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PAGE TH R E E he Twin Falls-Oakley Irrigation Project Umation of 2,000,000 A cres FINE FREE HOMESTEADS MONTANA DEEDED LANDS $ 8 TO $ 4 0 ACRE 45.000 A cre, of Coo»e Creek Valley Land Will Bring Added Pro.perity and Homemaker, to Southern Idaho R e a d y (or th e plow . Y ie ld * 30 to 6 0 bu. wheat crushed lava, O M *. b a rley , flay. hay. etc. in proportion. fill Is conveyed by in cu o * of a belt !..... .. i! ‘> *,ln»y skies.1 result of this faith in the country, lionies and spacious barns will dot the ; Flneai Inland ClimaU. currier for u diatunco ,,f - ----- half a nulo ... . ,|r ' 1'' “ 1 '''1 I»r,»l«ct has sprung up supplemented by actual labor. landscape. The expanse of gray will ! L a n d mold on C r o p P a y m e n t P la n .............. business o f ‘ 'c o n t r o llin g the The Twin Falls Oakley project will tm replaced by the restful green of and dumped luto chute at ti,« l o w (a re //omrjeeAerr’ E rcu n lo n e of n I'iiio ii w n al. I« riniifall has take,, hold on on let en d 3rd T u e s d a y * ea c h m onth. ■ M il' on tbe the dis quench the thirst of 45,000 acres of the more humid clime, all of which of tke bluff, from which .t ei„i, triet with a W rite o r call for d etails. |lUfr... of th. Twin FalloO akl.y tir. lato the wsltiug wagón, on tbe •Startling as a most fertile valley. Where now ex- will testify to the happiness of a new J . H . G IN E T , Jr.. Immigration Dept. the figures may seem, it is stated upon ists only the unsightly sagebrush will people in a reclaimed land. Nothing | ,.t by in«’» » » of whlch « “ » A" lde* of tbe expensa en C ., M. Si St. P . R y .— P u g et Sou n d L in e s P""d authority that this county boasts stand the alfalfa and the sugar beet, j can stop the development of southern i J',i,...t fertiU vafley. of th . W ..t tuiled to eouvey this dlrt to the dan. S 3 8 Henry Bid*. 102 S£ATTU. WASH. l",p ‘ ••»t of its cultivated farms the wheat and the orchard. Land that Idaho as long as these projects find | • an be liad from tbe fact thut it is I bo n.ilo l»to * blooming garden under the ditch. has hitherto been accounted of little favor. And the faith of the people) first exeuvated by .team shovels und I »bout «5,000 »or«. added to th. loaded luto car* wl I. j , . . S" ''tl 11 ''"ndition cannot help but value will bring the highest price for themselves will make the outcome ■I. " lT>(" makes " lt'’ ,,m,K wathusiasm among the advocates the water will give it worth. Modern sure. ¡■ilv imreadag »r »» ot reclaimed the eoaveyor. The eonv.yor r O K S A U i — a c h o ic e 10-acre tr act o f "* *trigation, Vet the enterprise and 'fbm enterprise I. but unn of su ascent of N5 feet i» the half mí le a pp le land In Mood R i v e r Va lley , 9th enthusiasm preceded the water. Men m ile s f r o m city. K le va tio n about »liml.r »us* that » r . to be found run to the <lnin. l.OOO feet, a l m o s t level. Price, $1.500. * *b foresight looked Into the matter No pníns i. spared to make the dam Kaay t e r m , to pa rt y who w ill Im tbr great basin country, mid |<ro .iilificnlly and determined the pro prove. For f u r t h e r pa rtic u la rs, ad strong. First a layer of small stones, d re ss R. B O.. P o s t O ffice B o x 1*1, dmtivity of the soil without water. the lootiuuod prosperity o f mi sand and « lav Is deposited ---- to a depth P o r tla n d O regon. prosperous community. It i. of six inches. It is then sprinkled It required no system of higher rnsthematics to demonstrate that with tfibui** to the confidence of it. ton. thoroughly and rolled b y a four ton t1'• addition of an abundance of rain < lose to the con ja the icietire of rerlmuation and traction engine full, regulated as are the great irri- DO YOU KNOW TH AT crete core the dirt ami stone are de lb# future of .outharii Idaho. The posited in s pool of water so that the gntion projects of the state, the pro Ibat will hold bark the water* settling process i* constantly going duction of every acre could he made • < increase in ration hardly conceiv Diacovery of Immense Underground Lake East of Wenatchee On the upstream side a finer able Men came into the vicinity and q 0O„. {'reek entail* expenditure on. Results in the Development of Many Rich Acres mat is used than on the down stream I v»*t amount of money, for it i* invented thomuinds of dollars in plant of Fruit and Alfalfa Land portion, and when completed the sur- nq- orchards and laying out vineyards. !lon»trurt*d with a view to |.er fn.e of the dnm will ho provided with Many did not wait for the comple ty, no e*|>en*e being spared to a layer of loose rock throe foet deep tion of the canals but manifested their A large body of fruit land in the from the Moses Lake region, and on the upper side and a similar lityer faith in the future of the country by ------------------- A S K U S ------------------- I, it *o. Btfore the inauguration of the plan of smaller rock two feet thick on the starting development before the ditches Moses Lake valley of Grant county, finds a ready market for all o f it. I he outlet of the reservoir were made. (Southern Idaho is dotted Washington, directly cast of We- Figuring 45c per box for expense of furui.li water to the entire valley, lower. CHAPIN-HERLOW MTG. & TRUST CO. production, this leaves a net profit in nutehee, has recently been opened to this instance of (16,000 for the sea :bU on the creek were held by own P O R T L A N D . O R E C O N li f e * Ncttlement, and is now attracting a son. Other growers are doing as well. of about OOUU acre*. Goose Creek I hr Desert (lurdrn A fter the ,'ljoon o f Irrigation 1 great deal of attention. A very interesting instance might * small mountain stream with * U SE TH IS CO U PO N I The development in Moses Lake val be told in connection with the Ticha-1 iaimum capacity of 15 second feet ley is nothing short of marveloua cek place. Last summer Mr. Tichacek Send me Free Booklet om July to January and a maximum Within a few years this district is sold the orchard for (63,000. The “SE C R ET O F T H E W E A L T H Y ” to furnish homes to at least 50,000 buyers got the benefit o f the season’ s j(Ki second feet through the bai- j Nam e people. Many sections o f rich land, crop. About the time the output of c* of the year. For many year* th>- City which have lain dormant for centuries, the place was marketed Mr. Tichacek $0 acros had been irrigated from the J Slate and which until just recently wcie had a case of ‘ ‘ eold feet. ’ ’ He re- -j -J regulated flow of thia stream, some considered practically wo'tbless, be gretted the move he had made, and •rt with perfect satisfaction but cause of the lack of water for irriga be wanted to get it back again. He tion, have now been placed on the did buy it back, paying (69,000 for i t ,1 iiaanly with an insufficient flow ot market and are rapidly being settled. or a clean premium of (6000 over the ster when most needod. The farm The discovery of an immense body price he had sold it for a few months therefore flooded their cropa when of sheet water, underlying the entire before. atcr was plentiful early in the sea- district, is responsible for this de Among those who have been first to velopment. This water is nothing appreciate this new Moses Lake dis and conserved the moisture thus more nor less than tn immense un- trict are the men who have made «red up by cultivation during the ; derground lake, which crops out in Wenatchee. Several Wenatchee capital- ! Ha* L inocord B uttonhole * ry months. Many difficulties at 1 various parts of the county ists have, within the past year or so, j In T w o Heights: mdrd this method of procedure, and Hundreds of pumping plants are be invested (4,000,000 in this district. DELM AR - 2 /a in. ing installed, each irrigating from 10 •Some of them have planted an entire bsn th* proposed regulation of water to 4000 acres, and once the water is section to orchard, and, although the REXTON - 2 in. -pply was outlined owners of the turned onto the land it yields a pro orchard is only a few months old, '/J acres sgreed to surrender their duction o f fruits, alfalfa and garden these men would not take (500 an HIS is the new straight-front jighl* to the waters of the creek in truck that is prolific. Water is ob acre for the property today. They shape. It does meet close— be tained at from 25 to 100 feet, in in sec its future possibilités. Raw land cause it has the L inocord B u t t o n Mura for a regulated aupply of 1 Vk exhaustible quantities. It isn’t a ques is selling in Moses Lake valley for j holes . T h ey are on ly in cr. fret, to be delivered to them tion of where to drive a well in order (100 an acre, and a value of (500 > ibsacver needed. Thua the water that to get water. It is merely a question an acre is placed on it as soon as > gone to eerve 0000 acrea insuf- ! of where the farmer or orchardist the trees are planted. c.f.lly is to be distributed over 45,- | wants his well. I f he sinks there, he Becoming interested in the reports f BRAND whirh is now in use to convey the i today with the farms and orchards ' is sure to g it the water. of wealth and opportunity coming water around the dam is a tunnel of these men, to whose faith and Some of the orchards that have al out from this comparatively new te r -1 Tbs bind above that to be irrigated liornd through tbe solid rock 700 feet ] courage the state owes much. More- ready been developed in the Moses ritory, the editor o f the Wenatchee ! M a fall of 25 feet per mile, sloping p i length and 10 feet square. The over, business men in tbe southern i Lake district are actually yielding World recently started on a trip o f the level alluvial bottom. The bottom it on a lev.) with the stream Idaho towns threw their support be- higher than (1000 an acre net profit investigation. He covered a good por bed. hind the projects with tbe result that per season, and it is predicted that tion of Grant county. Then when he L I N O C O R D B U T T O N H O L E S »¿ft of the valley are steep, converg For year* “ Twin Falls” has been communities became a unit in work- this district will soon hold the rec- got hack to his office he wrote one are so protected where the strain at the dam site to a width of «00 almost a trade mark for southern mg for, boosting aud anticipating tbe ord of being one of the greatest fruit of the strongest endorsements of a 1 comes that they\ d on 't tea r out. with steep slopes on either aide Idaho. Ami rightly so, for the county future of their sections. producers on the continent. The soil new country that has ever been pub- ; Hence, ID E S IL V E R C O L L A R S ling to a height o f 100 feet and of Twin Falls stands today as the Beyond the confines of Twin Falls is very similar to that of the North lished in a rival district. In part he 1 retain their style and fit to the end. rising vertically in a straight banner irrigation county of the state, ! County the spirit of improvement is Yakima and Wenatchee fruit districts, said: T h e D E L M A R , because it’s baked No no less. Where the government has and a recent chemical analysis shows “ Those who hold the opinion that and so shaped in the baking by our of solid lava to a height of 155 ¡mil indeed of the Northwest. (her county in the state can boast rot taken hold of projects private cor- it to be richer than the latter by the Wenatchee valley has a monopoly above the river tod. Knginerr* special V e r t ifo r m P ro ce ss, has the -wt quick to see the natural advan- ! so great a proportion of its farmed porations have undertaken tbe task, several per cent. It is composed of on the apple land o f this section of vertical effect so much desired. Has And this land the Twin Falls-Oakley project is decomposed lava and volcanic ash. It the state must change their minds. -J« of this narrow neck, aa wall as land under the ditch. ample scarf space. hf abundance o f material available progress h is |>cen very rapid. Twin j but one of them. Irrigation started is deep and mellow, and underlaid with Those who do not change their minds GEO. P. IDE & CO., Makers 'or tn earth dam. These and the won I . lls hits believed in the mission of slowly in Idaho, the people going con- a gravel formation that insures per- must do so later. The writer has had a constantly inceasing opinion of ■ful productivity of the valley irrignli.m from the very first. That | servatively for several years. But in feet drainage, Troy, N.Y. A visit to one orchard near Moses the lands of Grant county. À thor- i •wmed to justify the expenditure, and is why the country about the city of liiOO 22 projects were launched through- Twin Falls hns come under the spell out the state, and of these southern lake was nothing short of a revela- ough inspection of the lands in that the project was launched. Toni of earth and rock make up of the irrigation fever. Those who Idaho received its share. Experts have tion. This orchard, which consists of county during the past few weeks th* substance of th . dam, which is havo watched the development of this repeatedly examined the soil of its 30 acres. 20 of which are in bearing, has forced the conviction that the lt’> feet high and 1050 feet long. splendid fruit and farming district fertile valleys and pronounced it ex- is known as the Tichacek place. Dur- fruit lands in the country east of here Through the renter .tretrhea a core hnvo seen barren wastes turned into ccllent. Demonstrations have repeat- ing the 1912 season 16,000 boxes of are in every way equal to those of j of foorrete, starting at bedrock with fertile fields and the desert veritably edlv been made with the same verdict, fancy apples were harvested from this Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan, Methow * width of three feet and tapering to made to blossom as the rose. Im It is not surprising then that capital 20 acres, and they sold for (1.45 per and Okanogan valleys. In fact, the * thickness of one foot at the top. mense orchard companies have entered should seek these fields on which the box net, the sale being made through Wenatchee valleyxis just a sample of I the future of Grant county. The bottom is pure concrete, while the field because they believed in the eyes of the East had been turned the Wenatchee Fruit Growers’ asso- “ In short, the country to the east •he top is reinforced. Bedrock was country and th* irrigation business through the enterprising publicity ef- dation, the organization which has o? the Wenatchee valley is one of It needed hut a small demonstration forts of commercial organizations. The successfully solved the problem of found at a depth of 28 feet below the tremendous possibilities. It affords Portland Branch bottom of the stream. The body of to prove to the less sanguine that fields of waving grain, alfalfa, the finding a market for Northwestern one of the greatest opportuniteis in with water to turn upon the soil at blooming orchards and the luxuriant fruit at good prices. 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