The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-05-04

in his milk producing propaganda ant
he gets a market for his alfalfa by
converting it into milk and chees,
which has low freight rate. The dai
ry interest will make every irrigated
farm real mint.
In addition to the immense dams
now in use for irrigating purposes
the government has now under con-
sideration what is known as the Am
erican Falls project. American Falls
l is just rs miles West of Pocatello and
2 1t is proposed by the government TO
{ spend million dollars to enlarge the
| American Falls dam to a height of
ninety feet and impound water for the
irrigation of million more acres OF
. land. While the government finances
. the proposition, vote Of the lana
owners in the district must vote a
bond issue to build the dam and pro-
vide the operating expenses, but as
the farmers are given the opportunity
of paying off the bonds in Is or 80
years, making charge on the land or
about SIPS er acre to retire the BOMBS
SO the charge upon the farmers Is
very small. Dry farms can be bought
now for from SIS to $40 per acre, which
after they are irrigated should be
worth at least 500 an acre. vote
will be taken in May to determine the
fate of the American Falls project and
as all Objectionable features have
been eliminated, it is probable the
project will carry and the immense
engineering feat will soon begin. It
may require some five to eight years
to complete such a vast undertaking.
but it is the one big redeeming feat
ure for this vast area Of arid land,
but fertile, when supplied with abund-
ant water.
When such gigantic proposition
| Is under way, the people here all pull
together. They don't say LET George
do it." They all pull together and It
would do any eastern community good
to see the unanimity with which all |
interests put their shoulders to the |
wheel and push it to a successful |
completion. 1t is such a wholesome |
example that l have often wished thar |
eastern communities as a whole may |
see the splendid, whole hearted, en-
ergetic PUSH with all capital letters,
so that they might inject into the en-
terprises of their own Communities |
the same amount Of pep and co-opera-
ton.
ALI this new country is built up OF |
this same kind Of enthusiasm and CO.
operation. There is the Chamber OF
Commerce the Rotary and Kiwauis
Clubs, the Business and Professional
Womens' clubs and the College Wo-
mems club and SO many others that
cannot enumerate them all-and
they all with one accord join with
these movements and boost ana
boost. It Is the oil to the machinery
that pulls the load out of the mire.
The American Falls project Is only
one Of the many things that are boost
ed. A few months ago it was tho
Dairy interests, which Is now practic-
ally assured. A special train was run
all over the state. The governor +
was at the head Of it. And there are
scores and scores of these PROPOSE
tions come up in the course of year.
The new country offers all kinds OF
opportunity for those who come here
with some ambition and pep. Opor-
tunities here lie around loose. I have
seen more waste water power in a
days travel In this section than 10
used in Pennsylvania at the present
time. All these mountains contain
some valuable products, but few or
them have been touched. In Northern
Idaho there is gold and silver, in Utah I
and Wyoming there Is an abundance {
Of oil and coal and some day there
will be found in this section as rich {
4 product as there Is anywheer else {
in the Rocky Mountain region.
There are more liberal laws in this
western country. Money is so badly
needed here that there is no tax on {
mortgages nor judgments nor on loan. t
If any kind. The country needs mon {
~ ad men with push and ambition. I
Pennsylvania has the greatest indus
rial record of any state in the In
on, and there are no more honest
people in the world, but so many OF n
hem fail to have the proper vision t
hat would mean a still greater ac- "
ivity in all lines of commerce and r
II
l am proud to have Pennsylvania as C
he state Of my nativity, but / am In a
atuated with this western dountry, b
nd So is Doris We can see visions W
the future not known in the older d
ettled sections Of the country. OPP e
ortunity is knocking on every hand.
hey say here that once you live here
on will never live in the east Even
nose who go back east never remain
1ere, as they are not satisfied with
he order Of things in the older set
ed communities. 1 am beginning 70
link there is some truth in it. 1 like
lis pep, I like this splendid cooper
tion I like to see these arid LANDS
eclaimed; like to sc order brought |
ut of chaos; / like to breathe the
ure air Of freedom; 1 like to mingIe
ith DoonIo who show me- thew want