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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Just as soon as the Great Traveller
got out of the way, Vesuvius tegan to
smoke and sputter. 1t knew better
than to make noise while he was
around.
If Congress does abolish the duty
on art, W. suppose it will give rise to
new interminabie DISPUTE on the
question as to what constitutes art.
with the critics all in disagreement.
We are afraid the new Secretary
of the Navy is not quite On to his job.
In more than six weeks he has tailed
to discover any new plots aboard as
an excuse for doubling our fighting
strength at sea.
Mr.. Cipriano Castro does himself
too much honor in thinking that the
United States or any other country IL
thinking of making a second Bona parte
of him by sending him to ST. Helena
The Standard Oil Company's
countervaiiing protection Seems to be
safely in the hands of powerful
friends.
Nowadays the consumer is almost
as important as the intelligent voter
around election time.
Mr.. Roosevelt will never forgive
that earthquake for failing to make
connections with bis visit.
1t is urged that the way to levy a
tariff tax is Sin a ronuda bout way,
as the consumer will not notice it. -
Of course. and even if he does notice
it. suak him, nevertheless.
The three-decker strawberry short
cake is a sign that spring has landed
on both feet.
The prohibition wave in Missouri
appears to be Democrat device to
get even with the brewers.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30

Smoke --latest Out" SC cigar.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30
Why He Mourned.

OFlannagan came home one night
with deep band of black Grape around
his hat
"Why, Mike" exclaimed his wife
what are We wearin' thot mournful
thing for?''
I'm wearin' 1T for yer first hus-
band" replied Mike firmly. 'I'm sorry
he's dead."-Everyb Magazine.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30
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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30
Frank About IL.

Shoe Store Salesman - What size
would you like, madam? Miss Larjun
I'D like a No. 2, but there's no use
talking about that. You may as well
show me your No. 5's.-London Tele.
graph.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30

to the people asmuch, as It has
demonstrated that there are bnt q
mighty few hpnest politicians; that
no man, no matter huw int lie ent
and deserving he mig ht be, can secure
political recognition. Under the
old re ire N tna state, honesty and
ABILITY we're ass cts of value to u man
asking the support of the voters. 1t
IS not SO now. Under refnrm rule,
all mas been changed and to day the
reformers have the stage and they are
divided intu two factions and showing
each other up to complete satisfaction
of the true republicans and democrats.
The Legislature did good thing in
killing the Stack bill for creating and
maintaining a Naval Reserve in this
state ut large expense to the tax
payes who are already overburdened
With taxes Then tht re is no oc cas- ION
for any thirg of the KIND, which was
wild fool proposition. We have NJ
one tn fear. are q. peace with on
neichbors an u il remain SO and there
is nc sense in spending lot Of IN n
for q show.
Ths brewers have began a cam
paign to reform the saloons, not so
m ue of sentiment but to place
the business un higher moral and
busIn+ IS plane. The odium which
rest upon tn. businse- is to large
measure, du-, to the acts of the saloon
men, in selling liquor t. habitual
cfuukards. mirrors and the fragrant
v'nl>ti # tsse laws If the nunIcipal-
ic.s a"n s'ste. Should he men in the
)" 'hs b BIZ rg thu ugh
|. >, prosecute thOse
WHO knowingly and intentionally vio-
late the laws and have their licenses
rev ked, it would result in a large
measure in changing sentiment and
less IN objection 10 the business There
are thousands of vuters who are not
prnhibitlUnists who feel that all law
is binding, and there should be no
exceptions.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

of Manard, was in the office last
week and from his talk with the sur
veyors who we're at work in that vi
cinity, and what he saw while visit
ing them, there seems to be no doubt
as to their identity 90 S. l.. was
plainly marked on their surveying
instruments and when these ear
marks were shown them they gave
ne explanation. The line surveyed
runs 900 feet north of the Gibbons
ranch and makes straight shoot
through the Prairie east and west,
veering to the south about 800 feet
to the mile The survey on the Prai-
rie, from what was said more than
satisfied them, for they have succeed
ed in obtaining a grade OF 41o per
cent.
The accompanying map was published
in the Idaho Daily Statesman, date of
December /, corroborating to the inch
and to the letter the prediction of the
Recorder as to the new line. The Re
corder story was the first one published
anywhere; it has made mighty good
guess as to what was doing in this sec
ton. Guess? Not altogether; part of
it was a ure-thing knswledge of what
would have to happen and now it s com
ing true. Yes, indeedl
The light line shows the present route
down into the Snake river canyon at
Glenn's Ferry, and back out of it again
to Mountain Home. The heavy line
shows the shorter new route, with I
better grades, vast new, undeveloped
country, and main line through the
capital city, the metropolis of the
state.
Railroad men who have spoken OF :
he possibilities of the route in ques-
ion, say it is the most feasible thing
If all the new railroad possibilities in
his part of the state The construc-
ion is easy, the country to be traver-
ed is large and new and capable of
great development, and the variety
# products will make it a great bus
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

pie want and will pay top prices for.
Poultry. too, ought to be great
winner. There aren't many men who
could steer a 40-acre poultry farm,
with it's teeming thousands of chicks
and grown birds and its wagon-loads
of eggs, through the breakers of
don't know how and lack of SYM
pathy with the work. But the coun-
try could be developed into acre
chicken farms, like the country about
Petaluma, California=where people
talk and think and act chickens as
Pittsburgers talk steel, or Bostonians
do beans.
The country isn't too cold for
chickens; it isn't too wet; and the
market is the whole Northwest. Ida
no alone would make a market for
more chickens and eggs than all this
section could begin to raise.
The speckled hen in Iowa produces
more value every year, than all the
gold mines of the United States; the
Drlndle COW III the same state has all
the diamonds of the world faded
into obscurity, for annual output.
Why wouldn't they be good here?
The farmers of Iowa haven't any 40
cent market, either. save by shipping
half way across the continent; we
have it right at our doors, and it's
a market that wants fresh and not
cold-storage eggs or butter.
If the farmers of the Richfield
tract would form a dairy association,
or poultry association, and start in
to produce the very best there is in
their respective lines, we could soon
establish reputation like that OF
Baltimore oysters, or Minneapolis
flour, or Hood River strawberries, or
Hamburg steak.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
Magnificent Crops For Idaho

is today probably not more than 50,-
600 acres and perhaps good deal
less all kinds of crops actually
being raised, when there will be by
the close of next year not less than
100000 acres of land with water av-
ailable.
When one stops to consider that
this is but one of three or four coun-
ties in South Idaho that can ultimate
ly make almost as great growth,
besides the many other counties
where there is far more land already
developed and now producing though
the ultimate area will not be quite
so great as some of these new giants,
it doesn't look as if Idaho would be
a bad place to make home You'll
have such lot of company.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

Idaho has the greatest grain crop
in the Union probably in the whole
world.
Hot air? Bombast? Exaggeration ?
No-plain fact-shown by the sta
tistics of the national government.
A. F. Hit, special field represen-
tative for the department of agricul-
ture, whose business is the gather
ing Of statistics in the northwestern
states, gives the Recorder some very
interesting figures that prove these
modest claims to be true.
idaho wheat for the year just clos
ed, produced an average of 29 bush
els per acre. Kansas, usually claim
ed to be the greatest of the winter
wheat states, produced just exactly
one-half as much per acre-or 14.5
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

bushels. The other northwestern
states stood highest of all IDAHO s
competitors 81, Washing
ton 25.S; Missouri 14.7; Ohio 1919;
Kansas 145; and the whole United
States 15.5 bushels per acre. But
Idaho was the leader.
Idaho produced an average yield
of 26 bushels of spring wheat per
acre. 1t wasn't quite so good as the
winter wheat yield-but still, it was
the highest in the United States. Kan
sas got little smaller proportion,
with 115 bushels per acre Washing
ton 20.6; Oregon 1877; North Dako-
ia 1871; Minnesota 1876; and the
whole United States 1873.
Idaho produced several crops that
were worth some money, last year.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
Map Shows It's Easy to Build
Recorders First Story of New Main Line Across Idaho
Being Corroborated in Remarkable Manner
Richfield May Be Division Point

three or four centuries.
And Boise would have a railroad
Not sublime, not a street car or in
terurban line, but a real, full-grown
main line railroad, that ran east and
west and connected them with the
world
Some weeks ago, the Recorder at
tempted to figure out the construc-
tion possibilities of the route through
this point, on up the Malad river,
across the summit or through the
mountain to the South Fork of the
Boise, and on to Boise City. The
grade possibilities, were estimated
to little if any greater than the sum
total of all the grades necessary to
reach Boise over the present line by
way of Nampa. The following from
the Camas Prairie Courier, gives a
very much better estimate on the con
struction possibilities:
James w. Pierce living this side
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
\ 4-10 per cent grade.

a 4-10 per cent grade.
A straight line to Boise from the
east.
Both those proposition. as near on
the level as they could well be.
Yes, that's what the Richfield-Cam-
as Prairie-Boise River route Of the
Oregon Short Line offers to the ira
yelling public.
There's a 9-foot vein of coal just
being opened up on the Little Smoky
16 miles from Soldier
There's 100000 acres of land, the
most of which would raise immense
crops and most of which never even
heard of a plow, that would be ira
versed by this route.
And there are the great mines, the
great forests, of the South Fork of
the Boise, that would send out multi
piled train loads of freight just as
soon as the road could be built, and
as long as it could be operated-sa
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
Profitable Crops For Farmers
Brnde Cow and Speckled Hen With 4OCent Butter and
40-Cent Eggs, Ready and Anxious to Make Mil
lions for the People of This Section.

Eggs are worth 40 cents a dozen
Butter is worth 40 cents pound
Milk is worth ten cents a quart
How much of any of these high
priced products have you to sell?
Idaho produces not more than one
half enough butter for her own needs
train loads of butter come from
Utah, Washington, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Kansas, everywhere that they
make butter to SELL
Idaho hens produce only about "
the eggs used in the state. Cold stor-
age eggs from Nebraska, Kansas,
Utah, Washington, come in by the
train load, to make Christmas cakes,
Fourth of July ice cream, ham-and S
all through the year, and for the 9TH
er purposes that eggs are used for.
There aren't enough chickens and
turkeys and geese raised in Idaho to
more than half fill the market.
Something wrong, isn't there?
These facts have a special signifi-
canoe for the farmers on the Rich
field tract.
1t doesn't pay to raise grain for
the market; that is, it doesn't pay as
some other things do-the raising
of butter and egg products. 1t might
pay even less here than in some 9TH
er sections, for we're not quite near
enough 10 the great milling centers,
to get the best prices for the heavy,
bulky products The soil and the
water and the climate are right, here
and some wonderful crops can be pro-
duced year after year; but still, the
grain raising isn't quite good enough
for lands like these.
Prof Shinn of the State Agricul-
tural college, who lectured here last
winter, said that in Holland, land
could be farmed for dairy purposes,
on valuation of $500 to $1,000 per
acre. That's almost as high as the
high grade fruit lands of the most
favored sections of the West One
thousand dollars an acre land for
raising butter! Yes?
With the proper rotation of crops.
with the introduction of the BEST
butter breeds of cattle, with proper
care in making and marketing tho
product, lands here could pay a fine
return on 5000 to s4oo an acre; that
is putting it mildly. And there
would be an incessant, clamocous
arssst for every hit of the prod net i
for the butter from the high priced |
farms, where dairying is reduced to
enough of science to make the
farms valuable, is the land that peo-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

system. The company has a great sur
plus of water, which will be easily ap-
piled to the land. The soil is of the
same excellent quality as that found all
over the Richfield and Dietrich tracts
than which there is no better in Idaho.
This will make fine addition to the
aree of tillable land tributary to Rich
field. The tract should be traversed, at
least in part, by the new main line of
the Oregon Short Line from Minidoka
through Richfield to Boise.
A number of homesteaders and des-
ert claimants around the edges of the
older segregations are applying for wat
er contracts with the company These
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

There were 1000 tons of hay
worth s11,687,4O0; winter wheat
1888, 900 bushels and spring wheat
4,524,000 bushels worth 9,091, 500;
sugar, worth $4,225, 1000; barley,
2,430,000 bushels worth s1,3S9,2 200;
potatoes. S,200,0OO bushels worth
$1,632, 900.
The sale prices of live stock are
not reachable; but the state is credit
ed with owning cattle worth $6,420,-
600; horses worth 100000; and
other stock that has at least some
value, for the entire live stock valua-
ton is $36, 200.
Idaho isn't such bad place to live
in. True, her productive resources
have been but partially developed. In
Lincoln county, for instance, there
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
RichfieId Orchestra.


Richfield now has an orchestra
The music loving young men of Rich
field met last Friday evening and or
ganized an orchestra with five pieces.
Following are the members and instru-
ments played by them. Ennest Jacob
sen, Piano; L. E. Fender and w. B.
Joy, violin; Elmer Dodds, clarinet; H.
M. Moore, mandolin.
The boys have met and practiced
three times and are doing exceedingly
well, and with practice ought to make
coed i:
county.
There are a very large number Of real
music lovers in Richfield. and the play-
ers can count on appreciative audiences.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
Put In The Phones
Highest Type of System Now Being
Installed In Richield---COnnect-
ed With the Whole World

and that's all there is to it.
The line is finished out to the
North Gooding diversion dam, on the
Big Wood river, about west of Rich
field. The Dietrich line is already
in commission, and the line to the
big dam has been operated one year.
The lines around town are to be put
up at once, so that the people here
can talk with the whole world, right
from their homes.
Only the best equipment will be
installed, making it easily possible
to use the long distance lines from
any of the phones.
For time, at least, the exchange
will be located in the hotel, which,
being open all night, gives a good
service for the public.
Richfield is without donbt the
smallest town in the whole West,
to have a really up-to-date local tel
ephone system. But Richfield has
earned the name of being the Big
gest little town in Idaho,' and the
Bell phone isn't big enough to scare
any man, woman or child here We
are used to thinking, seeing and do
ing big things, and even the Stand
ard Oil company, or the Guggen-
helms, or the beef trust, or the pea
nut trust, or any other big trust or
or enterprise whatsoev-
er, isn't big enough to make Rich
field humble. Not on your lifel
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

Hello, Centrall
Give me every house in Richfield.
Hellol Hellol How do you like
the new phone? Fine, isn't it?
That's all, Central, goodbye.
Really, that's about all. At least,
that's what it will come to; phone
for everybody, everybody for a phone
and good service night and day be-
tween here and every one else in the
town and every town outside where
the Bell Telephone system reaches.
The new telephone exchange board
for Richfield was installed in the ho-
tel, this week, and will soon be ready
for general business. The poles are
here for the local system; they came
in last week, and are being set in
place to carry the wires.
f. c. Pierce of Shoshone. the CON
struction and operating head of the
Bell phone system in this section,
vas in Richfield Saturday, to look
after the new business. He has not
been well pleased with the delay in
supplying the poles and other ma
terial; this stuff should have been
here two months ago, and the whole
system in operation by the first of
November. Had the material came as
and promised, all the work
would have been done during the
fine weather in October, and every
body would have had the use of the
system long ago Butt came late,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
1000 more fertile acres.
Water for every foot of it.

Water Tor every loot OF It.
Lots of old homesteaders and desert
claimants buying water for their farms.
Application was made some time ago
for the segregation of 1000 acres more
land lying south of Richfield and east
of Dietrich, to be watered from the
Idaho Irrigation Company's reservoir
and canal system. The matter is now
before the department at Washington,
for consideration. The land begins not
far from Richfeld, and the most distant
from the railroad would not be farther
than miles from here or Dietrich. 1t
would be fine addition to the company
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02

mess opportunity. There are not
many railroad men who will talk for
I publication, al least where their
names are to be user; but they are
all right in seeing what is coming,
and unofIicially they can tell what is
likely to happen. The Richfield-
Boise railroad is one of the things
that more than one well informed
railroader sees coming.
There is of course the Northwest
ern possibility. Just where the North
western will come from across from
the east, no one knows But it might
be this far down-though more likely
it would cross the. state more nearly
at HALEY or Hay Spur Still, if it
did come even there, Richfield as
the nearest neigfbor on the south
would get the largest benefit from
competing line of road, and the Rich
field values would be largely in
creased AS the Northwestern sur
veyors are persisteDtly looking thru
the Camas Praire country, north
west of here, it may be assumed, if
not stated for fact, that they are
going to cross Idaho sometime, some
where, and that this is the most
feasible route and this the most feas-
ible time for doing it.
There is another railroad possibiI-
ity that has not been agitated-a
north and south railroad through this
part of the state. When the Salmon
river electric line is built to Hollis !
ter, and extended on down to the
Union Pacific in Nevada, that viii
make great CUTOFF from the West |
to this part of the country. The
Wood River branch of the Short Line /
50 miles in length, is already in
operation 1t would be but a short (
distance to build the great Snake T
river bridge line across at Shoshone (
Falls, from Twin Falls to Shoshone,
to make complete connection from
the Union Pacific. Then from Ket-
chum over or through the summit into
the Salmon river country, to Challis
and on up towards Butte, would be
natural and easy step. The Gilmore
road on the Salmon would be already
built, to form part Of the line. The
line could be continued northward,
direct to Butte, or up to Ham
lton, which would be an easier route,
though not so direct to Butte. There
S no possibility for so easy a route
across the state from north to south,
anywhere in the western portion of the
state The Snake river route, from
to Lewiston is easy, and
he present Northern Pacific line on up
he Potlatch and on to Spokane, skirts
he state line on the west, making
,retty good line Butts along ways
rom here to the east line of the state. |
1he possible Wood River route north
nd south, would be in almost the geo .
-raphical center Of the state, from east 7
0 west; and would exactly meet the
eeds of the travelling public.
There is no section of the West
hat has greater railroad-building
disabilities than this part of Idaho
IS in the air. a
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-02
Riehfield on Main Main Line

No. l Pocatello
No. 2 Minidoka
No. 3 Glenn's Ferry
No. 4 Nampa
No. 5 Weiser
No. 6 Boise
No. T Soldier
NO. 8 RICHFIELD
Black I.ine--New / Route
Light Line--Old Route
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-23
NEW INTERPRETATIONS.

Tho Trocadero Amusement company
filed its articles OF Incorporation yes
terday with the county clerk. It's capl-
TAI stock amounts 10 $780, divided into
shares OF 81 each OF which amount
ST. 1000 has been subscribed. The CONF
pany has organized 90 take over a
lease for amusement privileges on the
salt Palace grounds. The officers are
t. W. Stringfeliow, president A. p
White vice president, aud IA. o. Jcn-
son. secretary and treasurer.
The Men Livestock company OF East
MIL Creek was organized yesterday
when articles OF incorporation were
filed with the county clerk. The capital
stock amounts 90 $4,000, ln 81 shares
Of which sJ.00i has besn Subscribed.
The company will carry on "a general
breeding and livestock business samuel
Men Is president. John d. Cannon, vice
president, and David Men, secretary
and treasurer
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-23
BANKERS NAME DELEGATES.

Al last nights meeting Of the Salt
Lake Chapter OF the American institute
Of Banking, the following delegates
were chosen TO the June convention Of
the order at Seattle William Nc
Evan OF lions Savings Bank and Trust
company; r. NJ. Nicholson OF the Utth
Commercial and Savings bank; r. r.
Sharkey Of the Commercial National
bank, q. II. Butler of the Utah National
bank and j. H. Patrick Of Mccormick
q Co. An interesting program was car
ried out at the meeting Of which the
feature was the address by Judge r. y.
Lewis on commercial law. Arrange
ments were made for a banquet 70 be
held at the Commercial club the latter
part Of May.