Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-01
IDAHO STATE NE WIS

| lands have been made in the past year
to parties from the Grand valley in
| Colorado.
Fifty thousand acres of land will be
| reclaimed as a result of the construc-
ton of the Goose creek system of stor-
| age reservoirs.
John Burrell, aged So, a former
resident of Sugar city. died in a Salt
Lake hospital last week, cancer being
the cause of death.
That Cambridge is enjoying her
share of the general Idaho prosperity
is evidenced by the number of new
buildings now under way or recently
completed
| The report comes from Boise that
the Oregon Short Line has taken over
the Albion-Burley proposed line of
road and that the same will be con-
structed at once
a the city election at Lewiston, ex-
| Senator Heidtfeld was defeated for
mayor by 1922 votes by an independ-
ent candidate. Mr. Heidtfield hal
served one term as mayor
The highest price paid for wool in
Idaho this year was received by a
Boise man last week, who sold 10000
pounds at "a cents. The wool is what
is known as the coarse WOOL
The Canyon Canal company is build
ing what is locally called the slope
extension" to supply water to a tract
of about 1000 acres of land situated
from six to ten miles below Emmett.
Idaho will soon be one of the best
states in the whole west from the fish
erman's standpoint, if the stocking of
streams with game fish continues in
the future as during the past few
years.
A young son of A. ]. Pierce, of Poca-
tello, had the feshy portion of his
right hand badly lacerated as the re-
suit of the explosion of a blank cart
ridge while he was playing with a
toy pistol.
The First battalion, National Guard
of Idaho, will hold an encampment at
Fort Wright, Wash, July 20 to July
20. The battalion includes Companies
p, Rathdrum c, Occur d'Alene. and
H, tennessee.
The San Francisco, Idaho & Mon
tana railroad has been transferred to
the Oregon Short Line, one of the con-
ditions of the transfer being the i'm
mediate construction of the road to
Jordan valley.
The prospective value of the ashes
tos deposits in Idaho county, discov-
cred on state lands, is so great that
three applications to lease have been
filed and are now pending before the
state land board.
AT the Caldwell convention, Stew
art Young of Wardner was elected
commander of the G. A. R., depart
ment of Idaho, and Mrs. Anna Triple
low of Weiser was chosen president
of the state W. r. c.
The town Of Roosevelt is the most
inaccessible one in Idaho in fact, the
postoffice department regards the
Roosevelt posteffce the most difficult
of any in the United States to deliver
mail to in the winter months.
A very attractive little booklet of
16 pages has been published by the
Soldier Commercial club exploiting
Big Camas prairie in Blaine county
The booklet describes over $4,000
acres of excellent farming lands and
is beautifully illustrated.
The sturdy miners of Roosevelt will
begin at once the resurrection of the
ruined town, but will this time build
1t further up the gulch, removed from
by the floods of these highest of all
mountain ranges in Idaho.
The United States senate commit
tee on irrigation will visit the various
government reclamation projects in
Idaho in September, in order to as
certain existing conditions from first
hand The party is scheduled to ar
rive in Boise, September 25,
MIS- ma Nnner, wife of Herbert
Kinner, and Lawrence Kupka, her
nephew, aged years, were drowned
3.e n the Snake river, nine
miles northwest of Bull, by the over
Pr o. Mr. K'nner's motor boat
in which they were riding.
The State Bankers association OF
Idaho met in Seattle on June 25 and
elected the following officers: Boyd
hamilton Occur dAlene. president;
J A. Gibbons, Nampa, vice-president;
l.. a Coates Boise secretary, and e.
j Hayes Emmett, treasurer.
Two cloudbursts near Boise on June
% did considerable damage. In Cot
tonwood gulch a horse belonging to
E. j. Cowley was drowned, but Cow
ley escaped. The large Union ditch
broke as a result of the exodus OF
water at a point three miles below
Boise.
While taking two prisoners from the
justice court to the Jail, Sheriff Ellis,
of RannOck county, was thrown from