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Show MAKING OF BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY A Look Over the Project and a Reflection on Similar Enterprises Which Have Gone Before. l ast Sunday thru the courtesy of Project Manager McPherson, of the Delta Land & Water Co., we had the pleasure of visiting what is known as the North Tract, even to the far end of the project. While we had been prepared from the first for the things which were in store for us on our initial trip thru that great fertile tract by the different dif-ferent conversations we have with those familiar with the country we could not help but feel doubly impressed with the immensity of the grain fields which covered the great expanses of the North Tract and realize, first handed, the enormous amount of food stuff that was stored in the great ricks of un-thrashed un-thrashed grain which dotted the ground everywhere. The thrasher thrash-er is busy in that section but it will still be months before the last bushel of grain is put in the bin and the hum of the machine is stilleci for another season. There are many nice houses out on the North Tract, too, and in a few more years, when these new settlers get straightened around and get their places more under control and arrangements perfected per-fected for handling the farm it will certainly be a grand country to look at and to travel thru. One of the things which go far to make a locality beautiful and appealing . to the homebuilder and the visitor and which as yet is not very noticeable is border of trees - which should fringe every homestead. These trees are easily produced from the cuttings of the Carolina poplar. They are also hardy and of quick growth and we hope to see many of them gracing the farm yard and the roadside by another season. sea-son. The North Tract call us back a few years, and we can see the great Twm Falls Tract and the Minidoka Tract, both of Idaho, in their early stages of development. develop-ment. Then, again we see them as they are today. With their fine farms, surrounded with trees and divided off into various fields, and when we look at the great expanses which here surround sur-round us and think of those projects pro-jects as they were when we first saw them and as they are today we don't have to stop and think twice to forsee what the future of this great irrigation project will be. And'it wont be long either. Five years more will suffice to bring about a most remarkable re-markable and pleasing transformation trans-formation of this wonderfully fertile valley. Ten years ago there was nothing in those Idaho countries to hold the homeseeker there but a vague promise. Today To-day it appeals and calls to the early settler who has grown up with it and drifted away. So it will be here. When we get away it will seem that there is something some-thing lacking, a friend or constant con-stant attendant will seem to have suddenly slipped from your side. |