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Idaho Falls is the fastest growing and the most
prosperous city in Idaho. It is the second richest city,
per capita, on all the Pacific slope. It originates more
farm produce tonnage than does ' any other city in
America.
The above is true because Idaho Falls is the cen
ter of over one million acres of the richest land on earth.
This valley is richer than the Nile. . It has the best and
most certain water supply, the most productive soil and
the best climate of any farming section in the world.
This land has been farmed for fifty years and we have
never known even a partial crop failure. We have
never had a flood, cyclone, drouth tornado, or any other
climatic disturbance to interfere with crop production.
Our farmers know that when they plant a crop, they
will reap a sure and abundant harvest in the Fall. We
lead all of the states in this Union in the per acre pro
duction of the nine leading agricultural products.
The crop that brings the greatest profit is the
famous Idaho Russet potato which grows to greater
perfection here than in any other part of the world.
These wonderful potatoes top every market in all the
markets where they are sold. We ship potatoes as far
away as Cuba. The Idaho Falls farmers are paid the
highest price, on their farms, for their potatoes that is
received on the farms in any part of the United States.
PROFITS
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Here are a few instances of farmers in this sec
tion who have made fortunes in a single year:
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From Tenant to Landlord
Ray Hughes bought an 80-acre farm in the Spring
of. 1925. He bought it all on time, paying nothing down.
The purchase price was 150.00 per acre, or 12,000.
He planted a portion of the land to potatoes, the bal
ance to the usual crops.. After marketing his crop,' he
paid his taxes, interest and paid 10,000 on the princi
pal of his contract. In addition he bought, a fine new,
sedan and dug and equipped a good well on the prem
ises. This was all from one crop. This year he has an
other bumper crop and will finish paying his contract
and will have money to loan out or otherwise invest.
Acres of Diamonds
Some few years ago Charles Moody came to this
section from Nebraska. He had only a few dollars and
a willingness to work. He has been a consistent potato
producer and today owns 320 acres of this wonderful
soil and in addition has large investments in stocks,
bonds and mortgages. He is rated as being worth
over 200,000.00. . m
Read This One
H. H. Bennett and his two sons came to this sec
tion from Iowa. The father bought 160 acres at that
time and paid for it. Each of the sons bought farms but
had only 2,600 to pay down. They have followed gen
eral farming, specializing in potatoes. Today these
three men own. fourteen quarter sections of this rich
soil and their united wealth is close to a half million
dollars. This has all been made from the soil in eigh
teen years.
From Poverty to Riches
In 1925 S. Miyake rented 160 acres of land just
south of Idaho Falls. He sold the crop that he produced
that year for 59,000. He planted 110 acres to Russet
potatoes.
From Indiana
Two -years ago Arthur and Everett Timnioris
came to this valley from Lafayette, Ind. This year
they planted 12 acres to potatoes arid produced 3860
sacks, each sack weighing 120 pounds. This is 322
sacks per acre or 644 bushels per acre Potatoes last
year sold for from 2.00 to 5.00 per hundred to the
farmer. This year bids fair to equal the price of 1925.
Figure it out for yourself.
"Ask the Man Who Owns One'
Deitrich Koester of Weeping Water has recently
- purchased a large farm near this city. He has seen this
country. Ask him what he thinks of this section.
There are more wealthy farmers within ten
miles of Idaho Falls than can be found in any like area
in the world. They made practically every dollar that
they possess on their farms and in a very few years at
. that. Many of them sold their potato crop last year at
a price that brought them over 1,000 per acre. We
could give a list of dozens of farmers who have paid
for their farms with the proceeds of a single crop.
Potato crops often sell for many times the cost of the
land upon which the potatoes are grown.
You can still buy this land for 150 per acre.
These prices will not last long. What is such land
worth? If the farmers of America really knew the
enormous productivity of this farming land every farm
in America would be for sale except the farms in Idaho
and we would not be able to absorb the people who
would rush here in order to purchase a tract of this, the
richest and most productive land on earth.
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Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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