The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-07
idaho STATE NEWS


| Boiss- Inszring tie oonstruetion 81
~ largest pumping project un<ier-
tnksn IN Idaho under the provisions Of
the Carey scf. Tie state land board has
~ July Is - tie date for The drawing
Of Isnds % Be irrigAsed b. tie Snake
River Irrigntjou company. With which
IL bsard LIST February eootrneted foz
IL Kecianatiou Of 1000 acres In
Southern Ada county n ths uniform
prjee Of $50 an sore Tor water rights.
GRIND vicW - d~nignated - the place
for hnhding tie opening
This project IL il estimated win add
mose than q, ooo. 900 10 The .s.essed
valuation Of TIE taxnble property Of
Tie eosnty. snd viii result in the con
struezicu Of an immepse power plant
neax Castle Butte, generating 10. 600
horBep0wsx, or more than three times
- mach power - viii be actually re-
quirsd IN connection with the frri~n-
tipn ent<r1wise- All unrpius energy is
70 Be marketed By The company. chich
hAs already entered into q contract
with the Grand View Extension IrrSR.-
ton company TO pump water for 1000
Lewiston One hundred and twenty
Thousand dollars waz The total vxIue OF
property soId BY Bales 4 Jones in the
1nction Of their ranch equipment near
The sale occupied two
full days II is thought to have been
sbs largest public sale ever held west
Of Tho Rocky mountains And. even
then. > large part of the property was
not sold
The prices received for the livestock
exceeded expectations.
Forty ordinary work horses sold for
an average Of 3176 per head; one un-
broken 4-year Old mare brought sos,
= 2-year old colt sold for 5000, 10 head
Of mule colts and yeAriinRs sold for
from $3.50 to s177-35 head, cattle
brought from $40 to $50, and lis head
Of stock hogs sold for $40 each.
This sale marks the passing Of the
cattle king and the cowboy In North
ern Idaho The bringing about Of the
rev order Of things Is partly the result
81 natural conditions and partly due to
'egisIstion- The discovery In recent
gesrs that the soil Of the Csnas and
Nez Perez prziries is capable of the |
highest degree Of cultivation, caused |
BY the unprecedented influx of agricul- |
Iurisss, and this invasion forced the /
;attie men to seek a foothold in the |
more remote regions In the Salmon riv-
sr and the Bitter Root mountains.
New Piymouh-Fully l 200 acres Of /
fruit trees have been set out this
spring within radius Of four miles
from New Plymouth All of 1000 |
seres Of this springs planting has
been done south and east of town.
This section Of the famous Payette
bench will be q remarkably rich and
productive section within the next five |
years, when the large acreage in fruit
trees planted during the past two years
comes into bearing.
One Of the largest orchard tracts |
planted in the New Plymouth vicinity
this spring Is the 200 acres belonging
10 the New Plymouth Land & Coioniz-
stion company The preparation of
the soil, the planting Of the trees, the |
Irrigsting Of them, are being done un-
ter the personal supervision Of Walter
Burke, Of New Plymouth, who is con-
seded to be one Of the best and |
nost practical men for this work in |
he state. Perhaps no man in Idaho |
has actually planted so many fruit |
.rees during the past five years as has
Ar. Burke.
Probably the largest orchard plant
Dg by one company is that done by the |
'aystte Valley Orchard company,
which has set out 270 acres of fruit |
rees under the personal supervision Of |
Bernard Eastman, who has proved to
'e highly efficient in this work. This
company. which is composed of Clevel-
md. Ohio, people. will next spring set
ut the balance Of section of land to
richard, or $40 acres, in addition to
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