The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-25
IN GEM STATE

Tho state fish and game department
recently distributed 200 trout fry In
Oneida county from the state hatchery
al Hay Spur
Cnntaloupe raising is an important in
dus'ry in the southern part Of the state.
Il, ri. Laird prominent rancher OF
King Hlll, VIII soon begin to harvest the
crop from five acres,
Ross Fork Is TO have "A new school
house of most modern type for the dis
uict. The increase III population in the
reservation town ncccssltatcs the con-
struction OF this building
a report on the barley crop in NeZ
Perco county places the yield at sixty
five bushels to the acre around Nolmcr
and The estimate on winter wheat at
from thirty-tiv 10 forty bushels.
The June building record for Boise
showed an Increase over May OF over
100000. tho total amount being s26S,-
'2h. The record for tho year VIII eclipse
all other years in the history OF the
city.
Dry farming at Soldier has been put
10 n severe test this season, there having
spite OF this grain is looleing fine and
better and an average crop seems Ger
tain.
The League OF Commercial clubs OF tho
Upper Snake River valley will be guests
of the pocatcllo Commercial club on
Thursday next. the 2Sth inst. Business
interests of this section or tho state
VIII he discussed
f. NJ. Kennedy. near Rlackfoot. cut his
hrst crop Of alfalfa this year Juno is.
thirty days later, or july Is; Hc cx-
poets to cut his third crop August IS,
and may cut n fourth crop this year,
Tho fruilgrowers Of Lewiston and the
Snake river section havo been granted
II concession from the Pacific Fruit Ey-
press Refrigerator Car company. which
provides ior the oIcminiation OF a $40
extra charge per car and saves $4,000 for
the growers on the season.
The Castle Butte project on the Snake
river. In Ada county, has closed q con-
tract with James Lynch Co OF Salt
Lake for constructing Of the power house
and dam, the same TO be completed In
five months. The regular Carey act
drawing OF lands under the project will
be held Tuesday. July rs. at Castle Butte.
when assurance is had that every acre OF
the 1900 will he taken.
Thomas ArgiIl ranch foreman for H.
O, Hardness Mt McCammoD. VINO was
struck by lightning and terribly burned
while driving n header. is reported TO be
Improving, and the belief is expressed
that he Will come out all right The bolt
across his chest into his right arm, with
which he held the lever of the machine
lie was driving.
Reports from various parts OF Bear
Lake county are 10 the effect that the
wheat crop is turning out 10 he better
than had been expected In most cases
tho Yield Is about half what IL would be
with abundant water, and considerable
quantity will produce more than this.
The feeling among the farmers is much
more hopeful than 1t was before har-
vestine began as many OF them feared
the arid land crop would be q complete
failure.
There Is some hay in the Camas Prairie
,s1o
'G!I xsx d i d alfalfa .
- ! =. Cut out the above
Prairie Courier speaks of the crop:
lines, paste them on phonograph
Will thus bc able TO hear Herb Car
penter tell about tho bumper crop Of
alfalfa he is putting up-which, by the
way, Herb says Is the best stand ever
cut on his ranch"
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 1903. While
reports from all over the country show
that the drought is running the spud
crop. the Twin Falls potatoes seem to
be In n flourishing condition and indica-
tions arc that tho 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 alfalfa
are TO he found on Richficld tracts, and
the capital invested IN substantial houses.
barns and other farm buildings. and the
high class of livestock owned by the
settlers certainly give evidence of the
faith and never ti1-ing energy OF the set
tiers on this project. Spring wheat will
yield from thirty to forty bushels per
acre.
The fiscal year of 1910. just ended.
June 80 1910. closed a period OF great
activity In the matter of the disposition
OF the public domain under the fed
eral land laws In the BlaCkfoot district.
which comprises Fremont, Bingham, Ban
mock, Oneida and Bear Lake counties,
During that year the receiver OF the
Blac)cfoot land office deposited TO the
credit of the treasurer of the United
States $95, ,109.61. The area entered un-
der the various laws was 263 266 30 acres.
During that year there were 1909 home
stead entries made and 261 entries under
the desert land law.