THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



All of the land under the canal of the Farmers' Co-oper- 

 ative Irrigation Company, Limited, is of extra quality and of 

 luxuriant fertility, and a large part of the whole district is 

 highly improved and the halance is rapidly tilling up with a 

 prosperous class "of farmers and fruit raisers. The location 

 is very choice, indeed, and I can say that it is one of the 

 finest farming districts I have ever looked over. The eleva- 

 tion is about 2,000 feet above sea level, the climate very mild 

 and the summers are long and warm. The sun shines on 

 an average two-thirds of the time. The valley has never been 

 visited by hail storms or destructive winds, and but little 

 rain if any. falls between June and September, thereby ren- 

 dering the harvesting of crops safe and easy. 



The unusually fortunate combination of climate, soil and 

 moisture conditions, and the abundance of water supply for 

 irrigation, places the Payette Valley in the very front rank 

 agriculturally, including fruit growing. 



The Payette Valley occupies the same position today to 

 the State of laaho as Cache Valley does to the State of Utah, 

 viz. : the largest area of "highly fertile and productive agri- 

 cultural land, and a never failing water supply for the irri- 

 gation of same, populated by a thrifty, successful and sub- 

 stantial class of farmers. No matter of whom you may make 

 inquiries as to the Payette Valley in Idaho the answer is. 

 "The best locality in the State." 



I. F. Roach, pastor of the First M. E. Church of 

 Boise, after riding over the valley between Payette and 

 New Plymouth, made the following comment in a letter 

 to one of his friends : 



I have never seen a section of land anywhere between 

 Illinois and the Pacific Coast that has any greater promise 

 of productiveness and beauty, when settled up and cultivated. 



The topography is pleasant to the eye, and with the in- 

 exhaustible supply of water at the fanner's command, industry 

 will certainly make a very desirable place for a home. 



WHAT A PROMINENT PAYETTE VALLEY FRUIT GROWER 

 SAYS. 



In writing to a Kansas fruit grower last winter, 

 Mr. N. A. Jacobsen, of Payette, one of the many 

 wealthy fruit growers of that locality, wrote as follows : 



In reply to your inquiry relative to my orchard here at 

 Payette and what can reasonably be expected from a winter 

 apple orchard in this Valley, would say that my trees from 

 twelve to thirteen years old have yielded from fifteen to 

 twenty boxes per tree (fifty pounds per box) and these have 

 sold on track here at from 50 cents to $1.50 per box accord- 

 ing to grade and the market price. 



There are about eighty trees to the acre on an average. 



Apple trees will begin bearing on the fourth or fifth 

 year, according to variety. 



My winter pears this season sold for $1.25 per box here 

 and I received $645 net for this year's crop from seventy 

 trees (about one acre) thirteen years old. 



The soil and climate in this Valley are excellent for 

 this class of fruit, and it will stand shipment to good ad- 

 vantage. 



The color and flavor of apples raised in this Valley are 

 especially fine. Yours very truly, 



Signed, N. A. JACOBSEN. 



At the present writing, Mr. Jacobsm and his family 

 are enjoying a holiday trip to Honolulu, while his agent 

 collects the rents from several brick blocks and resi- 

 dences which he has erected in the thriving town of Pay- 

 ette, from the profits of his sixty-acre orchard. 



FRUIT PACKING ASSOCIATIONS. 



The fruit growers of Payette and vicinity organ- 

 ized and incorporated a fruit packing association in 

 1903 for the- proper handling and packing of fruit for 

 shipment. A commodious building was erected and 

 very satisfactory results were realized from this year's 

 pack. A similar organization was perfected at New 

 Plymouth, at which point a first-class commercial fruit 

 evaporating plant is owned and operated by the New 

 Plymouth Fruit Association. 



But the Payette Valley farmer does not confine his 

 attention to the raising of fruit alone. 



A recent correspondent of the Pacific Northwest. 

 after riding through the Pave 'tie Valley, devotes several 

 columns to unstinted praise. In one of his paragraphs 

 he says : 



Beginning at the upper end of this great wealth produc- 

 ing farm region, the traveler sees stacks of hay scattered 

 generally over the entire Valley, that if placed end to end 

 would reach from the eastern to. the western end of the Val- 

 ley in one continuous line of stacks, averaging sixty feet in 

 length and over twenty-four feet in width. 



The stranger passing through on the Oregon Short Line 

 Railway, which crosses the valley of the Payette River at its 

 confluence with Snake River, might wonder where a market 

 for all this staple product could be found, but when it is 

 known that approximately a quarter of a million sheep find 

 feeding grounds in the Valley each and every winter, and 

 that the thousands of head of cattle and horses that graze 

 in the summer time upon the unlimited government range 

 make their winter homes near the farmer's hay stacks, there 

 is no longer any mystery about it. 



TELEPHONES AND RURAL DELIVERY. 



The telephone lines of the "Bell" -and "Indepen- 

 dent" systems, with long distance connections, are al- 

 ready in universal use in the towns of Payette and New 



CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 



