BUHL AND THE BUHL COUNTRY, IDAHO

Buhl, Idaho: The Commercial Club, 1910. “Misconceptions of Idaho are flying from the public mind like bats from a cellar wherein a flood of Idaho’s brilliant sunshine has been admitted. No longer does the Eastern man regard Idaho as a frontier country nor does he longer picture an Idaho town after the bizarre sketches of the romantic story writers. As a matter of fact the Idaho town is more up-to-date than the far Eastern town of like size. Here everything is comparatively new and modern and of the latest and most improved type. Buhl, Idaho, is such a town.”

Founded in 1906, Buhl is located on the old Oregon Trail, near Idaho's border with (truncated) Utah. The Carey Act (1894) project known as the Twin Falls South Side Project introduced large-scale irrigation to the region. This booklet describes in detail the many agricultural opportunities in the Buhl country and low cost of settlement: “Raw lands are selling from $50 to $60 an acre, while improved farms can be had for from $75 to $100 an acre.” It also mentions in passing the “rivers which abound with trout."

Today, Buhl is known as the “Trout Capital of the World” for the many hatcheries in the surrounding area, which produce a variety of the rainbow trout consumed in the United States.

Booklet: [16] pp. with 18 photographic illustrations and a color bird’s eye rendering. Bound with two staples in the original pictorial paper wrappers. Negligible crease to the bottom corner of the contents. Some general wear and faint staining to the wrappers, with a small chip to the spine heel; otherwise very good. Scarce, OCLC locates no holdings. (Inventory #: 77886)