The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-06-15
IN THE GEM STATE

An Emmett fruit grower expects to
ship 500 crates of strawberries this
season
The Nampa city council has passed
an ordinance permitting the opening
of moving picture houses on Sunday in
Nampa
On July the salaries of a large
number of Idaho postmasters will be
increased because of the growth of
the postoffice receipts.
Petitions to the county commission
ers have been put in circulation in
Caldwell to call special election to
vote on the local option question.
Seven crews of surveyors for the
Idaho Northern are now in the field
and it is said the road will be built up
the Payette into Long valley at once.
w. D. Gar!ock, a prominent real es-
tate man Of Shoshone, was arrested at
Gooding last week and taken to Poca-
tello to answer a charge Of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes.
1t is estimated that 1000 acres are
in crop on the T. =, Falls north side
tract this year. and the completion of
the new railroad to Wendell puts the
tract in touch with the markets.
Fruit is now far enough advanced
in Boise valley and other fruit grow
ing sections of the state to prove con-
clusively to the growers that the
0f hO ri,
damage.
The completion Of the Oregon Short
Line into Wendell on June was the
occasion of a celebration including a
baseball game, races and oratory and
fireworks, in which thousand people
participated
Mrs. Earl Brewer, wife of promi-
nent ranchman who lives near Irwin,
Swan valley, near the Wyoming bor-
der. was struck by lightning and killed
while riding in an open vehicle with
her husband.
The first wool sale in Bannock
county this year was consummated
last week, when William Jackson, rep
resenting a Boston wool buying house,
purchased from Bicknel & Gemmell
their 100000 pound clip for TN cents.
Two thousand cubic feet of water
| per second. or nearly twice as much
as is carried off by the valves, the only
outlet for the water before the spill
way was built. is now passing over the
Mackay dam in the spillway built by
the state.
| Showing the excellent pasture to
be found in that part of the state is
the fact that George V. Leighton
eight miles west of Boise, has a blue
grass pasture of thirty acres, on which
he has pastured 900 head of sheep
for the past five weeks.
Indications are that there will be
fully 10000 more hunting and fishing
licenses granted by the state game
warden's department this year than
last. when 42,742 went out, or mum
Der equivalent to Is per cent of the
total population of the state.
There are seven machine shear,ne
plants in and around Soda Springs
| anu WV Aohu pants. IC uuuCHiue
plants will average twenty-five ma
chimes each, with an aggregate capac
ity of 1880 sheep per day. The
shearing season will last over thirty
days.
Forty-nine cars of ore have left the
Empire Copper cOmpany's mines OF
Mackay for the Garfield smelters neal
Salt Lake during the past four weeks
since the Shay road was put IN opera
ton after the winters tieup on &C
count of the snow on the mountain
side
The health officers made a cleanup
at Pocatello last week, closing w
every restaurant in town, with one
exception They had forty-six cases
in court, and secured about forty-foul
convictions. One case was postponed
and one dismissed because of lack o.
evidence.
Clinton H. Harrison, who since
March. 1909, has been chief of the
special agents of the interior depart
ment in the Idaho field division, has
| lCuOCi GU lCoI6udtiOA, duu uPOA liz
acceptance will retire from the gov
eminent service and take up the prac
tice of law in Boise.
With the building of the Salt Lake
Idaho railroad. on which work alread!
has started. will come greater wealth
to the northwestern part of Utah ant
the southern part of Idaho. Thousand
of acres of land will be reclaimed ant
settlers by the hundreds will flock II
the territory to be opened up
After a spirited debate at the Og
den convention, in which Pocatello
Logan and Salt Lake were evenly
matched for the honor OF entertaining
the United Commercial Travellers
next year, the northern districts o
Montana and Idaho threw their In
huence in favor Of Pocatello. which
secured the prize, the convention 4