Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-31
FROM CANVAS PRAIRIE
SA'ght Damage by Storm n,..a-..
lion on "My" Butter-Etc

hne showers Of rain recently. accom-
panied oy hail. The report is that
nan did considerable damage on Cor
raj creek by beating out the ripe oats
tnat were uncut. 1t was not so had
here although where ripe oats were
standing uncut, it beat out enough to
seed the ground. 1t was quite cool
after the storm, but did not fir, exe
along the foothills. Have not heard
from lower down the valley.
Report says that the man who re-.
ported so many land claimants as not
complying with the law, is one of Ida.
hos prominent stock men, and dire
threats are being made. Well, if a
man breaks one law, it is only consist
ent to think he might break another;
but mobs are only rioters, and conse
quently subject to law. So, perhaps,
1t would be advisable not to lump
from the fry,ng-pan into the fire.
Some folks in this settlement have
quite a fashion of threatening Others
with cowboys whenever they think
coercion necessary, but the COWBOYS
and they are ON different sides this
time.
Ii man cannot comply with the
land laws, he had better keep his
rights until he can. Uncle Sam don't
make fish of one and flesh of another.
if be knows it.
Threshing is in full blast in this
valley. There are two machines here
this season-one owned and run by
Frank Doward, and the other by Arm.
strcng and Ed. Smith. Hope they
will not cheat in measure, as they did
last year. Didn't the ranchers feel
grand to think their grain turned out
SO big; but when they came to sell,
and see how short they fell, they felt
badly sold. Potatoes are reported as
short this year, and quite small-other
vegetables corresponding.
Well, Mr.. Editor, l suppose you
think you finished me up, but, you
know, "Truth crushed to earth will
rise again" Now, know what l
know, and you can't make me believe
that l ever eat any good California
butter, nor that l haven't spent two
winters and three summers on G. mas
Prairie, and have had as good oppor-
tunities Of knowing about the snow,
ETC., as it lived 80 miles away. And
as fo' my butter, l don't think you
ever saw any of it. You say John
Gilman makes good butter; so it is
possible for some one to make good
butter besides Californians. say l
could name a dozen on Camas who
make excellent butter, but not one of
them makes enough to justify them
in getting barrels to pack it
in, as but very few of them would
make a barrelful in whole summer.
So their best way is to sell to consum'
ers, and if consumers will take it in
jars or some such receptacle it will
keep longer than made out in rolls Or
cakes, for the simple reason that the
more surface that is exposed to air
the sooner butter spoils. AS for job
lots of Eastern butter, it is enough to
turn the stomach of one who is &C
quainted with it to hear it mentioned
There are thousands of pounds Of
butter bought from farmers there thai
never make even job-lot butter. i
goes in al the front door and out al
the back, never is placed on the mar
ket, but good choice butter ct farm
production and Creamery butter il
what is considered as the standard
Butter is very perlshable article ane
this is why creameries are so much II
vogue in the East and | presume tina
California butter is manufactured or
much the same principle, for it is un
doubleday nice butter when put up
But the people on Camas, | don
believe, would patronize Creamery
at present for each one wants all HI
can get out of butter and will r'sl
losing part rather than sell his cream
at what they would consider loss
So l guess you will have to lie
them suffer the consequence, for eac'
individual housewife Of my acqua'nt
ance thinks she makes q little bette
butter than any one else and you can
change her mind. For myself the!
might all go butter hungry for all o
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