Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-07-30
In THE GEM STATE

Spring wheat in the Richfield dis
trict will yield from thirty to forty
bushels per acre.
The state fish and game department
recently distributed 10000 trout fry
In Oneida county from the state hatch.
cry at Hay Spur.
]. N. Lewis, a sheepman OF Owyhee
county, is at his home suffering from
injuries sustained while looking after
his focks, having been kicked by a
vicious horse.
Ross Fork Is to have 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 Nampa
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 Nez
Perez county places the yield at six
ty-five bushels to the acre around vol
inner 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 a complete failure.
Dry farming at Soldier has been put
to a severe test this season, there hav'
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, hasvclosed
a contract with a Salt Lake firm Tor
Of the power house and
dam, the same to be completed in five
The June building record for Boise
showed an increase over May OF over
100000, the total amount being $685.
725 The record for the year will
eclipse all other years in the history
of the city.
There are only sixteen corporations
in Utah, Idaho and Montana which
have not paid the government corpor.
alton tax amounting to l per cent OF
every dollar over $4,000 OF the net
income of the corporation.
E. M. Kennedy, near Blacktoot, cut
his first crop of alfalfa this year June
IS, and commenced cutting his second
crop thirty days later. or July IS. He
expects to cut his third crop August
IS, 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 it 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
pany, which provides for the elemina.
ton Of a $40 extra charge per car and
saves $3,C11 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 fourishine
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 Richtield
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
tion 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
1909 homestead entries and 261 en-
tries under the desert land law.
Thomas Argyll, ranch foreman for
Fl. 0. Hardness at McCammon. who
was struck by lightning and terribly
burned while driving 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 o. the machine he was driv
ing.
Fruit experts claim that so per cent
more apples will be shipped this year
than were sent out from Weiser two
years ago, when the crop was consid
cred record breaker. The yield OF
prunes will be about the same as It
was two years ago.