Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-11

w. j. Turner received another car
of goods for the ranch last week.
DIR. A. A. Atha spent couple of
days in Mountain Home on business
last week
James Waddell reports his fall
sowing of wheat as being several
inches high.
Mrs. Dora McCargar was here last
week looking after improvements on
her claim near town.
Miss Grace Grain of Mountain
Home, last week purchased forty
acre tract in the valley.
A work train and large crew are
engaged this week in widening and
cleaning out the cuts on the hill.
Several of the settlers intend Civ
ing notice to sheepmen to obey the
two mile limit law hereafter in the
valley.
H. D. Wilbur is having part of
his land along Bennett creek seeded to
wheat to test what the flood lands
will produce.
The warm spring sun has brought
into life all the various native plants.
Grass already is greening the ground
between sage brush.
Travel to Medbury has increased so
much the past winter that the Short
Line has placed printed tickets to
Medbury on sale at stations.
L. G. Bradley has been in Boise
several days this week making ar
engagements for engineering crews to
work on surveys for the irrigation
system,
C. R. Hay was over from Browns
Flat after supplies Tuesday. He
says several families are settled in
there and that considerable clearing
is being done.
The building of bridges across the
creeks in the valley has again been
delayed by high water. 1t is thought
that this work cannot be done until
some time in August.
Miss Thea Soberg returned from
Idaho Falls this week to remain here
in charge of the development work
on her land. She intends to entirely
clear her 100 acre claim
A number of our settlers are plant
ing trees of various kinds and will
water them by hand to keep them
growing until the irrigation system
is completed next spring.
F. E. Austin, the Short Line agent
at Mountain Home. who recently Sc
cured 120 acres of land here. sends
his membership fee and dues to July
81 in the Development Association.
Another of the Mountain Home con-
tingent to buy land here was Tom
Davis who secured forty acre tract
in Section Fl west of town and will
quite likely move down this summer.
1t is stated on good authority that
the drilling outfit which has been idle
on the Page place during the past
four months will be started on a
new deep we'll to tap the artesian
source known to exist in this valley.
Moore & White have large con-
tract for breaking down brush in the
valley. They have finished on the
Simpkins and Soberg tracts on which
the brush is now being burned which
will make a cleared tract of over 300
acres in one body.
Joe Binder came down from Noun
tain Home Saturday to join the Devel-
yopment Association. Joe lately ac-
-ouired 40 acre tract down here and
feels so good over 1T he wanted to
ioin the rest of the Medbury valley
pushers in the work of placing Ned
bury valley in the front row.
H. R. Gard the civil engineer who
came from Oklahoma last year and
secured claim on the McGinniss fiat
along Cold Springs Creek, finds his
services in demand by those who de-
sire to know the exact boundaries of
their land. Mr.. Gard has a surveying
crew in the field and expects to be
kept busy all summer.
H. w. Greer was in Mountain
Home Monday to close deal for
tract of land which will be immed-
lately under the main canal OF the +
new irrigation system Mr.. Greer
came but lately from Kansas and the |
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