Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-09-30

moral and financial. lie 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 230
Decatur street. He Is a middleaged man, with
wife and two children. During the war he maze
a reputation a "four-minute man." lie had
made up his mind to drive to the West this sum
mer. buy u ranch. hang up his hat and grow up
with the country. Several of his peighbors 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 FAILS
county. along the Snake river. Here's the way
Mr. Scott tells It:
"That settled it. When that land knew
1t was just the place was looking for, and I'M
medately took an option 5, 120 acres. The land
was offered to me at the uniform price Of $125 an
acre with water rights $25 acre to be paid
down at purchase and the balance within ten years
at per cent interest.
"Ths whole land project Is supervised by the
state. 1t is financed by the Idaho Farm Develop
nent company, the president Of which Is Il. L.
Meredith, who was President Wilson's secretary
of agriculture and who Is practical farmer and
the proprietor of an agricultural newspaper In
Des Mones la. Mr.. Meredith and his associates
Incorporating under the Cary act. spent $62o,OOO
developing these tracts. The waters OF three trib
utaries of the Snake river draining the watershed
of the Jarbidge mountains AZ miles southwest
ward from our colony, were damned ana I'M
pounded in the Cedar Creek reservoir. Thence a
steel fume leads the water down through TINS
canyon of the Little Salmon river, irrgating the
,nIyn, fnr
homes and ranches. We have, In all, an area OF
about three miles by six.
This irrigation enterprise Immediately made
marvelOusly fertile many thousands OF acres whlch
Heretofore had been merely q sagebrush prairie
The area had been used only as cattle range anu
was one of the most sparsey settled districts IN the
state With irrigation, there isn't better country
for growing alfalfa onions and the famous Idaho
potatoes On farms In the same neighborhood ana
enioying like advantages TO ours there have been
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 i
miles from the most distant ranches of our colony
1t is a lively town only nine years old, but with
about 1000 population A fine road, which Is more
than so miles long and which runs directly through
our tract, connects Bull with the new mining town
of Jarbidge. Out of the Jarbidge mountains thu
Guggenheim interests have taken more gold thar
all the yellow metal yielded by Alaska. The towl
of Jarbidge is the natural center of that rich coun
try, and our colony will be its nearest source o.
supply. with good road running straight into It,
dr Scott returned to Brooklyn bubbling Owe
with enthusiasm. His enthusiasm was infectious
He was beseged with applications for member
ship But the 5120 acres will make only ~
tracts Of 40 acres each. So weedng-out process
was begun. Every prospective member was pu
through the third degree. The rule was laid dow
that every accepted member must be 100 per cen
American; must have ar least $4,000 In cash
must be able to take care OF himself and fam
until the first crops are marketed. Even then tn
12S members of the colony were quickly secured
In the meantime, the Idaho people, who had ev
IDENTIFY taken shine to the Brooklyn people. wer
doing their part. Governor Davis visited Brook
Ign and addressed meeting Of the coonlsts. TIL
Bull chamber OF commerce sent Ben ii. BushmaT
one of its leaders and secretary OF the Rotary clul
with offers of service from the chamber and tn
club. So the deal went through without htcl