Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1909 — AN INTERESTING IDAHO LETTER [ARTICLE]

AN INTERESTING IDAHO LETTER

Henry Fanner Writes of the Twin Falls Country. Twin Falls, Idaho, Mar. 21. Editor Jasper Co. Democrat. Dear Sir:—Please find enclosed check for a year’s subscription to your paper. The satisfaction it brings is like reading a letter from home, and I do not wish to miss a copy. Never an issue but has an account of the doings of some oldtime friend or an extremely Interesting batch of news from your many correspondents. I am often reminded of Prov. 27-10, and it has been my lot to prove to my entire satisfaction the wisdom and truth of the verße. Those that are inclined to be friendly always toave friends wherever they may be, but it is* never wise to forget or forsake “our ovrn and our father’s iriend,” and hopeless indeed is the craven whom selfishness has caused to forget. Hence the intense interest to me of your valuable columns. Although that country is not without its advantages nor this without its disadvantages, I never tire of trying to induce my friends there and especially the younger ones to come west. There the success of one is often by the misfortune of another; here there is room for all. Here in the course of a few months or years, at most, the energetic young man can acquire for himself a comfortable home and do it without infringing on the rights of any. Such examples there are becoming these days. Sucl\a thing as congestion in this country is an impossibility for many years to come, and the travelers who pass through here and Bay the good things are all taken up is a blind man or a liar. The prodigious success of the small tracts that are Improved here is only an eye-opener to the man of foresight. Millions upon millions of- acres of what is now sage-brush desert will in a very few years be planted in "beautiful orchards and alfalfa meadows. Dairying and fruit-growing are a pleasure and a profit to any true agriculturist, and are destined to be the great wealth-producing industries of this grand Northwest. It is the history of all new countries that some hardships must be endured, l but American invention and ingenuity have quite diminished if not entirely eliminated this condition in the great northwest. In many places electric power is made so cheap by natural resources that the most modern improvements are brought in within a few months of the settler. The progressive spirit of the settlers in this country is very admir- < able, and I believe that twenty from now will see Idaho, Was’hk* ton and Oregon one of the wealth-producing empires in world. No other country can | pass it in natural facilities. ItsHHH accumulation of moisture in winter months on the make it possible to till the milllHHfl of acres in the fertile valleys a high state of cultivation the summer. Irrigation is the doolH to the wealth of this vast the immensity of which .can only ts realized by extended travel and closl observation. The millions in gold and silver and other metals that have been and still will be taken from the mountains will dwindle into insignificance when placed beside the products of her fertile valleys. Here as elsewhere the men who will reap the highest rewards will be those who adhere to the most scientific methods of agriculture, as it is being taught by the skillful men of our state institutions, and the tireless efforts of our government department. Alas, too few avail themselves of these splendid opportunities to acquire a perfect working knowledge of the most scientific agricultural methods that the government has thus accorded them. Everywhere there is a class—and I am sorry to say, a large class—that know too much to trifle away time at a farmers’ institute or agricultural meeting of any sort. These are the men whose farms are for sale cheap, and as long as they own them they will continue to be pheap farms as far as their producing is concerned. The men who are getting results here are those that have learned j how little the wisest can know, but a are trying to make good use of I the best scientific metnods that have m been demonstrated. No ordinary M man can afford to conduct an agri-jfl cultural experiment station of htaMi own. yet many are continually trytzflMf easy methods and original schemeß of farming which tend only J® shorten their bank accounts crease the size of the mortgage^! Hoping to continue as your nil for many years, I am, Sl||||| Y oura^respectfully^^^^^^g The Home Grocery sells Mian anybodl "Hiv iv.],, u-. oi. th<dr ord<|e‘S'.jVvJp.? so fine.