Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1910, Page 16

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE APRIL 17, 1910. NEW FORMULA FOR WEALTH Dream Added to Water and Applied to Idaho Soil. STORY OF A DESERVED TRIUMPH Creek Lawyer and an tor Floated a Gremt Enterprise in Panie Times. & BUHL, ldaho, April 13.—(Special Corre- spondence of The Bee.)—This is & success story; ithe tale of & man from Iowa who made good. At Marne, Ia., twenty years 450 & 14-year-old boy worked 0dd hours in the printing office, the place where the little town paper made its weekly ‘effort to be interesting to some 400 or 500 “old sub- scribers,” with a “Pro Bono-Publico” and & “‘Veritas” thrown in for good m 1t was “Eddle do this" and “Eddle, that,” aod he was 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. Quite & jump for a bare-legged boy; quite a little plece to travel in fifteen years. But it's not with that I am concerned To get at Meredith's real progress you' got to Jump to Idaho; to” the lands of & C. J. PERKINS, Geperal Manager West End Twin Falls Irrigation Company. Carey law segregation. He makes his home in a tent here at Buhl, in sight of the snowy peaks of the Caribou hills,'and. C. J. Perkins is the wizard 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 ip his head, an tron gray mop, & bristly moustache and a plpe—a pipe that is gold mopnted, of French brier, with an amber mouthplece; a companionable pipe, which would and could talk it it had leg: Perking is'a hustler, a dreamer, and one who does things. all in one. He thinks and acts simultaneously. And, with him, a chance Is not a chance until it is roped, | hog tled and branded wtih his own initials | of C. J. P. Just a country lawyer's Jife; Just @ country lawoffice; just a lot of country lawyer clients at Cripple Creek, Colo., was too slow. for Perkins; alto- gether too slow, and so, one day he flitted -away to the orange groves of El Camino Real of Southern Californla. There he be- came interested in irrigation law, irri- gation practice and learned to know the enormous profits from both tilling irriga~ tion soll and promoting irrigetion projects, Smoking that pipe of his in the obser- vation car of a Pullman traln, bound-out of Salt Lake City one night, he was talk- ing of irrigation in €alifornta. “There's a #ood chance in this state,” sald 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 fleld engineer, who had first spoken. Then came detals. “Just back of Minldoka, over here a few miles, there is an old lake bottom; @ depression of earth that covers more than 8.000 acres. It is surroutided by great high walls, with a beautiful stream, filled with trout flowing into it, and I belleve that nature meant it for the site of a reservolr 50,000 acres of as fine & body out of doors Some bright of that whole country up $00,000." So spoke Perking knocked the ashes out of his pipe; ‘water and—no, he didn't Buhl's Hotel, though much accommodate its trade, is managed, oo most small o capably ol House at Buhl. Modern in every particular. Homeseekers have thelr plck of good furniture and new, WHAT A LIVE TOWN IS LIKE Some Notes on Buhl and the Coun- try Round About the * Town. This city Is the nearest point to the mew gold camp of Jarbidge, of which so much has been said. The former mine manager of the Cripple Creek country declares there 18 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 & great gold camp and that this place is nearer to Jarbldge than any other point is best evi- denced by the fact that the United States mall {s 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 for Buhl, the most centrally located city in all the Twin Falls tract. This great Carey. act segregation consiats of more than-240,000 acres of land, every foot of It iirigated by an ample tlow of ‘water from the inexhaustible Snake river, whose flood of never falling waters provide a constantly ready flow of mols- 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 1o be marketed. Buhl will become a city of 8,000 to 10,000 people just as quickly at'it became a city of 1,500 people. Money In- vested in Buhl now Is sure to be doubled within the next few year The soil of the south side project is of the best there Is in the entire United States. Almost every variety of productive soll is here for every varlety 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 soll is a mulch which has per- meated the subsoll so that the productive value of its soll 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 abeve sea level and the atmos- phere is high, dry and delightful. stal pure water for every purpose is provided by the mountain streams. The Snake river provides the city water, and this, coming from the clear, cold peaks of the nearby hills, is most palatable and de- lictous. There is a splendld 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, is one of the requests to all of our intending settlers. Alfalfa ylelds from five to nine tons to the acre; clover from three and one-half to five tons; timothy from one and & half to three tons; wheat from 35 to bushels to the acre; oats from 60 to I bushels; barley from 80 to 75 bushels; po- tatoes from 260 to 500 bushels; onlons from 400 to 600 bushels, 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 realize the wonderful possibilities before this city as an orchard country, Trees here will produce as high as 6 boxes of apples to the tree, beginning with the sixth year. Trees are planted 48 to the acre and the frult, when packed in a work- manlike manner for commerce, Will sell as high as $3 per box and from that down to §1 per box. It may thus be seen that - it is possible ‘to produce a gross)revenue of 3864 per acre from the better varleties) 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 published. I turn over your name to a number of responsible dealers in farm lands, city property and inyestments, and from that time on you deal with in- dividuals whom you can hold respensible, The Carey ct provides for this. Send to me for & copy of my free book on Buh), its_location, transportation, climate, soll 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 clties js aquick, “easy and comfortable. Buhl lies on thie 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, elght rooms, with most’ modern disposition of light and acoustics. The entire bullding is heated by steam, electrically lighted from the power of the Snake river, but a few miles away. There ls city water fi the bullding, and the sanitary ‘plambing and health arrangelments. There ‘are eight teachers under the direstion of Prof. W. C. Thompson, an educator of note. At the present time there are 318 puplls and these 1ill the twelve grades of the full high school course. Prof. Thompson has- taught in Idaho for five or six years and fs 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 orgunization. It occuples quarters forty feet one way by seventy- five fe the other. It is an incorporated body is governed by a board of di-* rectors, as are the clubs in the most ad- vanced' cities. The facile management of the club makes it possible 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 $100,00 per year. There are three 4mplement houses and groceries, de- partment stores and a business community Tully aiive to the needs of a Erowing 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. Dalry farmers, however, could be assured of & quick cash market for all the cream they could pro- vide. The Idaho Butchering and Packing Company Is & growing concern, now erect- ing & fine cold storage plant. The Buhl planing mill supplies all the necessitiés 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. It you are a flour mill man; a practical brick maker, or & canner of experlence, 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 bulld a practical plant here. Write for our booklet. Write to me: Wa want a flour mill, a brick plant and a cannery. And we want thousands of farm- ers. There's room enough for all. Write today for this information. Address: C. H, McQuowns, Secretary, Buhl Com- merclai Club, Buhl, Idaho. looking, -with delighted oyes, at the vast expanse-of the Cedar Creek country. Within thirty days his surveyors were at work, and within & year and & half the Carey Act segregation was made, the contract with the state of Idaho signed, sealed and do- Myered, and. Perkins was ready to buy clgars for the man with the money. . And here's where Meredith comes back into the -ploture, Perkins, himeelf, says: “It was & panle 3/T left Bolse with §15 in my pesket and about $400 In ‘‘panic money,’” which I couldn’t spend, not even on the raliroad trains for. meals. At-Colo~ rado Springs I went they kuew me and got some money for 1daho clearing house certificates. With this 1 got to Chicago, and there I was 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: ‘ob, no! Not by & jug-full! I kept at them, but it was & fruitiess task My . pin was all right, they sald. They couldn't kick.a hole in it anywhere, and #0 I knew I was all right. But money 1 had to have. Aud the chance remark of one into 'a bank where | of the cashiers of the banks I called’ on led me to the right road. ‘We can't let you have any money,’ this fellow sald. ‘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 sive up.’ That was what my friend the cashier sald. And the thought that came. to me was this: If T can get an advertising man In with me I can go to these farmers. Mine 15 & farmer's proposition, and they'll give me the money If they can see the Hardware, itur ement trade Is excellent here. Best goods carried in stock, sure and best end of the trade. I need an |completed. The land'is all sold. And the | who had it and would not let the advertising man to help me get to them. 1 looked over all the states and found that the per capita wealth of the state of Towa, judging by the bank statements, was about $200, And I went to Des Moines. 1 had 50,00 acres of land, for which I was entitied, under the Carey act to charge #40 per acre. I sought E. T. Meredith and proposed to Meredith that I sell 10,000 acres \for §26 per acre, the money to be used for construction work only. Simple, fsn't 1t? Well, I am here to say. that -the work Is more than one-fourth project does not owe a dollar on earth. Meredith will clean up $225,000 and Perkins will clean up $225,000 and the land will pro- vide homes for more than 3,00 people. “Oh, yes," said Mr, Perkins. “Meredith saw the feasibility of it at once, He fell right in with it. He used his own paper and a number of others. The Twentieth ntury Farmer and The Omahs Bee and @ number of other papers, many of them dallies, were all used, and the result was that in the middie of a panic X ralsed the money for this big project from farmers banks keep it for them. It was a lucky thing tor us.” Now, with this success behind them, these two men have located a similar plan in Fremont county They are golng to hop to it, ko soon as the final detalls of this plan are disposed of and out of the way The segregation has been applied for, the project has been financed, and so, on the heels of one success, will follow another, & Beo Want Ads Arc Business Boosters, ' ) ¥ .