The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-08
Carey Land Items

Monday and brot with him thorobred
Poland China hog which he exchanged
for another thorobred in VIM. Plants
herd. Mr.. Snider says he tried intro
duciug the stock of pure breeds among
some of the older settlers who had not
had much opportunity to see the differ
ence in results as between we'll bred
no IS and scrubs and met with no en-
enlargement at all until crop or two
OF pigs grew up, and since that he has
not been able to supply the demand.
On the quiet, Mr.. Snyder said, Il have
been reading your mail order articles,
and think you met the matter squarely
l arn gong to buy at home if 1T takes a
leg, altho there are certain things l can
ship in from Chicago and after paying
the freight, make saving that ought
to put dealer to shame, but dealers
b I'VE their troubles and it is up to all of
us to plair fair" AT this moment w. A.
Younie, manager Of The Bingham
County Nursery came along and Mr.
Snyder handed him an order for some
trees, saying, 81 thot of sending to Sears
and Roebuck for these things but |
guess | won't
| Some Salt Lake men who have land
at Springfield Townsite have sent man
out to build three houses in the city-to-
be.
Henry K. WILEY, of Rocky Ford,
Colorado, is on his way to Blackfoot
with carload of goods to begin farm
ing at Springfield. We understand Mr..
Wyley has become enthused with plan
used successfully at Rocky Ford, to
pillow very deep plant sugar corn and
irrigate it with milk from sixteen Jer-
sey cows per acre. People from Rocky
Ford declare it's fine and Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson has asked for some
seed from the corn.
II. L. Jones and wife were up from
Yuma Tuesday and report work pro-
crossing on Dan Cuttings new store
building. He says Mr.. Cutting is
hustler and has an application pending
for post office to be called Yuma.
M. L. Haines was in from Aberdeen
the first of the week to get goods. He
says new settlers are arriving every day
or two, and that steam pillow is operat-
ing few miles southwest of them, cut
ting 20 feet at swath. Everybody is
busy and everybody full of the enthus-
iasm that goes with new settlements,
Mr.. Haines says Boyle o. Cooney are
drilling a well for him, and at meet
ing held few days aho it was decided
to erect school house % 36 with
IA foot ceiling, $1,000 was subscribed at
the meeting, and Gus local lumber deal
ers and hardware men have figured on
the bill of goods.
Surveyor E. 0. Church and party of
men are busy cross sectioning the lower
end of the canal for the contractor, and
work is being pushed in every way
Mrs. Frrnk Richards, of Aberdeen,
has been i'll for some time.
G. W. Stowell was up from Springfield
Tuesday.
Roy Shreck has returned from Cali
fornia and will accept a position as
stenographer under his father in the
Pocatello office to succeed Miss Nora
Jones who comes to Blackfoot to take
her old position here.
Mrs. Matilda johnson, j. r. Shrek
and M. ID. Ha;nes of Aberdeen will each |
build stone house this spring, and F.. |
A, Sweet will have three brick houses
built.
Miss Estella Bovee, ex-county school
superintendent of Dawson County, Mon
tana, is here from Glendive to look after
several pieces of Carey land taken last |
year by herself and other members of
the Bovee Family.