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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16

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reached the eye of over 100000
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that figure, the Tribune republishes
it. The article follows:
POTATO PROFITS IN IDAHO.
The modest potato is not suffi-
Ciently taken into account as a pro-
Queer of wealth for the man who
tills the soil.
We hear about the Romance of
Wheat, the Kingly Rule of Corn, the
commercial dignity of oats, and al
falfa, barley and rye, and we count
them as sources of great wealth for
those who make the earth their SER
want.
But, granting to the grains and
forages the credit that is due, there
are wide stretches of land in Idaho
producing cash yields from potatoes
that make the average grain product
! ion of states further east appear ex.
ceedingly small.
And there are SO many more acres
of the same kind, that have not been
given a chance yet to show what
they can do, that the money-mak-
ing possibilities of Idaho, so far as
potatoes alone are concerned, cannot
be estimated.
Idaho won national publicity in
1910 as the result of the awarding of
prizes of $500 and $3.50, given by
Mr.. D. E. Burley, of Salt Lake City,
Utah, for the best and second best
yields of potatoes produced on
single acre of land in the territory
tributary to the Oregon Short Line,
Pacific & Idaho Northern. Idaho
Southern and Payette Valley rail-
roads.
The Oregon Short Line, together
with the affiliated lines mentioned,
traverses the states of Idaho, Utah,
Oregon, Washington, Montana and
Wyoming, 80 1t will be readily seen
that the winning of prizes for which
there were competitors from so wide
territory was an accomplishment
of great Importance to the victor
ious state and of lasting credit to
the successful growers.
The results of this contest, parti-
clpated in by so many OF the most
progressive farmers in the prescribed
district, were ring, and the fol-
lowing account of { Hse results, with
figures showing s,ras the returns
signify in the mats II profits from
the land, should prove interesting to
everyone concerned In agricultural
affairs.
Through Mr.. l.. A. Snyder, the
first prize of $500 was won by Twin
Falls county, Idaho, with the Dali
meny Challenge variety of potatoes
The second prize of $3.50 went to
JuuyOn county 1uahVi NhANNHA va
W. n. Gilmore. with the PeachbloW
variety.
On his winning acre OF Idaho land
Mr., Snyder raised CAS- bushels o.
potatoes, Weighing Ss,6s5 pounds
The oulls weighed 4,160 pounds
leaving 1855 pounds of the fines
marketable potatoes. or about 67'
bushels.
At 70 cents per 100 pounds. or Il
cents per bushel, the price Mr.. sny
der received, the ono prize acre pro
duced in money, therefore, the sun
of S241.74, besides almost 70 bush
els of culls, which were available TO
home use.
Mr.. Snyder has given the CONNER
cial club of Twin Falls some turtle
facts showing the possibilities of pc
tato raising in his section of tn
country. He reports that from
three acres of land he harvested 80
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16
CALLED EAST FRIDAY.

Mrs. G. C. Smith was called to the
home of her father at Petersburg,
Missouri, Friday morning, he having
suddenly become much worse. Mrs.
Smith did not intend going east I'M
til fall. She will be away at least
two months.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16

sacks of potatoes, averaging 10
pounds to the sack. He sold 1900
bushels at AZ cents per bushel re-
ceiVing $500, and had rs sacks left
for seed.
An average gross profit of $21O
per acre, when we consider how
much smaller is the average gross
profit from an acre of grain, gives
the reader an idea of what the in
tensive potato farming opportunities
of Idaho really are.
Going a little more extensively
into figures, we may safely presume
that the average family of, say, five
persons, consumes about five pounds
Of potatoes per day, that ought to
be a liberal estimate pound Of
potatoes day for each member of
the family, large or small.
The 1855 pounds of potatoes
raised by Mr.. Snyder on his prize
acre Of Idaho land would, therefore
supply the potato of more than %
such families for a year, allowing
each family 1875 pounds, or 28%
| bushels.
1t is fair to say that a $40 gross
yield from an acre of wheat is a
good return. So we see that Mr..
Snyder's prize acre of potato land
produced as much money as would
eight acres of wheat land.
If Mr.. Snyder were to realize from
ten acres of his potato land as well
as he did from three acres which
gave his $3.50, he would have $2,100
at the end of the season, besides
more than enough spuds for his own
use and the next years planting.
There's real money" in Idaho po-
tatoes.
1.-THE combination that won the
Burley prize" said Mr.. Snyder, twas
the most productive soil in the west,
climate unexcelled, plenty of water
for irrigation at all times, one OF
the best varieties of spuds, and a
man with some experience and not
afraid of work"
His words make clear the advan-
tages and possibilities of the Oregon
Short Line country. All the farm
ers who entered the contest In which
Mr.. Snyder carried OF first honort
came out wonderfully we'll. Mr.
Gilmore harvested S7.476 pounds Of
Peachblow potatoes from the acre
that won for him the second prize
and many others were close competi
, tors.
| Added encouragement for those
who have never tried potato growing
, as n proflt-making business Is foun(
in the fact that Mr.. Snyder's potato
: experience began only Ave years ago
Up to 1905, when he moved t
, Idaho, he had lived upon cattle anC
hay ranches, had engaged in dairy
' livery and mining work, but had no
had experience as a farmer. H
4 took up potato farming in Idaho be
Z cause he thought 1t offered an agree
J. able and profitable occupation, an
!, he has made the results of each yea
i better than those of the year before
s Speaking a short time ago, MI
Snyder said: II have always sal
2 that we have the best irrigated coun
= try In the United States. Mr.. Bur
= ley gave US the opportunity to prov
n 1t, and 1t was as much the opportun
i ity OF showing that we could max
II good, as the money, which induce
mo to go into this competition"
: Notwithstanding his achievement
II Mr.. Snyder does not believe that hi
= record will stand, He has too bi
% a faith in the potato industry and !
n Idaho to permit such an opinion.
s do not think we have reached tn
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16

w. B. Jones has severed his con-
nection with the Jones furniture
otore to accept the position of gov
eminent storekeeper at Arrow Rock
He has been appointed for six years
and will move his family to the re-
clamation camp at that point.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16
EXCURSIONS TO PooATELLo.
June 90, 81, 22 and 2S.

JUHU AVI III 70 uAU 1V'
Via the Oregon Short Line for In
termountain Good Roads Convention.
Tickets limited to June 20. See
agents for rates and further particu-
lars.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16

FOR SALE-Good desert relin-
auishment of 100 acres on North
Side. Price $500. Also 40 acres ir-
rigated land one-fourth mile from city
all in hay. Price $3.50 per acre. L. NJ.
Johnson.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16
DAME LONG WAY.

Miss B. Van der Steeg of Rotter-
dam, Holland, arrived in Parma Sat
urday. 1t is understood that she
came here to marry Mr.. G. Munt-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16
go Day Hot Weather Special.

Starting June 5, 1911, the Troy
Laundry will do rough dry for zoe
per dozen, nat work 25c. No rough
Laundry will do rough dry for 400
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-16

Strawberry shortcake at Frank
Woods Bakery.
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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19
THE BOSTON BEAN PARTY

Will history repeat itself in Boston? 1t will
be remembered that some time ago certain Eng
sh ruler imposed IA tax upon tea, boosting the
price of living in the region of The Hub. If
Will also be recalled that the BOstonans resented
the imposition in a manner that caused sone
startling historical and geographical changes.
Only the other day it was announced that the
price of baked beans in Boston had been doubled
by the rapacious restaurant-keepers OF the city
of culture. The world is waiting breathlessly TO
see how the Bostonians Of today will deal with
this outrage.
If they are made of the same stuff as the
early Bostonians we shall soon hear of the organ
zation of the Boston Bean party, which will fol-
low the glorious example Of the Boston Tea patty.
Every school child knows what was done when
the price of tea boosted in Boston. " num-
Der Of men disguised as Indians seized the tea
and dumped it into Boston harbor."
If history repeat sitsef, as is maintained, the
shipping in Boston harbor will soon be impeded
by the debris of broken bean Crooks and the
water will be turned into a good imitation OF
bean soup. There is every provocation for an
outburst with this result The restaurant keepers
have suggested that the Bostonans must pay
double price forego using the customary dab
of catsup with benzoate Of soda with their favor
tie dish The pure food and drugs act and other
constitutional rights guarantee to every American
citizen the right to consume is much benzoate Of
sado as he Desires consequently, the decree of
! The observation-disclosures seems all the more out
rageous
If the Boston Bean party does not mtaerlallze
in the near future, it must be taken an indi-
cation that the modern Bostonians not com
peten to cope with high-cost of-lymg problems
as were their forefathers.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19
DE Saba STORY ONLY ONE PHASE.

The story of how Eugene de Saba wreSted
control of one Of the Comstock mines, the Next
can, from the Sturgis- Leonard Syndicate Of New
York few days ago is only phase of that
syndicate s operations in the famous Nevada dis
trict, where Mackay, Fair, Flood, O'Brien, Sharon
and others first made their millions
SurgiS, Leonard and their associates while
they would have liked to have retailed control Of
Mexican, not east down by any means over
the entrance into the company of De Saba and
the money he represents. They own control
the Suro tunnel, which is 50 necessary to the
successful operation Of the thirtyone ComStock
mines and which made in early days for the late
Mayor Sutro of this city big fortune. The
straightforward people not only hold the stock
Of the tunnel company but its S20OO0O0 OF bonds
as we'll They bought these bonds at very low
figure six seven years ago. Since then the
thirty mining companies by pro rata pay
ments have aided these people III thoroughly re
habitating the tunnel They got control of most
Of these mining companies and directed their par
tcipation in this work of putting the tunnel and
It's machinery into modern, effective condllo
They believe there is plenty of valuable ore at
the lower levels of most eff these mines.
They ant them worked because the tunnel
will get a royalty on all ore taken out by
that means the tunnel bonds will increase IL
market value and yield a good rate OF interest
The syndicate bought the bonds below so. i
they eau get good interest on them and force
them to par, or above, their financial coup vii
be IA handsome one.
They are responsible for whatever renewed
activity III mining there is on the Comstock today
Whether their activities will boom tunnel stocl
and bonds and whether they will get an addi
tonal profit from the mines they still contro
remains to be seen. Sturgis alone is said to hav
about 100000 invested in this program. Beside
himself and Franklin Leonard the latter's fathe
and several New York bankers are members o
this eastern syndicate.--OaIlland Tribune.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

Agents for Miburn Wagons Vehicles the Best the land
Built Expressly for Southern Nevada.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19
ANOTHER MENACE.

This is the menace-hunting age. Men of sci d
ence, men of letters, politicians and ordinary,
everyday men unhappy and suspicious when
the day fails to produce a new menace. With
all the world engaged in menace-hunting, it has
remained for medical contributor to the New
York Sun to find the champion menace of all
Iaenaces in a mountaineering wOrld-the doctors
Lcard
According to this contributor the doctors
beard is the favorite pasturage of malignant
germs. A physician with moderate amount of
hrSute appendage can carry more bearers
than any vehicle for the distribution of germs
that has been yet discovered. The discoverer of
this menace has given table showing the NOR
tally in 100000 and how it is caused.
This is the table: Directly traceabe to germs
transmitted by doctors boards, 1887 the deadly
housefy, 1855; the bloody hatpn, 1885; the
fragrant weed, g.
This statstician does not tell where he got the
authority for this table now how it was computed
Very few statisticians do like to 90 into those
minor details, but paper these statistics look
al ont as plasible as-the average
The man who compiled the table calls upon
The country in general to join the society for
the purpose of putting down. tearing out and
eradicatng the boards of doctors. He says
Soldiers of the common veal, join with
me in this great movement for the uplift OF
the classes and bring JOY into the innumer-
able homes being decimated through
the agency of that grim destroyer the doe
tors beard.
This is an inspiring call and no doubt, there
will be hearty response. The world at large
will soon realize that physicians are wearing
boards merely to help business. While they are
going about pretending to heal, they are really
| sallying forth to distribute more ailments by
means of the dsease-breeding allies that Turk i'll
their hrsute appendages The sole reason why
doctors maintain boards for the comfort and Sc
curity Of germs is that the germs help business.
But the correspondent of the New York Sun
| has torn open the whskered conspiracy. Here
after physicians with boards will be looked upon
with slspcian, instead Of with confidence, as in
the past. The young doctor whose practice has
been anguishing because he has been unable to
coax sembIance of beard from his barren
chin will rejoice. The day of the bearded fraud
who carries his own germs for the stimulation
! practice is
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19
COMPANY" WEEK.

During the week just closed Reno has been
somewhat congested with the money and brains
of the state. and as IA consequence suffers from
general Indigestion which promises to be tenn
porary only AS time goes on it is hoped that
the nutritive substance left by the visit OF the
editors and bankers may be assimiated so that
Reno will achieve distinct growth as result
of their visit That both delegations came to-
gether might be taken to mean that branch
is keeping an eye on the other for obvious rea-
sons but the majority of the visitors have gone
i'll peace to their respective homes, the lawyers
and physicians sigh in disappointment the
entirely amicable outcome.
Seriously, however, Reno is grateful for the
distinction conferred by both Of these eminently
conservative bodies 1t has been an honor to en-
terrain either; to receive both has taxed our re-
sources.
1t may well be believed that no one knows
the full effect of such visits. No one knows how
far the story of pleasant trip, of accustomed
hospitality, Of fair aspect given by neatly kept
city, well built and prosperous looking, may go
to bear fruit in the coming permanently here
Of new population.
Such meetings give Reno advertising of the
best sort and tend to make each visitor a benevo
lent missionary to preach the gospel of the real
Reno. Such human intercourse breaks down the
border lines Of provincialism and Of prejudice and
it serves to bring out that spark of feeling that
should make the whole state kin-Reno Journal
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

Are some presidential booms running smoothly
because nothing about them is being heard!
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture reports
that something should be done to discourage the
cold storage of eggs. The crash in eggs last
spring sufficiently discouraged those who were
attempting to corner the egg market to keep
them from trying it again for years to come
1t was the hens and not the bears that broke
that corner
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

Delays in criminal cases such as disgrace the
judicial system of this state, and which the judges
are powerless to prevent, work to the detriment
Of those who are finally acquitted and rob con
victions of their moral effect on evdoers The
state legislature can remedy the evil in simple
way if they cease to regard the interests Of law
yers who fatten the fees they get for suspend
ing the execution of sentence by ingenious sub
terfuges
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

1t is certainly hard to beat the Kansas poll
tician as a class. One Of them arrived from
Europe Saturday last saying that he had secured
foreign capital to build railroad from the Sun
flower commonwealth to the Gulf After said
road is built others of his class will proceed to
load it with taxes and choke it with regulations
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

The Boston Transcript crows: Dock board
created Wednesday of last week Subway
leases signed on Thursday. Watch Boston spurtl"
Squirt? And from the Transcript Boston is no
longer BostOnese.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

Another smugger has pleaded guilty in New
York and been fined $4,000 This cuts into
the profits of evadng the customs laws somewhat
but does not punish severely enough. Every per
who deliberately plans to cheat the govern
mcnt ought to be sent to jail
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19

chaplain has been accused of using dyna-
mite. He is probably a clergyman of the new
denomination founded by Lincoln Steffens
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-19
Special InduCement
To Be Sanitary

, The Tonopah Sewer & Drain .
. age company will put the sew .
. er pipe to your property line =
> without charge to you From =
. your property line to within =
, three feet of your connection .
> for Is cents per foot, and the .
. actual cost OF Excavation q
. Phone to Secretary at the .
> Nevada First National bank. =
, or see the General Manager
. a . = . . 80 . . . . ~A>~ .
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-26
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
USES Pure WATER

The Blue Canyon water, upon
which the train crews of the South
ern Pacific company overland route
have thriyed and grown fat, has
been placed in the dining cars over
the entire Southern Pacific system.
1t has been common gossip among
the Southern Pacific trainmen for
years that the Sacramento division
men owe their portly appearances
to drinking of the water from Blue
Canyon.
For all trains on the Sacramento
division running eastward and west
ward, the supply of water will be
taken on the diners as the trains
stop at that station. On the other
division of the system the water
will be transported in special con-
tainers.
In this way the diners on all of
the Southern Pacific dining cars
are to enjoy the best drinking wa
ter to be found in the west. The
Southern Pacific company has had
chemists at work for years endeav-
oring to find the purest water.
In hundreds of places along the
lines has water been found that
could not be eXcelled for drinking
purposes, water free to a large ex-
tent from alkali, but it has been
difficult to find water that was en-
tirely, or nearly entirely, free from
incrustations.
Blue Canyon water comes from
a small lake and spring at the
summit of the Sierra Nevada noun
tains 1t is nearly chemically pure
but the supply is not sufficient for
locomotive use
The Blue Canyon water contains
only forty-seven hundredths of a
grain of alkali, one and seventy-five
hundredths of a grain of incrusting
solids, or total of two and twenty
two hundredths grains of solids to
the gallon. The incrusting solids
are harmful to the engine boilers
if there is any great percentage
of them in the water used in loco
motives, but the water used by the
Southern Pacific engines is careful
ly tested at different times during
the year and if found to contain
any incrustation, chemical com.
pounds are added to nullify the eff.
fects.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-26
WONDER Mines
OF DEATH VALLEY

Probably 200 men are now en-
ployed in the mines in the vicinity
of Rhyolite, Keane, Wonder and
Beatty and there are now several
heavy producers over in and on the
edge of Death valley, according to
J. f. Busch of the firm of Busch
brothers, brokers and mining men
of Goldfeld and Rhyolite, who was
in the city yesterday.
There are four active mines in
the Rhyolite vicinity, and big mar
BILE quarry eight miles south of the
camp. The active properties are
the Keane Wonder, the Chloride
Cliff, the Skiddoo Mines company
and the Bonnie Glare Reduction
company mill north of Rhyolite. The
latter will soon be ready to handle
custom ores, drawing its supply from
Goldfield, Gold Mountain, Horn Sill
yer and Bullfrog districts. 1t is a
brand new mill, fitted specially for
custom service. 1t is the intention
to have it treating ore by July /.
Recently the Chloride Cliff was
sold to a London syndicate. The
price went we'll into the hundreds
of thousands, according to report.
1t is understood that the new blood
will begin extensive developments.
The Keane Wonder is producing
regularly. Since the mill was plac-
ed in commission three years ago,
the mine has furnished a 20-stamp
mill producing $4,000 a month, or
about $1,000 to the stamp.
Keane Wonder ores occur IN grea,
lenses. The remarkable feature
about the property is that it has nc
dumps Everything that is broken
down goes to the mill. A vein
% feet wide averages $11 to the
ton. There is no sorting.
Over in Death valley from the
Keane Wonder. which is on the rim
of the famous man trap, Bob Mont
| gomery is working his SkiddoC
mine. 1t has a production record
now of 100000. 1t is turning
out at present about $4,000 6
month in gold. 1t pipes it's water
% miles.
"The general situation looks
much more encouraging, said Mr.
| Busch yesterday; investors are
more numerous around our part o.
the state and properties are chang
ing hands more frequently than fol-
some time. l believe there are
bright days ahead for the mining
industry. Salt Lake Tribune.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-26
Concordia Club
Wed. Night Dancing Assembly,
Miners Hall, 9 O'Clock. If
CHEAP GREENBACKS.

The Chung Hwa Republic, which
is seeking to overthrow the present
Chinese dynasty, is circulating a
large issue of bank notes to fur
Their the cause of the rebellion. Tom
Ling Sing, the Winnemucca repre-
sentative of the new republic, re-
Gently received several thousand
dollars worth of the issue, in de-
nominations of $40, which he is
selling at so cents on the dollar.
While the new bill is about the
size of the United States $40 certi-
ficate, the predominating color is
red instead of the familiar green
ish hue of the American money.
Silver State.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-26

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