Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-09-29

moral and financial. He will find u 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 236
Decatur street. He is middle-aged man, with
wife and two children. During the war he made
reputation as .tfour-mnute 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 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 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 it, When / saw that land knew
it was just the place was looking for and / i'm
mediately took an option 512O acres. The land
offered to me at the uniform price of $125 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
ment company, the president of which is E. u.
Meredith, who President Wilson's secretary
Of agriculture and who is a practical farmer and
the proprietor of an agricultural newspaper In
Des Moines, Ia. Mr.. Meredith and his associates,
incorporating under the Cary act spent $625,OOO
developing these tracts. The waters of three trlb-
utaries of the Snake river draining the watershed
of the Jarbidge mountains, Al miles southwest
ward from our colony, were damned ana I'M
pounded in the Cedar Greek reservoir. Thence
steel fume 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 OF
about three miles by six.
"This irrigation enterprise Immediately mace
maryelously fertile many thousands of acres which
heretofore had been merely q Sagebrusn pralfle.
The area had been used only cattle range and
of the most sparsely settled districts IN the
state With irrigation, there isn't better country
for growing alfalfa onions and the famous ldaho
potatoes. On farms in the same neighborhood anu
enjoying like advantages to ours there have been
grown world record crops of alfalfa, wheat to the
tune of 80 bushel to the acre, and potatoes rating
as high as 642 bushels to the acre.
"Buhl our nearest railroad town, is about II
miles from the most distant ranches of our colony
1t is a lively town only nine years DID, but with
about 1000 population. A fine road which is more
than so miles long and which 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 yielded by Alaska Inc FOWL
of Jarbdge 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..
Mr.. Scott returned to Brooklyn bubbling ovel
with enthusiasm His enthusiasm was infectious
he was besieged with applications for member
ship. But the 5120 acres will make only 12s
tracts of 40 acres each. So a 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 at least $1,000 in cash
must be able to take of himself and fam
until the first crops are marketed. Even then TIL
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 coonists. TIL
Bull chamber OF commerce sent Ben II. Bushmal
of its leaders and secretary of the Rotary clul
with offers of service from the chamber and til
club. So the deal went through without hitc