Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1917 — Former Gillamites Are Prospering In Idaho. [ARTICLE]

Former Gillamites Are Prospering In Idaho.

Wallace Faris, of Greenleaf .Idaho, who is visiting frinds and relatives in Gillam township, his old home, was a very pleasant caller in this office Saturday. Mr. Faris is the son of the late Hon. Benjamin F. Faris, who was county commissioner of this county at the beginning of the erection of our splendid court house. Mr. Wallace Faris has been in the west for a few years and has succeeded splendidly. He now owns an 80 acre farm in the state of Idaho near Greenleaf. A farm near his recently sold for S2OO per acre. Other former Gillamites are also prospering near him. Mead Prevo has 40 acres that are giving him splendid returns. Mort Prevo has 80 acres. Oris McCollough has 80 acres, William Robinson also has a good 80 acre farm. Frank Faris is getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Prevo, parents of Mead and Mort Prevo, are living at Greenleaf and are greatly “pleased with that country. All of this land is irrigated and crop failures are unknown. The water is furnished by the government at a yearly rental of 75c per acre. The original cost of the irrigation was SBO per acre, but the landowner is given fifteen years in which to pay this. The payments falling due as follows: 2 per cent to be paid annually for the first four years; 4 per cent each year for the next four years, and 7 per cent for the next twelve years. ' —‘ Greenleaf is on a railroad. It is 8 miles from Caldwell, a city of 5,000 inhabitants, and only 40 miles from Boise City, the capital of the state of Idaho, a s city of 30,000. Mr. Faris’ sister, Eva, and his brother, George, live with him.