The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-09-06
IDAHO STATE NE VS.
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The carpente-J OF Caldwell nave
formed a union.
About fifty teachers attended the
opening session of the Canyon County
Teachers Institute at Caldwell.
The city of Caldwell is making over
her 1000 bond issue, and work on
the new city hall will be pushed.
The Boise Basin Power & Hydraulic
company has now over eighty men at
work on the ditch east of Placervllle
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 viii aggregate
close to $4,000.
Farmers Of Long valley declare that
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 II 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
plants in Payette valley and large
crop is being raised, although the
acreage Is small
The Payette cannery is making a
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, a 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, 7O4, S4s.16 an increase over 1905 OF
S5,42s,2e1.29. last years pgures being
s75.2s1, OS7s7
The secretary of the interior has
granted an extension OF time to the
Vulcan Iron Works of Chicago for fur.
nishing mats and lifting devices for
use in connection with the Minidoka
irrigation project.
e. D. Carter, who built the first
sawmill and the first hotel at Wal
lace, Idaho, and who installed the first
electric light plant and water works,
owning both for time, died at Eau
Claire. Wis. August 3.
The biggest potato raiser in Long
valley probable is Clarence Shaw. He
has fifteen acres in tubers this year
and he says he win have no trouble
in marketing his whole crop at from
III cents to PA cents per pound.
The Idaho Light & Power company,
the new organization which contem-
: plates installing electric lights in Pay
: cite, weiser and Ontario, Is now push
Z ing the work OF securing the remainder
Of the right-of.wsy for its power ditch.
One mile day is the rate that the
Payette Valley railroad is creeping to-
ward New Plymouth from Payette.
The roadbed is all completed and
more than IT'S men are employed in
rushing the line to It's objective point.
! III INC presume VI ANA ANoRNHN N~N
l5-year-old daughter, Mrs. Lottie Nc
: Dermott, wife of Peter McDermott, a
r farmer eight miles from Forest was
instantly killed by a tree which her
husband had felled falling upon her
and crushing in her skull
t The Methodist conference, which
/ was in session in Idaho Falls last
week, agreed to support the plan Of
] the Anti-saloon league, to support no
; candidate for the legislature who woul
l not pledge himself to vote and work
for a liberal local option law
Ed Graham was arrested at Weiser
on a charge of forgery. He
cashed check at the Elk saloon for
+ $37, but only received about SIS.
e Later, he offered a check at another