THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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NEW PLYMOUTH, IDAHO. 



The advent of the railroad into the heart of the 

 Fayette Valley, with its present terminus at the very 

 attractive little village of New Plymouth, has in one 

 season literally turned the face of the earth upside 

 down. The vast fields of alfalfa and clover which 

 followed the first crops of grain on the newly cleared 

 sage brush land during the settlement period of the past 



and hardships of frontier life, but a community or 

 settlement replete with modern conveniences, telephone, 

 rural mail delivery, electric light and power, good 

 schools and churches and a vigorous and healthy at- 

 mosphere in which to develop the minds and bodies of 

 his children and young people, and those who desire to 

 engage in business, profession or manufacture, the towns 

 of New Plymouth, Fruitland and Payette are certainly 

 ideal, and in the Payette Valley capital will always find 

 an attractive and profitable field for investment. 



Apple Orchard at Fruitland, Idaho. 



five years has now been turned under, and, with this best 

 of fertilizing, is now producing astonishing crops of 

 sugar beets, averaging in many cases from 20 to 25 tons 

 per acre, a few fields yielding even greater tonnage, an 

 average of $30 per acre, clear, after paying all ex- 

 penses, being considered a fair revenue, although double 

 this amount was cleared last season by several farmers 

 in the vicinity of New Plymouth and Fruitland, and 

 one man netted $76 per acre. The raw land from which 

 these valuable and sure crops are now realized was 

 purchased less than five years ago at from $35 to $40 

 per acre, including water right, and was then 12 to 15 

 miles from railroad, while today the remaining few 

 hundred acres of unimproved land, located from two 

 to five miles from New Plymouth, can be purchased at 

 from $45 to $50 per acre. Not so, however, with the 

 improved lands. These have steadily advanced in price 

 in proportion to the revenue derived from each sue- 



Bulletins and 



Publications 





"Opportunities of Today," a high class monthly maga- 

 zine built upon entirely new and original lines, will make 

 its initial bow to the public with the September number. 

 As its name implies, the publication will deal with bringing 

 to the notice of opportunity seekers, the many and vari- 

 ous chances for wealth and homemaking that are opening 

 throughout all the United States. The home of the new 

 magazine is the entire seventeenth floor of the Majestic 

 building, 73 and 75 Monroe street, Chicago, where Mr. 

 R. L. Bernier, the editor and publisher, has surrounded 

 himself with a thoroughly experienced and competent staff 

 of assistants. Advance sheets of the publication indicate 

 that no effort will be spared to make it one of the most 

 striking and elaborate pieces of work of its kind ever 



Farm House at Fruitland, Idaho. 



cessive crop, until many of the 40 and 80 acre tracts are 

 now a profitable investment at from $100 to $200 per 

 acre, some smaller tracts having been sold at $250 to 

 $300 per acre during the past six months. 



The rich harvests and the rapid development of 

 the New Plymouth bench under irrigation is in striking 

 contrast to the apparently worthless sage brush plain so 

 recently transformed by the bringing together of the 

 elements of success rich soil, abundance of water, 

 Idaho sunshine and "the man with the hoe." For the 

 modern homeseeker, who no longer seeks the privations 



published in this country. The first issue will represent 

 an expenditure of very nearly $30,000. Agriculturists will 

 be particularly interested in the artcles which will appear 

 from time to time, dealing with the advanced ideas of 

 farming, the development of farm and stock lands in the 

 various parts of the continent, and the irrigation and 

 reclamation of lands, and in fact everything pertaining to 

 the productions of the country. 



A handsomely illustrated booklet entitled "A Circular 

 of Information about the Agricultural College of Utah'^ 

 has recently been issued by the publicity department of 

 the institution at Logan. More than half of the pages of 

 the pamphlet are taken up by photographs of scenes on 



