The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
IDAHO STATE NEWS

nation service.
A Nampa truck farmer reports that
he sold $40 worth OF tomatoes from
a quarter OF an acre OF land this sea.
son.
The NampA chamber OF commerce
now has log members. where six
months ago the membership was but
forty.
While the regular shipments OF
Tdaho's grain crop are To Chicago.
many shipments are going 10 Texas
and southwestern points.
r. 3resenta'iye French has secured
the appointment OF Thomas W. Smith
OF Preston as clerk In the postoff!ce
Of the house of representatives.
sportsmen u the vicinity OF Airing
tor have been having immense sport
shooting wild geese OF late Four
sportsmen one morning last week Sc
cured 100
Owing g. the good condition of the
range, few changes viii be made In
the grazing allotments on forest re-
serves In Idaho for 1908 Reductions
win be made In only two cases.
Erick Carlson, Edward Lamson and
Oscar Johnson, three hunters who
were lost for ten days in the noun
tnins. near Wallace. have finally
reached town. after suffering untold
hardships.
The secretary OF the interior has
recommended an appropriation Of
100000 TO complete the purchase OF
land for storage system intended TO
irrigate Indian lands ON the Fort Hall
reservation,
Idaho has expended about $20,so0.s
900 for the construction OF irrigation
works and the lengta Of her canals In
approximately 1000 miles. The state
has about 1.o2s separate canals and
irrigation bitches,
Idaho has In all about LOGS sep
arate canals and irrigation bitches.
she has thirteen Carey act projects.
covering $4,000 ores. and two gov.
eminent reclamation projects reclaim.
ing 522 900 acres.
Statistics collected from the mines
Of Idaho by the United States Geo
logical survey show that In 1906 they
yielded cold to the value OF si.ias.-
1o0. an increase OF s73,sS2 over the
production OF 1906.
The receipts OF the Boise land Office
for The month Of November were
sl0,3709i notwithstanding the Atiin'
gency In the money market. as
against li.ss9ss fer the correspond
Ing month OF last year.
Ia suit which has just been tried
in Twin Falls county. casaia county
Is awarded a balance Of $500 In set
Element OF accounts between the two
counties. resulting from the division
of Cassia county year ago.
The Methodist revival whiel has
been going on In Boise for two weeks,
10 being largely attended. and great
interest In being manifested. A large
number OF people have joined that
church since the revival started
According 70 the report of the state
commission ofsimmigration. labor and
statistics. Idaho has now nearly g.
00o,00o acres OF land under. canal sys
TENS. more than hair OF which vast
area Ii under actual cultivation.
John lsbeli. who left Caldwell some
time ago with samples OF the garden
and farm products OF Canyon county
for the state fair at Dallas. Texas. re
turned recently and reports the Texas
people greatly pleased with the ex
hibit
Steve Adams is 10 be taken to Tel
hurdle. Colo. 10 be tried for the muir
der of Arthur l., Collins. manager o.
the smuggler. Union mine. In Novem
Der, 1909. but II IL said he il first I,
be taken TO Boise 10 testify In tbs
Pettibone case.
G. &. Bachelor. one Of the pioneers
OF Idaho. was killed near silver CIT,
by being run over by u wagon white
going down a hill Bachelor tool
part In several al the early Indian
wars. aud was well known IN south
ern Idaho. He was n years old.
For some weeks from the mines O
Illinois. Pennsylvania. Arkansas an
Wyoming coal has poured into Boise
The talk last summer OF fuel fam
Inc this winter caused people to bu
coal whenever II was possible. AN
now all seem TO have their bins full
Miss i.eari jones. the young woma
who was 80 terribly Injured In run
away accident at weiser. IL gettin
along nicely. aud her physicians sa
that she will undoubtedly receiver
despite the terrible injuries which Oh
dinarily would have terminated "a
tally
There are $50 old soldiers at III
home In Boise now. This number
about nfteen mora than have eve
been there any previous winter 70
the next few years II Is predicted sha
the noldlera' aofnes throughout In
country will be crowded TO their "a
most capacity.
The business men and farmers q
vollmer are anxioasiy awaiting th
sompletlon Of the Northern Pacih
extension from Caidesac to Grange
Vile The track Is completed I
within three miles OF vollmer q
preEsnt aud will be Ia there som
time this month.
Boise restaurant man has secure
n pAient on a range that IL likely I
make him q fortune. The range hs
down draft. and = saving of Is ~
cent 10 made In fuel consumption Al
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