Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-06-15
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HAMMETT, June 1.-THE most
conspicuous building in Medbury Val
ley is the new school building which
is nearing completion. 1t is built of
Salt Lake buff brick laid in black
mortar. is two stories high with base
ment and contains four school rooms,
and in addition an assembly room
which will seat 200 people. The build
ing will be heated by furnaces, with |
ventilating system. is wired through
out for electric lights and will be |
thoroughly modern in all particulars.
The assembly room will provide a
meeting place for the settlers in the |
valley and the building will be made
community center Upon the COM
pletion of the building the grounds
wi II be graded and sown to grass
and the entire school block will be
/ fenced and provided with cement
walks. while trees will be planted in
! generous numbers the coming fall,
both on the grounds and around the
block. There is no better arranged
school building in the state, and the
plans. which were drawn by Nisbet
& Paradice of Boise, provide for
making additions which will in the
aggrega cost $4,000. But one
school house will be required in Med
bury valley as the district has adopt
ed the central school system and pu-
pills will be brought to school in large
hacks. And all this has happened In
a new community which is this year
receiving water for irrigation for the
first time.
Red ripe Strawberries are in our
midst this week
New peas and potatoes have been
on the bill of fare in Medbury Val
ley the past week. All home grown.
Medbury irrigators have all the
water they can use this season and
the spillwavs carry the unused bal
ance into Bennett creek. All crops
are looking good
Three hundred lock boxes have
been added to the equipment of the
Hammett postofiice which has been
moved out of the Mercantile Com
nany's store to an adjoining build
ing
! 1t is reported that the Ostrander
e Lumber Co will dispose of its yard
= here to local parties and the two
s yards which have been operated here
= in the past year will be consolidate
Y ed.
= The main power line of the Great
, er ShoshOne & Twin Falls Power Co
has been definitely located one mile
4 north of Hammett, and building will
shortly begin. The line runs to Low
eridge's ferry and thence to Noun
q tain Home on its way to Boise. It is
n expected that the line will be com
q pleted as far as Hammett within the
i next two months and power and lighf
!, will then be available all over Med
v bury valley.
Nlessrs. Stafford Sr. and Henry St
Germain todsv caught the larges
sturgeon which has been drawn on
Of the Snake so far this year. The
4 fish weighed 27O pounds and wai
f. eight feet two inches in length an'
J. measured four and a half feet in di
g. ameter 1T required four hours o
le hard work to land the monster afte
it was hooked. and its captors brough
Is it into Hammett where several pho
n ographs were made of it.
II George Walker. superintendent o
r construction for the Medbury Vale
III Investment Co which is building tei
10 bungalows six store buildings and
III residence. is naturally busy man
y but he ably fills his position, an
work is progressing nicely on tn
III various buildings which will caus
ly Hammett to have the appearance G
al a city before the summer is gone
e There are more buildings under wa
10 in Hammett than in any other tow
MT along the Short Line.
ms The Medbury Valley Mellon Grow
st. ers Association which is now bein
in Incorporated is making preparation
re to market the large crop OF melor
now growing in the valley. Adve
tising matter is being distributed o.
er the territory in which it is propo'
ed to market the melons and war
~ house for sorting and shipping wi
,s be constructed on ground adioinir
the Short Line right of way. The me
IN on crop will mature two weeks lat
than last year and carlot shipmen
- will hardly go forward before II
- first two weeks in August. HOweve
"a every melon section in any WI
80 a competitor has had the same bac
-, ward weather conditions with cons
~ uuent late crops. and Medbury va
- ley will be on the market with
IN melons as early as any melon regio