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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
TOO MUCH RED TAPE
Minidoka Project Doing Wonders in
Spite of Handicap

The Journal editor made a brief
trip to Rupert last week, a will
ling captive to the business possibili-
ties of that thriving community.
Rupert suffers from too much red
tape, in common with most reclama-
tion service towns The towns are
built up largely by the homesteaders
who try to hold their homesteads
and engage in town business to make
living. The government lots are
not taxable, the people who nominal
ly live in the towns really hold their
homesteads by residence outside OF
the towns, and there is little proper
ty that can be taxed, voluntarily or
involuntarily, to raise revenues for
any municipal purposes. The lands
around these reclamation towns are
not decided, and few claims will be
decided before the full five years OF
homestead residence are through.
With yexatious delays in getting the
water on their land to rase crops,
the Minidoka settlers have in particu
lar been tormented about to the lin
it,
But il would be a lesson in opti-
mism to almost anyone to see what
they are doing. There are many of
the finest kind OF residences; there is
a live Commercial club, that has is
sued a great number OF Booster
Books" for the town and project,
books that have brought in many set
tiers, and inquiries innumerable
There are some fine business houses,
built around the spacious, tree-set
public square. One firm in Rupert
does an annual business of in excess
Of 100000 year; others are little
if any behind. There are as many
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05

college people in Rupert as any town
est quality, who will make their COM
munity known for its fine citizenship.
1t has been said in general that the
government projects attract the poor
er, less progressive ones who have
not succeeded in making money in
any other place. That it does offer q
cheap home for the unfortunate, is
indeed true; but there are dozens of
settlers on the project who have
brought all the way from $4,000 to
$4,000 cash, all of which they have
spent or are spending on their farms.
Better citizens than these could not
be found anywhere in the world.
The limitation of the size of the
farms to 80 acres for the largest,
and to only 40 acres for a radius OF
one and one-haIf miles around the
towns, must result in extensive culti-
walton. The loose sand that blows
when plowed up in big fields, and
Injuries the spring crops by cutting
off the tender plants when the wind
drives it along the surface, will when
set down to grass, or protected by
trees for windbreaks, produce almost
as much as any crop that grows, as
the grower wants TO produce. This
section must one day be a veritabie
garden spot. dotted with homes
where careful farming must be the
rule, and where dairies. apiaries.
poultry yards, orchards and gardens
furnish year-round employment for
all who will work. There is no sec
tion of Idaho with better productive
potentialities, with better citizen
ship ready to take advantage of the
good things Nature has spread be-
fore them.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
TWIN FALLS COURT HOUSE.
Bids Opened for Fine Structure to
Cost Nearly $150,000.00

Bids for the erection of the Twin
Falls county court house were opened
by the commissioners Monday, the
Montana Construction & Supply Co.
bid s150.723 for terra eottprkhadcfb
bid $150,72s for a structure of Bed
ford stone and $137,S55 for a terra
Gotta and brick. Murphy & Huetter
of Spokane bid s147,O 600 for Bedford
stone and s11O,S54 for brick. George
Curley of Salt Lake bid 1852 600 for
Bedford stone and 1928. 600 for stone
base and brick face. P H. Hall of
Twin Falls bid s1S6,00O for Bedford
stone.
As the bids were supposed to be
below s125,O00 and called for Bed
ford stone the commissioners have
not yet awarded the contract but Will
likely do so shortly.
Twin Falls will have probably the
finest court house in the state, and it
is to be fitted up in accordance with
its outside elegance. Twin Falls is
one of the rich counties, having the
money to spend for such important
public purposes, and the people are
wise enough to see that it is a good
investment to build right while they
are at it,
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
sYpHoN IRRIGATION.
Important Piece of Hydraulic Engin-
eering in Hagerman Valley.

There is coming time when every
acre of land in Lincoln county that
water can be delivered on for irri-
CATION purposes will be utilized and
during this time of irrigation de-
velopment there viii be many small
systems that will be inaugurated by
private parties for the reason that
they are not available for the large
companies to handle One of these
small tracts lies in the Hagerman val
ley and consists of about thousand
acres of. rocky land that lies too high
for the established water systems to
cover. The land adjoining it on the
side of the river, known as the Lay
ton ranch about 400 acres, was pur-
chased year or two ago by c. n.
Dilatush and VIM. Coltharp and they
have secured the ownership of the
high land and will proceed to CON
vey water to it by means of hugh
syphon pipe buried under the ground
The water supply is. higher than the
land to be covered but there is lower
land that interevenes which prevents
the water being conveyed by a grav-
ity or open ditch. Hence the syphon
pipe or tube will be resorted to.
While this high land is too rocky for
general farming, it is ideal for fruit
raising and these two gentlemen no
doubt intend to devote it for that pur-
pose. The phenominal success of the
Blue Lakes fruit ranch on similar
land is sufficient guarantee of the adj
aptibility of the land in question for
the purpose intended for it.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
FINE ARBoR DAY BOOK.
State superintendent Issues Dainty
And Appropriate Program.

One of the finest pieces of printing
put out in the state, this year or any
other year, is the annual Arbor Day
and Bird Day program, issued from
the Office of the state superintendent
of schools Miss S. Belle Chamberlain,
the author having used the very best
there is anywhere in the language to
inspire a love of trees and of the wild
beauties of Nature. Bird day is a
new thing in the country, but it is
coming to be one of the most popular
of all utilitarian holidays. 1t has
been estimated by careful inyestigat-
ors that to destroy every insect eat
ing bird, would cost the United States
more billions of dollars in the way of
crops, every year, than all the rail-
roads, steamships and factories N
the public asset, utilitarian as we'll as
aesthetic, that Bird Day has been
proposed.
The job was turned out from the
Idaho Leader, and is probably the
finest pob of three-color printing ev-
er done in the state. 1t is a credit to
the shop where it was done,and to
the state officer who compiled it.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
SHEEP IN GOOD SHAPE.
Inspector Reports the General Condition
Exceptionally Good

o. c. Dunn, deputy sheep inspector
for this district, reports an unusually
healthful condition among the sheep
under his jurisdiction. There was
one band OF 1900 sheep, near Kima-
ma, that had a few cases Of scabies,
but the sheep were isolated and dip
ped so they are now cured and turn
ed back on the range. Though the
sheep were dipped in January, during
some of the severest weather of the
year, only two of the animals died
after the dipping. Because OF the
bad weather, especial care was taken
in the dipping, work not being begun
until well along in the forenoon, and
discontinued about o'cock, to give
the animals a chance to get warm
and dry before night Mr.. Dunn re-
ports one band of bucks down in the
Hagerman valley, where few have
developed foot rot, but they are be-
ing treated, and will soon be free
from the disease. There are about
100000 sheep under Mr.. Dunn's jur-
isdiction.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
GREATEST OF IT'S KIND
Proposed Bridge Across Snake River
Most Picturesque

When the proposed great railroad
bridge. just below Shoshone Falls, is
completed. it will be the giea'r.r
structur-. of the kind in the wnIl1
There are longer bridges: The
great Forth cantilever bridge in
Scotland, has single spans more than
100 feet long. The Brooklyn sus-
pension bridge, and the new Man
haitian suspension bridge, and the
Blackwell's Island bridge in New
York all these are considerably
longer, all of them being above 400
length for single spans. And the
bridge across the Sambesi river, in
Africa, is 400 feet high.
But when one takes a span of
more than 1000 feet, bridgeing a
chasm nearly 500 feet deep, coming
out from level inconspicuous coun-
try on the other side-coming out
as it were from a city flower garden
and finding a herd of lions on the
lawn, so startling is the contrast be-
tween the level farm country on
either side and the grim gorgeous,
gigantic canyon yawning at ones
feet-this makes the Shoshone the
greatest bridge in the world.
There are more expensive bridges.
The four great New York structures
cost each more than $40, 900;
the Great Omaha bridge of the Un-
ion Pacific cost life for every week
it was building; the Quebec camille
yer bridge, which collapsed year
ago, cost 100 lives; the Forth bridge
now contains SO 900 tons of steel,
and cost a million pounds Com
pared with all these, the Shoshone
bridge will be cheap, and humane;
for it will cost no more than $780,
000 at the outside.
But there is nothing in the whole
civilized world anything to compare
with it in majesty of setting. The
Snake river is not a Niagra, drain
ing almost one-third OF the country,
and carrying an immense volume of
water as BELTS its geographical posi-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05

Will be Established at
Jerome and Wendell
This Season

w. S. Guilford, graduate of the
Wisconsin College of Agriculture,
and for some time past a resident of
Colorado, has been engaged as su-
perintendent of the experimental
farms to be established this year by
the Twin Falls North Side company
at Wendell and Jerome.
Each farm will contain 10 acres
of land just such as is to be found
all around the two towns, and it is
to be farmed under the average
field possibilities, with the idea OF
showing how to farm profitably and
with the largest yield for the least
labor. About 5 acres of each farm
will be devoted to gardening and
small truck. largely in the way Of
showing what varieties are best for
this section Of the state. The rest
of the farms will be given to farm
cultivation of the larger cereal and
hay crops.
Prof Knorr, of the Colorado state
college, recognized as one OF the
foremost plant breeders of the Unit
ed States, will also be connected
with the farms, bringing his known
scientific skill to the aid of the farm
ers who get this valuable information
without price to themselves.
The Journal has a cordial invi-
tation from General Manager Mac
Waters, and from Mr.. Guilford, to
visit the farms during the season,
and see what can be done in the
way of making a new farm pay the
first year. The invitation has been
accepted, and it will be the Journals
pleasure to publish the results of the
many interesting experiments that
will be carried on.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
MORE DANGEROUS THAN GUNS

Policeman Ames carries a gun for
minor offenders, but for real crimin-
ais who deserve a fright as well as
severe punishment, he is just as likely
to use his bare hands-which is a
lot worse. Ames weighs 230 pounds,
can run 100 yards in about II sec
onds, and would make most pro-
fessional heavyweight pugilist quit
like dog if they should come togeth-
er. He has not had to tell any OF
the buns and boes TO leave town,
more than once; and the word has
gone up and down the line, and ac-
ross the country as well, that Sho-
shone isn't what it used to be for the
travelling fraternity.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05

/ tion. But the Niagra gorge could be
hidden in the Snake river canyon,
and hardly found, because of the far
greater depth of the Idaho water
way. The chasm below the Sho-
shone Falls, where the bridge
spring out, gossamer-like, across
the foaming river, could carry all
the waters of the Mississippi and
still leave the bridge level far above
the torrent. A whirling deluge of
water, 500 feet deep, could pass be-
meath the bridge, and not touch it
such is the stupendous height of the
sturtcure. OF all the giant sky
scraper buildings that have so ex-
cited the wonder of theworld, there
are but two that would reach the
floor of the bridge from the bottom
of the river-the Metropolitan and
the Singer buildings. Only one 9th
er structure in the world, the Elf
fel tower, a monstronsity meant on
ly to attract attention, is as high
Think of such gorge in the midst
of fertile farms, farmed up to the
very brink of the bridge on either
side,
The bridge is to be of steel, and
it is proposed to make it for both
railroad and wagon traffic. The To-
cation is peculiarly advantageous for
such a structure, there being the
finest of foundations on either side,
without the expensive caissons nee
essary in locations like the silt-cov-
cred flats of New York, or along the
Mississippi or Missouri That it will
be built is only a question of short
time. A bill was introduced into the
state legislature this session, allow
ing the two counties of Lincoln and
Twin Falls to bond themselves for
the purpose of assisting in its con-
struction. There is not doubt but
that it would return every year much
more than it cost, to the counties di-
rect, in bringing outside people TO
see the Great Shoshone gorge, and
the marvellous bridge spanning 1t.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
spokANERs AT RICHFIELD.

M. w. Belshaw of the Green In
vestment Company of Spokane, was
in the city Monday, on his way to
Richfield where he goes to look over
his Carey Act claim of $50 acres.
Mr.. .Belshaw is also agent for three
other parties who own 100 acres each
and the four claims are quite close TO
the town. Mr. Belshaw was very ia
vorabiy impressed with what he saw
at Richfeld and he will make ar
rangements to have his section OF
land under cultivation this year so
that it will be ready for next season.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
Village Board Proceedings


The Village Board met in regular ses-
sion.
Present: c. F. Borden, chairman;
w. C. Custer, R. J. Mcmahon and
Thos. H. Gooding, trustees; Paul S.
Haddock, attorney; and Harry w.
Anderson, clerk.
Minutes of Jan. 26-Feb. 1st and 18th
read and approved.
By motion the election proclamation
drawn by the village attorney was or
dered published in the Shoshone Journal
Upon motion Harry w. Anderson was
appointed register of the village elec-
ton tc be held on Tuesday, April 9Th,
1909.
Upon motion the following judges
and clerks were appointed to act at the
village election April 9th, 1909.
Judges: Archie Bowler, c. E. Hell
man, S. W. Greasy.
Clerks: Millie Barger, L. M. Burn
side.
Distributing clerk; Alice Clarke.
Upon motion the bill of A. c. Ames
for services as marshal to March lst,
amount to S52 80 is hereby allowed and
the clerk instructed to draw a warrant
for same.
Whereupon the board adjourned until
March s, 1909
C. F. BORDEN, Chairman.
Attest:
Harry W. ANDERSON, Clerk.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05

6. Teaching of Hygiene to Primary
Grades, Mrs. Lucy Tibbs.
Z. Vocal solo, Miss Alma Middleton.
8. Primary Language, Miss Vera
Phelps, Pocatello.
9. School Discipline, N. B. Higgs.
10. Music, Hagerman Quartette.
IL. Methods in Primary Reading, Miss
Maude Warrington.
II. Spelling contest for seventh and
eighth grade pupils of different
schools.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
WEATHER STOPS WORK
Worst in Years for Construction Work,
but Work being pushed at King HILL

Bad weather last week drove the
construction force off of the King
Hill project, where the Slick Broth
ers construction company were work
ing like beavers to finish the canal
and fumes in time for the whole
tract to have water by the first of
April 1t has been the worst wea-
ther in many years for such work,
and the contractors, while they have
done a great amount of excavatng
and rock work, have not been able
to quite equal their usual record for
hurry-up contracts. But they will
have water on the tract for the full
season, so that every settler can
count on a crop if he gets his land
cleared in time.
The company have their immense
wire overhead tramway in opera
tion, for carrying lumber across the
Snake river to build fiume for the
long, mounted on two anchorages
and four towers, the highest of
which is 120 feet high. The lumber
is brought down from the railroad,
at Tiveska siding, and the loaded
wagons swung clear across the river
and up to the ditch grade on the
other side, close to 800 feet higher
than the river From this grade they
can be hauled along the level, to the
point where the lumber is needed.
As there is close to 100000 feet
of lumber to be hauled across this
way for bridge and fiume work, the
saving in time and teams in getting
the load across the rver and up the
steep grade may be guessed. Power
is furnished by 35-h p. steam
hoisting engine, at the lower end of
the tramway.
Much clearing is going on all over
the King Hill tract. Houses are be-
ing built, sage brush cleared off, and
many settlers will move on this
spring, ready for their first crop.
Perhaps no new tract in southern
Idaho will show so large a percent
age of permanent settlers within the
first few years of its opening.
King Hill is prospering. A new
railroad depot, to take the place OF
the old freight car that has done
duty. is being built. Several good
are now going up, and one
fine brick and stone building, with a
50-foot front. A bank is to be es-
tablished soon, and fine hotel. Wat
er works and other improvements
are in immediate prospect. Several
wealthy people are expecting TO make
their winter homes in the mild eli
mate of King Hill, and they hope to
make the town a great winner as a
residence place. But as the fertile
lands of the great tract are opened
for cultivation, and the fruit and
garden possibilities are realized as
they should be, it promises to be
even more of a hustling business 1
place than dilettante place for the |
seekers of ease and comfort.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
Teachers Meeting.

To be held at Hagerman, March 6,
1909, at 2 p. m.
PROGRAM.
I. Music and invocation.
2. Opening address, County Supt.
Burnside
3. Personality of the teacher, Miss
Dorothy Crawford.
4. Vocal solo, Miss Millett.
5. Literature in the Country School,
A. Briggs.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
NOTICE.

Entrymen under the various canal
systems are notified that under a
recent ruling of the State Land
Board it is necessary for them to de-
liver to the undersigned their certifi-
Gates Of entry at the time of making
final proof.
E. B. WILLIAMS,
of State Land Board.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05

Representative Of State Land Board.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-10
A VERY LITTLE MONEY WILL
GO A LONG WAY WITH US AND
YOU ALSO. COME AND EXAMINE
214 s. SECOND ST. PHONE -.
OUR STOCK. +. G. Pratt & CO..
WATER PIPE
BLACK PIPE

Ten carloads Of water pipe consist
ing of u gin, q in, lin, Yin, Gin, 2
Gin, Bin, Ain. and Gin. Standard
Black Pipe new.
oil and water well casing II 5-Sin.,
. 5-Sin., I 5-Sin.. > 5-Sin., 4hin., Ain
3hin. and Sin.
We also have a lot of new Galvan-
zied Pipe. Also u carload of second
hand pipe, all sizes. Are disposing OF
this pipe at reduced prices.
We can dip pipe In asphaltum, If
required, at custom prices.
Pipe cut and threaded according to
dimensions.
Pipe ready for immediate delivery,
for any o you wish.
Call, write or telephone at our eX-
pense and we will give you informa-
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Mail Orders Promptly Filled.
To reach the Adams Pipe Works
take Santa Pc Ave. car OF Pacific
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the Adams Pipe Works.
Phones: F-I9I1 Broadway 1884
ADAMS PIPE COMPANY
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BUSINESS CHANGES

FOR SALE-Furniture stock. Paying
business. Easy terms. Fun par
ticnlars. PorterfieId 60. 216 ". Gold.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-10

Kansas city. oct. 9-Cattle-Re-
ceipts SOC. including 200 %southerns.
steady: native steers, $4.50@S.50
southern steers, $3.25m4.75; southern
cows. $2.50M $50; native cows ant
h~eifers, 1925 m4.25: stockers ant
feeders. s3.00 $500; bulls, s2.50@
400; calves. $3,15M 500; western
steers. $3.65m6.75: western COWS
$2.15 a $50.
Hogs-Receipts 5000; sc higher
bulk of sales, $3.50 7.75; heavy
$3.50 $50; packers and butchers
s7.40m7.75; light, $7.10m755; pigs
$500 a. s so.
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FOR RENT--MiSceIIane0us.

GUNS TO RENT-W. A. Goff & Co.,
phone SOS.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-10

crease, 500 coo.
Specie, s255.534,O00 decrease, SILL
csc, 000.
Reserve, S324,14S, 500; decrease
So 1876 900.
Reserve required, s3l9,l4S,3ooi De
crease, $12,251,075,
surplus S4.547.75O: decrease, SAB.
925.
Ex-United states deposits. $4,966,-
525: decrease. $135. 500.
The percentage Of actual reserve o
the clearing house banks today was
$3.50
The statements of banks and trus
companies Of Greater New YORK MOI
reporting to the clearing house shows
thai those Institutions have aggregate
deposits of $1,341. 426 600: total easf
on hand, $154,24T,00 0, n ioan'
amounting to s1.246.342. 700.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-10
The Metals.

New York, oct. 9.-The metal mar
kets were quiet today and generally
unchanged in the absence Of cables.
Copper was nominally unchanged,
with lake at l3.0OMi3.25; electro
lytic. s12.62 Y m12671a casting, $l2.-
Lead was dull at s4.35m4.37R
spelter unchanged at $5.S5m5.95.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-10
Chicago Board of Trade.

Chicago, oct. 9.-Wheat was in
clined to sag today owing to foreign
weakness for the fall sown crop. Final
quotations showed net losses of a
shade to sc. Provisions closed firm
The wheat market closed with De
at S11.01B m1.02.
The corn market closed with
prices &c to u a Hc lower.
Oats closed Ac lower.
The board of trade will be closed
Tuesday. Columbus day.
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LOST

LOST-Carved gold and black enam-
clcd bracelet. Return 10 AIRS. y ~
Field. and receive reward.
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Weekly Bank Statement.

New York, Oct. 9.-The statement
Of clearing house banks for the week
is as follows:
Loans. s1,273,033.2 200; decrease.
s36.673,000.
Deposits. s1,27S. 400, 900; decrease,
SAC, 300.
Circulation, $51,599,2 200: increase.
$4,000.
Legal tenders, s6S,413,60 de-
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st. Louis Wool.

st. Louis, oct. 9.-Wool fairly ac'
tive; medium grades, comhing and
clothing, 23m soc; light fine, 20
27c; heavy fine, 13M2lc; tub washed
! m21lAc
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For cha skin.

Chapped skin whether on the hands
or face may be cured in one night by
applying Chamberlain's Salve. 1t is
unequaled for sore nipples, burns
and scalds. For sale by all druggists.
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FOR RENT--OfficeS.

FOR RENT-Nice office room. South
western Realty Co. POI f.. Central.
FOR RE~NT-Onices and stOrerooms
In the Commercial Club building.
Apply to secretary.