Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-24
FRAGMENTS FROM THE HOLY
LAND.
JERUSALEM, Boise Co. Idaho, /
Feb. II, 1891. (

ED. - 3DDAs
Ed. WoRLD:-Our section is chock !
full Of news, but sadly in need Of
some one to pick il up aud put it in
to shape. The more enrgetic have
all they can do, and those composing
the lazy class, myself included, have
all they can do to keep track of what
Congress is doing with the Force
bill, &C., &C., and of what our Legis-
Iature IS doing and trying to do to
pass number Of very much needed
measures, such as the irrigation bill,
ths Jones wagon road bill, the Aus
tralian ballot law and the much talk
ed of Agricultural College, and last
ly, the various county division bills,
which put last, where they belong
during the life of the present Legs
lature. But | suppose it is no use for
me to tell our law makers what to do,
as they might not do it, and then l
would feel bad about next election
time. But | do give them credit for
doing some good, and am looking for
still more. The Jeru.alemites were
thinking of putting in bid for tie
Agricultural College until they heard
that the Boise valleyites, in sinking
an artesian well near Boise City, had
struck a vein of chicken soup. That
is too much. No use, We can't beat
them; we crawl. How is it with you,
Emmett, Lewiston, Blackfoot, &c. 1t
is unfortunate for US that the snow is
SO deep, for We might strike out pros
pectlng and perhaps strike something,
even if it was nothing more than a
vein Of soft soap. 'sOch, me dear,
but couldn't we soft soap the Legis,.
lature thin?'
But the news. Snow on the llth
inst. seventeen inches deep; chinook
wind commences; blows very hard at
times; in forty-eight hours settles the
, snow to six inches; then snow and
rain slternate-mostly snow-till
evening of the 18th, at which time
snow was twelve inches deep and be-
, gan to drift some, and this morning
calm and snow drifted as badly as l
: ever saw it in this country. Hard
? times for stock, as many cattle men
! are shorc of feed. Some have driven
? their herds over to Boise valley to
feed, having bought hay there.
: With all our fortunes and misfort-
4 unes in this section, the population
e goes on increasing in our precinct
e Increase Of three lately-twius in the
a Clarkson household, son and daugh-
n ter-and a son in the thinner house
=? hold.
II The main topic Of conversation a
2 the beginning of winter was coal
: People seemed TO get coal en- th'
u brain. But OF late i, is big govern
/. ment ditch out of the Payette river
e The people are making an organized
/. effort to induce the |. 5. governmen
' to take big ditch out on the cas-
t side and carry it on down to the ia
IS ble lands between the Payette an'
Boise rivers. A petition will De cir
culated, accompanied by a map Q
\ the country the ditch would rul
through, and the land it will cover
say about $50 square miles. Ma
drawn by \. L. Rinsarson. I. :
Deputy Mineral Surveyor for Idaho
,, 1t is estimated it will cover 10000
acres of good farming land, the Ian
to be sold to pay for the ditch.
cannot refrain from saying
those who know they have stock o
the bills hereabouts that they migt
" do well to heed the Soriptural lnjun'
" ton in regard 10 dumb brutes an
their owners. NA. K. Ray.