Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-06-28
WHY I LIVE IN THE BEST
SECTION OF THE WEST

SECTION OF THE WEST
Long distance, pIease,-Long DIS
lance? Please give me John WIZ
son. 42O North 8th St., Portland
oregon.
HelIoi John? You know who THIS
is. don't you? Well, how are you
all? That's good. How's the
weather up there? You say it's been
raining up there for two weeks?
Well you ought to be down here.F1ne
spring weather and just enough ram
to make the wild flowers grow.
Oh. yes, OF course, we've had our
crops in three weeks. Radishes, let
tuce and beets are up and doing fine
You know this is the best soil In the
country, sure rich and nice. A fel-i
low can support a moderate family
on from ten to twenty acres Of our
irrigated land What? Oh sure,
didn't YOU know that we have the
best irrigation system in the worldE
That's not exaggerated bit. we
don't wait on Old Mother Nature
around our valley. Each person
turns his water in his place when
ever and wherever he chooses.
Yes. I've bought 1900 head of
sheep and 500 head of cattle. You
know that Vale and Ontario ship an
nually over 100000 pounds OF
wool. Iguess that's dandy bust
ness. but / think that the Bee Cul-I
ture is nearly as good if fellow
knows how to go to it. / suppose
that you usually have our honey on
your table and don't know it.
How's your little girl who had
heart trouble? My, That's too bad
Our altitude is neither too high nor
too low and so you couldn't do any
thing better than to send her down
here. The scenery is wonderful and
if we put her out on one of our big,
clean ranches she would gain two
pounds per week. One of our local
papers said, This is the land of
twilight; long, lingering twilight;
so rare and yet so delightful = That's
true.
By the way, did you read about
our lumber or, l mean, Harvey
County's lumber? That means
sure boom for Payette, ontario and
all of our valley. Good prospects
for lumber mills, a round house and
lots of railroad building.
1 bought some good stock in our
prospective salt mines and oil wells:
Did you know that in our town We
are running about four homes and
building with natural gas? We
surely are, and are drilling for more,
not to speak of Payette which is
running many times more plants with
| it than we are.
Another of our Industries is our
wheat and alfalfa raising, not speak
ing of our newer one-the lettuce
crop. We have lettuce when no
| other section has. We ship to all the
| Eastern markets and sure make big
profits, and this is the time of the
year when our fruit industery makes
| its greatest showing, l mean blossom
time. Did you ever see an eighty
| acre apple orchard in bloom, and
alfalfa craving between the trees ?
Well your education has been some
what neglected. The only draw
| back to our fruit industry is finding
enough cars for shipment.
Have you heard from your folk,
back East lately? Oh, too bad, You
say she had pneumonia, developed
into lung trouble? Oh yes. on ac-
count of the hard winter. Well thank
goodness, our winters are mild Only
down to zero once. Our children never
had cold all winter and never
missed day at school on that &C
count.
We see by the Oregonian that your
Portland Schools has not been able
to take care of the children. That's
too bad. Did you know that this
valley has wonderful schools?
I'd like to tell -0u about our pros
poets for development: The Black
Canyon Dam, th1 Owyhee project
marketing our lumber and dairy and
farming developmClt-the things
that keep our young tolks here with
US, but l have now consumed more
than three minutes and although our
Phone Company is very efficient and
accommodating, I can't hold the
wire all day.
But, why not live where Iife's
worth living? Come on down.
Goodbye.
EVELYN GALLAGHER. /