THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Although Shoshone is growing in rapid strides, the 

 demand for residence property is far in excess of the sup- 

 ply, and from five to six families are turned away weekly 

 for lack of accommodations. There is an unequaled op- 

 portunity for some one with the means to build a num- 

 ber of cottages for rent and sale. Investments along all 

 lines are exceptionally promising, and conservative busi- 

 ness men of the community predict that Shoshone will 

 double its population within the next two years. 



Governor Gooding and his brothers, to whom a large 

 measure of the advancement of Lincoln County is due, and 

 who are known throughout the length and breadth of the 

 State as men of large enterprise and sterling qualities, 

 are numbered among Shoshone's foremost business men. 

 They are Shoshone's exclusive bankers at the present 

 time and are the proprietors of an extensive general mer- 

 chandise store. Their bank has a wide and lucrative 

 patronage, and is known as one of the most substantial 

 institutions of its kind in the State. Shoshone is to have 

 another bank, however, in the near future, which pro- 

 claims an important step in its growth and solidity. 



An electric railway is now in course of construction 

 from the town of Milner, on the Twin Falls branch of the 

 Oregon Short Line, through the town of Jerome and on 

 to the towns of Shoshone and Gooding. As this road will 

 ultimately be extended to Boise, it will place Shoshone 

 on two lines of railroad, a position of no small commercial 

 consequence. From a competitive view, Shoshone cer- 

 ta_inly has a point of vantage to be seriously reckoned 

 with by the towns of Southeastern Idaho. 



Shoshone has an association, composed of her best 

 citizens, known as Shoshone Commercial Club. It is the 

 purpose and pleasure of this club to furnish information 

 amHiterature to those who desire it upon all matters per- 

 taining to the town or surrounding country. 



THE MANUFACTURE OF CONCRETE DRAIN TILE. 



A Coming Industry. 



WRITE US 



HADDOCK LAND CO. 



OFFICES AT 



Shoshone, Gooding and Jerome 



Lincoln County 

 IDAHO 



We are the oldest Real Estate firm in Lincoln 

 County and thoroughly familiar with the land, 

 land values, resources; present and prospective 

 conditions. 



We handle town property, Carey Act Claims and 

 improved ranches. 



The opportunities in this section are wonderful 

 for men of even slender means. You should 

 investigate at once as land values are rapidly 

 going up. 



One shining example of remarkable success in the line 

 of manufactured commodities of concrete is the flourishing 

 drain tile business that has been developed principally in the 

 last two or three years in those sections of the West where 

 the surplus oil waters must be removed before anything ap- 

 proaching maximum crojJ production can be attained. Al- 

 ready the field of operation is widening in this line to the 

 delta lands of the South, which, when reclaimed, will make 

 one of the most fertile regions of the world. The climatic 

 conditions make possible almost priceless crops of fruits and 

 vegetables, and they lie close enough to market to make 

 immediate results tangible the first year after the improve- 

 ment of drainage is provided for. In California, far beyond 

 the reach of present transportation facilities for clay drain 

 tile to reach, they are awakening to the opportunity presented 

 by the adoption of concrete drain tile as the only means to 

 successfully reclaim countless square miles of what is now 

 little better than waste land to the agriculturist. 



The drain tile business, starting in the Middle West to 

 meet the needs of the farmers already engaged in the cultiva- 

 tion of valuable land, is merely in its infancy, for the work 

 that lies before the concrete drain tile industry from now on 

 into the future amounts to the stupendous undertaking of 

 reclaiming an area of farming land equal to that part already 

 under cultivation. Not this generation or even the next 

 will see any appreciable diminution of the field for operations. 

 Whole sections as yet unknown to the agriculturist will be 

 made to blossom and bring forth fruit abundantly, and the 

 day is at hand when waste lands will yield fortunes to tile 

 manufacturers with the capital to improve cheap real estate 

 by simply putting in the tile to give sufficient drainage. 



Speculative capital is looking in this direction at the 

 present time, because it is close to Mother Earth and too 

 simple a route to big profits to go unseen. It is clearly bet- 

 ter, saner and safer than any mining project that has been 

 successfully exploited in recent years, and better still, it is a 

 proposition that will appeal to the farmers, who are rapidly 

 becoming the holders of the surplus or speculative wealth of 

 the land. At the same time it is a proposition which can be 

 capitalized, controlled and operated by the farmers themselves 

 and an intimate knowledge of every step of the proceedings, 

 thereby assuring intelligent and profitable administration. In 

 this way the concrete tile offers a suggestion for the farmer 

 by using the practical knowledge obtained in his own farm- 

 ing business to keep his investments in his own hands. 



This is a pointer to the legitimate promoter the_ man 

 who knows how to make the tile right to get busy in the 

 direction of big things in the concrete tile indusrty, even 

 though it may mean large activity a long ways from home. 

 The drain tile manufacturers as a rule have all the business 

 they can take on for this season without any extraordinary 

 effort on their part, and nearly every man is working his 

 think tank to figure out a longer day, or, failing in that, an 

 increase of capacity by additional machinery. 



A correspondent visited some of the busy Western shops 

 where drain tile manufacture is a specialty, and he gives the 

 following expert observations : 



"About the first of May I happened to notice the exten- 

 sive plant of a tile manufacturer in an Iowa town. They 

 had just set up and started into operation the second tile 

 machine to increase the capacity of their plant. It was in- 

 stalled by the Cement Tile Machinery Company of Waterloo, 

 Iowa. The first machine was installed about eighteen months 

 ago, and has been running continuously since first put into 

 operation, and the proprietor stated that he had not a tile in 

 stock that was old enough to send out, as it is his practice 

 never to deliver any tile that are less than thirty days old. 



"For the purpose of introducing concrete drain tile in 

 the local market he took a county contract which required 



SHOSHONE LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY 



CAREY ACT LANDS 



SHOSHONE, IDAHO 

 IRRIGATED FARMS BEST WATER RIGHTS IN THE WEST 



All inquiries will be 



We have a large acreage of the best fruit land to be had in the West, 

 cheerfully and promptly answered. 



