Show A REGION OP OF VAST possibilities let an observant man who takes note of the canines and elements that make a people prosperous and great start on a journey from this city northward let him survey that area of marvelous beauty cache valley with its elip elliptical horizon of mount mountains aAna whose tops reach the clouds at all points of the compass let him consider the fertility of the soil the luxuriant pasturage in the hills and mountains the limitless power the dashing canyon streams would yield if harnessed for the production of electricity tri city and the facilities for tories and rapid transit and he will think this valley an ideal hoto hom for a thrifty and happy people let our traveler continue his journey northward until he reaches the wheat fields of southern idaho let him take note of the manner in which the stall staff of life is here produced he will see vast baat stretches of land made into wheat fields if he Is traveling at this season of the year he will observe flat prairies rolling hills and sloping mountain sides aides all clothed alike in the green that so soon and gloriously ripens into the gold of the harvest field and the calm and confident cont dent independence of the wheat ranch owner will be sure to make a lasting impression upon his hia mind three months of labor in the year amr la all that the wheat farmer fahmer here need do he harvests his crop in august and in september and october plows his land and sows bows it for another year and then he walts waits around for nine months until harvest time comes again during those nine months he can work a little if he wants to he can milk cows and sell the milk to a creamery at a price that pays him well or becan cultivate an orchard for which both soil and climate are admirably adapted or he can raise sheep swine or poultry all of which are very profitable or he can just live on the proceeds of his wheat crop and not try to increase his hia income from that source if he likes a life of ease your idaho wheat rancher is far more independent and far less worried than your wall street banker let our traveler continue northward to central idaho and traverse the great and vast snake river valley here nature made preparations on a gigantic scale here she designed that the food supply of millions should be produced by tens of thousands of tillers of the soil for whom she provided farms of enormous size the mellow loam when moistened has a richness simply wonderful eighty bushels of wheat a hundred or more of oats and six hundred of potatoes are often raised on a single acre and potatoes that weigh five pounds apiece are quite common the agricultural possibilities of snake river valley are still unmeasured its area is greater than some of the states in the union and its supply of water for irrigation is correspondingly abundant cereals and vegetables sufficient to feed a population ot 0 millions can easily be produced within its boundaries its fame as a farming fanning region is attracting thousands of settlers and a procession of covered wagons occupied tot by emigrants rolls dally daily over the road leading from utah to its larger towns after viewing snake river valley let our traveler come back to pocatello and take the main branch of the oregon short line railroad westward visiting boise nampa payette and this region Is the home of stone fruits and here the prune reaches its highest perfection in size flavor and prolific yield peaches apples pears and apricots will return an immense recompense to the who will cultivate them in fact every fruit known to a temperate climate grows in luxuriant abundance is a reasonably sure crop and in size and flavor is unsurpassed then let the student tourist go westward beyond the oregon line where he will enter the region of vast timber areas and rich gold placers and ledges probably no part of the american continent today is more prosperous or promising than portions of eastern oregon here the laborer finds employment the farmer a market the capitalist fine opportunities for investment and the miner the desires of his heart by this time the investigating visitor has passed over an extended region of vast possibilities he has covered great areas of enormous natural wealth he has neither the courage nor the acumen to predict to what limits the developments destined to take place in this portion of the american continent may yet attain he is awed by what his reason tells him must be its future should the natural course of events continue unbroken |