The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-07-11
GENERAL STATE
NEWS OF IDAHO
Items That Are Likely to Prove of
interest to Our Readers.
\ Brief Review of the News of the
Past Week Presented In Shape to
Appeal TO Aii-0rowth and De-
velopment, Mining, Commercial
and Farm.

appear 10 Ab-6FoWfn and De
veIopment. Mining, CommsrcIa
) and Farm.
Cottonwood The second market day
proved success. Not less thar 500
worth of goods were sold. The market
day is undoubtedly a fixture in Cot
tonwood. as the merchants are pleased
at the success of the two already held
and have been making special sales for
the benefit OF the farmers.
Cottonwood. - Workmen are now
blasting in solid rock to build a res
/ ervoir for the Cottonwood Water and
Light company. The basin will be sunk
deeper and then lined with cement,
making it a durable reservoir Well
driilers have now reached a depth Of
I40 feet in the city well, which will
| furnish water for the town. Last week
the water came within eight feet of the
surface.
Timothy hay OF the best quail
ity IS now commanding so ton, as
against SIS a ton last year. The far
mers are selling their hay or storing
It IN the arehouses awaiting better
price At Vollmer and lilo grain buv-
ers are Offering 65 cents bushel for
wheat. while at Culdesac the price is
IS cents. Farmers in this locality are
hauling their grain to Culdesac.
Work has begun on the Balfour-
Guthrie warehouse in lilo, which is to
be 6ox3oo feet.
Cottonwood.-K Clifford & Co.
have closed a contract for the erection
OF two grain warehouses, and the 1um-
Der is now being delivered at the
IVA r.a1E 4
built at Cottonwood and one at Stenn-
enbcrg. station west of Cottonwood
on the new branch of the Northern
Pacific
Indications point to plenty of com
petition in the grain business, as not
less than four warehouses will be
built here this summer Kerr. Gif-
ford & Co. will build uniform houses
at most of the stations, the plans call
ing for houses 6Ox3OO feet Work will
begin Immediately after July /, in or
der to have the houses completed be-
fore harvest.
Lewiston.-The growth of the CO.
operative trading companies looms IN
IS menace to country merchants
which makes the catalogue compe
ttion look insignificant in comparison
as the articles of incorporation grant
the companies the right to buy and
sell all kinds of merchandise. Operate |
warehouses, tramways railroads and
many other things. The independent
cooperative concerns are organized |
by the farmers TO operate warehouses. |
bur 1t IS expected that they will per-
form a greater function in due time.
Tor they will become buying units for
farmers. who will eventually secure
their farm machinery, implements.
groceries and wearing apparel through
the cooperative concerns if thew de-
velop as planned.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have been
agreeably surprised at the size of the
cherry crop. The daily car '@ lot = shin 're
ments being made from Clarkston.
WASH, orchards show that the cherry
crop is above normal
This week the packers will shin
choice Bings in ear lots and express
shipments in such Quantities tbat
Charleston will command attention 'n a.
eastern auctions, while the canneries
vii work under pressure to handle the
'rop.
The cherry crop has been variousiv
'stlmated from rs to 100 cars and II
5 renewed the latter figures will more
Yearly express the truth The only
eason shipments are not larger is he | I
ause labor is scarce. Packers can
lot be found in the country ALTHOUGH !,
ne girls receive cents a box and earn
rom $3.50 to SO day. White Brothers a
I, Crum, who handle the bulk of the p
'iarkston fruit, have so girls at work /
nd they would gladly give employment | a
40 more, but it has been impossible | v
0 secure help.
The Bings are of excellent oualitv {
at the price is slightly lower than 4
suai' prohaply as result of the panic. b
the eastern markets are not AZ ali !,
.rong. The fruit men sell their cher
es at the packing houses at cents a
ound, which, with an average yield on
io-year-old orchard, gives a net in
'me of more than $3.50 an acre. n
Three persons were killed and b
ore hurt by a passenger train on the lo
anita lie plunging through a burned n
-idge in Arizona. in
A native business firm in Pana,,, "
led the American flag to wash win !,
'ws with, and fight with American ~
sidents followed. ~
-Four persons were killed and three o,
riously injured by a dynamite ex-
osion IN San Francisco. lit is he
yea 10 be another plot against ] I
'iiagher by the graft ring. 6s
The Panama elections passed quiet. VI
with no need of troops. ri
Japan is willing China should build !.
e railroad into Manchuria. m,
say America is to III
me Tor the japanese war scare NJ
Railroads report business generally S ss
3D. though somewhat less than Iasi ri
cal
Governor Cummins, of Iowa. will ha
Ign and return 10 the practice OF
?.
tramp was arrested at Hood H.
'er VINO was found to have about ~.
BOO IN cash in his ragged clothes ~,
I is generally admitted th,. r. rae
| he the Democratic no,,;,,.' = yam s illr
sident, but a fight is expected or It
e-president. an
fexican rebels are reported TO have