions they
will do so again. Shipments from Bo-
ise, Perkins, Melba and Bowmont have
not been taken into consideration in
the estimate of II months. tut they
will probably increase the total to
7SOO carloads or even a greater numb
er. The shipments of apples from the
entire Valley reached a total of l442
carloads to 1900 carloads with a valua-
ton of approximately $o0o,00 Dairy
products shipments out of the Valley
during the II months has amounted to
something like $2.00O.OOO, a goodly part
of which went out from the creamer-
les of this city. Though below normal
the bank deposits Of the different cities
and towns of the Valley form total
of approximately $2O00.O0O and Of
this total, the deposits of the banks of.
Canyon county form about fifty per
cent or $lO.O00yO00 They are highly
reflective of the stability and resource
fulness of the different communities
of the Valley. Indeed, few other Sec
tions are so fortunately situated, be-
cause of its diversification of agricul-
tural potentialities, for it is dependent
upon no one Of them. but has been the
recipient of the marvellous returns
from all of them.
Unquestionably the dairying indus
try has been one of the greatest fac
tors in the prosnerity of the Valley and
will continue to be. 1t will supply the
farmers of the different communities
with ready moLey and keep them very
largely free from indebtedness. The
industry is growing by leaps and
bounds and with improved conditions
which will surely come an increased
impetus will be given it. Not little
significance attaches to the fact that
the total shipments from the differ
ent sections of the Valley this year of
livestock, grain, potatoes and other
farm products will range between H.
900 and $4,000 carloads, for it is indica-
tive of what may be expected of it
when the 100000 acres of now desert
land which lies idle is brought into eul-
tivation and made to contribute to the
food supply of the world.
The greater part of the vast are Of
land reclaimed from the desert the
past decade is in Canyon county
which is one of the Nations greatest
graneries. A little over ten years ago
the greater part of the county was a
sagebrush desert. Both the Wilder
community and the Deer Flat com
munity formed parts of it. They now
present the appearance of continu-
Gus stretch of broad acres. we'll culti-
waited and with the most modern OF
farm residences and barns, where but
a decade since were to be seen only
jack rabbits and coyotes. Then ths
citizens were deriving their living
from trading with each other or from
selling land to some "Tenderfoot'
who chanced to wander this way from
the East or Middlewcst. 1t is with
in these ten years that the countc,
has gotten down to a really producins
basis. A marvellous progress wbe,
one comes to analyze it. The work.
of the Boise project have been con
structed within this period of tim'
and have reclaimed 100000 acres o
land from the desert and in addition
water has been supplied from the grea
reservoir of the project to an addi
tional 10000 acres under old waite
rights which had not sufficient water
The project has cost $l2.0os. .O66.79
} In 1919, something like ten years afte
water had been put on the land, owe
s.. 100000 worth Of farm product
were taken from the project lands an
, mark, you. this was from only 900
, acres which up to that time had bee!
lplaced. in cultivation. On lands par
/ TALLY supplied with water from tn
project the crops amounted in valua
: ton to 100000 and of greater sign
: ficance is the fact that this estimat
e did not take into consideration any q
A the long settled farms which are nc
|. included within the project. Th
4 Arrow Rock dam, the scientific wont
Ter of the United States, converts til
= channel of the Boise river into re!
4 ervoir with a capacity of 243,300 acr
0Ifeet of water for the irrigation Of 234
0 200 acres Of land in the Valley. 1t h'
10 height Of 1896 feet, a length Of III
n feet on the crest. Its system has 9s
2 miles Of canals, classified as follows
s lS3 miles of canals with capaciti'
y greater than 800 second feet; ~ mil'
!. lof canals with capacities from 30l
I'll 800 second feet; l73 miles of cana