Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-03

stock may be purchaser ioi 80 -,
~ the country, for II takes little NOR
70 raise a 5000 horse than It does
s1b kiyuse and there is a good uS'l'
~ difference in the net results Mr'
TAYLOR returned to Ogden "Wednesday
evening.
MIR. Tautphaus is down from bulIe
this week figuring on much woTS on
his 1000 acre farm near town, nc Is
the right man to make things mum
Hi. Storer and W. B, Green are GO
ing prospecting to Montana not LOT
mines but for green fields and pas
lures new, metaphorieally speaking IN
business way.
A letter from Will Green IN le'on
basin says his cattle are doing wen.
He is ..cussing" because he has mol
cattle enough to eat all his hay; last
winter he "cussed" because he hadn
hay enough to feed his cattle
James II. Smith, father OF j. Ed
Smith. is still at the hospital III SAT-
Lake, for his back; where the tnmor
was cut will require time to heal ne
is doing well and took his first little
walk this week,
Mr. Thomas was here few days
n
ago looking after his brewery, lie y
going to run it for all its worth TINS
year and the beer he makes is better
than the best-so said
Scores Of our farmers are providing
themselves with timothy seed Tim
othy hay will always sell in Montana
aud at paying prices, and will always
make a good crop here
A steam moter from Eagle Rock to
Lost River is spoken Of II is only
IS miles across the country and II the
$50 devil" will do what is claimed, II
could make little fortune every trip
carrying freight AMI passenger.
The wheels are I or 5 feet high and a
foot wide on the tire
In 1S49 was the great California
mining boom,
In 1859 the Pixies Peak and Colo
RADIO boom,
| In 1869 the Comstock, New, boom,
| In 1879 the Leadville boom
In 1889 the /? F.? I? 1t is between
Eagle Rock, Alaska and dark horse
TAYLOR & Smith deserve credit for
the energy they have displayed in re-
placing farm produce with cash du.
ring the last two months. They have
shipped lots of hay to Butte and, they
do say, some of them Butte fellows
have made unnecessary difficulties
before paying for the hay. Well, such
experience teaches to whom not to
sell next time
! The attendance at the Baptist church
during the protracted meeting under
Rev MIR. WorrelI, Methodist, was dat.
tering to the preacher No services
in Eagle Rock, lasting over so long a
time, have ever been so well attended
nor so much interest shown Mr. Wor
rell is doing good work in Bingham
county.
Supt Ressequie, Mr.. Bennett anC
one or two other railroad men, paid
us q visit on Monday last. The com
pany propose to deed back to Ander
son Bros the railroad ground, but
wish TO reserve the right of way fol
the road to the National Park.
The tariff question was settled By
the debating society last week. G. B
Wheeler and Bob Anderson like stu
pid democrats put in their count first
and boodler w. ii. B. Grow, the thirt
| judge, held his back and, republican
that he is, amended his returns so a!
to throw the trump card for tariff.
Grow runs the water works and In,
pipes have been freezing up and burst
ing all winter. Grow is the most reg
ular man at church. The church i
necessary to neutralize the waterworks
Waterworks makes blue blazes, churcl
is meant to put EN- out.
Mr. Thomas Lothian was in Eagl
Rock for about ten days supervisor,
the Porter ditch. He was agreeabl,
surprised to find fully 5000 acres o
excellent land that may be watere,
at small expense, and all within 81,
or seven miles Of town. It is not i'm
| probable that the ditch may hercafte
be extended some twenty miles dow
the river and cover many more thous
ands Of acres, He left for Denye
Tuesday night but will return from
time to time
a good many Of our old boys nov
located at Pocatello have shown thei
welcome faces in Eagle Rock lately
The shops are gone, the compan,
houses gone, some private houses
gone, but there is still an attraction
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