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Show BEAUTIFUL TWIN FALLS IS A MARVEL OF GROWTH YEARS OF PLENTY COMPRISE TOWN'S HISTORY I1 N upper left-hand corner is view of high school building and Twin Falls county court house. In upper right-hand corner is ! I typical scene when farmers come in with bounteous products, and below is a view of the falls on Snake river. I ; ': - dlV n ' ' : ' ' " 11 ? ..""' - -""" " ... 1""' V' t?"r "r ' " -- ti I Wonder of Modern City Building Is Found in Progressive Pro-gressive Community. By JESSIE WARRINGTON. TWELVE years ngo net a sagebrush sage-brush was cleared from the present pres-ent site of the city of Twin Ealls. Standing on tlie present site and gazing in any direction, nothing could be Been but the uubroken sagebrush desert as far as the eye could see. Today a modern city thrives on that site, a city of larpe business houses, beautiful homes, handsome schools, shade trees, paved streets a marvel to all who see it unexcelled agricultural country and the greatest seed-producing section in tho United States. This is- the nutshell history of the Tvrin Falls country in southern Idaho. Irrigation is tho life of the tract, and the Twin Falls irrigation system is acknowledged to be tho most successful in irrigation history. Tho substantial prosperity of the tract today and the smoothly working system are the strongest strong-est testimonies to the entire success of the project. A small but efficient force of men was at the head of the construction construc-tion activity and they pushed the preliminary pre-liminary -work rapidly but carefully. The two-milKon-dolHir dam at Milner, thirty miles east of Twin Falls, was constructed, con-structed, tho network of canals, laterals and ditches stretched over the tract and the entire work completed in two years. Gain Is Universal. December 31, 1915, marks the close of the most profitable of the eleven wonderful won-derful years of the tract. An inventory of the past year shows a gain in every line over every other year. Crop yields have been phenomenal; -more building has been done and is being done, both business houses aud residences, than in any of the past six years; agriculture, fruit and stock raising and bee culture all show marked progrc-ss, and the enrollment en-rollment in the schools has passed the highest mark in their history. The banks, which are a sort of pulse of the community, indicating its strength, show over $1,S00,000 in deposits. de-posits. Each of the three b.mks, the Twin Fails Bank & Trust, the First National Na-tional and the Idaho State bank, in Twin Falls, showa a considerable growth over last year. The county recorder's office shows a greater number of instruments filed this year than any other previous year, of which number over 70O were satisfactions satisfac-tions and releases of real estate mortgages. mort-gages. The school; throughout the tract show a substantial growth over any previous year. The enrollment in Twin Falls alone is 194.1, of which number -10(3 are in the high school. There are, on an average, fifty-one pupils to each teacher. Two hundred and nine pupils started in the first grade this rear. The total teaching- force includes fifty-six fifty-six teachers and three supervisors. Schools Are Better. The centralized school system has proved most successful on the Twin Falls tract. Some -"500 or more pupils are brought from the rural district within a radius of four miles by means of twenty-four school wagons and the electric elec-tric scenic railway, which takes the place of three wagons in one section of the district. The expense oi transportation transpor-tation this year will be approximately $12,000, or about -20 per pupil i:-er year. The way in which the people of the Twin Falls country have met the public school problem is worthy of consideration considera-tion and the highest commendation. Yithin a period nf less than eieht years three school buildings costing a total of $271,000 have been built and equipped. The high school building alone - cost $171,000. Few communities are called upon to meet such problems within so short a period. Aud few could or would meet such problems and solve them as has the Twin Falls country, which itself it-self is only eleven years old. All the vocational courses are carried in the high school and many of them in the grades. There probably is no school anywhere more modern and up-to-date in its system than the Twin Falls schools. Attracts Attention. Everyone talks big crops and agriculture agricul-ture in the Twin Falls country eccu the children. And the eves of'the nation, na-tion, agriculturally speaking, are turned Twin Fallsward, by the reports of enormous enor-mous prodm-tiors. Of the 71, DUO acres comprising the Twin Falls project proper, there are now 165.96d acres under cultivation. This is a gain uf 9ri3 acres over last year. Of this acreage 11. .19-" are in fruit. Over 2''-0 ca'-s of apples were shipped from the tract this year. On tiie tract, this year wore over 135.-00n 135.-00n head of stock, which was a gain of son.e 3S.P00 head over last year." Prac- I ticallv all of the stock is of the highest 1 blooded grade. Bee culture is a growing industry in the Twin Falls country and the quality of the honev produced is of the finest. It is estimated that about $20.0t:rt worth uf honev will ho the shipment from the tra?t for tiie year. Dairy- ini i"' also a pro;it:-Mc and growing industry. A prominent Twin Ka-N speake1-. in addressing a baminet rccenily iu Twin Falls, made the hai-pv vi-mark: At' the rate the Twin Falls farmer is spring spr-ing in seed crop production he will t T&mhm- ' - " ' ' - " i i' '.Vr.O':;"'?.;. !.-.iK-vWi-.'.;i'.i1 : .V::..::.:.-. -- '-X. d i;. :--VV 4..:s .;i-tVS : " : ::: ' 4 '-3 'SKXy -:-Vs ,: . .X.Mff:: a. 4i :-. .... ! -v-:. ."J.','..-- S- :;r ,'!.;ii :- .i.: :. . :..: 0-;-: J ' dGk r- 1 soon be hauling his crops to town In an automobile and taking his money home in a hayrack." Scores of farmers on the Twin Falls tract this year received from $100 to more than $300 per acre for their crops in clover seed aud sugar beets. At Buhl, in the west end of the tract, the plan has been suggested among the farmers of organizing a club to membership mem-bership in which every farmer is eligible eli-gible who received 100 or more per acre for his crops this year. Tho names of nineteen men were given as some of the charter members. On a total of 272 acres of clover seed owned Ijv these nineteen men the crops brought an average of $160.76 per acre.' or a total of $43, : 37.25 for the 272 acres. The. men averaged fourteen and one-third acres each. A carefully compiled report gathered from thirty-four fields of clover seed, or a total "of 535.12 acres, showed an average of $129.26 per acre. There are 27.459 acres of the tract in alsike. red and white clover. Figured Fig-ured at the above average from thirty-four thirty-four fields, the seed crop on the Twin Falls tract this year would be $3,442,-211. $3,442,-211. Taking a low estimate of one-third one-third that amount, the returns still show a total of $1,147,403 for the seed crop from the tract this year. Splendid Average. From twenty-seven fields of wheat, oats a.nd barley, or a total of 600 acres, an average of $59 per acre was received. re-ceived. On the tract, are 56,309 acres in the above named crops, which, at the average received from twenty sevey fields, would bring $3,322,231 for the'whe:;t, nats and barley crop of the tract this vear. or over a million dol--fflrs at a 'very lew estimate. Sampson Samp-son .brothers, residing near Hansen, ten miles east of Twin Falls, received 1272 bushels of wheat from twelve acres of land, or an average of 106 bushels per acre. "White clover, which wont from eight to as high as seventeen bushels per acre, sold for from $20 to $30 per bushel. Alsike clover went from eight to twen-tv-three and a half bushels poT acre : and sold for from 7 to $12 per bushel. Bed clover was about the same. I i an individual example may be i-itrd th" success uf P. IT. Xewmann, who leases the .lunge Hansen farm, fifteen miles south of Twin Falls. lie has a five-vcar lease on the farm of 160 acres for $1000 per year. Fifty-seven Fifty-seven acres of the farm are in alfalfa. Last year llr, .owma:m received $4200 frnui'the sale of the seed from the fifty-seven acres. This year ho received re-ceived a check for $7450 for the seed from the same field. The returns from the other crops grown on the farm paid the farm rental and operating expenses, ex-penses, leaving the $7450, received for the seed, clear gain. Beets Are Important. William Buesing, living near Filer, a few miles west or Twin Falls, received $113 50 per acre from ten and a half acres of land which yielded a total of 25'60 pounds. F. W. Brown, residing near Filer, received re-ceived $700 for So. 000 pounds of onions grown on 1.9 acres. , Tho growing of sugar heets is taking an important place in the agricultural industries of the tract. A little over 1600 acres were devoted this year to the growing of sugar beets and yields ran 'from an average of sixteen and eighteen tons per acre to over twenty-seven twenty-seven tons. The names of some thirty . five growers of sugar beets were recently recent-ly secured bv the Commercial club, all .if whom this year secured twenty tons ;l!"l live- per :!".'. The Ti-'a !-'a!ls Mi.hng & T.icvatnr -cmi-nnv reports the bi'jgest year iu its H-dorv.' This m'H has a capacity of s00 barrels per aav and is tiie larger between Denver and Portland. The same splendid progress and development devel-opment is shown in each of the other towns on tho tract Buhl, Filer. Kim-berlv. Kim-berlv. Hansen and also on the Oakley tract, some forty miles south, also on the north side tract, whi-h lies north nf Snake river and adjoins the Twin Kails tra-t proper. Bright Outlook. The omluok Tnr T-10 coming ear of tOl'-i is the b;-ightet in the historv of he tr.ict. This is the statement oi Twin Falls bankers, merchants, professional men, buyers, shippers, farmers, teachers, teach-ers, ministers, newspapers. Ten business houses are uojv in course of construction. More than twenty' residences are being be-ing built. A million-dollar beet sugar factory is guaranteed. A $50,000 gas plant will be built early in the year. Preliminary work has begun on the new $85,000 federal building. Increased activity is apparent in every line of business. Among the possibilities- which are now being seriously considered and which in all probability will be realized the coming com-ing year are a canning plant and a fruit-drying fruit-drying plant to care for the fruit byproducts. by-products. The million-dollar beet sugar factory is to be built early in the coming year of 1916, and this assures activity in many lines, including extensive stock-feeding stock-feeding from the by-products of the factory. fac-tory. The Twin Falls project challenges any community in the country to show a more marvelous past, in development, or a blighter prospect for the coming year than is hold by southern Idaho. |
