The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-03

successful farmer Mrs. Miyamoto
formerly lived at Parker, Idaho near
St. Anthony.
Thomas Koompin is Greek who
married an American woman and
has eight acres of land on what was
formerly dry farm belt, but it now
being put under irrigation in the
western part or the West Side Irri-
cation district, a few miles north
west Of MoreIand. Mr.. Koompin
bought his eighty acres of land in
1917 for $500 which was $50 an
acre. He has twenty-five acres OF
potatoes, nine acres of grain, twenty
acres of hay and has some rasp-
berries in the garden.
George Saltas is Greek with a
Greek wife, who he married in the
old country. They have two child
rem Mary and Sepro born in the old
country and other children born in
America. They lived for number
of years in Bingham Canyon, Utah,
and Mr.. Saltas worked in the mine.
About FIVE years ago he bought this
eighty acres at $55 an acre. 1t had
no well and no buildings on it. It
is the old. Frank Fernando place.
When Fernando sold out he re-
turned to Italy. Mr.. Saltas has
thirteen or fourteen acres of pota-
toes, thirty-f1ve acres Of grain, if
teen acres of hay. He has fifteen
acres OF crop that does ont water by
the gravity system and he uses a
gasoline engine and pump to lift it
about seven feet to the higher level.
He says it takes four gallons of gaso-
line to operate the pump one shift of
a little over half day. They oil
the machine about every hour and
they can water the fifteen acres in
three or four days without working
all day.
We asked Mr.. Saltas if he would
go back to Greece when he had made
his fortune and he said very en-
phatically that he would not. They
came to America to better their con-
dition; that they had bettered their
condition and they were glad to re-
main here. When we asked him
whether he liked Bingham Canyon
better than living on the farm in the
desert, he replied that they were
very happy on the farm. He said
this was the natural way of living
and that life in Bingham Canyon
| was unnatural and disagreeable. He
said there was always danger in the
mine and that the town of Bingham
was not a suitable place to raise
family and have them healthy and
| happy. He spoke Of the noise and
dust, the smoke and the constant
danger for the children and for
their father working in the mine. He
said that whenever they went out of
their home they were in the street,
and were in danger in the street
Out here on the desert it was quiet
and clear with good air to breathe
and they all got along very happily.
| He has ten in the family, six of the
! children having been born in the
| United States and all of them proud
of being Americans. The old ones
who were born in the old country
are also proud of being Americans
and are good students of our ways
Of living. They speak English we'll
and read the English papers to the
other members of the family.
H. G. Cleusner was dry farming
on the desert for number Of years,
but finally gave it up and bought
eighty acres of Pat Boyle at $50 an
acre. 1t was unimproved excepting
that little tract was cleared of sage
and had been plowed once. They
water it from the Highline ditch and
have five acres Of potatoes, twenty
one acres Of grain and fifty acres
seeded to Grimm alfalfa to raise
seed. He sowed it with the registered
Grimm alfalf seed. They have built
house and sunk a we'll on the
place and do their pumping by
means of gasoline engine. They,
raised about 400 pounds of No. 1
alfalfa seed to the acre so far and
about 200 pounds of No. 2 seed.
Frank Gibson and Irving Paulson
are reported to be raising pure
Grimm alfalfa seed and to have lost
considerable fruit and garden by
lack of water for early irrigation in
the spring.
E. Petrie has 400 acres of land
that he is leasing from ]. M. Buck
ley. He has potatoes, grain and
registered Grimm alfalfa, about
twenty acres for seed and twenty
acres for hay.
A. R. Meade formerly lived at
Firth, but 1t now leasing piece of
land OF Ed Boyle northwest of More
land. There are $40 acres in the
tract and about twenty acres of it is
watered by pumping from the canal.
He has tire or four acres of pota-
toes. twenty or twenty-five acres Of
grain and says that the squirrels
were doing a great deal Of damage,
having destroyed several acres Of 1t
up to the nineteenth Of July. He has
twenty-five or thirty acres Of hay,
seven acres Of peas that he is raising
for the hogs; he has forty or fifty
hogs.
G. M. Bens has an equity in 100
acres of land in the lower part Of the
West Side Irrigation district and
nearly west of Moreland. He has
seeded forty acres to wheat and
Grimm alfalfa seed having a very
good stand of wheat and a pretty
fair stand of alfalfa. He pumps
water from the canal for ninety
acres Of it. Mr.. Bens is from
Kalispel, Mont. and is very much en-
Unused over the prospects of agricul
ture in this valley owing to the great
expanse of land and the great