SETTLING THE SNAKE RIVER VALLEY. 



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made a careful study of how an eighty-acre farm can be handled. It is 

 their habit to go over every detail of the matter carefully with the intend- 

 ing purchaser, showing just what the expense and income would be over a 

 series of years and planning the best disposition of his lands. The com- 

 pany's estimates are based on the following figures: Irrigated land in 

 Snake River valley produces 40 bushels of wheat per acre, selling at 50 

 cents per bushel; 250 bushels of potatoes per acre, selling at 30 cents per 

 bushel; five tons of alfalfa per acre, selling at $6 per ton; 70 bushels of oats 

 per acre, selling at 20 cents per bushel; one and a quarter tons of timothy 

 per acre, selling at $13 per ton. 



They have numerous testimonials from actual farmers now living in the 

 locality to demonstrate that these are conservative estimates. Reckoning 

 on this basis they easily show that farmers can net from $1,000 to $2,000 

 above all expenses on an eighty-acre farm. 



Qreat Western Land and Irrigation Gonipaiiy, 



The character of the company which has had such wonderful success 

 in the sale of these lands in the Snake River valley can be readily judged 

 from what has been said elsewhere in this article about the five prominent 

 gentlemen connected with it. Their reputation is of the highest. It goes 

 without saying that the public confidence which they have won by so many 

 years of successful work in directing settlers they certainly do not intend 

 to forfeit now in their new enterprise. Settlers going to a new country are 

 obliged to depend to a considerable degree upon parties selling them the 

 lands. There is every reason to believe that the confidence which. Scandi- 

 navians generally feel in the Great Western Land and Irrigation Company 

 is richly deserved. 



'It has been impossible within the limits of this article to discuss every- 

 thing that it would be interesting to discuss from the standpoint of the set- 

 tler. Attractive literature giving fuller particulars about the character of 

 the climate, soil and products, the educational, social and religious advan- 

 tages offered by the promising city of Idaho Falls, etc., can be had by ap- 

 plying to the Great Western Land and Irrigation Company, 97 Washington 

 street, Chicago. 



The officers of the company are as follows: President, G.Wallenberg; 

 Vice-President, N. E. Wenstrand; Secretary, C. A. Petterson; General Man- 

 ager, E. Tyden; Office Manager, A. Osterholm. 



A GLIMPSE OF IDAHO FALLS. 



