Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-18
IDAHO STATE NE VS.


before in its history.
A season OF building activity is ex-
pected in Weiser as soon as the
spring weather comes.
Mrs. Mary f. Shove, who had lived
In Boise for many years. died in Den
yer recently. death being caused by
cancer.
The Cedar Creek opening in July
will occur at Bull, when $4,000 acres
of land will be put ON the market at
$35 an acre.
The Jerome ferries" is the title OF
club organized at Jerome which has
for its object the boosting Of the town
in every legitimate way.
The new water system at Jerome
is practically completed, and that
town now has one OF the best town
water systems in the west
Forty thousand dollars has already
been subscribed toward the stock
company being organized to build a
street railway in Lewiston.
Governor brady has appointed dele
gates to the Trans missouri dry farm
ing congress-, which convenes at
Cheyenne, February 23, "a and rs.
At the land opening at Gooding
there were 1,2o4 registrations on the
opening day, and practically 10000
of the $1,000 acres in the opening had
been filed on.
Leo Parkinson of Preston. an alter
nate appointed by Representative
French, has passed the entrance ex-
animation and will be admitted to
West Point military academy March
1.
Forty-iye users of the Payette na-
tional forest met in Emmett recently
and formed an organization to be
known as the Emmett-Payette Ma
tional Forest Wool Growers associa-
ton.
1t is announced that the bonded in
debtedness of Boise, per capita is
$3.50, while the per capita of Spo-
kane is 1924; Salt Lake, s75.72;
Pueblo. $3.50; Boston. $1O650; New
York City, $4,000
The Boise Commercial club is max
ing extensive preparations for the en-
tertainment of the Oregon-Idaho De-
yelopment congress, which will hold
It's next monthly meeting in Boise on
February 26 and 81.
The continuation of the electric rail
road from Wendell and Cooling is
now being agitated, and it is probable
capital will be raised and the road
extended to Bull and on down into
the Contact country.
The Occur d'Alene & Northern
Railroad company has been formed to
build road from Occur d'Alene into
the big timber, near Clarkia, eighty
miles away, and to connect with the
Milwaukee road at Plummer.
After one of the most spirited cleo
tons held since it's organization. the
following-named have been chosen d.
rectors of the Boise Commercial club:
w. N. Donaldson, Leo ]. Falk, E. M
Hoover c. r. Shaw and W. T. Booth.
The supreme court has handed
down an opinion holding that . for
eign corporation engaged in business
In the state must certify copies of its
articles Of Incorporation to the county
recorder, as well as to the secretary
Of state.
greatest apple producing section of
the entire west Several thousands
of acres will be set to apples this
summer. Many persons who own but
two or three acre tracts will put in
apple trees.
The state of Idaho, and Boise, will
be honored by having special days at
the laska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
set apart for them by the manage
ment'.of the big show. Idaho day will
be Monday, June %, and Boise day
Will be July /.
Clarence Starcher, young man,
WIS arrested near Ustick last week
on charge of having given checks on
a bank in Lewiston in which he had
no funds. Friends have come to his
aid. and the claim is made that he
will escape prosecution.
The Lewiston Sweetwater COMPANY
has called for bids for the excavation
OF $4,000 cubic yards of dirt at site
to be used for the company's relief
reservoir in the Lewiston Orchards
eidcls- AZ is the plan 10 begin the
construction of the reservoir imme-
diately
A club has been organized at Boise,
known as the $4,000 Club to adver-
tise Boise and its tributary resources.
TO interest capital to develop these
resources. to establish factories, i'm
prove and beautify the city and make
OF 1t city of $4,000 Inhabitants at
the close of 1910.
A fire which destroyed five frame
business places in Boise occurred
February 10. The structures were
owned by Captain J. E. Yates, who
carried practically no insurance on
them. The fire was caused by the ex-
plosion of gasoline in clothes clean
ing establishment.