Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-09-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS
MOUNTAIN HOME

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position has recently issued its pre-
MUM list for the fair to be held a
Hagerman September 1921,
The Alpowai Orchard company o
Lewiston, and operating in orchards
along the Snake river, Is sending GU
four carloads of peaches daily.
Weiser Is experiencing grea
building boom, business is active IL
all lines there, and the fruit growers
of that section are gathering the big
gest crop in its history.
Butte Is taking all the potatoes Il
can buy from the irrigated sections O
southern Idaho and paying the grow
ers 80 cents per hundred for them
The crop is very good.
1t Is estimated that upon the Carey
act tracts of southern Idaho one hal
million tons of alfalfa will be raised
this year and the value of hay in the
stack at this time Is $500 per ton
There are about 10000 more acres
alfalfa in the Twin Falls country this
year than ever before The sheer
men are buying up the tonnage at
prices ranging from $3.50 to $3.50 pei
ton.
The water area of the big reservoir
of the North Side Twin Falls project
will be about 10000 acres. The work
has only just begun and when In
full swing will employ 1000 men and
500 teams.
Johnnie McRae, one of the Oldest
and best known sheepmen in south.
eastern Idaho, completed the sale last
week of all his flocks and ranch prop.
erty for $4,000. says Twin Falls
correspondent
The Blaine county irrigation project
was opened at Arco ON September l.,
The filings made, including 4,440 acres
preference rights Of desert entrymen
practically exhaust the entire segre
cation of $4,000 acres.
No less than three camps of Short
Line surveyors, embracing some GS
men in ALL are busily engaged on the
work of surveying the new line known
as the Owinza cutoff, In the neigh
borhood of Camas Prairie.
The Payette Commercial club has
started movement to finance the
building of two ferries across the
Snake river north and west of Pay
site. This will connect the city with
the Dead Ok Fiat irrigation project
Fire that stared in the Bedal hotel
at Centerville, wiped out the bust
ness portion of the town, entailing a
loss of 100000, with insurance Of
100000 The plant of the Centerville
Mining g. Milling company was de-
stroyed.
The big 70-acre vineyard at Agatha,
IS miles below Orofino, on the Clear
water river, is looking fine, and the
grapes viii be ripe in another week.
The quality of grapes in this large
vineyard was never SO good as 1t Is
this year.
Fires in the neighborhood of juno
lion destroyed thousands OF acres OF
good feed range last week. The esti
mated sweep of the fire was ten miles
wide. There have also been several
Tres in the Lemhi range, northwest
of Junction.
Frank c. Beatty of Three Rivers,
known as the Strawberry King Of
Michigan, has purchased eighty acres
= quarter of mile south of the south
,rn boundary of Twin Falls townsite,
and will establish ON half of this tract
model orchard in the immediate fu
ture.
A big barbecue dinner will be sery-
ed at the townsite opening of Ster-
ling, Saturday, September TO- This
new town is located on the Aberdeen
branch of the Oregon Short Line. be-
tween Aberdeen and Backfoot Six
hundred town lots will bo sold to the
highest bidders.
Joseph r. Hughes who held the
contract for hauling the sand re-
CURED from point of production to the
b z Salmon dam, which has been un
der construction for three years
is accused by his former employees
Of having defrauded them out Of about
$1,000 in the aggregate.
The 1S-months-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Patnode Of Harlem
Bonner county, was accidentally shot
through the mouth by a fiveyear-o!d
sister, who picked up a loaded gun
and, pointing 1t In the direction Of the
baby, discharged 1t. The injured child
Is in a serious condition.
A disastrous fire occurred upon the
Bond ranch nor Invest of Blackfoot
The Bonds had assembled their grain
from several ranches upon their place
for threshing. While the crew was at
dinner, children playing with matches
started fire which destroyed 500
bushels of grain and 100 tons of hay
A dispatch from Fresno, Cal, says
Ike Carter an Idaho crook, has been
sentenced to spend two years in San
Quentin for having. in company with
Fl. N. Miller contracted for a ggy
and set of harness at local store
and then sold the property @