Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-11-20
IDAHO STATE NEWS

A military company is to be or
ganized at Twin Falls.
There will be over $4,000 fruit trees
set out this fall near Occur d'Alene.
The Boise $4,000 club" has been
organized. The object of the club is
TO advance the growth of Boise.
Lewiston, which has nineteen
saloons, decided at the recent election
against a prohibition ordinance.
At Gooding close to 100 new build
ings have been built or are under
way within the past three months.
Samples of oats are on exhibition
at McCammon, grown on the dry land,
six feet in height that threshed rs
bushels to the acre.
The Boise valley electric road be-
ing built from Nampa to Boise is pro-
crossing rapidly. Ties and rails are
being laid as fast as possible.
Apple growers of Caldwell have
been invited to send an exhibit to the
national apple show, which will be
held at Spokane December to II.
Members of the Southern Idaho
Press association were guests of Boise
on Monday and Tuesday a most in
teresting program being carried out.
There were but four banks in Lin
coin county year ago. Now there are
eight, and another one is to begin
business in Shoshone within few
days.
The beet crop in the vicinity of
McCammon this year averaged from
Is to 10 tons to the acre. These are
shipped to the, sugar beet factory at
Blackfoot
The receipts of the state fair held
at Boise recently just about equaled
the expenses of the fair association.
The inclement weather was respon-
sible for a small attendance.
1t is said that the Yield of alfalfa
seed in the Hagerman valley rhis
season has varied from 500 to 1000
pounds to the acre. The seed sells
Tor 10 cents pound up to % cents.
The Ada County Good Roads asso-
citation has decided to ask the Tenth
legislature of Idaho to pass a good
roads law, one that may be effectively
operative in all counties of the state.
Standpoint will make an effort to
have a street railway and present de-
velopment indicates that this plan will
soon be carried out. A franchise has
been applied for from the city coun-
ell
Five ferries are now in operation
for crossing the Snake river at diff
refent points on the King Hill tract
and another will be put in at once,
opposite Tisiska siding on the Short
Line.
Dry farming is proving very sue
cessful in the vicinity of Council and
over 10000 acres have already been
sown in fall grain. About so car
loads of dry farm wheat were shipped
this year
The investigation as to the origin of
the fire which caused the death of a
young miner named Curtis, in the
Western hotel at Wallace, tends to
show that the blaze was the result of
an incendiary plot.
The regents of the University of
Idaho have authorized the expenditure
of $4,000 for new scientific and edu-
cational books, making the library
one of the strongest, up-to-date Ii
braries in the west
At meeting of the Idaho Wool
Growers association, held in Boise
last week, the forest reserve policy
of the government was more severely
condemned than it ever had been by
the association in the past.
1t is reported on good authority,
says the Weiser Signal, that early in
the spring the Oregon Short Line will
make Weiser a division point. remov-
ing the repair shops and round house
from Huntington, Ore, to this city.
The news comes from Salt Lake
that a party of surveyors has left that
city for Bliss, their purpose being to
prosecute a survey for railroad from
that point in Idaho to Wells. Nevada.
Surveys will probably be run from
Twin Falls as well as Bliss.
William Buckley reports that he
has finished inspecting over $4,000
fruit trees near Standpoint, Idaho,
which are ready for planting. He
states that the majority of the trees
were from eastern nurseries because
the local ones cannot meet the de-
mand.
President of the American Mining
congress, ]. II. Richards of Boise, has
Just issued call requesting all com
mercial organizations and municipali-
ties to appoint delegates to the an
nual meeting of said congress, to be
held in Pittsburg, Pa, December 2, 3,
4 and 5. 1908.
No more liquor licenses will be
granted to saloon keepers of Sand
point. A movement was started to
have the saloons cut out of the re-
stricted district and this gave rise to
the proposal that all of the liquor
houses be closed as soon as their Ii
censes expire.
large fund will be raised by the