Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-10-28

MI. ana MIS-. Henry j. HlCHdfQS,
who have been living on their fine
Carey claim near town for the past
SIX weeks, proved up last Saturday,
and left the same evening for Cash
mere. Wash, where they will spent
lie winter. In the spring they will
return to their home IN Little Falls
MINI. The Promoter Will follow
them and keep them posted on the
doings of the Dietrich tract.
C. L. Van Wrinkle was in town
last Saturday on business. Mr.. Van
Wnkie has started to harvest his
crop OF onions and will have be-
tween four and five hundred brshe
Of A No. 4 onions on his acre of
land. There will be about $50 bush
els that he will be compelled to
throw away as they failed to ripen
caused, he is of the opinion, by
putting water on too late
j. C. Packard, C. Il. Hornenan,
j. w. B. Calhoun and ]. R. Smith
returned last Thursday from their
hunting trip in the SaWtooth moun
tains but failed to bring back with
them any big game. The gentle
men had a very good time getting
ali the small game ana fish they
wanted. But the big game, such
as bear and deer were very scarce,
50 scarce, in fact, thar they failed
10 see any. Better luck to you the
next time you 60 out, boys.
5. S. King, the sage of Star Lake
valley, was in Dietrich Saturday
afternoon for a load Of lumber to
make some improvements on his
ranch. Mr.. King is telling a weired
story about an object that has mad
lis appearance in his reighborhood
and is keeping the settlers at home
after night has dropped his dark
folds over the sage brush. We will
not attempt to repeat thI story, but
ask the Judge and he may tell you
ali about it.
Dan Hunt, who bears the distinc-
lion of building the first fine stone
residence on the tract, expects to
move into it in about two weeks. 1t
Is being plastered at the present
time and is nearly enclosed. This is
Only one of the many Improvement
HAT Mir. Hunt has made on his Ca
rry ranch south of Dietrich, the
very first season of his residence,
and the Hunt farm is pointed out
as a specimen of what can be done
here in a single season.
IL. w. Garnett is a comparative
new conner, but has been here long
enough to get the land fever. a
snail tract of 20 acres might salts
ry him. When he first came he di,
not take much stock in the Die
lrich tract because conditions were
different from what he was accus-
''med to. But now he sees the ad-
vantages III the fertile soil which
p. cduces such crops under the ma
gle of irrigation and he is also con-
vlnced from what he sees that this
is a fruit country. He is now the
foreman on the Wadsworth ranch.
O. A. Truman of ShCshone, re-
preventative of the state land board
was in town Tuesday looking after
land matters. Mr.. Truman stated
to representative Of the Promoter
that proving up is about over for
his year but that he is looking for
a big rush of settlers to this tract /
IN the early spring. He was out /
over the tract southeast of town on |
Sunday and says that he found some
of the finest land in Lincoln county
IN that part of the tract and that tn
settlers were well satisfied with the
future prospects.
A &c. NJ. O." general managers
order has been issued to complete
for double tracking the
Short Line between POcatellO ana
Minidoka and several corps of sur
veyors are now busy on the work
with instructions to complete the
.urveys as quickly as possible. The
word has also been tran smitted to
he supervising engineers depart
nent to build the new steel girder
bridge across the Snake river at
American Falls wide enough to ac-
two tracks. The ire
nendously heavy traffic on the
short Line, both east and west of
'ocatello, has made imperative the
,rovision of better facilities for the
handling of trains on the congested
Districts. The double track work
,etween pocatello and McCammon
: now practically eompleted.-The