Marble Hill press., 1921-09-29

moral and financial lie viii nul real home
Ana Old Mother Nature Will likely throw iu health,
s'fhsth and happiness fUr spod measure.
one o! the photographs reproduced herewith
shows Royal y. Allen Of tho Chicago Motor club
welcoming william u Scott, leader of the cara
van. Mr. Scott used 10 I've In Minneapolis Then
De- went to Boston. Later be became a succcsSful
sales manager in Brooklyn With a home a, -Sj
Decatur street. He i ID middc.aErl man with
wife and two children. During the war he made
a reputation as "four-mlnute man" lie had
made w his mind 10 drive 10 the West this sum.
mer. buy RANCH, hang up his hat and grow up
with the country. Several of bis ncighhors grew
Interested aud asked to go along. And that's ho~
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 Il definite offer Mr. Scott went 10
Idaho and made study ~ land Ia Twin Falls
county, along the Snake river. Here's the way
Mr. Scott tells Il.
That settled It. When / saT that land knew
Il was just the place | was looking for. and i'm
medlatey took option on 5.I2O acres The land
was offered 10 me At the uniform pscc Of Sl25 an
acre. with wuter rights, So acre TO be paid
town at purchase and the balance within ten years
az q per cent Interest
This whole land project is supervised by the
state. It is heanced by the Idaho Farm Develop
urn' company. the president ~ which Is T. T.
Meredith, Who was President Wilson's secretary
of agriculture and who Is a practical farmer aud
the proprietor OF an agriculture! newspaper Ia
pes Mones, la Mr. Meredith and his associates,
incorporating under the Cary act. spent $4,000
developing these tracts The waters Of three trib
utarieS ut the Snake river. draining the watershed
ot the JarbdEe mountains. ~ miles southwest.
ward from our colony. we're damned and I'M
pounded IN the Cedar Greek reservoir, Thence q
steel nume leads the water down through the
canyon of the Little Salmon river, irrgnting the
lands which have taken up for our future
homes and ranches We have In ALL an ara of
about three miles by six.
This irrigation enterprise Immediately made
marvelously fertile many thousands ~ acres which
Heretofore had been merely a sagehrush prairie
The area had been used only as cattle range and
was one Of the most sparscy settled districts In the
state, with irrigation there isn't a better country
for growing alfalfa onions and the famous idah"
potatoes. On farms In the same neighboehood and
enjoying Ike advantages to ours there have been
grown world record crops Of alfalfa wheat to the
tune of ~ bushel TO the acre and potatoes rating
as high as 6i2 bushels to the acre.
"Buhi, our nearest railroad town. IL about II
miles from the most distant ranches OF our colony
II IL lively town only nine years old but with
about 7OtN population. A fine road which In more
than 20 miles long and which runs directly through
tFuCls chHHefts huill Win tht new Hhhlhg tW"u
Of Jarbdge. Out Of the Jarbldge mountains the
Guggenheim interests have taken more gold than
all the yellow metal yielded by Alaska. The town
Of Jarbidge is the natural center os that rich
try, and our colony will be its nearest source OF
supply. with a good road running straight into H."
Mr.. Scott returned to Brooklyn bubbiing over
with enthusiasm His enthusiasm was infectious
He was besieged with applications for member
ship. But the 5l20 acres will make only 12s
tracts Of 40 acres each. So a weedingout process
begun. Every prospective member was put
through the third degree. The rule was laid down
that every accepted member must he 100 per cent
American; must have at least 5000 In cash
must be able to take Of himself and family
until the first crops marketed. Even then the
12s members OF the colony were quickly secured
In the meantime the Idaho people, who had evil
IDENTIFY taken a shine to the Brooklyn people. were
doing their part Governor Davis visited Brook
Iyn and addressed meeting Of the colonists. The
Buh chamber OF commerce sent Ben H. Bushman,
Of Its leaders and secretary Of the Rotary club
with offers Of service from the chamber and the
club. So the deal went through without hitch