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Evening star., 1905-11-03
AUCTION SALES.
TOMORROW.


WILSON & MAYERS,
ArcTIoSEERs. 1927 AND 1s2s G ST. NV.
AUCTION SALE
New Rugs,
New Furniture,
SATURDAY, 10 AM,
Beautiful NewFurnfshings
TEN AM. NEW RUGS.
American Orientals, Wiltons, Ak
minister's, Stair Carpets, Hall Run
ners, etc. Sizes up to I6 #. long.
ELEVEN AM, NEW FURNITURE.
Heavy Brass Beds. Springs. Mattresses. Hall
Racks. Bureaus, Chinoniers, Fine Rocking Chairs.
and China Case. loaded glass; Sideboards. Stately
Book Cases in golden and fumed oak finishes,
Solid Mahogany Book Cases, Mission Furniture.
Desks, Chairs, Tables Imported Plate Mirrors.
Nothing misrepresented to effect a sale.
1t WILSON & MAYERS. Auctioneers.
WALTER b. WILLIAMS & CO., AUCNoNEERs.
OUR REGULAR SATURDAY SALE Of House
hold Furniture Carpets. Heating and other Stoves,
numerous to mentfou removed from private res
licences and storage rooms for convenience OF sale.
which takes place at our sales room IDMOhkoW
MORNING COMMENCING AT TEN O'CLOCK.
ALSO, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK NJ,
A large and well-assorted stock of Gents Fur
nshings which will be sold In lots to suit the
trade and private buyers.
Evening star., 1905-11-03
G. g. SLOAN & Co, AUCTIoNEERs, i4o7 G ST.

~. CHARLES W. DARR,
Merchants and Mechanics Bank bldg,
oc25-d&ds eSu Trustees
Evening star., 1905-11-03

Ofaces IN Columbian building.
JOSEPH w. COX, Trustee,
oc27 -d&ds, ,eSu Oaice in Fendau building.
The Teton peak-chronicle., 1905-04-13

feet and it soaks into the ground
and makes the crops jump under
the warm summer sun of this fine
climate.
One farmer who lives four miles
west of town who is farming 100
acres tells me that he has raised
ll0 bushels of oats per acre and
that his average, year by year, is
over rs bushels per acre, and those
oats weigh from 40 to 46 pounds to
the measured bushel. AS l tested
them they were heavy in my hand
like wheat, with large, plump ber-
ry and bright color.
The farmer feeds his cattle on
beet pulp from the sugar factory
which he gets for ;35 cents per ton
and that with oat straw has
brought his cattle through the win
ter at small cost and in prime
shape. His sugar beets turned off
IL tons per acre upon an average
from 20 acres he had IN last year.
This is surely the chosen home Of
the small grains. l have travelled
over seventy-hve miles and have
vet to see even one poor stubble
field. The stubble is all alike.
that is. big, stiff and strong, for at
this season | can only Judge from
the grain in the bin and the stub
Bile in the fields.
| will now give some facts and
/ figures that are fit food to ponder
over. The average yield of wheat
upon irrigated lands is forty BUSH
els per acre, of oats IS bushels per
acre, and of barley 65 bushels per
acre; and with such yields as these
there must of necessity be the very
finest quality and heavy weight
per bushel. Wheat is usually 60
pounds, oats 40 to As pounds and
barley accordingly to the measured
bushel. Potatoes make ordinarily
from 300 to 500 bushels per acre
There is sack OF spuds here tha
weighs 100 pounds and contain:
but Is potatoes. One of these po
. ,a,oes alone weighed 10 2-3 pounds
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ed by the brisk flow in the irriga-
ton canals and in the big, rapid
flowing Snake River There are
three different kinds of soils in this
country. Upon the Egin Bench
west and southwest of town it is
what they call here fine decom-
posed basalt, jam full of fertility,
and the prettiest land to plow |
have ever seen. 1t is not sand
but Just deep, gritty soil that two
horses will plow through almost
down to the beam. Upon the east
and south side of the Snake River
is an extensive country, part OF
which is rich, loamv clay and a
part Of it is black soil with small
amount of gravel in it. l can not
see that there is any difference at
all in the size of the stubb2e on
these different kinds of soils; at
least people here tell me there are
not three bushels to the acre varia-
ton in the yields ON any of these
different kinds of soils and they are
all the most beautiful land to cult
vate l have ever seen on account OF
their perfect smoothness and the
loamy nature of the ground.
On all these lands irrigation is
the rule but farther eastward from
St. Anthony is a very extensive
country called the Marysville and
Squirrel Creek country. where the
rainfall is much larger, and regu-
lar crops are raised, dependent up
on rainfall alone. Here some very
large yields have been secured
without irrigation. One farmer
raised $50 bushels of barley from
2 bushels of seed; and ordinaril,
fifty bushels of oats are raised PEI
acre. No rainfall farming any
where can equal in big yields ane
certainty of production those secur
ed by irrigation.
This is indeed land OF 'man,
waters" Great streams of waite
clear and pure, run in the irriga
ton canals through and across tn
fields and along the roads, and tn
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meaning to this country are the
four big beet-sugar factories, now
completed and in operation in FIRE.
mont and Bingham counties, it's
neigbor on the South. Over four
million dollars have been invested
in them and their great buildings
and 2OO-foot chimneys tower high
above the level farmstead and DOM
mate the level landscape. Over
1000 acres of sugar beets were
raised within sight of St. Anthony
last year and more will go in this
year. These big factories show
what capitalists think of this coun-
try. Sugar beets run high in sugar
here and are source of big reve-
vue to the farmers and they are
running up the price of land fast,
though it is still reasonably low
and still within the means of the
thrifty, industrious farmer.
The beets raised here run from
10 to 25 tons per acre in yield.
,, The price paid anywhere at the
railroad stations of the Oregon
Short Line is $3.50 per ton. If
everything is hired, the cost OF
raising and harvesting is $40 per
acre and profits run from IS to $72
per acre. 1t is a business that gives
employment to the children as we'll
as grown people and it is therefore
big money-maker in the country.
went to one big million-dollar
factory south of St. Anthony yes
terday and saw sacks of sugar
sufficient in number to fill two or
three grain elevators i'll an Illinois
or Minnesota town. notice that
since they have put in these big
factories the farmers are building
fine brick and stone farm buildings,
all over this extended farming
country; for this is by no means
out of the world; they have tele-
phones at nearly every farmhouse
and these make the farmers inde-
pendent of transacting business and
getting the news.
This town Of ST. Anthony is the
The Teton peak-chronicle., 1905-04-13
Loan and Savings
Company Organized.

c. W. Gray of Pocatello, repre-
senting The Western Loan and
Savings Company of Salt Lake was,
in the city couple of days the lat
ter part of last week. Mr. Gray
succeeded in organizing a local
board here and will return about
the Goth inst, to complete the or
ganization.
The Western Loan and Savings
Company was established in 1892,
and is strong institution. For
several years it has been doing bus
mess in Pocatello, Blackfoot, Idaho
Falls and Rexburg. State Agent
Gray overlooked St. Anthony on
account of having SO much business
in the southern part of the state.
that il was hard for him to get this.
far away. However, after having
come here and seeing this rich and
prosperous country. he was very
much elated and was only a few
hours in getting our leading citie
zens interested. This institution is
examined annually by the Bank
Examiners of Utah and Montana
who carefully inspect every item of
its assets. and ascertain the liabil-
tiles. IT they should find at times
that the assets were not sufficient
to meet the liabilities, or that the
business was not being honestly
conducted. it would be their duty
to take such legal steps as would
be necessary to protect the interests
OF the shareholders. The establish
ing of local board in our city viii,
be OF great benefit to the citizens
and will enable those owning lots
to borrow money at a low rate of
interest for building purposes. In
stead OF paying rent the money is
applied on the interest and priuci-
pal. and in a few years the home is
paid for and the rent is all saved
Later we will publish the plan
upon which the company does bus
mess.
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roads here are all 100 feet wide so
you ride right along by clear run
ming streams everywhere, no lack
of stock water here. There are
over 1900 miles of irrigation can
ais in Fremont County and more
|are building all the time. They
are not owned by corporations and
companies but we're built and are
owned by the farmers themselves,
and the yearly cost of water per
acre is consequently very low in
deed, ranging only from 10 to Is
cents per acre, which is as nothing
when the certainty and bigness Of
the crops are insured thereby.
Farmers here say that they like
irrigation because life is too short
to have any .short crops, not to
speak of failures, and irrigation
makes their crops big every year
and no slips at all; in fact, a far
mer said to me today that he could
just about tell what yield he would
have year before his crop was
harvested so certain and regular are
the yields secured in this way of
farming.
Some of these canals are almost
rivers in size. Many of them are
30 feet wide and three to five feet
deep and as we drive across them
the water often runs into the bug
gy-box. Here it almost seems as
if they can make water run up hill
canals cross each other in all direc-
tions and when they meet one is
carried in a board fume right >over
the other.
| But of all remarkable things
about the way they carry on irriga-
tion here is that they do not, ex-
cept upon the clay loans, have to
run the water over the land. The
water is just turned into the, small
furrows plowed across the land at
intervals of two or three hundred
The Teton peak-chronicle., 1905-04-13

Potatoes here are right at the front
as you can see.
Prices at present are about as
follows: Oats AZ cents per bushel
wheat 81 cents per bushel; barley
Sc cents per bushel hay in town
(alfalfa) IS to $40 per ton, and in
the country for feeding from stack
"a to $6 per ton. Alfalfa here is
cut twice season and yields four
tons per acre besides the grazing
gotten from it. All clovers do
we'll but alfalfa is the crown and
pride of Idaho, as it is of the other
Pacific Coast States.
This is fine cattle. sheep and
horse country. The millions OF
acres of tall bunch grass range and
abundance Of feed raised by irriga-
tion makes stock raising profitable.
Butte, Portland and San francisco
are the principal markets here on
the Coast.
Here are some yields secured
around St. Anthony: A farmer
four miles out raised Is bushels ot
wheat and 112 bushels of oats pei
acre. Another got 565 bushels Of
wheat from II acres. Still anoth-
er had no failure of wheat for ten
years and an average for that time
of 55 bushels per acre. Another
secured Al bushels per acre from
80 acres. One raised 112 bushels
Of oats per acre weighing 46 pounds
per bushel. Another threshed 11C
bushels field peas to the acre. An,
other one dug 5S3 bushels of pota.
toes from one acre. Twelve St.
Anthony potatoes weighed 81
pounds. This is not Georgia. but
one watermelon raised here weigh.
ed 43 pounds. All these yields are
matters of common knowledge here
and can be verified as absolutely
correct.
But biggest of all. and full O
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county seat and sure hustler. It
IS built on the banks of the Snake
River and its site is very attractive.
There are fine brick and stone
buildings and more going up. 1t
has two banks full of farmers
money and its large and well-as-
sorted stocks of goods are the best
indication of the fast growing
wealth of this country. They have
electric lights, and power, water
works, and the purest water that
can be found, for it is derived from
the melting SHOWS of the high
mountains of the main range of the
Rockies to the eastward and north
ward. Many farmers who have
already become wealthy are renting
their farm and moving to town to
educate their children and as they
can rent their farms for cash rent
of from 81 to $40 per acre and for
sugar beet crops they can get a big
in come in that manner.
What this sugar-beet business
means to this country can be we'll
understood when say that farmers
around here will be paid alone
from one factory over $500, 600 for
their crop of this years beets.
have already made this letter
too long. l will cut off right here
but it would take volumes to do
justice to the farming advantages
OF this grand region. But, one
word more.
Land under irrigation can still
be bounght here at a low price.
Twenty-Five miles northeast Of st.
Anthony are $500 acres of new ir-
rigated lands of fine quality that
can be bought TO, $1O.5O per acre
with small first payment down
and long time at low interest. In
due time these lands will go to $50
to 500 per acre. The United States
Government is now considering a
project for watering a very fine
tract of homestead land of $4,000
acres lying from 18 to 40 miles
west of St. Anthony.
In the older well-setrled and
developed country around St. An
thony improved and unimproved
land Of the best quality can still be
purchased at very reasonable cost.
considering the big profits realized
from Small grain and sugar beets;
but the coming Of the beet factories
near here is causing land to rise
rapidly in value. To the northeast
ward is the extensive rainfall coun-
try where thousands of acres of
grain are raised without irrigation
and where there is an abundance
of rich. low priced land still to be
had.
David r. M'Ginnis,
In The kansas Farmer.
I have read with a great deal of
interest this prospectus and can
heartily endorse the statements con-
tained therein.
F. R. Gooding,
Governor of Idaho.
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FREMONT COUNTY AS SHE LOOKSi
ST. Anthony the Favored City She lsA Brief Write Up
of this Section of Idaho by Disinterested Party

St. Anthony. Fremont County,
Idaho, March 16, 1905.
AS l stand here in the streets of
st. Anthony, Idaho, the county
capital of Fremont County, Iwsffi
able to look over country assiarge
as one of the New England States,
of wide prairies, rolling foot hills,
and towering mountains thirty to
seventy-hve miles distant.
Away to the eastward. catching
the rising sun at distance of sixty
miles, rise in their imperial majes-
ty the triple heads of the Three
Tetons, almost three miles above
ocean tide and seeming to hold up
the very sky. In all the region
around these mighty buttresses is
found the best large game and fish
ing country in these United States,
but it is not with these matters that
l have to deal in this letter.
What appeals to me most, as
drive over and examine this vast,
irrigated farming country, is its
table-like smoothness, its complete
system of irrigation canals and
lastly, its incredible yields of small
grains. grasses and sugar beets.
What l am going to tell your read
ers will look almost unreasonable
to them, but have carefully veri-
fed every figure I am going to give
as to yields secured by the farmers
in this country. They are a mat
ter of common knowledge here and
there are hundreds OF farmers who
will bear out every figure | quote,
This is a big country-a big,
level country. 1t looks like q
smooth table of absolutely leve
land for miles and miles around ST
Anthony, but it is in reality no
so, for here is a considerable slope
to the west and southwest that car
not be seen by the eye but is denot
The Teton peak-chronicle., 1905-04-13
ORDINANCE NO. 1O4.

An ordinance relating to the lay
ing of plank sidewalk on Bridge
Street in the village of St. Anth-
ony, Idaho; also relating to max
ing and establishing crossings at
all places where said sidewalks
may intersect streets; and relating
to the levying of an assessment
against the lots and owners of lots
in front of which said sidewalks
may be laid, to pay for said side
walks; also providing for the width
and material to be used in the con-
struction of said sidewalk.
Be it ordained by the Chairman
ard Board of Trustees of the Viii
lage OF St. Anthony:
Section /. That there shall be
laid and constructed plank side
walk commencing at the Southwest
corner of Block No. %; thence
north along the east side of Bridge
Street to the Northwest corner OF
Block No. 4.
Sec. 2. The sidewalk herein
provided for shall be four feet wide
with two inch lumber securely nail
ed on two stringers Of 2 X 6 lum-
Der, laid on necessary mud sills.
Sec. 3. There shall be laid and
constructed plank crossings at all
places where the above described
sidewalk shall intersect or cross
any street or alley of the village
of St. Anthony, at the expense OF
said village.
Sec. 4. That said sidewalk and
crossing shall be constructed under
the supervision of the Road Over
ser. .,
Sec. 5. That said sidewalk shall
he built and constructed and the
cost thereof shall be paid by the
owners of the lots IN front OF
which said sidewalk is to be laid.
Sec. 6. The owners of lots IN
front of which each sidewalk is to
be laid and constructed, are hereby
required to build and construct
said Sidewalk in conformity with
this Ordinance and have the same
completed not later than May
1905. and they are hereby notiflec
that upon their failure to do SO, the
village Board will cause the same Mt
70 be laid and constructed, and the
COST thereof shall be deemed spec
ial tax upon the lots in front o
,,b;ch said sidewalk might be con
structed- -. 80,
passed and approved this llti
dav oi April, A. D., l9o9-
" W. Youmans, Chairman
Attest: Vim. D. wager
Clerk, Pro TEN.
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ing. would go over the route of the
proposed road into Big Creek dis
trlct. Recently, however, it has
been learned that the roads will
not have become sufficiently settled
oy that time for it to be easily pos
sibie to make the trip. Instead of
this trip, the commissioners in
company with a man from the state
engineers S Office, will make trip
OF inspection over the luute of the
proposed road from Boise to Allan
ia.
There seems to be general SEN
tlment that the road commissioners
Will decide tavorably on the War
ren Big Creek road, provided the
parties interested and who will be
particularly benefited will make
the demand of the state, to pay half
the expense of puttiHg in the road.
KICKS ACADEMY NOTES.
Rexburg, April 1.-THE Acad-
emy student body met last Friday
and elected an executive committee
after which program was render
ed. Chas. McAllister gave a short
lecture on Roberts Rules of Order.
Eric Johnson discussed the benefits
OF normal course. The advantages
of business education was shown
by Mr.. Hawkes..
The Academy will close on May
9Th, instead OF May 18th, the date
mentioned in the annual.
During the last week of school a
program will be rendered every
night. The graduating class will
give the final entertainment.
Prof. Kirkham has returned tc
his classes this week.
The next Academy dance will
be given at Sugar City on Friday
night.
The final examination in plane
geometry was given yesterf ay
The results are highly satisfactory
Many students have taken the
opportunity to do work in the spec
ial courses given this year. The
special courses are. elocution
music, sewing and manual train
ing. II.
The attendance is holding ou
we'll. A few boys were called
home at the opening of spring t.
assist in work upon the farms.
The botany class have MOUNTED
and classified large number o
specimens of the local flora.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-11-16
PAY rR,svrE TO GOV. AUSTIN.
Many Old Friends Of Former coverner
Attend Funeral.

st. Paul, Nov. IL. - Many friends.
comrades and former associates OF
Former Gov. Horace Austin gathered
to do honor to his memory at the
funeral which was held from the resi-
dence Of Gen. Mark d. Flower yester-
day afternoon. The services, which
were simple but very impressive, were
conducted by DR.. Samuel G. Smith,
pastor Of the peoples church.
The honorary pallbearers were Gov.
j. A. Johnson, Judge H. C.. Hicks.
Capt. H. A. Castle, Former Gov. Hub.
bard, Gen. Flower, Congressman Lo-
rem Fletcher, Senator M. E. Clapp.
Congressman F. G. Stevens, Former
Gov. s. r. Van SAINT. G. S. Ives, Col.
Donahower, H. w. Childs, Prof. Jud.
son Jones and DR.. w. w. Folwell, all
OF whom were present except Former
Gov. Van SAINT.
The active pallbearers were G. H.
McGill. R. c. McGill, Trevor McClurg,
DR.. James Gilfillan, H. w. Benton and
DR.. A. G. Bennett.
The interment was at Oakland, fol-
lowing crematory services at Forest
cemetery.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-11-16
"while irrigation is talked f,

"While irrigation is talked and
urged by newspaper writer's, and real
estate dealers in towns, it is very ap-
parent that actual farmers and small
land owners are not even yet partic.
ularly impressed with its Importance
They do realize. however, that it in.
wolves the introduction of new crops
and methods of cultivation, with the
hard and continuous labor that is in.
separable from successful intensive
cultivation.
"The greatest difficulty to be over
come in the North Dakota situation
is not so much the building of ;rriga-
tion works as the education of the peo-
pie who now own land and who are
apparently satisfied with present con-
ditions and evince little interests in
schemes of enthusiasts end govern
ment experts
The semi-arid section of the state
during the past five years, has had
more than an average rainfall in the
growing season, and bountiful crops
have rewarded the farmers. Agricul-
ture has been extended far across the
line which heretofore has been regard
ed as separating humid from semi-arid
sections. Under the circumstances.
the agitation for national irrigation
has encountered more or less indif-
ference on the part of the land own.
ers.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-11-16
is WORLDS MILLEr CENTER.
ciaremont, s. D., Develops Shipping
Facilities for All Grains.

Claremont, S. D.. Nov. lit is the
proud boast Of the people of Glare.
mont that during the past two years
the city has taken it's place as the
greatest primary market in the worli
for the shipment of millet seed. The
town has also made a great record az
a wheat shipping point. During the
current season single elevator has
shipped out about one hundred car.
loads of wheat, and has paid to farm.
ers In exchange for grain as much as
$4,000 day. This is only one of q
number of elevators, and it is probable
the others have done equally as we'll
corn raising has also proved success
in this locality during the last few
years, and Claremont is becoming q
great market for the shipment of the
finished product in stock for beef and
portk.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-11-16
news OF TIE NORTHWEST
ATTORNEY Is FINED.
q. Paul Man Held In Contempt os
Judge Webber's Court.


Redwood Falls, Minn., Nov. 12-Fred
B. Phillips, a young st, Paul attorney,
was fined $3.50 for contempt of court
by Judge Webber in the district court
yesterday. An alternative was six
months in Jail. Either is the limit In
such case. Phillips Immediately took
an appeal to the supreme court. Phil
lips, with E. S. Cary of Minneapolis,
has been engaged for a long time in
attempting to prevent the Mos Of
Sleepy Eye from obtaining absolute
control and possession of 400 acres of
land in Springdale township, this coun-
ty, valued at $4,000. for about $4,000.
The land formerly belonged to Phil
lips father, Rev. Robert Phillips, a
superannuated Methodist minister of
Ceylon. During the harvesting of the
crop this year Hans Mo got out an in
junction restraining the Phillips peo-
pie from interfering with him in the
cutting and threshing. When court
opened here on Wednesday Mo submit
ted an affidavit to the effect that he
had been interfered with by Fred B.
Phillips, and asked that the latter be
punished for contempt. The testimony
of Mo was offered and Judge Webber
adjudged Phillips guilty OF contempt
and imposed the fine Of $3.50, or six
months in Jail.