The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-09-30

moral and financial. He will find a real home.
And old Mother Nature will likely throw in health.
strength and happiness for good measure.
One Of the photographs reproduced herewith
shows Royal N. Allen of the Chicago Motor club
welcoming William D.. Scott, leader Of the cara
van. Mr.. Scott used to live in Minneapolis. Then
he went to Boston. Later he became a successful
sales manager in Brooklyn. with a home at 236
Decatur street. He Is a middleaged man, with a
wife and two children. During the war he made
a reputation as a ~"four-minute man." He had
made up his mind to drive to the West this sum-
mer, buy q ranch, hang up his hat and grow up
with the country. Several of his ~neighbors grew
interested and asked to go along. And that's how
the colony idea started.
Then Mr.. Scott wrote to commercial clubs and
state and county officials in different parts of the
West. Gov. David W.. Davis of Idaho responded
promptly with a definite offer. Mr.. Scott went to
Idaho and made a study of land in Twin Falls
county, along the Snake river. Here's the way
Mr.. Scott tells It.:
."That settled 1t. When l saw that land | knew
1t was just the place 1 was looking for, and l I'M
mediately took an option on 5,12O acres. The land
was offered to me at the uniform price OF 1925 an
acre, with water rights, $25 an acre to be paid
down at purchase and the balance within ten years
at 6 per cent interest.
"This whole land project Is supervised by the
state. It II financed by the Idaho Farm Develop
n,ent company, the president Of which Is E. I.
Meredith. Who was President Wilson's secretary
Of agriculture and who Is a practical farmer and
the proprietor OF an agricultural newspaper IN
Des MOines, Ia. MI. Meredith and his associates,
incorporating under the Cary act. spent $625.OOO
developing these tracts. The waters OF three trtb-
utaries Of the Snake river, draining the watershed
Of the Jarbidge mountains, Al miles southwest
ward from our colony, were damned and INT
pounded in the Cedar Greek reservoir. Thence u
steel fume leads the water down through the
canyon of the Little Salmon river, irrigatlng the
lands which we have taken up for our fnture
homes and ranches. We have, In all. an area OF
about three miles BY six.
.Srhis irrigation enterprise Immediately made
marvelously fertile many thousands OF acres wnich
heretofore had been merely a sagebr1sh prairie.
The area had been used only as cattle range anu
was one OF the most sparsely settled districts In the
state. With irrigation, there isn't q better country
for growing alfalfa, onions and the famous Idan"
potatoes. On farms In the anne neighborhoOd and
enjoying like advantages to ours there have Deeh
grown world record crops Of alfalfa, wheat to the
tune Of 90 bushel to the acre, and potatoes rating
as high as 642 bushels to the acre.
"Buhl, our nearest railroad town. is. about y
miles from the most distant ranches Of our colony.
It Ii 4 lively town only nine years old, but with
about 1900 population. A fine road. which is more
than SO miles Tong and which runs directly through
our tract, connects Bull with the new mining town
OF Jarbidge. Out Of the Jarbidge mountains the
Guggenheim interests have taken more gold than
all the yellow metal ylelded ~ Alaska. Inc TOWN.
Of Jarbidge Is the natural center Of that rich coui-
try. and our colony will be Its nearest source OF
supply. with a good road running straight into 1t"
Mr.. Scott returned to Brooklyn bubbling over
With enthusiasm. His enthusiasm YVES infectious.
He was besieged with applications for member
ship. But the 6,l20 acres will make only 1928
tracts az 20 acres each. So a weeding-out process
was begun. Every prospective member was put
through the third degree. The rule was laid down
that erery accepted member must be 100 per cent
American: must have 1t least $1,000 In cash:
NM ~ able to take care OF himself and family
untfl the 6rst crops are marketed. Even then rhe
l26 npennbers of tie colony were quickly secured
rs lie 1neant1ne, the Idaho people, who had EVIL
dentls faken \ thine a the Brooklyn people. were
doing their part. 0tsernor Davis visited Brook.
lyn ana eddressed = meeting q the colonlsts. The
Buhl chamber of cominefce sent Ben H. Rushman,
one ~ ~ leaders and secretary Of the Rotary club.
WITH o1DeFs cR setylceS from the chamber and the
eiub. ~ th6x del went through without q hitch