The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14
IDAHO CRY FOR OUTLET.

The throwing open of the Neg Perces Indian reservation is bearing visible re- suits. It is a little more than seven years now since the land of the reser- Yation was allotted to the Indians in severalty, and the yield of Neg Perces county, augmented by that of the ad- jacent Clearwater and Snake River country. has grown to such proportions that the present transportation facili- ties are inadequate to haul the products to market.
 From all over the country within the Lewiston radius the cry is going up for an outlet to market. The cry has been heard before, but there is more potency in the present demand than there has been in the past, for the reason there is more wealth behind it.
 The estimated wheat yield of the Lew iston country this year is nearly six million bushels, of which the upper i Clearwater country produced S,500, 900. Threshing has just been finished on the higher elevations, while on account of that can be delivered this winter has been hauled to the warehouses along the Northern Pacific railroad. About half the crop has been delivered and the other half will have to be held over by the farmers. They fortunately, are able to carry it, for there is no lack of money in the Neg Perces country. The condition of the fruit industry differs from that of wheat only in being near CT railroad stations or boat landings. and fhl1r ,pf c1a1lf ns9f a1~Ir bad roads at any season of the year.
 Times are prosperous in this section, and no complaints are made as to exist ing conditions, except against being bottled up from markets and an occa- sional protest against the indolent cus- toms of the Indians. The Indians do not attempt to work their lands, but lease them to the whites, and, as land lords, often become annoying by insist ing on pasturing their cayuses on the land after it is leased.
 The crow never cast its shadow on finer land than the Neg Perces and Ca- mas Prairies, and the scene during sowing, harvest and delivery seasons, though different, is no less animating than it was during the palmy days of the Neg Perces. Steam ploughs turn the soil, combined harvesters save the crop and processions of teams of four, six and eight horses a mile and over in length unload by turns at the different warehouses during delivery season. As many as fifteen hundred horses in a day were watered from a trough pre- pared for the purpose at Culdesac, a station twenty-two miles east of here, last month. #
 Farmers haul their wheat as far as thirtymiIes, and even more, to shipping estations, and where they hire the haul ing the cost is twenty-five and thirty cents q sack, In places where the rail- road station is in deep canyons, cables have been constructed by means of which the wheat sacks are lowered from precipitous bluffs to the canyon bottoms.
 Fruit culture has, developed along with wheat in the Lewiston country, and promises to rival the grain pro- duct as resource. It has built up town of twenty-five hundred people across the river from Lewiston that is supported almost wholly by the product of the orchard. Land in that locality that could be had five years ago for one hundred dollars an acre now sells for one thousand dollars. The average annual income from 8 bearing tree is ten dollars and they are set one hun dred and one hundred and fifty to the acre. One man this year realized for the yield of five peach trees in his front yard seventy dollars. A three-acre vineyard on the Clearwater recently sold for eight thousand dollars. A six ty-acre vineyard will be put out in the same locality in the spring. ,, 2,
 Stock-raisers throughout the vast stretch of country having outlet by way of Lewiston also find themselves handi- capped through lack of transportation facilities. Livestock is driven here from long distances in Oregon, Wash- ington and Idaha for shipment, and the distances of the drive in many cases in- volve hardships and loss.
 Peter Fordney, who twice represented Wallowa county in the Oregon legisla- ture, together with some neighbprs, drove a bunch of hogs in from Wallo- wa county last week. They were nine