The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-26
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WOMAN AND CHILD DROWNED
Confidence Man Gets School Teacher
over II ,OOO, 900 Acres in a..
forest Reserves

-VVeT Bk,UOOsOUO Acres in
forest Reserves
It begins to look as though it will
have to be called the deadly Irriga-
tion Canal". Every year the irriga-
tion canal claims numerous victims.
The latest are reported by the Ida
no Falls Register. Another very
sad case of drowning occurred at Ba-
salt on Thursday morning last. Mrs.
Charles Criddle and her little girl
about eight years old started across
the field; about two hundred yards
from the house in the Cedar Point
canal which was running full of
water. A foot bridge crosses the
canal, consisting of two logs with a
few Stats nailed across, the logs be-
ing a few inches apart In crossing
this bridge it is supposed the little
girl slipped and holding the mothers
hand caused her to fall, and as she
did SO her foot caught between the
logs and she fell over backward with
her head up stream: The current
being quite rapid washed the body
under the bridge.
About three hours after, her SON
in. law had occasion to cross there
and found her. He at once gave the
alarm, and searching parties after re-
moving her body went to look for the
little girl whose body was found
nearly three-fourths of a mile be-
low
Speaking of forest reserves, the
World says: "The total area en-
braced in the forest reserves, es-
tablished and proposed, is u, SOL, $50
acres. OF this amount the following
reserves furnish the following acre
age:
Bitter Root, 3,742.6OO
Priest River, 875, $50.
Occur d'Alene, 5O6,88O
Shoshone, l, 105, 92O.
Seven Devils, 668, 900.
Henry Lake, $50, 900.
Sawtooth, 1858. $50.
Payette, 1872, 900.
Squaw Greek, 285, 900.
Cassia, 1885, 900.
Yellowstone, 175, 900.
Wsiser, 332, 16O.
Of this area, which is devoted to
conservation of forests and rainfall,
1850, 200 acres, it is alleged, con-
serves no water for irrigation except
for tract of less than 20 acres at
Lewiston. 1t is also stated that 80
per cent of the reserves is covered
with merchantable timber, which if
sold would give the national govern
ment $1O,OOO,OOO with which to
carry on the work of irrigation.
This, even if true, can have no
weight against the benefits of re-
serves. The government will go
ahead with its plans for irrigation if
it does not sell another acre of timber
land in Idaho. It is probable, how
ever, that the timber reserve policy
may be carried too far. So long as
reserves are set aside in the noun
famous sections unfit for agriculture,
great deal of good and no harm will
be the result, if the miners and
settlers are permitted to cut this
timber for mining and home pur-
poses, and that has been stated to be
the policy of the government.
The Idaho City World, among
many interesting things tells that the
Barber Lumber Company is preparing
to build railroad up Grimes Greek
t to haul logs to its big mills; that
the owners of the Blue Bucket mine,
} tWill put in an electric plant to
: furnish power for the hoist and air
compressor, and also expect to put
up mill soon. The ore is mostly
, iron sulphurets. ~
The Pocatello Tribune relates an
other confidence man incident. j.
B. johnson a school teacher on the
way to Moscow, accosted by a busy
man on train; loaned him $40 cash
,. and $3.50 draft, just for minute.
> Time called Busy man, non est.
johnson, out S5OO ana CnlnKs Ne
ought to have known better, coming
= from Eldorado, Illinois.
: The Geological survey found it
, Tantalum in the sands of Snake
Q River. We don't know what it is,
= but it's glad we are they found it.
- Boise must find some tantalum right
away.
If Idaho Falls enjoyed a small fright
L. from the fire fiend recently. It was