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Western Farm Lands Are Increasing in Value Every YearInvest your money in improved or partly Improved Irrigated wish to increase your capital rapidlyFarmsyouBROWNMOENCHAmerican Falls, IdahoProducts of Power County’sFertile SoilWe are able to offer for sale some of the be£t lands in Power County at a low figure $ 15.00 per acre upCRYSTAL, PICTURESQUE AND FERTILECrystal is the picturesque part of Power county. It is a settlement of about 150 families, so well hlddeu away in a recess of the mountains that an invading army would never And It The center of the settlement is about twenty miles from Pocatello and 32 miles, by the traveled route, from American Falls. Entrance to the settlement is through a harrow’ gash in the mountains constructed especially to permit Rattlesnake creek to And a way out. The mouth of the canyon is about a mile from the main travelled road to Bannock valley but so well concealed that a stranger wduld never know there was any canyon there. The road leading to the conyon starts off in another direction, and to all appearances Beema to be a part of the old road running down Bannock creek, toward Pocatello or American Falls. People who have known there was a road leading up Rattlesnake creek have been unable to find it. But once the road is located there 16 no possible chante to get off of it until it opens into a hilly valley with roads running in all directions.All roads in Crystal radiate from a common center, like the spokes in a wheel. If one starts in the right direction these roads all lead to the store of John O. Johnson. If one starts in the other direction he will soon land up against an impassable mountain, with some homesteader living at the end of the road. In reality, the Crystal settlement is a series of canyons running into a valley that Is so filled with bills that it does not appear to be a valley at all.It is a very fertile spot, with the wash of ages carried down from the! mountains upon it, and lies at eleva- j tlons ranging from 5000 to 5000 feet, the highest farming land in the county. Some of the demonstrators of the county agent In Crystal live at an elevation of 6000 feet and they have demonstrated that things will grow* there in riotous abundance.W. C. Snyder, one of the pioneers of that locality, raised 1464 bushels of oats on 10^ acres of irrigated land, and 4172 bushels of barley on 60 acres.Ralph and Reese Whiting, also pioneers, harvested 3132 bushels of Turkey Red wheat from 65 acres of dry land.Warren Price has been very successful in growing dry land alfalfa getting two good cuttings last year and a lot of good pasture.Like yields have been secured by many others. Deep snows in winter and summer showers combine to make the Crystal section ideal for dry land farming. The mountains by which it is hemmed in afford a protection from wind. The mountains provide excellent range for stock and timber for all purposes.Crystal has no rabbits and few pests of any kind. It was settled later than most other parts of the county, due, probably, to its inaccessibility. The settlement is connected by a fairly good road with the Bannock valley highway, five miles distant from the center of the settlement. There is also a good road leading to Pocatello.Poles for a telephone line to Pocatello have been set and wires will be strung as soon as the snow disappear*.This line is due to the efforts of 8. D.Breeze, W. L. Clezie and J. C. Davie of Crystal and the Pocatello commercial club.There are some splendid Irrigated ranches in Crystal. I. W. Phillips haa 110 acres of alfalfa, and many of the farms are partly irrigated. The greater part of the settlement, however, is dry farmed. A mail route, with tri-weekly service from Pocatello, runs through Crystal to Pauline and Arbon. which lie across a low divide about ten miles southward. {A Crystal Buttermaker,■
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American Falls Press
American Falls, Idaho, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1917
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