The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-23
PLAN FOR LENDING
MONEY TO FARMERS
Farmers Union Of Washington
Is Advocate of Project
PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
Miners Are Preparing TO Work Over
Placer Ground In Northern Idaho
where so Many Fortunes
Have Been Made

Spokane, Wash, February 2.-(Spe-
cial.o-"Since we cannot raise cheap food
on dear money, we have launched cam
paign to force an amendment to the
postal savings bank bill so that money
may be loaned direct to farmers ON land
security at per cent. The plan of lend
ing it to banks at 2s4 per cent means 10
per cent money for farmers
l.. c. Crow, chairman Of the executive
committee of the Farmers Industrial
and Cooperative union, which has more
than 10000 members in the Spokane coun-
try, gave out the foregoing In an inter-
view after dispatching kilograms to the
northwestern delegation in Congress urg-
ing an amendment to the measure. He
added:
Our demand is merely that the farm
ers and producers be given square deal
by the government. This will afford them
the opportunity of making their farms at
tractive and profitable. One of the chief
things necessary to make the farm a
source of profit is cheap money for the
use of the farmer. No man can run a
farm at profit and pay 10 per cent for
money. Prevailing rates of interest paid
by the farmer would bankrupt any other
class of business and these will eventual
ly bankrupt the farmer. even in this
wonderful country of almost unlimited
undeveloped resources.
Zone of the principal reforms we hope
to bring about by the use of cheaper
Tenant farming means thriftless methods.
soil exhaustion and the waste of natural
and human energy and resources. The
farm must be made sufficiently attractive
that its owner will remain on it and farm
it for himself. Ownership farming means
and thrift and general prosperity
Miners with a full equipment of dredees,
hydraulic giants and other apparatus are
making preparations to work over the
placer ground in the Pierce City district
in northern Idaho, where, according to
l. d. C1eek, an operator, who has come
S1G0, 900 in gold was cleaned up by one
boat. two hydraulic plants and several
smaller operations during the season OF
1909. Cleek said it is estimated that the
output of yellow metal will be doubled II
not trebled the coming season. begin
ming early in May, adding:
MANY of the operations last season
were in ground that had twice responded
to the efforts of the early miners. Pierce
and his associates found wealth in the
dirt in 1859 and the succeeding year and
after they left the ground was success
fully worked by Chinese miners, most OF
whom returned as rich men to China.
Zone of the companies to begin opera
ton in the Pierce camp this year has 13r
acres of creek bottom land, and engi-
neers say there is not less than eight feet
of wash between the grass roots and bed
rock. The concern has equipment to han
die 500 cubic yards of earth every .
hours. The cost of recovery should not
exceed eight cents a yard this year
while the yield of gold ranges from Il
to so cents, so there will be handsome
profit
THE area of the Pierce district is abou
20 miles square, so there is room fol
hundreds of operators The district II
one OF the richest in the state of Idaho
which is noted for it's mineral wealth
and we believe that the best finds ar,
yet to be made. The Pierce camp is or
derby and the men are we'll behaved"
philadelphia Tom Smith. for twent,
years a member of the police department
of Spokane. now retired, has Blacl
Minorca hen, which regularly lays egg
with double yelks, crows like a rooster
and Is, according to it's owner, g. con
firmed suffragette, in that the fowl will
not stay in the hennery and hatch it
eggs. One of the hens chief feats is al
egg with three yelks, which Is on exhibit
ton in the exposition rooms Of the cham
Der of commerce. Several of the hem
double eggs have been Matched in incuba
tors and by other hens and the chicks ar
large and strong, but none has yet devel
oped the lusty crow possessed by tn,
mother hen. Smith has tried time an,
again to have "Blddy' set on her eggs
but the hen simply utters squawk tina
sounds like 'nothin' doing" and ther
crows all over the lot at the Smith HON,
at Perry street and White avenue. Smith
does not claim any credit for the remark
dDlc OI Ills u6u, now lou
years old, but says it is a freak of ma
ture. He feeds the hen on pounded oat,
and scraps from the table, with plenty o.
pepper.
Henry L. Bowlby. state highway com
missioner, is authority for the Statement
that $1,000,000 will be expended upon 81
state-aid roads in Washington this year
The first work will be in eastern Wash
ington IN the vicinity of Spokane, to dem
onstrate to the farmers and ranchers tn,
value of better country highways Thu
Spokane County Good Roads association
headed by Frederick H. Mason, IL CO
operating in every way with the state Of
ficers, also arranging for the building Of
nearly 100 miles of roads without assist.
ance from the state. One of the associa.
TONS plans is to build a paved highway
80 feet in width, between Spokane ant
Occur d Alene. Idaho, 81 miles, both sides
being lined with apple and other fruit
trees and fountains a mile apart. ]. A
Perry, secretary of the association, an
nounces that this work will begin In q
short time and be rushed to completion.
To the Voters of Jefferson
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