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SEW fORMDLAJOR WEALTH )mPm. &m
Dream Added to Water and Applied
to Idaho Soil.
STOIIY OF A DESfuVED TRIUMPH
Mow a Cripple Creek Lawyer and
Iowa Editor Floated a Great
Enterprise la raalo
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BL'HU Idaho. April li. (Special Corre
spondence of The Bee.) This U a success
lory; -the tale of a roan from Iowa who
made good. At Marne, la, twenty years
ago a U-year-old boy worked odd houra In
the printing office, the place where the
little town paper made Its weekly effort to
be Interesting to aome 400 or BOO "old tub-
scTibers." with a "Pro Bono -Publico" and
a "Verltaa" thrown In for good meaaure.
It was "Eddie do this" and "Eddie, do
that," and he waa the Indispensable "devil"
who swept the floors, washed the rollers of
their sticky ink, made the lye solution for
the "form" of type. Just now they call
him B. T. Meredith, publisher of "Success
ful Farming," and his newspaper last
month carried a total of ninety-six pages.
yulte a jump for a bare-legged boy; quite
a little piece to travel In fifteen years.
But it's not with that I am concerned
To get at Meredith's real progress you've
got to Jump to Idaho; to the lands of a
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General Manager West End Twin Falls
Irrigation Company.
Carey law aegregatlon. He makes his home
In a tent here at Buhl, In sight of the
snowy peaks of the Caribou hills, and C.
J. Perkins la the wlxard who has made
another desert bloom like a rose.
Perkins Is a Wisconsin man; transplanted
to 'Colorado, with a home in California;
cosmopolite, thoroughly With a keen eye
in his, head, an Iron gray mop, a bristly
moustache and a pipe a pipe that la gold
mounted, of French brier, with an amber
mouthpiece; ' a companionable pipe, which
( would and could talk. If It had legs.
Perkins Is 'a hustler, a dreamer, and one
who does things, all In one. He thinks and
acta simultaneously. And, , with him, a
chance Is not a chance until It Is roped,
hog tied and branded wtih his own Initials
of C. J. P. Just a country lawyer's life;
Just a country lawofflce; Just a lot of
country lawyer clients at Cripple Creek,
Colo., waa too slow- for Perkins; alto
gether too slow, and so, one day he flitted
-away to the orange grovea of El Camino
Ileal of Southern California. There he be
came Interested Jn Irrigation law. Irri
gation practice and learned to know the
enormoua profits from both tilling Irriga
tion soil and promoting Irrigation projects.
Smoking that pipe of his In the obser
vation car of a Pullman train, bound out
of tSelt Lake City one night, be was talk
ing of irrigation In California "There's a
good chance In this state," said one of the
men, lounging In the shadow of a corner.
"What state are we In," asked Perkins.
"Idaho," came the slow drawl of the field
engineer, who had first spoken. Then came
de-tails.
"Just back of Minidoka, over here a
few miles, there is an old lake bottom;
a depression of earth that covers more than
$.000 acres. It Is surrounded by great high
walls, with a beautiful stream, filled with
trout flowing Into It, and I believe that
nature meant It for the site of a reservoir
EDWARD T. MEREDITH.
Editor and Publisher of buccetsful Farming,
lies Moines. .
for an Irrigation project. I believe you
ought to go take a look at It. Adjacent
there are over 60,000 acres of as fine a body
t land aa lies out of doora Some bright
fellow will get hold of that whole country
some day and clean up $000,000." So spoke
the engineer.
Ferkli knocked the ashes out of his pipe
took a drluk of ice water andno, he didn't
ao to bed. In the middle of the night he
lighted at Minidoka, and the next morn
intf. with a trusty cayuse picking its way
round the gopher holes, scaring the Jack
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The 5,0UU Kchool JloiMe at Buhl. Modern In every particular.
Homeneeki-rs have their pick of good
furniture and new.
WHAT A LIVE TOWN IS LIKE
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This city is the nearest point to the new
gold camp of Jarbldge, of which so much
has been eald. The former mine manager
of the Cripple Creek country declares there
la more ore In sight In one of the Jarbldge
mines than there was at the famous Port
land mine at Cripple Creek at the same
age. Jarbldge Is destined to be a great
gold camp and that this place is nearer to
Jarbldge than any other point la best evi
denced by the fact that the United States
mall is carried from Buhl to Jarbridge. The
proximity of this great gold camp allows
every farmer of this tract a safe and sure ,
outlet for his produce not only now, but for
years to come.
Take the map and look ior Buhl, the most
centrally located, city in all the .Twin Falls '
tract. Thia great Carey, act segregation
consists of more than-240,000 acres of land,,
very foot of It Irrigated by an ample flow
of water from the inexhaustible Snake
river, whose flood of never failing waters 1
provide a constantly ready flow of mois
ture. It is like having your rain on tap.
Directly tributary to Buhl there -are 90,000
acres of land, every acre of which must
come to Buhl for Its necessities and the
produce of all of which must come to Buhl
to be marketed. Buhl will become a city
of 8.000 to 10,000 people Just as quickly at'tt
became a city of 1,600 people. Money In
vested In Buhl now is sure to be doubled
within the next few years.
The soil of the south side project is of
the best there is in the entire United
States. Almost every variety of productive 1
soil Is here for every variety of agricultural
produce.' The entire country is overlaid
by a deposit of volcanic ash of an alluvial
deposit, brought down by the Snake river
from the tops of the surrounding hills.'
This top soil is a mulch -which has per
meated the subsoil so that the productive
value of its soli richness - is incalculable
and Inexhaustible.
Surrounded by hills, whose peaks are cov
ered by eternal snow, the hot winds of
summer are cooled so that the nights are
most endurable. There has not been at any
time at Buhl a night when bed covers are
not comfortable, nor has there ever been
a winter when one needed a bed room
stove. The city lies, almost three-quarters
of a mile abvve sea level and the atmos
phere Is high, dry and delightful.
Crystal pure water for every purpose is
provided by the mountain streams. The
Hnake river provides the city water, and
this, coming from the clear, cold peaks of
the nearby hills, is most palatable and de
licious. There Is a splendid creamery at Buhl,
taking all the cream the farmers can pro
duce. Indeed, the creamery might be
made much larger were it possible to se
cure more cream. "Put a cow In your
pocket" when you start from the east, la
. one of the requests to all of our Intending
settlers. Alfalfa yields from five to nine
tons to the acre; clover from three and
one-half to five tons; timothy from one and
a half to three tons; wheat from 3o to 75
buHhcls to the acre; oats from CO to l-0
bushels; barley from 50 to 75 bushels; po
tatoes from 250 to WO bushels; onions from
400 to 000 buHliels. and all kinds of small .
fruit do exceedingly well.
But the orchard industry Is the one that
will make Buhl the peer of any orchard
city In the world. Not even those who live
here yet realise the wonderful possibilities
before this city aa an orchard country.
Trees here will produce as high aa 8 boxes
of apples to the tree, beginning with the
sixth year. Trees are planted 48 to the
acre and the fruit, when packed in a work.
1 manlike manner for commerce, will sell
as high as $3 per box and from that down
to fl per box. It may thus be seen that
It Is possible to produce a gross I revenue
of 8K04 per acre from the better varieties)
better grades, better cared for fruit. The
best plan to follow when coming west is
to send to me and get one of the beautiful
books we have publltthed. I turn over your
name to a number of responsible dealers in
farm lands, city property and Investments,
and from that time on you deal with in
dividuals whom you can hold responsible,
The Carey act provides for this. Send to'
me for a copy of my free book on Buhl,
Its location, transportation, climate, soil
and resources. Remember that this book
is absolutely free.
Socially, Buhl is a complete community.
The churches are Methodist, Presbyterian,
Baptist, Catholic and Episcopal. The min
isters In charge are all able, brilliant men.
There is an opera house, to which -come
the best attractions in this section, and
transportation to the near-by cities Is
quick, easy and comfortable. Buhl lies
on the Minidoka branch of the Oregon
Short Line (Union Pacific railway), and
this . makes getting Into or away from
town most comfortable.
Buhl has one $35,000 school house, eight
rooms, with most modern disposition of
light and acoustics. The entire building is
heated by steam,, electrically lighted from
the power of the Snake river, but a few
miles away. There Is city water h the
building, and the rtost sanitary plumbing
and health arrangements. There are eight
teachers under the direction of Prof. W. C.
Thompson, an educator of note. At . the
present time there are 318 pupils and these
fill the twelve grades of the full high school
course. Prof. Thompson has - taught In
Idaho for five or eix years and Is thor
oughly well acqainted with the western
needs and requirements. He has adapted
the most advanced thought on the subject
to the needs of a community so small as
Buhl and the result Is a most satisfactory
blending of the necessary and useful. The
school system of Buhl can not be surpassed
by any city of its size in this country.
Buhl is well provided with business In
stitutions. Its Commercial club is a live
and growing organization. It occupies
quarters forty feet one way by seventy
five feet the other. It Is an Incorporated
body and is governed by a board of dl-'
rectors, as are the clubs In the most ad
vanced cities. The facile management of
the club makes.it pussihle for it to take
up matters of public Interest; to induce
industries, - to advertise and generally
push the community into its deserved
prominence. There are three hardware
stores, one of which does a business of
more than $100,000 per year. There are
three -Implement houses and groceries, de
partment stores and a business community
fully alive to the needs of a growing city.
The Buhl creamery is one of the impor
tant institutions of the city. It has a ca
pacity not now taxed because of the diffi
culty of getting cream. Dairy farmers,
however, could be assured of a quick cash
market for all the cream they could pro
vide. The Idaho Butchering and Packing
Company i a growing concern, now erect
ing a fine cold storage plant. The Buhl
planing mill supplies all the necessities of
the builder of home or office building or
store.
Buhl needs a flour mill badly, to take
care of the great grain crop of the near-by
farmers. A canning mill will be a much
needed institution in the near future, while
a brick plant would coin money from the
Jump. We want these new businesses. We
will make it easy for them to come. If
you are a flour mill man; a practical brick
maker, or a canner of experience, we want
you to correspond with us. We will make
It worth your while to find . out the In
ducements we will offer. If you will build
a practical plant here.
Write for our booklet. Write to me: We
want a flour mill, a brick plant and a
cannery. And we want thousands of farm
' ere. There's room enough for all.
Write today for this Information. Address:
C. H. McQuowns, Secretary, Buhl Com
mercial Club, Buhl, Idaho.
Hardware. Furniture and Implement trade Is excellent
here. Best goods carried in stock.
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PANORAMA OF THE CITT OF BUHL, IDAHO. TWO IMPORTANT INDU STRIES DO NOT APPEAR IN THIS PICTURE.
looking, -with delighted eyes, at the vast
expanse of the Cedar Creek country. Within
thirty days his surveyors were at work,
and within A year and a half the Carey Act
segregation waa made, the contract with
the state of Idaho signed, sealed and de
livered, and Perkins waa ' ready to buy
cigar for the man with the money. .
And here's where Meredith come back
Into the picture. Perkins, himself, says:
"It waa a panlo year; I left Boise wKh $15
cash In my pocket and about $400 in "panic
money,' whk-h I couldn't spend, not even
on the rallroal trams for. intwJa.-At -Colo
rado Springs I went into a bank where
they knew me and got aome money for
Idaho clearing house certificates. With this
I got to Chicago, and there I waa promptly
kicked out of every bank and bond broker's
office In the Windy City. They were per
fectly ' willing to profit by the trade that
comes from the west, but money for west
ern enterprise: oh, no! Not by a Jug-full!
I kept at them, but it was a fruitiest task
My. plan was all right, they said. They
couldn't kick a hole In 11 anywhere, and
to I knew I waa all right But money 1
had to bava. And the cbauce reinai k of one
of the cashlera of the banks I called on
led me to the right road. 'We can't let you
have any money,' this fellow said. 'It's all
we can do to hold on to what we've got.
The farmers have the money, but they
aren't putting it In the bank and they are
taking out every cent they can get us to
give up.'
That was what my friend the cashier
said. And the thought that came to roe
was this: If I can get an advertising man
In with roe I can go to these farmers.
Mine la a farmer's proposition, and they'll
give me the money If they cau tee the
sure and best end of the trade. I need an
advertising man to help me get to them.
I looked over all the states and found
that the per capita wealth of the stale of
Iowa, Judglug by the bank etatementt, was
about $300. And I went to Des Moines. I
had 60.000 acrea of land, for which I waa
entitled, under the Ctrey act to charge
$40 per acre. I sought E. T. Meredith and
proposed to Meredith that I sell 10,000 acres
. for $2 per acre, the money to be used for
construction work only. a
Simple, Isn't It? Well, I am here to say
that - the work it more than one-fourth
completed. The land is all told. And the
project dots not owe a dollar on earth.
Meredith will clean up $225,000 and Perkins
will clean up $2X5,000 and the land will pro
vide homes for more than $,000 people.
"Oh, yet," laid Mr. Perkins. "Meredith
taw the feasibility of It at once. He fell
right In with It. He used Jill pwn paper
and a number of others. The Twentieth
Century Farmer and The Omaha Bee and
a number of other papers, many of them
dailies, were all used, and the result was
that In the middle of a panlo I. raised the
money fur this big project from farmers
who had it and would not let the banks
keep it for them. It was a lucky thing
for us."
Now, with this success behind them,
these two men have located a similar plan
In Fremont county They are going to
hop to It, so soon as the final details of
thlt plan are disposed of and out of the
way The segregation hat been applied
for, the project hat been financed, and so,
on the heels of one success, will follow
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