The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-10-19

moral and financial. He will find 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 successful
sales manager In Brooklyn. with home at 23G
Decatur street. He Is a midde-aged man, with
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 ranch hang up his hat and grow up
with the country. Several of his neghbors grew
interested and asked to 60 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 ". Davis of Idaho responded
promptly with 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 1t:
THAT settled 1t. When saw that land knew
1t was just the place was looking for, and i'm.
mediately took an option on 512O acres. The land
was offered to ME at the uniform price Of Sl25 an
acre, with water rights $25 an acre to be paid
down at purchase and the balance within ten years
at per cent interest.
This whole land project is supervised by the
state. 1t is financed by the Idaho Farm Develop
Meredith, who President Wilson's secretary
of agriculture and who is practical farmer and
the proprietor Of an agricultural newspaper III
Des Mones, la. Mr.. Meredith and his associates.
incorporating under the Cary act. spent S62o.OU
developing these tracts The waters Of three triO'
utaries of the Snake river. draining the watershed
of the Jarbidge mountains. Al miles southwest
ward from our colony. were damned ana INT
pounded in the Cedar Creek reservoir. Thence
steel Hume leads the water down through the
canyon of the Little Salmon river irrgating the
lands which have taken up for our future
homes and ranches. We have. In all. an area VI
about three miles by Six
..This irrigation enterprise Immediately made
marvelous'y fertile many thousands OF ceres "nIc"
heretofore had been merely sagebrush prairie.
The area had been used only as cattle range anu
was one of the sparsely settled ciStricts IN the
state With irrigation, there isn't better country
for growing alfalfa onions and the famous luah"
notatoes On farms in the same neighborh"ou anu
enioying like advantages to ours there nave peeh
crown world record crops of alfalfa. wheat to the
tune of 90 bushel to the and potatoes rating
MS high rs 642 bushels to the acre
"puhl our nearest railroad town. Is about II
miles from the most distant ranches OF our colony
It-is lively town only nine years oid out VII"
ohout 900 population. A fine road. which Is more
thor IN miles long and which directly through
opr +roc, connects Bull with the new mining town
of Jarbidse Out of the Jarbidge mountains the
Guccerheim interests have taken more gold than
all the yellow metal yielded by Alaska. The town
of Jorhdce is the natural center Of that rich coun
fry. and our colony will be its nearest source OF
snnnly with good road running straight into It,
Mr., Scott returned to brooklyn bubbling over
With enthusiasm. His enthusiasm was infectious.
He was hesieged with applications for member
shin But the 500 acres will make only lbs
tracts of 40 acres each. So weeding-out process
was begun. Every prospective member was put
l;r1 The
thot every accepted member must be 100 per cent
American: must have at least $4,000 In cash ;
must be able to take care OF himself and family
un,il the first crops are marketed. Even then the
,oS members Of the colony were quickly secured
In the meantime, the Idaho people, who had evil
IDENTIFY taken shine to the Brooklyn people. were
doing their part Governor Davis visited Brook
tvn md addressed meeting of the colonists. The
puhl chamber of commerce sent Ben H. Bushman
one Of it's leaders and secretary OF the Rotary club
with offers of service from the chamber and the
.,nh So the deal went through without hitch