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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
WILL BE CANDIDATE.
Miss Chamberlain VIII Ask a bird
Term In State Office.

Miss S. Belle Chamberlain, pres
ent state superintendent of schools,
announcest that she will again be a
candidate for the republican nom
ination for that office She has
held the office two terms, having
been elected to serve thee last term
# Governor Goodings administra-
ton. 1t is with the especial idea of
carrying to completion some import
ant plans for the reorganization of
the state schools which work she
has already. well under way, that she
asks for a third term. Miss Cham
berlain has proven to be compe-
tent executive, one of the best who
ever filled her office.
1t is understood that the democra-
tic leaders of the state will endea-
state superintendency which has at
ALL tines been conceded to them in
making up the state tickets. 1t is
possible that there will be one man
seeking nomination on the repub-
liean state ticket. and there will be
at least two other lady candidates
Miss Grace Shepherd of Boise, and
Mrs. Scott, of Idaho Falls. Miss
Sheqherd, who can count on a very
heavy vote in Ada county ,as well as
in Nez Perec the two most popu-
lous and important counties in the
state, will be a particularly strong
candidate
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07

The village board met in regular
session, Tuesday evening. Little OF
Importance was, up for settlement.
The ordinance licensing drays, whiea
had passed two readings, was put up
for final vote and was defeated.
An effort was made to pass an ord
nance restricting or prohibiting the
building of porch awnings on Main
street-such as was recently built
in front of the Recorder building,
one guaranteed to stand the assaults
of wind and rain and sun-but the
movement did not have sufficient
backing.
Judge M. o. Aubolee of Shosh one
came up to represent City Attorney
Park in any legal matters that re-
quired attention. Mr.. Park was not
able to be here, and carry out the
plans he had made for his work out
side.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07

divided into two If it had population
and wealth. equal to twice the aver
age of the rest of the states of the
Uuion. In nothing else have our
political parties more perniciously
obstructed craftsmanship than in
the shaping and admission Of new
states. Under the bill as passed II
will be some tipme before state con-
stitutions can be adopted and four
new senator's can be seated at Wash
ington., Meanwhile. this chapter OF
our history being closed, we must
all unite in wishing Arizona and
New Mexico a great and honorable
future. Let us also hope that their
four United States senators may
prove to be men of sound character,
even though Of limited public ex-
perience.-From the American Re-
view of Reviews for July.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
ALL COMING TO RICHFIELD.
spokanrs Heading to South Idaho
In Droves.

Quite bunch of people from Spo-
kane, from which point has emanate
much of the best enthusiasm that
has made the Richfield tract fomous
arrived here last week. Ivan Lau-
derback, brother of Walter Lau-
derback, was one of the newcomers
who is here to stay. He and his
brother have 2S0 acres north of
town which they are improving. in
tending to make it a permanent and
attractive home. G. S. Parsons, a
partner of H., M. Coffman, lis anoth-
er of the newcomers who is here to
stay. He is well pleased with the
prospects of this section, and the
way he has taken hold of real farm
ing is an inspiration to thesdilettantt
agriculturist. Yet another is Wal
ter Elfing, who has just bought a
100 acre farm ON which he expects
to make his permanent home. All
the gentlemen named are friends of
Coffman who is 1.-The limit"
when it comes to enthusiasm or eff
fective industry.
DR.. Carr, a well known dentist of
Spokane, was also here the last of
the week. He owns a fine farm six
miles north of town which he ex-
poets to improve. DR.. Carr owns a
lot on Main street, adjoining the Re
corder building ,on which he expects
to erect a two-story office building
when the business conditions here
seem to warrant it.
MIR ". fl Turner and Mr.. Harold
Kipp also of Spokane arrived here
this week, to make final proof on
their Carey lands on the Richfield
tract. Mr. Turner is heavily inter-
ested in 1, large tract of decided land
near Burns and has been one of
the greatest boosters for the whole
project.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
VOLUNTEER CROPS.
Farmers on Richfieid Tract Who
VIII Reap Without Sowing.

Quet JJollnson, living out on the
butte has 100 acres of volunteer
wheat that promises to make almost
as goo crop as anything growing
on the tract this year. He did not
set the grain cut as early last fall
as would have been the best for a
record yield and some of the crop
shelled off in the handling, enough
TO seed the place for this year. 1t
will make him a nice sum of money!
tn: kind of money that comes to the
mi n who has ISoper faitn-and
hustles while his faith is working.
volunteer crop on the tract, how
short distance northwest from town,
there is field of as fine barley as
ever On the Henderson place,
ever gladdened the heart of the far
mer. But it was not sowed this
year, nor last fall. 1t was put in
the ground year ago in May, and
as the tract had no water last year,
i was not irrigated. So it did not
come up last season. But it is a
hill pulled at random, % full grown
sure winner this year. From one
stalks have been produced from the
one seed and there were heads
of grain An almost similar growth
is found in the Johnson wheat, as
the produce from one seed, picked
without special search, was % stalks
and II heads ,one average head of
which gave So grains.
There will be some fine grain re-
nor the tract Il L.
season
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07

assign all or a part of their home
stead after five-year residence.
Another measure which became q
law was that providing for leave of
absence for homesteaders on recla-
nation projccts during the period
between filing and the time water is
ready for delivery.
Laws were also enacted providing
for the classification and appraise-
ment of lands within the Coeur a.
Alene Indian reservation; for the re-
Fappraisement of unsold lots in town
sites on reclamation. projects; an
appropriation for a public building
at Pocatello to the amount Of $780,
900; for the purchase of a site for a
public building at Twin Falls, $10,-
600; providing for public buildings
Idaho Falls and another at Occur d.
Alene each 100000. and the est
ablishment of port Of original en-
try at Eastport, Idaho.
In addition to these, a number of
minor bills. all tending to serve the
industrial and material interests Of
the people of the state, were intro
duced and urged. and some of them
enacted into law.
The congressional delegation from
no state has been instrumental in
securing more important legislation
directly affecting its constituents,
than the Idaho delegation in the ses-
sion Just closed.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
HALF A VICTORY.
RichfieId Loses Game, But Helps
Wendell Win From HALEY.

Richfield Loses = Game, But Helps
Wendell Win From HALEY.
HALEY succeeded in defeating the
Richfield- base ball. team Sunday ,by
a score of 13 to 2. Knox pitched
a particularly fine game for Rich
field ,Essley made two runs in. the
face of discouragements that would
make a stone image lose heart,
Diesem and others rescued and re-
trieved the ball and worried the To-
Gals almost like p real eague team
but in spite of it all Hailey's score
SOON reached a point where they
Just couldn't lose. So the visitors
Welded to the inevitable and gave
HALEY the game,
But they had measure OF re-
venge the next day, when they saw
Wendell put it over the HALEY fans
with a nice score. 1t may be not
very nice, but it's mighty human, to
wish to see the man who has beaten
y,u ,humbled in his turn. And 1t
came about In just that way, that
Wendell was prime favorite in the
second game. HALEY played good
ball, but 1t wasn't fast enough To
beat the Wendell sage-brushers, who
carried off the honors as the lat
est champions.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
c. II. Fitch Resigns
Will Remove to Boise Where He Will
Open an Office.---I. w. Mcconnell
Elected General Manager.

Charles H. Fitch has handed in
his resignation as vice president and
manager of the Idaho Irrigation
Company to take effect this month.
He will remove to Boise, where he
will open an office for his life pro-
fession of civil and hydraulic engin-
eering. Mr.. Fitch has been with
the company here for year, COM
ing from the government reclamation
service. He has the confidence OF
the people here to such an extent
that it is with a sense of real per-
sonal loss that they see him go. No
man who ever served the company
in any capacity has been more de-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07

Gratifying. progress Is being made
on the construction of the great dan
on the Big Wood river northwest Of
Richfield, which will furnish storage
reservoir capacity for the Idaho Ir'
rigation Company lands.
When the spring floods came,
temporary timber spillway was built
to carry the water across the un-
completed structure. This has been
removed and the dam is being fill
ed In permanently as fast as 1t can
be done. At the level at which the
flume was carried across, the earth
is being sluiced in place by powerful
water jets, the water carrying 1t to
its desired place between the upper
and lower rock faces of the dam, as
1t is taken from the two railroad
tracks that bring the earth from
the steam shovel. The sluicing pro-
cess is easy, fast and the best pos
sible for handling quantities OF eartl
at that stage of construction. This
earth is supplied from one steam
shovel. The other shovel is working
on the supply for the higher level,
about 20 feet higher at the pres
ent time. This earth is carried out
on to the dam by a single. track,
dumped, and then taken to place by
team scrapers. 1t is then rolled
and. re-rolled by a massive steam
roller the counterpart of the big
machine that gets in it's deadly work
in the halls of legislation The re-
sultant earth is as hard as park
boulevard. AS the lower parts I'LL
ed In and brought up to this level,
this method of construction will be
followed
All the concrete work is COM
pleted for the spillway, at the west
end of the dam. This is clear up on
the hill back Of the stables, and is
the most striking measure of the
real magnitude of the dam 1t is
SO far away from the main part of
the structure that it looks more
ike "a separate affair. But after th'
main gorge of the river is filled, the
dam laps away over the sides, and it.
covers a large area Of ground on the
west. where the work is compare
lively shallow. The earth work on
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
Nearing Completion
Big Dam and Reservoir Will be Com
pleted This Year--COncrete Work
Practically Finished

this long. shallow wing dam is now
! being carried on.
The only concrete work remaining
- on the control tower where the
gates are to be located at the upper
end of the tunnel that supplies the
water for irrigation. The lower part
of this massive tower has been built,
but it cannot be completed until the
close of the present irrigation sea
son. This tower will contain all the
water regulating devices-three sep
arate sets of valves that will work
independently of each other, and be
ample safeguards against any kind
of disaster. This tower is qierced
by. 80 holes each feet in dam
eter besides large portal at the
normal water level which Is the lev
Il of the tunnel itself These open
ings are to admi tthe water to the
tunnel AS the valves and gates are
not yet in place, the water supply is
controlled by stopping up these
holes with heavy wooden plugs.
1t was the loosening of one of the
plugs, and no defect in the dam or
the control tower which started q
tie talk few days ago about a
leak that might cause trouble. 1t
was closed by sealing it with a hea-
Wy cribbing built of timbers, and let
down on the upstream face of the
tower so that the water pressure it.
self would keep it in place. The.
loss of water was insignificant, and
the reservoir storage water is still
be far more water in the reservoir
than the needs of the farms on the
company tracts will require, so that
no one need even consider what he
would have to do If the water sup
ply ran out before he had his crops
taken care of.
The j. G White company has so
far completed it's work on the pro-
jet that this month will see them
close. ut about the last of it, with
the exception of the dam. The Ida
no Irrigation company will maintain
teams IN the tracts, to look after
the. repairs and the small lateral ex-
tensions, but the project as a whole
Is almost ready to turn over to the
ultimal. owners the people.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
IDAHO IN CONFESS.
Important Legislation Directly AT
fecting People of State.

The session of Congress which re-
Gently closed has brought a most
beneficial lot of affirmative legisla-
tion to Idaho, and more has been
accomplished for the benefit of the
State than during any previous con-
gress. The Idaho delegation shaYe
been vigilant and active in protectin
the interests of the state. Complete
harmony and cooperation has pre-
vailed between and on the part Of
the delegation otherwise such good
results could not have been secured.
One of the most important meas
ures enacted was the provision for
an appropriation of 1920, 100000 for
the rompletion of Reclamation pro-
jects in various states,3 of which
Idaho will secure large. portion, re-
sulting in the completion and exten-
sion of projects now under way, at
once
The appropriation of 100000 for
the survey of public lands In Idaho
will be of great advantage to in
tending settlers and will hasten the
development of the country. 1t will
accomplish in one year in the way
of making, surveys as much or more
than would have been accomplished
in three or four years without this
appropriation
The extension of the dry farm law
to Southern Idaho is another meas
ure Of great Importance and will aid
materially In developing large areas
of land in the arid section of the
state.
Another important law enacted
was that providing that homestead
ers on reclamation projects could
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
servedly popular.

servedly popular
Mr. Fitch will be succeeded by his
friend and long time associate, l.
W. Mcconnell, also recently from tn,
government service. He was the en-
gineer who built the great Gunni-
son tunnel, one of the most remark
able feats in the history of irriga-
tion. He came last year in the cap
acity of consulting engineer for
the j. G. White Company and has
travelled through the west looking
after their projects. He is capa-
BILE courteous gentleman, who is
good acquisition to any enterprise.
He will soon bring his family here
from Seattle to live in Richfield.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07

Judge M. o. Aubolee was Rich
field visitor, Tuesday evening. He
came to Lincoln county year and
a half ago, settling at Hagerman,
but recently formed legal part
nership with j. R. Boutwell, at Sho-
shone. He was an acquaintance OF
A.. T. Park back. in Minnesota. and
was esteemed a lawyer of exception
al ability.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
JOHNSON BEATS JEFFRIES.
Black Champion Outclasses the Old
Time Favorite.

A great many people were inter-
ested in the returns from the john
son-J eifries figh. on the Fourth of
July at Reno, Nevada for the hea-
vyweights htschampionship of the world.
1t really wasn't much of q fight. 1t
iasted for Is rounds but the negro
SC clearly outclassed the white cham
pion that after the first two rounds
he had sure thing. Jeffries look
I'd good enough but the strain OF
yea of high living, without sin
gle fight for years and the nee
essary work in getting rid of al
nest 100 pounds of surplus weight,
left him sure victim to the big,
active black. That the Jeffries of a
few years ago could have won, most
authorities agree. But Johnson is
good enough today to defeat full
dozen like Jeffries, as fast as they
could be brought into the ring.
AS sequel to this fight race riot
have occurred all over thdcountry,-
wherever there are negreeb to re-
1T least l Speople--mostly negroes
have been killed and over MOO SER
lenslyy injured Some governors and
many mayors have announced that
the moving pictures of the fight can
cot be shown there because of the
menace to public peace, and over in
South Africa they will be prohib-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
THE TWO NEW STATES.
Arizona and New Mexico, the New
eaf NJ the IniOH., ~


There was no surprise in any
quarter when, last month. Congress
voted to promote Arizona and New
eAkxico to the rank of statehood. A'
dozen years ago they were at the
point OF admission by virtue of an
omnibus bill that would have also
admitted Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory as two states. A hard
fight. led by Senator Beveridge in
b is city as chairman CT the Com
mittee on erritories. gave US the
suitable population and boundaries
Arizona and New Mexico ought to
have been united and brought in as
one state with the proviso that af-
ter fifty years the state might be
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
1DAHa,szEzRsr c,klauTAuouA

At Boise, July End to 18th. Re-
duced rate tickets on sale July 1st.
End, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 8th, limited
t. July 18th. See agents for de-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
Save Your Fine Specimens
for a Great Exhibit.

of Richfed urged the
alaffa wheat,
y
make comprehensive exhibit
products National Irrigation Congress
ducdh
farm, Richfield
cared until time them
should
be in Of the leaves
be inches diameter
But will be highly
precated.
stuff than
yours This
selling price
Of the
best crop Of 1T
Superintendent Of Agriculture
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-07-07
ALFALFA

ssss s's-s EM (Hoards Dairyman) IA .ss-gr-.-.-ss
What makes the landscape look fair
What blossoms bright perfume the air.
What plant repays the farmers toll
And will enrich the worn-out soil?
Alfalfa.
What grows in loan and lay and sand,
What lifts the mortgage off the land
What crop is six times year.
And foul weeds III it appear.
Alfoifa.
What makes the swine SO healthy feel
And never raise hungry queal,
That wholesome food that never fails
To put three kinks into their tails?
Alfalfa.
What makes all other stock look nice,
And bring the highest market price,
What fills the milk pals, feeds the calf
And makes the old almost laugh?
Alfalfa.
What makes the poultry food as gold,
When eggs at high price sold
What makes the happy colts all play.
While mothers Craze throughout the day?
Alfalfa.
What is the crop that always pays.
And will mature in forty days.
Resisting drought, the frost the heat,
Whose reach down hundred feet?
Alfalfa
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-30
TEN OF AALZCHTSWW

who, though not q part of East India,
live on the outskirts. There are about
ten millions Of them. They claim to
be descended from one of the lost
tribes Of Israel, and their genealogical
trees are rooted in both Solomon and
David. The Afghans have a rich coun-
try, which is aid to be filled with
minera wealth, but as yet is not pros
pected. They are q nation of horse
men. and send hundreds OF horses
down here to Delhi and to other parts
Of India each year.
Afghanistan has. a half dozen or
more good-sized cities, and some Of
them are great trading centeFs. It has
two capitals-Kabul, in the east, and
Herat, in the west. It is ruled by the
amir, who lives at Kabul, and who
holds close relations to the government
Of India. He gets something like $780,
900 per year in the way Of subsidies
from the British, and his treaties with
them provide that he shall have no re-
lations with any other power except
the empire Of India.
At Calcutta l visited the foreign Of
flee and found that a large part Of
that bureau was devoted to Afghani-
stan, Persia and the other countries
which verge upon India.
Among the Afghans.
I was told that Afghanistan is prac-
tically closed to foreigners as far as
trade IS concerned, ana mat 1t IS not
safe to travel through it without a
special permit from the amir.
There are no railroads. The only
highways are trails for horses and
camels, although wagon roads are
now being made from the chief towns
to the Russian. Persian and Indian
frontiers. Railroads are talked Of,
and in time they nay come. The rail
ways from Delhi, where this letter Is
written, extend ~northward through
Lahore to Peshawar, not far from the
Afghan frontier. There is also a
road which goes through a pass in
the mountains to Quota, in Belucht-
stan, and another which has been tun-
neled under the Khojak pass to the
Afghan border.
North Of Afghanistan, the Russians
have been building railroads, and
they LAY just crossed the border. It
would take less than 500 miles Of
new line to connect these Russian
roads with the Indian system, and
thus make a through route from Paris
to Bombay and Calcutta There is
no prospect now of such a connection,
but it Will come in time, as will also
in all probability. a through trunk
line from here to Constantinople.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.