The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1911-08-10
idaho STATE NEWS

Wallace - Surveys of burned over
iands IN Idaho are being made bv Sur
veyor General Utter. Three survey
ing parties OF eight men each are
being QUILTED at Wallace. They will
start as soon as possible. and will
work IN the hills until the snow drives
them out in the fall. They will re-
sumo the work as early as possible in
the spring. They will survey the most
accessible ground first. Sixtaen
horses are being purchased here for
these parties, and they will be sb;nned
north Immediately.
Notwithstanding in Nez Perce
county will be in full swing by the
end of the week. Harvesters are
pulled to the fields daily and there il
every indication that the yield, when
cut, will not show the slightest shrink
age. After trip through the grain
section of Northern Idaho, buyers are
optimistic and say the Lewiston coun-
try will rank high for average yield.
The grain stands fully nine feet high
in many fields, with the heads ready
to burst. Never has there been such
healthy looking wheat in this section.
Smut and blemishes are scarce.
Nez Perce-Local grain dealers who
have recently been compiling statistics
bearing on the grain crop in Lewis
county estimate there are 160,0 900
acres in crop this year, half of which
is sown in wheat and the other half to
barley, and they predict the average
yield of 35 bushels an acre, which
means total production of $500. 600
bushels of wheat and an equal amount
of barey.
At so cents bushel for wheat. a
little less than is now being quoted.
and 81 hundred for barley, the pre-
vailing market price, the cereal crop
of which Nez Perez is the center will
bring the producers SO, 08O, 900, but it
is anticipated the price will advance
materially before the delivery season
ends, and there is good reason to be-
lieve the output will represent not less
than SO, 800, 900 by the time the entire
crop is disposed of.
Lewiston = Failure of the entire
timothy crop of the United States.
with the exception of comparativelv
small area in Western Minnesota and
the Dakotas, outside of that raised in
Northern Idaho and Eastern Oregon
has caused an unprecedented demand
for seed, and local dealers predict the
price will probably reach IL cents a
pound before the end of the season.
There are now between 20 and 30
buyers, representing Eastern and
Coast firms, scattered over North Ida
no, and fully half the output of the
district has already been purchased at
from to 10 cents pound, and by the
middle of August it is thought the en-
tire crop will be cleaned up.
Fully three-fourths of the timothy
along the Clearwater has been cut for
hay, the growers having put their cut
ting machines to work before they
realized the situation, but exclusive
of this it is believed there are be-
tween 80, 900 and $4,000 acres being
allowed to mature for seed, and at
least twice this amount could have
been disposed of for the current price.
Boise-The Idaho state land board
has created new department of lands
to have exclusive charge of the Carey
act projects. Senator B. P. Shawhan
has been made director of the bureau.
rhe necessity for this department has
ong been recognized, and in two cam
paigns the Republican party has in
iorsed the creation by the Legislature
If Carey act commission, but that
body failing to enact legislation Great
ng the department, or to make an
appropriation for. it's maintenance, it
vas up to the land board to make the
most of the situation, and to adjust
tself to the existing conditions. The
establishment of Carey act depart
nent is one of the most important
iteps taken by the present land board.
IDAHO has 5000, 900 acres of Carey act
ands, representing investments of
between SIS, 900, 900 and 500, 900, 900,
md affecting many thousands of set
lers. 1t must be evident that the
of this work involves
vast amount of detail. Heretofore
he executive officers of the state, con-
listing of the state land board, have
'een expected to take on the burden
f all this detail work, in addition to
heir regular duties.