Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-04-02
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we have mad more wind ~ March 7
than in the three months preceding
it. 1t has showed and bowed and
froze until / really believe all of the |
Camas Prairieites will be glad when
March is gone.i Yet, in all this bad
weather, John Finch has kept his
stock both horses and cattle-out on
the hills to rustic for themselves, and |.
little pity he would get from his
neghbors if the last head of them
died, but ] guess they have wealth
cred it.
Charles Samson, who lost his house
and contents by fire some time back,
has had the sympathy Of his neigh
bors; said sympathy being material
lied into food and clothing.
The family Of James Allen has
been made happy by the advent of a
little daughter.
Fred. Hastings has closed his school
and returned to his ranch.
There are some here who propose
to experiment, on limited scale, on
the raising of sugar beets, and max
ing the same into syrup and brown
sugar. The beet thrives here very
we'll, and if it is as easily made into
syrup as sorghum, as is claimed by
some who pretend to know, there is
no reason why ranchers here should
not make their syrup from the beet
the same as farmers, in the corn
growing belt, make syrup from sor-
ghum. a- # e
Aleck Sifers is going to attach a
set of burrs to his sawmill, for the &C
commodation OF the ranchcrs Of the
Prairie. This will be of great service
to the community, as small grain is
very poor feed for hogs fed whole,
even when thoroughly cooked; but
by being ground and then made into
swill, makes excellent feed for fatten-
ing hogs.
Camas Prairie is looking for a
heavy immigration this summer. II
of the right class they will be heart
lily welcomed here. Honest, indus
trious people is what Camas Prairie
needs worse than anything else. a
good class of people will bring will
them civilization and all that civiliza
ton means. Not Gully schools an,
churches, but the various industrle
which are only to be found in thickl
populated districts.
We have valley rich in natura
resources and the transforming hanC
of man will certainly make it blossom
as the rose. Whcnthere are peopl,
enough to raise the grain to make tn
investment pay, there will be o goo,
Touring mill erected here. Whel
the people demand it, we will hav'
first class stores that will buy tn
productions of the ranches. Whel
brick is wanted, some one viii be OF
hand to make the brick; and so OF
with an innumerable list of manu-
factories that thickl settled coun
try calls for. AS yet, Camas Prairi
is in its infancy, and a heavy irnmi
grafton of good, steady, industriou
people is what we most need.
We have one of the heaithiest eli
mates to be found. Although on
winters are called long, we have no
had to feed but little over four month
during the three years which we hav
lived in the valley, and as hay is on
winter feed, any rancher can put u
feed necessary to feed his stock thi
length of time. All small grain an,
hardy vegetables yield profuse!y, an
roots are very healthy winter feed 70
all kinds of stock, and especially de
sirable for mich COWS. -- .--....
Dairying is certain to be one Of tn
leading industries of the valley, an
here we have all the essentials for sue
cessful dairying combined, the choices
of feed, the purest of water, aud jus
the finest climate. There is nc dan
ger of the milk ever coagulating il
the pail before the milking is done
as have seen it do in hot, mugg
weather elsewhere, or of the butte
coming soft and white-in which cas-
it is never "a prime articIe-but; al
summer the butter comes solid ans
yellow.
AS planting time is right on us,