Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-03-02


meet tomorrow friday afternoon
at $3.50 with Mrs. Charles Pascoe.
Mr.. Will Wilson. the we'll. known
barber Of this place, spent several
days in the capital last week and
this, returning Tuesday night.
r. w. Simpkins, immigration
agent in North Dakota for the Great
Western Beet Sugar company Of
this place, leaves tomorrow night
after another colony Of settlers for
Mountain Home. Because of the
present cold weather in that state
greater interest than ever is being
shown in southern Idaho and its
opportunities.
Charley Pollard, who has been
absent visiting his father, brother
and sister in Oregon, returned to
Mountain Home Monday, looking
fine, He makes the statement that
his father will be here soon and
that it is their purpose to jointly
engage in business here. Charley e
numerous friends are happy to have
him back among them.
Bob Craft is building for Ben
Ross establishment painting de-
picting forest scene in which tive
magnificent bull elk have fought
for the favor of a lady of their
species. Victor and vanquished and
the lady in the case are most wildly
drawn and when framed aud hung
will certainly not fail t, attract at.
tention in any surroundings.
Gilmore county is soon to have
something which it has long stood
in need of--a bonded abstracter oil
titles. Mr. f H McDermont. al
attorney of Ashton, Illinois, after
looking over the various towns oil
southern Idaho, has decided to 10
cate here, and will bring back with
him an experienced abstractor and
at once engage in the business.
Several views of Longtom were
taken last week for Photographer
Beaton by Professor Reels The
negatives promise to reveal very
nice set of pictures of this import
ant enterprise, now about com
pleted, and ought to find large anc
ready sale locally as we'll as to out
siders who wish to possess remind
ers of their visit to Mountain Home
The greater portion Of the fore,
of men and teams employed at th,
big Longtom reservoir the past yea
has been brought down to the valley
where the work of constructing tn
projected canals and smaller ditche
will soon commence The dam o
the mammoth water saver has beer
completed, but some work still re
mains to be done on the waste waite
way being put in for the protection
of the dam from torrents or over
flows The headgate of the tunne
has been closed aud from now o.
the reservoir will fill for the use c
the busy irrigators in the vicinity G
Mountain Home. Only a third {
the capacity of the reservoir will b
required this season, as the land ha
not been cleared to receive th
water. The construction ofthe dan
for the third reservoir Of the sefie
at Little Camas prairie will be com
htliCed as soon as pfactlcable II
the spring. The tunnel for the de
livery of the water from this reser
voir to Longtom basin is we'll alon
toward completion The compile
tion of the Great Western Beet Suga
company's system of storage reser
voirs means the reclamation c
thousands of acres of the rich land
surrounding Mountain Home an
the settlement here of hundreds {
thrifty eastern people, and we coul
not ask that they be of better elias
than those who have come frot
North Dakota during the past yea
Mountain Home looks forward to a
era Of progress and prosperity sue
az it has not known before.
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