Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-11-15

tain Home early in October, and
while here made large invest
ments. On his return home ne
wrote the following interesting /
story for the Gazette, of that, place
about the proposition here:
Our way from Butte to Noun
tain Home lay across mountains !
and over plains. The latter is !
city of about 1900 people, with
handsome streets which, like those !
of Courtenay, diverge from the
points of the compass to conform to
the trend of the rail road. The
older parts of the city are orna-
mented with shade trees along the
streets and fruit trees in the yards.
The town is growing. Many resi-
dences have been built in the last
twelve months. Three large BUSH
ness blocks are building two of
brick and one of cement blocks.
Two large brick hotels host the
corners and goers. A large brick
shcool house, with eleven rooms
and nine teachers-a credit to the
city-is crowded to its limits and
more room is contemplated. Numer-
Gus business places and fine resi-
dences add to the attractiveness
of the city which is built on a
plain as leve as floor.
Elmore county held its first fair
at Mountain Home early in October
and we attended on the last day.
The exhibits were creditable to
the fertility of its soil and the en-
terprise of its people. The display
of fruits and vegetables was fine
and that of stock good. The ST.
Louis fair had more than one dis
play of fruit and vegetables less
brilliant than that at Mountain
Home in 1906. Idaho is famous
for its unrivallcd fruit. Apples,
peaches, pluns, prunes, apricots,
nuts, potatoes, beets, onions, to-
matoes, cabbage, beans, watcrmel-
ons, canctlouprs, pumpkins, squash
cs, citrons, celery, wheat, oats,
barley, etc, etc. of splendid growth
and beauty rendered the fair inter-
csting and attractive and well illus
trated the possibilities of Elmore
county when it comes to competi-
tino in the products of the soil
The buildings and race track showed
enterprise and attendance was large.
A ''bucking' contest was put on
the track and created great amuse-
ment, seven bronchos entering for
its prizes. Astonishing strength
in broncho jumping and kicking
and splendid skill in cowboy riding
hurt. A horse race with female
iockies would be a novel feature
in the east, but commonplace in
Idaho. The jockies wore divided
skirts, rode astride and piled the
whip bent forward in the swiftest
A chariot race is rare nowadays.
Two characters appeared on the
scene, each standing and holding
the ribbons of two prancing steeds
The race was as earnest as liberia
application of the bud to fiery
horses and chariots were equipped
in true Roman style and evidenced
an ancient custom of great popular
ity when Rome sat on seven hill:
and ruled the world.
Two methods of securing waite
supplies for irrigating desert lan'
are in use-one by the diversion o
the waters of running streams t.
the cultivated fields by means o
dams and canals, the other b
impounding waters from meltins
shows which fall on higher eleva
tions, in reservoirs, that may b
transmitted through canals to grow
ing crops as and when needed. Tn
latter method is the one employee
at Mountain Home and is the larg
est in the state of its kind. A sys
tenn of three reservoirs-the Noun
tain Home reservoir on the loot
hills east of the city, the Long TOT
reservoir up in the edge OF tn
mountains and the Camas Prairi
still higher in the mountains
practically completed. fourt
reservoir is contemplated, Prelin
mary surveys have already bee
made for this additional reservoir
The Mountain Home reservoir hs
been in use Tor several years, II
Long Tom for the past year and II
Camas Prairie reservoir VIII
brought into requisition next sprin'
5000, 600 will have been expend'
on the system involving the thr'
reservoirs when their waters a
a - he set IN motion toWar