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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-30
Nichols Reclamation. Project
Now Open to Settlers
One of the Best Yet DeveIopsd--.R ecIaims 1000
Acres Southwest of Arco.-.Has Been Build
inc for Five Years-..State Engineer Approves
the System-..Just Open for Business.
Claims Left and You'll Have to Hurry.

the estimates completed and the
working plans are ready for the
pencil and pillow. There is enough
water in the reservoir to supply
the land for which water rights
are obtainable at this time, and
when the system is completed, it
will. be owned and operated by the
owners of the land.
To get the location, look at the
"Sketch Map" plate l, and find
the word "Martin," between Arco
and the Clnder 3uttes. A tiny
line shows the course of Dry
Creek, ending in the letter I'M, "
of the word "Martin. A quar-.
ter of an inch north of it, on the
map, is the big bend of Antelope
Creek, and one branch of this
stream, known as "Dry Fork, y
has been conducted over the divide
to Slaughter House Gulch and
across Champagne Creek, and
filled is 1893 acres, capacity,
2136 acre feet. The reservoir is
at considerable elevation above
the lands to be watered, and the
water is to be conducted thru a
tunnel in the Tim of the basin, to
a canal that carries it to the land.
The land can be taken under
the desert or homestead rights, by
any eligible person who has a
water right in the system. Water
rights can be purchased of d. W.
Nichols, of Martin, Idaho, for
S25. 90 per acre, on the installment
plan, IS an acre to be paid in cash,
Persons taking land under the
Desert Act are not required to live
on the land, but the entryman
must expend not less than 81 an
acre per year in making improve.
ments or securing water right
for it, for the first four years, and
by the fifth year must have one.
eighth of it under cultivation.
Annual payments made on the
water right are accepted in EVIL.
dence as improvements made upon
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-30
LOST RIVERS
OF IDAHO
Tropical Forests That Once Were
.Here---Cataclysm Followed the
Tertiary Age--Unveilng Secrets.
Of the Snake River Plains.

Ages ago, when the earth was
young, the great Snake River
plain in Idaho, now scene Of
utter desotation, was a semi-tropi-
cal garden. Countless streams
crossed it and lengthwise thru it
flowed the nightly Snake. In the
forest primeval and over the YER
dure clad plains roamed the mas
todon, the mammoth, the camel,
a queer kind of horse and many
other species of prehistoric an
imals. We know all this to be
true by reason of the discovery
of the remains of these extinct an
finals in the recent excavations
made at Minidoka rapids.
A great catastrophe over
whelmed this valley. On seven
different occasions the lofty Tetons
which frame it's eastern boundary,
and which were then active vol
canoes, erupted' and poured forth
sea of lava, which swept dowE.
ward aud westward, covering the
beautiful valley with blanket of
fiery liquid more thas 500 feet
thick. In the cataclysm all the
teemiug life was annlhilated. The
rivers were burned up and their
channels obliterated.
The Snake River cut it's way
thru the lava sheets, carving for
itself one Of the most wonderful
canyons in the west; other streams
from the south persisted and final
ly joined the parent stream. On
the north the rivers encountered
the wall of lava, but did not cut
through it. 1t is a striking ny
geographic feature of the valley
that for hundreds of miles not
river crosses it from the north.
Continued on Page o.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-30

big sugar factory and a great
fruit growing belt to supply Gen.
trail Idaho mines, it being in the
hot belt but closest of any to the
mining districts.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-30

the land for its reclamation. The
entryman is required to pay the
government 25 cents per acre al
thu time of making the entry, and
81 per acre at the time of making
final proof.
Those desiring to homestead the
land, are required to make it their
home for a period of five years,
but no payment is required to
the government except the usual
fees at the land office.
The land is very smooth, but
slopes to the east ware: with a good
irrigating grade, and the soil is
very fine and deep. Timber is
obtainable on two sides, either
from ceders in the lava beds on
the southeast, or pine and maho.
gany from the mountains to the
north and west. The snow falls
to a good depth in winter, and
grass is abundant on the hills and
plains, the latter being very good
winter range, and also in spring
and early summer, when the foot.
hills are preferable. With the
first SHOWS of winter, the stock,
deer and antelope come down to
Craze on the plains where the
snowfall is lighter and comes
later.
This tract is on the line of the
emigrant road across the state to
Wood River, and the builders of
railroads who study the map of
Idaho to locate a transcontinental
line thru the state, generally draw
line around the base of the
mountains near this reservoir site,
and when preliminary surveys are
made by this route, they cross
the township so as to cut it into
triangles, passing near the north
east corner and the southwest
corner, within half a mile of the
reservoir, and thru the body of
the land near the center. In our
Lost River Edition of June 81,
1907, we called attention to the
probable location ST such road
and it's Junction near this place,
with an electric line to cross over
into Antelope Valley via the pro
posed big storage reservoir and
resort in that valley and then
down the canyon to Darlington.
In other editions we have called
attention to the fact that near
here would be built a sugar fac.
tory within a few years, and the
Mackay paper of June 1908 cited
this as the natural location for
uiuieTiN Mo 100 pIhTEI
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-08-30

Continued on Page 8
El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1907-11-07
LOS ANtxlONlSTAS DtL CONDAD0
De SAN JUAN.

Los suietos que desde hace item
po han estado agitando ell pro-
veto de anexar el condado de
San Juan nj estado de Colorado,
y que han hecho peticiones y jun
tado firmas con ese objeto, ha-
cen case omiso de una circuns-
tancia esencial en- el asunto, y esq
es que el territorio abrazado den
tro de los lfmites del condadO de
San Juan es parte integrante de
Nuevo Mexico, y que no es la per
tenencia nj esta & la disposition
de ningdn grupo 6 grupos de po-
bladores que Sc hayan resentado
alIi. ST no estan conformes con
hallarse bajo In Jurisdiction de
las leyes de Nuevo Mexico el re-
medic estG EN- la manO y ese con
slste en- que sc vayan n colorado
8 & cualquiera otra parte que
meior les parezca, ynadiepondra
objection nj los echar1 menos.
Pero que pretendan llevarse con.
sigo una parte considerable de
| Nuevo Mexico, ese rs un dispara-
te de la primera magnitud que no
debe tolerarse nj sc tolerara por
un momento. AL mismo tempo,
81 tuvieren pizca de sentido CO.
mGn verian que es un impossible
10 que pretenden porque nlng1n
| COngreso Sc prestaria O. decretar
| iniquidad semejante. Lo melor
que puede hacerse, 81 persisten en-
su agitaci0n, es aneXar el conda.
do de San Juan q una parte del
condado de Rio Arriba Y formai
un condado onuevo bajo otro nom
bre, 10 cual seguramente serviria
para sujetar Il los revoltosos y
meterlos en- cintura de una ma
nera efectiva y conluyente.
El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1907-11-07
AL DEL CONDADO DE SAN MIGUEL EN- PARTICULAR.
Ia ARROGANCIA Dt ARIZONA.

Arizona, 8 por mejor deeir la
gran mayorfa de la prensa de
aquel Terrtorio, particularmente
la Dem6cr ta, continua arrojan.
do v lanzando sus insultos con
ira Nuevo Mexico, no poreue va
tema verse unida con este Terri
toriO en- los lazos politicos de un
estado consolidate, sino porQue
lie punza el aguijon de In envidia
al yer que Nuevo Mexico tiene
mejores prospectus para hacerse
estado. Pareceria por la actitud
de dicha prensa que Nuevo Mexi-
co no tiene derechos que no est6n
subordinados q los antoiOs v ca
prichos de Arizona, y que la su
perioridad de los arizonenses So
bre los neo-meXicanos es cosa
tan hien establecida que no adj
mite replica. Tanta arrogancia
proviene sin duda de una jactan-
cia sin lfmites Y de IN amor pro-
pio desmedido, Y sienta muy NAL
a un territorio que hacecuarenta
amos era ap6ndice y porci6n de
Nuev0 Mexico.
Esta consideration deberia dar
le recato Y moderation suficiente
para no ahrigar pretensiones tan
exageradas Y ridiculas, porque
por mas que quiera ocultarlo, &
todo Ell mundo estA patente la
humildad de su origen Y proce
dencia. FL hecho de que capita
Iistas de otras parties hayan en-
contrado bonanzas v establecido
otras empresas que Sc ban hecho
productivas, no la diploma de
q los arizonenses
sobre los ne0-meXicanos porlue
no hay ningGn m6rito en- que
otros hagan la lumbre para que
elIos Sc calienten. 81 como dicen,
ellos han fundado y desarrollado
la presente comunidad de Arizo-
ma, sn obra en- este respeto no es
tan original como piensan, pues
otros y entire ellos Nuevo Mexico,
han hecho 10 mismo mucho an
tes, y sin atenerse q capitalistas
De afuera que los tengan despnes
bajo su sujecion Y dominic. La
prensa de Arizona debe esuietar al |
r1n tanto sus brfos y deiar de |
sin motive 4 Nuevo Ne
xico y su pueblo porque esa es
una diversion que no lie. trae nin-
guna ganancia. Antes, al con-
trario, es c0sa que Ia pel1udica |
en- Ia opinion de todos los
lombres de buen parecer, quie-
nes ven que su conducta estd ins.
prada por la envidia mas ruin y !
rastrera que puede animaraunos
que Sc titulan guias y mentores
de la opinion.
El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1907-11-07

Joyeria de todas classes, de ORC
Y plata; las mas hermosas ioyas
en- Feligraua Mexicana titles pa.
ra presentes y donas, encontra-
reis en- la joyeria de Don Sabine
Lujan 4 prdcios muy baratos.
El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1907-11-07

"Resfrios negligidos engordan
camposantos." FL Jarabe de ri.
no de Noruega del Dr.. Woods
ayudard i hombres y muieres q
Ilegar 4 una feliz y vigorosa an
cianidad.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A woman may talk sociology, but
she thinks millinery.
The average man thinks he's an
orator when he's only a foghorn.
Where the photographers make
their money is out of the pretty girls.
The average woman will go with
out square meal to ride in cab,
Some boys do well even to learn
in college what kind of neckties to
wear.
When a woman says she has no
clothes she means somebody else has
more.
The average man wants to buy a
safe before he has anything to put
in it.
A girl gets mighty mad with you
If you call it squeezing her hand in
stead of pressing it.
A girl seems to think being en-
gagged is SO as TO be like people in a
novel.
Some people want to be on a jury
so as to get the testimony that is not
printable.
A girls idea Of nice man is one
who says she broke his heart by not
marrying him when he didn't ask
her.
Most of the money n man could
save if he had no bad habits wouldn t
be any fun to him If he didn't have
them.
A woman has a real good time at
somebody else's dinner that is poor
thinking of the mean things she can
say about 1t.
A woman can't help being inter
ested in man who has been di-
vorced without her knowing the real
reason why.
When a man does well in business
his wife thinks it's because he gets
such good meals at home, and prob
able she is right.
One thing a woman likes about a
husband is she can pretend he un-
derstands about railroad time tables
and let him figure out her train for
her.-From Reflections of Bach
elor," in the New York Press.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
Era of Great Strikes Passing.

Washington, ID. According to
Carrd:l ID. Wright, who was commits
sioner of labor for a number of years,
and is now president of Worcester
University, the era of great strikes
is passing away. In the place Of i'm
dustrial strikes the conciliation plan
is being adopted.
In an interview here Mr.. Wright
says the tendency is against the great
strikes which were numerous from
the early seventies onward. He be-
lieves the tendency is against them
more strongly than IL has ever been
in recent years, but that they served
an effective purpose-that Of teach
ing capital what labor wanted and
I. aching labor more about capital.
The effect of such strikes was loss
both TO employers and employed.
Mr.. Wright contends that while lit
tie is heard of il, all over he country
employers and laborers are getting
together in spirit of conciliation.
Greater efficiency on the part of
the man who has an industrial duty
TO perform is another tendency OF
the times noted by Mr.. Wright.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
pEARTH c? MEN
FOR THE MINISTRY
Discouraging Report by the Board Of
Education to the Presbyterian
General Assembly.

Columbus, Ohio.-In its report TO
the Presbyterian General Assembly
the Board Of Education said:
The board has been made aware
that its solicitude over the present
period of decline in the number and
quality of candidates presenting
themselves for the gospel ministry is
shared by the boards of education Of
other denominations
'Word has come from the Eplsco-
pal, Methodist and Lutheran bodies
that the falling off, so noticeable n
few years ago, is beginning TO have
its direct effett on the churct.
Dissatisfaction is felt i'm many
quarters over the inability of the
churches TO secure the highest type
of consecrated manhood for the min
istry.
pulpit vacancies for dstressingly
long periods are more and more no
ticeable, and complaints are heard
from committees on pulpit supply as
TO their inability to fill satisfactorily
the places Of those who are dropping
from the ranks of the ministry.
1t is with grave concern that the
church at large should know the facts
that in thirty evangelical theological
seminaries in our country the church
is about 400 men short of the num-
Der studying ten years ago, despite
the countryS increase OF 100000
in population.
There are one-third less men stu
dying for the ministry Of the Presby-
terian church than ten years ago, and
yet the membership OF our branch of
the PRESBYTERIAN church has increased
during that period from 1,024.000 to
1904, 900.
Ten years ago there was one can
didate for every Gao church mem
bers, to-day there is one candidate
for every 1910 members.
ais it not therefore incumbent upon
the church to engage in importunate
prayer in behalf of the sons of the
church, that more Of them may be
led to turn a deaf ear TO the solicita-
tons of commercially prosperous
age, and to consecrate their talent to
the work of the ministry"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
Guarding the Public Coal Lands.

DR.. Edward Everett Hale pro-
pounded the following question to a
company of scientists in Washington
some days ago: What achievement
of the past year is most worthy of a
commemorative medal"
The trend of the answers was to-
ward the exploit OF Amundsen in
traversing the Northwest Passage
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, or to
the more significant exploit of the
Wright Brothers, Of Dayton. Ohio,
who repeatedly succeeded in aerial
flight in a machine much heavier
than the air.
1t Is a natural tendency OF the sci-
entific mind to give first rank to indi-
vidual discovery or exploit rather
than to bring into account all achieve
ments, giving first place to that which
responds most successfully to the
greatest need of the time.
Experts in statecraft will, doubt
less, concede that under the present
conditions of our national develop
ment it is quite possible for the great
est general good TO result from
some extremely keen and far-reach-
ing achievement in administration,
and in the mind OF the writer such an
administrative achievement has ac-
tually characterized the past year.
refer to the proclamation of the Pres
ident Withdrawing from sale the coal
lands of the people. The vast i'm
portance OF this act in connection
with the preservation of our coal
supply has been we'll pointed out by
Edward w. Parker. the Governments
coal expert. whose clever curve OF
increase points out our rate OF gallop-
ing consumption and tells clearly the
limits of our supply. Of Re.
views.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
Rather Smart SparroMs.

A gentleman bought lot Of chick
ems and commenced feeding them on
rice, but could not make out what
they did with the large quantities
that were thrown down TO them. He
determined to watch. No sooner had
the rice been scattered over the
grouid than cloud of sparrows
swooped down and made a splendid
meal. There was one consolation.
and that was that the chickens would
soon be fowl" enough TO eat Indian
corn. Next morning came and he
threw down corn, thinking he would
be one in front OF the sparrows, but
no such luck. They came as usual
and picking up the corn few away
with IL to n railway, placed IL on the
rails, perched on the telegraph wires
and waited for a train to come by
and smash Il, He has since given up
keeping fowls for pront.-American
Fancler.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
A Greex Tragedy.
by HORATIO WINsLOW.

There was once young Greek
shepherd named Steve who used to
SPEND his time warbing lays OF love
about the Doric Hills. But though
Steve was the champion sheep tender
when it came To metaphors and fin
gers-like-the-rosy-dawn-poetry, and
various other hyperbolics, 1t was no
ticed that he kept hanging on and
hanging on in the bachelor class.
Occasionally some of his friends
would rail at him and say, How now,
Steve. Vast not fortnight since
thou sangest of the joys of welded
life and Chloe's neatly turned ankles.
yet here thou still art, by Zeus, as
lusty bachelor as ever scoffed at the
arrows of Eros"
Then Steve would scowl and ex-
plain that Chloe was all right just
now but just wait till she was fifteen
years older and see how that short
wasted effect would make the angels
weep.
But" his friends would protest,
zone month ago thou sangest the
praises Of fair Phyllis. Surely thou
wilt admit there was no short-waist-
edness there"
NO." Steve would say; "but Phyl-
lis was too thin. You just wait till
she's fifteen years older and see how
you can stick marbles in her cheeks. -
In the same way Clarinda was too
quick-tempered and Doris had irregu-
lar teeth and Helen was such a jeal-
Gus little thing. and anyhow just
wait till they were fifteen years older.
So things rested till one day the
Doric Hills were frightened by the
arrival of kittensh stranger who
wore a veil and swore that she
wouldn't marry the best-looking and
wealthiest shepherd in Greece or out
OF 1t.
OF course it was all off with Steve
and two months later the once happy
but critical herder was a. married man
able to account for every second Of
his waking time and with a standing
ad. for a good plain cook and sec
ond girl in both papers.
When kind friends tried to point
out to Steve (and with entire TRUTH
that his wife had already reached
the fifteen-year-older stage, that she
was 50 short-waisted that she had TO
toss up to tell her belt from her col
lar; that her cheeks caved in so far
that she looked like before taking;
and that she was uncertainty tenn
pered and wore false teeth and was
as open-minded as a dyspeptic wild
cat, Steve would say in trembling
voice that they didn't know that girl
that he'd never believed in women
before but that now he just wondered
what he'd ever done to deserve this
1a1rest blossom on the Tree of Life.
Moral: It's hard on posterity, but
then what's posterity ever done for
us?-Puck.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
THE "SWDiNIIN' HOLE"

II was in the little "swimm;n' hole"
/. In the Cow lot" years ago,
When my face was full of freckles
And a stone bruise swelled my toe,
That | landed my first fish,
With a pinhook and a worm;
And how l did enjoy
Seing the little sucker squirm.
Just how that sucker felt that day
At being fooled and caught,
Never entered in my boyish head
For had no time for thought;
Another section of red worm went
Went quickly on the pin,
And in the "swimmin' hole" it dropped
To lure his next of kin.
Lines of care now mark the place
Where the freckles used 20 grow,
And the heart now gets the bruises
That used TO swell the toe;
And know now how the sucker" felt
When he found himself ashore.
For more than once I've played his part
And swallowed bats" galore.
New York Press.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
Pink Burial Gowns Latest Mode

Indianapolis, Ind.--Death is grow
ing "out of the reach of the poor
man." Fashion is establishing a
claim in the death chamber and dy-
ing Is to become a luxury in way.
f. II. w. Graber, who is attend
ing the twenty-seventh annual con-
vention of the Indiana Funeral Di-
rectors' Association, says many things
have contributed TO make burials in
the year 1907 much greater than in
1906. In the shroud display of the
company, Mr.. Graber represents, are
two or three pink dresses for young
women-a radical departure from the
white, black, gray and occasional Law
ender gowns of other times. He
says that during recent months his
firm has had calls for snort sleeved
waists in keeping with the fashion
of the day.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-07
Pufreth Up; Love Build
eth ID"

We may be able to tell how many
stars are in the Milky Way; we may
be able to count the petals Of every
flower. and number the bones OF
every bird: but unless faith leads us
to a deeper understanding, a more
reverent comprehension of the sig
nifcance of the universe. God can
no more be pleased with our knowl-
edge than the painter is pleased with
the fly which touches his picture with
its feelers. and sips the varnish from
the surface. and dies without dream
ing OF the meaning. thought. feeling.
embodied in the colors.-Van Dyke.