Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-09-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS

About fifty teachers attended tn
opening session OF the Canyon Count,
Teachers Institute at Caldwell.
The city OF Caldwell is making owe
her s31 900 bond issue. and work OF
the new city hall will be pushed.
The Boise Dasin Power & Hydrauli,
company has now over eighty men al
work on the ditch east of Placerville.
The annual horse races which have
made Meadows famous for the past
% years were held Thursday. August
2S.
In Latah county crops have been ex-
cellent, this season. and eastern far
mers are purchasing farms in all parts
Of the county
Belated tales Of cloudburst on
Deer creek. below Forest, are TO the
effect that the damage will aggregate
close to $4,000.
Farmers of Long valley declare thai
no less than 100000 bushels OF grain
will be the result of the harvest in
Long valley this year.
Next year the Payette cannery will
try to get planted 100 acres of toma-
toes. as 1t is believed the farmers
can make 5000 per acre from this crop
This is the first season that blight |
has not appeared among the tomatoe |
MI In. La
crop is being raised, although the
acreage Is small.
The Payette cannery is making
very successful run this year. Over
5000 crates OF peas have been packed
this season. and the crops OF beans is
now being cared for
The body of John Robinson. pros
pector and civil war veteran, was
found by some boys on a sand bar on
the Boise river near Caldwell. Death
was due to natural causes.
On the strength OF having a beet
dumping station put in at New Plym-
outh. ranchers in that vincinity have
subscribed 260 acres of ground more
TO be planted to beets next year
A Ave acre tract near Twin Falls. ;
recently improved and sown to alfal-
IA, was sold last week for $500 an
acre. The owner had just sold two
crops OF hay which netted him $50
an acre.
|
The total assessed valuation In the
state for 1906. as reported by the state
board OF equalization. amounts to
$50 .704, 3491 an increase over 1906 OF a
s6.423.2 20, last years figures being
ST.. 2S1. 0S7.97. n
The secretary of the interior has .
granted an extension of time to the :
Vulcan Iron Works of Chicago for fur
mats and lifting devices for
use in connection with the Minidoka :
irrigation project. '
f. ID. Carter, who built the first =,
sawinill and the first hotel at WAL =,
ace Idaho, and who installed the first r,
slectric light plant and water works. it
,wning both for time, died at Eau u
Claire, Wis, August 3.
The biggest potato raiser in Long
ALLEY probable is Clarence Shaw. He
las fifteen acres in tubers this year M
nd he says he will have no trouble
n marketing his whole crop at from
" cents to 2ta certs per pound. pc
/ ft
The Idaho Light & Power company
he new organization which contem- ~
lates installing electric lights in Pay "
tie, Weiser and Ontario. is now push :,
ig the work OF securing the remainder
the rightof-way for its power ditch
One mile day is the rate that the eat
ayette Valley railroad Is creeping to- DO,
ard New Plymouth from Payette. se'
he roadbed Is all completed and 70
ore than IT'S men are employed in tha
shing the line to It's objective point, lat,
T.. a. - :, cur
-year-old daughter. Mrs. Lottie Nc
wife OF Peter McDermott. a
rmer eight miles from Forest. was Ne'
stantly killed by a tree which her
sband had felled falling upon her A
d crushing in her skull. NIT
The Methodist conference. which per
Is in session in Idaho Falls last 'ne
EEK, agreed to support the plan of . .ia
, Anti-saloon league. to support no Bur
ididate for the legislature who woul the