The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-08-19
GENERAL STATE
NEWS OF IDAHO

NlW0 UT WAnU
Juliaetta While digging In his or
chard A. II. Smith, of Juliaetta, dis
covered vein of gold running about
SIS to the ton. Mr.. Smith has or
dered = machine to separate the gold
from the ore and has hired crew to
help develop the find.
Il CaldweIi--With approximately 49,
900, 900 on deposit In her four banks.
Caldwell claims the distinction of be-
i ing the richest little city In Idaho.
Her population In about 5000. A rich
4 frdit growing section surrouds the
city, while the sheep industry adds
materially to the wealth of the people
who trade here.
Boise-~~Idaho has more land subject
to irrigation and more water to spread
out over 1t than any two states In the
union. The state now has 2, 628 miles
of irrigation main canals, 6,373 miles
OF laferals and SGT, ADJ, 1895 invested in
Irrigation projects. Under the canals
are D96, $40 acres In cultivation, while
], 1911, 1916 acres have not yet been
placed under tbs pillow, although water
has been carried to every one Of them.
rangeviIle-Cattle buyers of whom
| there are large number in this coun-
| try at this time, predict beef famine
| In the near future, as the result of the
extensive sale of calves by farmers
| during the last few years.
The cattle men are rapidly going out
of business and the farmers are not
raising cattle now, owing to the high
price of corn. Practically every pack
ing house on .he coast ia repre-
scented by buyer here and number
of carloads of fat stock will be shipped
during the next few days.
Grangeville- Heavy cattle shipments
will be made from the Salmon river
country during the next two months,
according to K. S.Sweet, local buyer,
who has just returned from the sum
mer ranges, where he has closed con-
tracts for several hundred cattle. Dur
ing the next week several hundred head
will be shipped.
Mr.. Sweet says the range Is much
better than it has ever been as numer-
GUS rains have kept the grass green
and ranges, which are usually brown
and bare at this season, are now excel
lent forage.
Ilo--Members of the farmers unions
of lilo and Nez Perez have received
AGO, 900 grain sacks they ordered
through Kerr-Gifford & Co. and G. e.
Woods, while individuals have pur-
chased at least 40, 900 sacks from the
same firm, in addition to 100, 900 from
the alfour-Guthrie company. All
told the farmers have purchased about
600, 900 sacks.
The farmers will pay cents for
their sacks, or total of almost $780,
900. The lilo Hardware company has
been distributing 5000 pounds of
binding Irvine ordered by the farmers,
costing 8 cents a pound. If the crop
Ia up to the average more than $780,
600 will be reaped.
Wallace-That $40, 900 is too much
to pay to settle debt of only 500 is
the claim of William E. Foore. In
consequence, he is appealing from the
judgment of the District court to the
Supreme court, asking that the sher-
ills deed conveying his former ranch
to the Simon Piano company, of Spo-
kane, be annuled. Foore was sued by
the piano company for 500, alleged
to be due on a piano purchased. Foore
claims he had no knowledge of the
action, the judgment being given by
default. To satisfy the judgment,
Foore's ranch or timber claim near
Occur d'Alene city was attached and
later sold. The piano company bought
it. The ranch is alleged to be worth
$50, 600.
Neg Perce-Harvest is now on in
full blast in this section, and the farm
ers are busy. They do not come to
town except to hire men to work in the
fields or purchase needed supplies
Several crops of barley have already
been threshed in the vicinity of Nez
Perez, and the yields are fully up to
expectations.
Word was brought to town that
Robert Near, farmer living three
miles south of Nez Perce, has finished
threshing 40-acre field of blue barley
that averaged more than so bushels to
the acre. Several other crops have run
from go to more than so bushels.
Wheat is not dry enough to thresh,
but farmers freely predict there are
scores of fields that will yield so bush
els an acre or above.
Reports coming in daily of the
steady lowering of prices for grain do
not discourage the farmers. They
have let contracts for several large
warehouses along the Neg Perez Voll-
mer electric railroad, and if prices are
not satisfactory this fall many farmers
will store their grain in their own
warehouses and hold till the prices adj
vance to a satisfactory figure.