The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-07-28
IN THE GEM STATE

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Spring wheat in the Richfield dis
trct will yield from thirty to forty
bushels per acre.
The state fish and game department
recently distributed $4,000 trout fry
in Oneida county from the state hatch.
cry at Hay Spur.
J. N. Lewis, sheepman of Owyhee
county, Is at his home suffering from
injuries sustained while looking after
his flocks, having been kicked by .
vicious horse.
Ross Fork is to have a new school
house of most modern type for the dis
trict The increase in population IN the
reservation town necessitiates the con-
struction OF this building.
The Golden Crown Mining COM
pany. composed principally OF NaInpa
business men, is jubilant over the new
strike made in the mining property
near Horseshoe Bend last week.
A report on the barley crop in Nee
Perez county places the yield at six
ty-five bushels to the acre around Vol
liner and the estimate on winter wheat
at from thirty-five to forty bushels.
More alfalfa and less grain and po-
tatoes, according to reports from the
Twin Falls tract, characterize the
changed conditions there this year as
compared with the season of 1909.
The feeling among the farmers Of
Bear Lake county is much more hope
full than 1t was before harvesting be-
gan. as many OF them feared the arid
land crop would be complete failure.
Dry farming at Soldier has been put
to severe test this season, there hay
ing been no rain since early spring,
but In spite OF this grain Is looking
good. and an average crop seems Ger
| tain.
The Castle Butte project on the
Snake river. in Ada county. has closed
contract with Salt Lake firm FOR
constructing of the power house and
dam, the same to be completed in FIVE
months.
| The June building record for Boise
showed an increase over May Of over
5000. 900. the total amount being $685.
725. The record for the year will
eclipse all other years In the history
| OF the city,
| There ere only sixteen corporations
In Utah, Idaho and Montana which
have not paid the government corpor-
alton tax amounting to per cent OF
every dollar over $1,000 OF the net
income Of the corporation.
E. M. Kennedy, near Blacktoot. cut
his first crop Of alfalfa this year June
10, and commenced cutting his second
crop thirty days later, or July Is. He
expects to cut his third crop august
18, and may cut fourth crop this
year.
Reports from various parts OF Bear
Lake county are to the effect that the
wheat crop Is turning out to be better
than had been expected. In most cases
the yield Is about half what 1t would
be with abundant water. and consid-
cradle quantity will produce more than
this.
The fruitgrowers of Lewiston and
the Snake river section have been
granted concession from the Pacific
Fruit Express Refrigerator Car COM
rany, which provides for the elemina-
ton Of $40 extra charge per car and
saves $4,000 for the growers on the
season.
While reports from all over the
country show that the drought is ruin
ing the spud crop, the Twin Falls po-
tatoes seem to be In fourisnlng
condition and indications are that the
yield will be far in excess Of 1909 and
the quality superior to any grown
heretofore.
Some of the finest fields of winter
wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and al
falfa are to be found on Richfield
tracts, and the capital invested in sub
stantial houses, barns and other farm
buildings, and the high class OF live
stock owned by the settlers give evil
dence of their faith in that section.
The fiscal year of 1910. just ended
June 30, 1910, closed period OF great
activity in the matter of the disposi-
ton of the public domain under the
federal land laws in the Blackfoot dis
trict, which comprises Fremont, Bling
ham, Bannock, Oneida and Bear Lake
+ counties. During the year there were
7 1 600 homestead entries and 26l en-
: tries under the desert land law.
Thomas Argyll, ranch foreman for
II, O. Hardness at McCammon, who
: was struck by lightning and terribly
burned while driving a header. is re
ported to be improving, and the belief
Is expressed that he will come out
all right. The bolt struck him over
the left ear, passed across his chest
into his right arm, with which he held
the lever OF the machine he was driv