Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-04
CANVAS PRAIRIE.
A Country Where No One Need Suffer
from Want, As Everything Necessary
Can be Raised-The Gold Excitement

A Country Where No One Need Suffer
from Want, As Everything Necessary
Can be Raised-The Gold Excitement
Etc.
SOLDIER, Idaho, July 80.
Yes, We have grown cucumbers
here on Camas! Grain is slowly ma.
turing. Some think their grain will
do to cut next week. Choke cherries
and wild currants are total failure,
owing to the ravages of a tent cater
pillar this spring, which eat off all the
foliage, tender shoots and flower buds.
Every one OH Camas ought to put out
pie.plant, gooseberries, currants and
strawberries, as there is no discount
on these, and they are far preferable
to no fruit or buying.
1t is my opinion, based upon two
years. residence, that If any one sat
fers from want on Camas Prairie. they
are certainly to blame; for the soil is
excellent, and the warm season long
enough to raise lots of produce-if
We can't raise pine apples and "sich."
There is a plenty we can raise, and
We can just beat the world raising
small grain, potatoes and turnips, and
if we can't have beefsteak and pork
Of our own, there is plenty Of game.
What has become of our Soldier
gold excitement? You want to keep
that booming. If you can get few
score OF prospectors in here, perhaps
we can sell quart Of milk or pound
of potatoes.
Now, what would you think to hear
that fve.dollar gold nugget was only
gun cartridge. Sometimes they
turn out so. [Tho nugget referred to
is worn by Road Supervisor Samson
as a scarf pin.--ED.l But if these
old hills are made of gold, won't We
all get rich?
The most fertile valley in the world,
and the richest gold mining region on
the globe, would certainly be nice
neighbors. Laying all jokes aside, I
see no reason for there not being lots
Of paying minerals in the hills back
of us. but expect it will take time
to develop.
Uncle John Cross has lost ten head
of horses from his band on the head
> OF Soldier, and is considerably wor.
= ried about them. He thinks they
' must have been driven off, us he has
missed them for three weeks, and
can't find them in the hills.
The crack of the shotgun is quite
frequent since the bird-law is of; and
no wonder, for the grouse is "mighty'
fine eating, and the covies of young
birds are so plentiful as to be an ire
!. sistible temptation to any one who
can handle gun.
!. We frequently see deer from thu
;. house. Ifthey only knew ii, they are
not safe in the valley, even if the
game law is still in force.
. Who has been talking to you abou
Camas Prairie, now? Didn't yo,
. know there were already some poo
men on Camas Prairie who had break
" ing plows and teams, and who wan
/. all such work they can get at "a pc
- acre? I guess, if you or any one els'
;, would try to break prairie here now
). you could soon be convinced tina
i. ground got too hard to break, even OF
Camas Prairie.
And as to hauling poles and post
during the four winter months tina
I'd the snow lays on, guess all the ranch
es ers in the valley would pour blessing
n innumerable on your head if you woul
re only get some One to come aud kee
he the roads open; but one man an
st common team can't do it. In fac
e as long as the snow falls as it has tn
past two winters, there amt men Q
he teams enough in the valley to do i
by There are more men now who want
CT get out fencing than there is money
pay.
be Wonder if it don't hurt the Halle
lis merchants for the ranchers to sell the
in butter to the consumers instead {
Oh them? As for sweet California bu
at ter, l have yet to see the first of i
ad All have ever seen or tasted was ,