OCR Text |
Show I EVIDENCE OF WHAT TWIN PALLS I I COUNTRY OFFEiRS TO INVESTORS (By C. E. ARNEY.) Special to The Tribune. ' TWIN FALLS, Ida., Xov. 4. Among the many men of commercial worth attracted to tho Twin FaUs Carey act lauds from all portions of tho country and from all avenues of life, Mr. F. F. Beatly occupies a hiirh place. Ho eomcfl from Throe Hi vers,. Mich., where he operates, as its president, the JL M. Kellogg & Co.'s r25-acre strawberry, pea and jiolato farm. Of his Michigan farm, practically' LIO acres is now in strawberries, and they aim to rotate these crops annually, passing pass-ing from strawberries to cow pens and to potatoes, then back to the strawberries. straw-berries. To illustrate the extent, of this firm's business, .Mr. Beatfy states that their annual sales of strawborrios reach the enormous number of 20,000,000 plnnt-s. Their territory extends to every agricultural agri-cultural community in tho union of slates. When queried today ns to the initial in-itial advice obtained by this successful success-ful financier, ho slated that, he read in a newspaper a readable article on the new Twin Falls country and -sent for their literature. "Some seed fell upon good ground and grew and multiplied mul-tiplied a hundred-fold. " Mr. Heady camo here personally and checked up on the statements he had seen in tjio papers and Jho subsequent reading matter furnished, and evi-denceu evi-denceu his belief in tho virtue of this soil hy buying outright 000 acres of the land. "1 have .inst completed a tour of the Pacific coast states.", said Mr. Beady today, '"and I have seen no country on my entire trip which appealed ap-pealed to me as does Southern Idaho. It has the elements, as a new country, whero-a man can make more on a dollar dol-lar than any .other place I have visited. vis-ited. 'J am sure it is a safe place for winter apples, and I know the country is idea! for strawberries." ' The-Kellogg company, of which Mr. Bennett is (ho financial head, will start here next year the establishment of a new strawberry plant supply farm for their enormous Irade, m tins and adjoining ad-joining stales, including the Pacific coast. The beginning of this plan will be seen here very early next spring, .when leu acres of strawberry plants will be set out on Mr. Bennett 's land, three miles north of Twin Falls. For some years it has been ncc.es-nary ncc.es-nary for this firm to buy from Chicago and ship to their Three Jfivers farm, sixty carloads annually of fertilizer for enriching the land upon which they produce their berry plants. This work here, Mr. Bennett states, will be entirely en-tirely unnecessary, as. the land of this locality possesses all the roiiisilo elements ele-ments ' for tho pcrfectjnnturity of the plant nYfd'lhe berry. 'Mr. Bennett visited a farm yesterday yester-day and looked at some of his'Mich-Vigan his'Mich-Vigan plants set; out two years ago. the o;ner of which sold this'year, 'for $75, tho strawberries from one-lift Ji of an acre of land. Another item of expense to the si raw-berry raw-berry culture in Michigan as against the 'I'wi'n Falls tract is the necessity pf covering the strawberry beds there, .while they can remain .open here with entire safety from freezing. Mr. Bennelt advocates the early spring as the bedej season for strawberry straw-berry planting and slates that the sooner soon-er the plant is reset, the better its chances for growth and tho earlier will it produce fruit. This at once becomes a great benefit to this tract, to this, and adjoining states. .The Kellogg company are great advertisers. ad-vertisers. They have no agents to -sell their plants. They do catalogue ami .newspaper advertising and spend annually an-nually approximately SriOO in call- ing the attention of tho public to thoir product. The pro pa rat ion of Mr. Bennetts land, for tho berry plants has not been without with-out its financial reward to him, for his first forty acres cleared was planted plant-ed to potatoes from which he this year, sacked .1200 bushels. Three acres of the laud averaged him 500 bushels of potatoes per acre. This strawberry industry is sure to bo of the higher order of substantial assets to tho Twin Falls county. . Senator M. T. Swcelcy of Twin Falls, who is at present visiting his former friends at Sioux City, Iowa, was the father of tho Shoshone Falls Stale Park bill, passed 1)3' the last session of tho Idaho legislature. Tho legislaluro net aside all of school section thirty-six,' in the southerly side of Snake river, adjoining the Great falls which are one of tho scenic wond ors. not onby of Idaho, but of the world. These falls and this reserve is five miles nort boast of this city. In addition to the land. Senator Sweeley's bill carried with iUan appro priation of :?2000 bv the state. Conditioned Con-ditioned tipon Twin Falls county donating donat-ing aa equal sum for the improvement of the grounds, in its initial stage of progress. . The board of commissioners very promptly made, the appropriation of their portion of tho money and desig naled Mr. A. L. Uessire as overseer of tho work and he 'is just beginning the work with a force of men, the first step taken is to "improve the highway approaching ap-proaching the Great falls, for tho com fort and safely of the large concourse of )eople who come annually to see this superb natural water fall in the Snake ri ver. The possibilities of this park plan are very ' great. There is, among the rocks and caverns in this great beautiful beau-tiful section-of land, sufficient soil and water to irrigate it. to insure Ihe growth of ornamental trees which will add materially to the gr.audcur with which nature has 0 liberally adorned this magnificent waterway. Properly arranged, ar-ranged, the slate park, the first embellishment embel-lishment to nature's many scenic wonders won-ders to which Ihe state has appropri I aled land or money, will soon become a cherished pride to Idaho's ambitious citizenship. ! 1 Early in the opening of this new Caj-oy act plan of irrigation of these desert lands, the Twin Kails Bank and Trust, company was located in this i city. McCornick & Co. of Salt Lake wero prime factors in this institution, and they aro today preparing to shift their location from tho frame building erected .early in tho history of this town. They are building a steel frame and cut stone banking house, 50x120 feet and two stories high, but tho plan provides for an ultimate completion of a five-story structure. Tho cut stone for this banking house is being shipped from Bedford, lud. The corner room, on Shoshone avenue and Main street, will be occnp.ied for tho bank and trust company. Two storerooms on Shoshone avenuo'will be provided for stores, and the entire second stor- for office buildings. build-ings. The lot on whi.h this home for the bank is building was bought bv the company for $23,000. and the present structure, two stories high, will cost about $75,000. . As. an indication of values of prop-crl3' prop-crl3' in this six-year-old city, the owner of the corner lot opposite the Perrine hotel, lo the north, was offered and refused $14,000. The lot is twenty-five feet front and extends back a distance of 125 feet. It is occupied at present by a signboard and a peanut stand. One-half mile from tho townsito limits lim-its of Twir Falls last week, eight and one;half acres, of laud sold for $S000 cash. There wore no improvements on c the land, excepting the fenco which marked ils boundary line. |