Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-03-30
SATURDAY, March 80, 1889.

Prepare for the boom.
Grass growing grandly.
Plant trees all around you.
Heavy rains and the ranchers
Aeeju',ilant.
Charlie SAVERS has returned to
his South Boise ranch.
Bob Strahorn has gone to Florida
In search of better health.
Eggs are selling at Weiser and
/Salubria fer ~ cents per dozen.
Captain Baxter and wife Of Rocky
Bar. visited the capital few days
ago.
Thompson has the contract for
building the Episcopal church
here.
Rev. Pratt preached in the school
houee last Sunday-morning and
evening.
The Bellevue Press is pouring
hot shot into the "Haileyturas" pir-
atical ship.
All kinds of gambling, except
faro and stud-poker, is now prohibit
ed in Montana.
~ Fletcher & Simpson have Just
received large lot Vi hams, lard, sui
phur and salt.
Those who ought to know say
The wool clip this season will be
unusually large.
George Fletcher Jr and wife have
been visiting relatives and friends
at Weiser the past week.
s. NJ. Streeter, convicted at Elko,
New, Of incest has been sentenced
to the penitentiary for ten years.
George Crandal ard wife were
here from their lovely ranch near
Pine Grove. They arrived last
Monday.
The recent snow storms in the
mountains and rains in the valleys
have benefited this section Of Idaho
beyond calculation.
60 Fletcher 4 Simpson can sup
iAy you with every thing in the groc-
cry line, boots, shoes, hats, drygoois,
furnishing goods, barb wire, stock
salt and everything else.
Services will be held at the school
house in Mountain Home ON Sunday
next, both morning and evening.
Rev. G. Buzzellc officiating
Those who have the welfare of
Mountain Home at heart should
stand in on the artesian we'll and
better roads propositions.
Mountain Home should have a
few men Of capital, energy and ent-
erprise. When they do come, then
look out for boom all along this
sagebrush line.
Adm Hall came in from his BEN
nett creek stock ranch last Tuesday
He says stock is still very weak and
some losses occurring daily, but
= nevertheless stock raisers have no
cause to kick.
There il no better land in the
Great West than that surrounding
Mountain Home, and the opportun-
ity to secure it for trife will soon
be lost forever. Get in in time and
secure a home.
Gilmore county pays her salaried
officials $4,3OO a year-all told.
LAlturas gives her officers $14, 100.
And yet the Haley ringstcrs claim
that Gilmore cannot sustain coun-
ty organization.
Uncle George w. Hill, the horse
and sheep-raiser, came down from
the old Porter Station Tuesday.
Sheep are fat up that way. Mr..
Hill obtained IL pounds of tallow
from one sheep he killed about four
weeks ago.
Last year the sheriff Of Alturas,
alone. received q salary of $1,000,
$1,7OO moro than ALL the officers o.
Elmore. This year he receives
500 more than ALL the officers of
Elmore-and yet he will not pay
the poor one-armed sheep herder his
just dues.
w. J. Prisk returned from the
east last week. He has employed q
number of miners and with a good
supply Of tools and grub has gone to
his claim at the head Of Louise creek
to put in the summer developing
his mine, which already produces
come excellent ore.
The live man who owns few lots
or few acres of land in this vincin-
ity now, and who will stay by it,
and also help to bury the dead men
(dead to all enterprise) who are now
only walking around to save fun
eral expenses" he will, in less thar
three years become wealthy mAn
Mark this prediction Of the BM
LETIN.
Hon. Geo. P. Wheeler was herr
again last Sunday. He and Mr.
Goodwin are making the Bellevue
Press the best local paper in Idaho
and were it not for Bro. VS. kim
interest in Elmore's prosperity tn
BULLETIN would expose his action
here and caution him to "bevare Q
do viddersO Rnt we won't do an