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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
SMALL ACREAGE TRACTS.
Runciman-BOwer Out-LOts Are
In Good Demand.

George Runciman of Caldwell was
Richfield visitor this week, to
looking over his land interests here.
He owns the tract of land adjoining
the town on the east, having recent
ly purchased the last of the interest
therein recently owned by Edmund
Blake Mr.. Runciman and " V. Bow.
er, who had a contract to buy the
tract two years ago, have recently
had the land plated into acreage
tracts, under the name of the Runci-
Bower Out-lots to Richfield and
are offering these for sale. Two or
three pieces have been sold here,
to local parties who will build this
year, and there is fine demand
in sight for others. The tract is to
have some improvements in the way
of drainage, streets, and whatever
else is needed to make it attractive.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
National Politics in Ferment
Roosevelt Has Best Republican Chance, Ozark Horse
Second Taft Last Bryan Looks Like Demo
cratic Champion, Though Clark and
Wilson NOminGILy Lead.

if Roosevelt is nominated Because
of their promised bolt. the third and
as yet unnamed candidate has his
chance. 1t is probably a safe haz-
ard that the dark horse has a bet
ter chance to win the nomination,
and a several-tO-one better chance
to win the election, than the presi-
dent
North Dakota contributed the
last sensation before the convention
by sending a solid Roosevelt del
egation LaFollette was second,
No we'll informed political observ-
er will do more than hazard a guess
on the vice-presidency He may be
selected anywher from Main to Cal
ifornia. 1t is altogether likely that
it will be some live man, andnot the
usual rich old party with a long
bank book
In the democratic party, it is
almost neck-and neck between Will
son and Clark, with the Missourian
a possible leader. There has not
been the rancor in the democratic
fight that has marked the republi-
can campaign, and it would be cas-
ier for the supporters of either of
tn ese leading candidates to go over
to the other. But with the demo-
cratic two-thirds rule, the outsider
has the better chance to pick up the
changing vote; and it is probable
that this third man, the outsider at
present, may be named Bryan, and
may be the one and only insider
after about two or three ballots.
There is no other compromise can
didate noww in sight. There are
few indeed who do not concede to
Bryan fine chance to beat Taft at
the polls; he ought to be about a
two-to-cne favorite 1t is probable
that he will get as good a vote as
any other candidate in his party.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
Great Sh0sh0ne for Richfeld
Big POUer Company Buys out Local Plant at ShO-
shOne and NoU Has Business Base Ready to
Extend Electric Line to Richfetd.

long ago, it is believed, if they had
been able to get a foothold in Shc-
shone without sitting the local pow
er plant. So they tried to buy, and
if current report be true,hav at
last succeeded. Now they have a
station within such easy distance of
Richfield that it is quite certain
they will build on up to this point.
and furnish power for Richfield in
unlimited quantity. The company
is selling an enormous output for
winter heating, current that is con
tracted for pumping in the sum-
mer and would otherwise be vast
ed during the winter. To get such
a mower service in here means much
to the community. No statement
has been authorized---but the Re-
corder expects to see a power line
built into Richfield before winter.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
RAILWAY WORKERS.
Finishing Central Idaho Line
Out OF Ricifieid.

A number of men have been set
to work on the Central Idaho con-
struction force---surfacing, building
bridges up on the Prairie, and other
general railroad building activities.
The whole line is to be finished up
as soon as possible. The ground in
some of the deep cuts just beyond
the present terminus at Blaine, is
still soft where the snow drifted so
deep during the winter, and it is
not even yet entirely practicable to
start the track-laying machine. But
the line will soon be opened clear
through, so that freight and passen-
gers from the far end of the Prai-
rie can come and go without wagon
haul.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
Annual Financial Statement
County Auditor of Lincoln County, idaho
For the Fiscal Year Ending April Ist, 1912
Assessed Valuation Of An

Assessed Valuation Of All Property After Equalization
Original Assessessment Rolls ---------
Subsequent Assessment Rolls 1912 -----
Grand Total Valuation ----
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06

He is old he has worked for living,
He has never gone back on a friend,
He has had very little for giving,
He has had very little to spend;
He has never cut up any capers.
He always has lived with his wife.
He seldom is named in the papers
And yet he's contented with life.
He has never bought Holsters and oysters,
He has never bought quarts of cham
pagne.
Nor mixed with the party that ROSTERS,
Nor stayed out at night to raise cam
Why, his years have been totally quiet
And free from all stress and all strife,
He never with red pain ran riot
And yet he's contented with life.
His face has the happiest wrinkles.
Its ruddiness comes from good health;
His eyes have the merriest wrinkles
That are not from fun got by stealth,
His cheek bears a smile-gotten dimple,
He sometimes eats pie with knife,
His tastes are remarkably simple
And yet he's contented with life.
He jumbles his tense and his grammar.
He often says had saw and amt
He speaks of play as a "drammer."
The clothing he wears is quite quaint;
He has led the humdrummest existence
The kind that with dullness is rife
He barely has earned a subsistence.
And yet he's contented with life.
Why. he's on good terms with his neigh
bors.
He doesn't know pictures or books,
He gets small reward from his labors,
He doesn't care much for his looks
Some places they'd say he looked funny.
He doesn't look so TO his wife.)
He thinks YOU can't buy JOY with money
And yet he's contented with life.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
An Eye for Realism.

The new reporter, in his story of
the wedding, wrote: "The floral dis
play stretched from the chancel rail
to the doors of the church"
The city editor, in mild manner,
as is the custom of city editors with
new reporters, sugges ted:
Couldn't yon have used better
word than stretched Say the floral
display nodded, or 'twined,' or some
thing like that--some word more sug-
gestive of flowers"
stretched is all right" replied
the new reporter, with the stubborn
courage of the realist- The decora-
tions consisted of six rubber plants.
and they had to stretch to go the
distance"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06

the I1eutenanJ-govern both as
candidate for the nomination and
as a yote-getter He is a fighting
progressive, one of the type who
is able to place the public interest
far above his own personal preju-
dices, and in case he should
become governor during his term,
the state would be in trustworthy
hands Mr. Dempster is a skilled
parliamentarian, and would be able
to preside over the senate most cap
ably.
all its friends and acquaintance, as
that when the primaries come vote
for Dempster will be voting money
and popular sovereignty right into
their own pockets.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06

1t is learned that the deal has at
last been consummated for the pur-
chase of the Shoshone electric light
and power plant by the Great Sho-
shone-Salmon Falls power combine
ton, and that the property is to be
transferred within a few days. This
deal was under way two years ago,
but until now has net been carried
out. Whether it does or does not
mean the dismantling of the old
power plant on the Little Wood, it
does mean that the Great Shoshone-
Salmon Falls plants, with their en-
tire ultimate possible power devel-
opment of almost 50.000horse pow
err will be connected on to this cir
cult
There is much local interest in
this item of news. The big com
pany would have been into Richfield
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06

My other piece of advice, Copper
Annual income. twenty pounds; an
nual expenditure, nineteen six; result,
happiness Annual income twenty
pounds; annual expenditure. twenty
pounds ought and six: result, misery.
The blossom is blighted. the leaf is
withered. the god of day goes down.
upon the dreary scene and-and. in
am dickens David Copperfield.'
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
FOR LiEUT.-GOvERNOR.
c. w. Dempster Leading Repub-
Iican Candidate.

Chas w Dempster, of Bannock
county, has made public announce
ment of his candidacy for the re-
publican nomination for lieutenant
governor Mr. Dempster, while a
native of this state, was for few
years a citizen of Butte, and served
two terms in the Montana legisla-
ture Returning to Idaho, he has in
the past two or three years made a
good political record here. enough ia
warrant the belief that he will be
an especially strong candidate for
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06
FOR STATE TREASURER.
Boise Man Who VIII Seek the Re-
publican Nomination.

w. D. McReynolds, of Boise, the
chairman of the Ada County central
committee who made the brilliant
and successful fight against the Taft
machine, is announced as a candi-
date for the republican nomination
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06

Walter ("Shorty'') Edwards left
the first of the week for Hill City,
to do some carpenter work. He ex-
poets something like real build
ing boom there this season.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-06

for state treasurer From what the
Recorder has been able to see, he
is going to be a formidable oppo-
nent for any one to beat. He has
had much experience in politics, and
is cne of the few who have gone as
far therein as he has, who can still
be classed as a real man of the peo-
pie Should he secure the nomina-
ton. he will without doubt be elect
ed. and the state will have a most
valuable officer.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
Teddy Still Winning
Pennsylvania Landslide Follows That
of IliinOis---COntests In Doubt.

Since the last Recorder was pub
lished, Roosevelt has duplicated the
sensational victory which gave him
Illinois, and has carried the rock
ribbed republican machine state of
Pennsylvania. He also carried the
state of Maine for good measure.
Roosevelt also claims that on
the present showing of strength, he
can count on close ot one-haIf of
the big New York delegation, which
was uninstructed.
1t can net at all be claimed as
yet that Roosevelt is certain of the
nomination. There are more than
100 delegates whose seats are be-
ing contested On them will depend
the final result Most cf these con
welt side, SO that they are obliged
to make the whole fight, against the
odds of the other party already in
ontrol. 1t may be doubted wheth-
er these contests, however justifi-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18

able, will be considered on their
merits if Taft's forces have suffi
cient strength to dominate at the
time of organizing the convention
If any of these contested delega-
tions are allowed to have a part in
the preliminary organization. the
Roosevelt chances will be seriously
impaired 1t viii take several more
states for Teddy to put him on an
equal footing if these contested del
egations are given place in the or
ganization
Wilson was as successful in Penn
sylyania as Clark was in Illinois.
Sc the two strongest candidates for
the democratic nomination are ever
On chose two states. 1t is quite {.
strange fact that the republican rae
ical wen out in both states by such
enormous majorities, while one rad
ical and cne conservative went in
from the same states to make up
the democratic choice
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
{ Patent for Our Lands
Application to Patent All Idaho Irri-
cation Company Land Filings.

Application has been made for a
government patent to all the lands
under the Idaho Irrigation Compa-
ny's segregations, and the first pub
lication of the notice of such appli-
cation is made in this issue of the
Recorder.
This is not REIMBURSEMENT
of the company ownership or con-
trcl or responsibility for the lands,
but merely the governmental recog-
milton of the fact that under the
terms Of the Carey Act grants the
lands are irrigated and ready to
receive a government patent. AS the
settlers of course have not paid in a
sum sufficient for the company to
dare or to wish to give up control;
the patenting of the lands Is alto
gether apart from that.
II is a pretty nice tribute to the
company, to be able to offer proof
of reclamation at this time While
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18

it was expected that this could have
been done year or two earlier, in
face OF the panic four years ago and
the general iethargy ever since 1t Is
most creditable showing And i
Is backed by the facts There ISM
another water system in the West,
as safe, with SO large a surplus of
water, with better land, drainage,
transportation, or anything that is
worth while in irrigation The gov
ernment can patent this land with
out hesitating over night
Securing of patent will complete
the chain OF title. and the state
can give the land owners their final
title to the lands. The final certi-
ficates based on final proof are ne
gotiable, but until the final patent
is issued by the government no one
can be absolutely certain but wha
a delay might ensue that would be
q temporary cloud on the title
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
WILL BOOST BLAINE.
Richfleld Company Takes Sale of
New Camas Prairie Town

The Idaho Commercial Company,
place is manager, has taken the con-
tract for the sale of the Blaine town.
site, just north of the Malad river
on the entral Idaho railroad. The
old post office of Blaine, which was
on Willow Creek, on the Haley
Soldier wagon road, is to be remov-
ed to the railroad station, 1t is un-
derstocd, and an effort is to be
made to establish a real town at
that point 1t is believed that
great deal CT stock shipping will
be done from Blaine, some of the
business from the forest reserve
that has heretofore gone to HALEY
and Ketchum. The railroad is put
ting in stock yards there, and big
plant is to be estab-
lished near by.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
Reservoir Filling, 2 Feet a Day
Abundant Late Snow Fall to Supply Water for Season.
Never Better Prospect for Irrigation Prosperity

better than hte average. There will
be q very great surplus this year, as
usual, over the total possible needs
of the lands entitled to storage wat
er from this system.
Some idea OF the later SHOWS in
the mountains which form the water
shed for the Big Wood drainage ba-
sin, may be gained from the state
ment that seven feet of new snow
was reported on one of the travel
ed mountain trails after a recent
storm. And there have been sew
eral other snow storms almost as
vigorous. There is still considerable
snow on the Camas Prairie, nearly
two feet on the level at the upper
end of the Malad valley; while in
the mountains there are drifts loo
to 200 feet deep.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
THREE YEARS OLD.
Recorder Has Birthday and Greets
It's Friends.

lIS EGlc0uS.
With this issue the Recorder
closes its third year in this COM
munity. Richfield has grown a lot
in that time-and the country around
has grown a lot more. 1t hasn't
been easy shedding for the Recorder,
any more than for any one else; but
there is fine prospect fer the fu-
ture, and now would be the poorest
time in the world for any one to let
go of his holdings here.
incidentally, the Recorder has a
lot of accounts due and payable long
ago, on which it would like to realiz
at once. We have been so easy on
our own debtors that our obligations
are hard to meet. If it happens to
be one of your accounts to the Re-
corder that is still unpaid, there new
er will be better time than right
now to settle it up, and start the
new year right.
But here's hoping for a prosper
GUS future to everybody, anyway.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18

Manager Dougherty reports
most gratifying increase of business
in the Richfield Hotel during the
two weeks since he assumed charge.
The Richfield has been one of the
most popular of all the fine hotels
in Southern daho, but never was
in way to deserve it more than
under the present management 1t
has been thoroughly renovated, and
a number of attra stiVe new features
introduced that viii make for the
comfort and convenience of guests.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
Name of Hill City City Approved
Postal Department and Railway Officials Approve Name
and Postofice Established

Telegraphic advices from Con-
gressman French at Washington say
that the postoffice department has
approved the name of Hill City for
the town at the terminus of the
Central Idaho railroad; that William
Kendall has been approved as post
master, and that the office is to be
established at once. The railroad
has already accepted the name, and
it's now up to the town builders to
get busy and live up to their pre-
tentious name.
Because there was little post
office elsewhere in the state by the
name OF Prairie, tn apartment re-
fused to accept the first name Of
Prairie City, so a substitute had to
be chosen. The town plat was re-
Gently re-filed under the new name
of Hill ity; the railroad and the
postoffice department have agreed
to it; and now it 5 all plain sailing.
There is foot or more of snow at
that end of the Prairie, which will
have to melt away before much can
be done towards building; but once
the ground clears up, a real boom is
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
Appalling Disaster
The Titanic, Largest Ship Ever Built,
Goes Down, Carrying With It
1901 Persons

The most appalling marine dis
aster OF modern times---possibly the
worst of all time---occurred Sunday
night off the coast. of Newfound-
land, when the steamer Titanic, OF
the White Star line. collided with
an iceberg, and sank within four
hours, with most of her passengers
and crew.
The Titanic, which was the larg-
est snip ever built, was on her first
trip across the Atlantic. She had
1920 passengers and crew of $50.
Among the passengers were scores
of prominent men---Isidor Strauss,
the great merchant and philanthro-
pist; w. T. Stead, editor; F. D.
Millet, the painter; President Hays,
of the Grand Trunk railroad; one
of the Guggenheim brothers, of the
smelter trust; and host of 9TH
ers. The list of those saved, which
Is St11l NOSo AAOS SAAO''
that any of these escaped.
AS soon as the ship struck the
berg. wireless messages were sent
out to reach New York, and to any
vessel that might be within dist
ance to aid. The steamer Carpathia
was near enough to get there be-
tore the lifeboats containing the
survivors had been scattered or in
iured Eight hundred and sixty
eight were picked up in the boats.
A furious thunder storm came up,
md the floating ice and the cold
made it truly a night of horror. 1t
S believed that all the life boats
nc accounted for, and that nc more
survivors will be found.
The water is two miles deep at
he point where the ship went
lown, and there is not one chance
n thousand that any one who
night have been afloat within 100 |
ards when the ship took the final
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18
BASE BALL A LA MODE.
Richfield League Season Opens With
Brilliant Prospects.

The first ball game of the sea-
son was played Sunday afternoon
at the ball park, between the c..
1. boys and the Richfield boys and
resulted in a victory for the locals
by score of 20 to IL,
The game was a warm one from
the time Umpire Herbert called
play ball until the end of the game,
that is it was warm for the umpire.
One thing however, that the game
did do. it demonstrated the fact that
there is some mighty good timber in
Richfield for a winning ball team
and there is no doubt but what
team can be picked out here and
put under the control of a live man
ager they would be genuine cham
pions
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18

+ plunge, bould be able to escape the
suction and remain afloat There
is not the slightest probability that
the last resting place will ever be
discovered
From the meagre details given
by wireless, it is practically certain
that more than 1900 lives were lost
in the ship. 1t is said that the mil
lionaires whe lost their lives owned
property amounting to half a bill
lion dollars. The ship itself was
worth close to 1000. She
was SS2 feet long, 80 feet wide, 9
stories deep, and carried dead load
of $4,000 tons; her displacement
was over 10000 tons. She was fit
ted with electric elevators, tennis
and game court, and was intended
for the highest priced traffic One
suite of rooms was fitted up so
elaborately that s4,25O was demand
ed for its use for single voyage
across the Atlantic. Others were to
bring only a little less A floating
palace was the literal truth.
Little is known of the exact CON
ditions of the accident, save that the
ice was struck in the night, close OF
II o'clock 1t must be assumed that
the ship was making good speed, or
no such accident could have been so
fatal. The whole side
of the ship must have been torn |
away, so that the water-tight col
partment system was entirely de-
One thing is especially noticeable I
in the report of the survivors---the |
list of woman passengers saved is
SO much larger than of the men. 1t
may easily be believed that there
is many a man. now sleeping two
miles beneath the Atlantic, whose
last chivalric regard for woman cost
him his own chance to save him
self
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18

clear to the terminus of the road,
adjoining Hill City; though some ad.
ditional sidings are to be put in at
Hill City. besides the number of
tracks already graded A big stock
yard, 70-foot depot, a roundhouso,
water tank, coal sheds and other
working facilities for railroading are
to be put in as soon as the weather
and the ground will permit
IIiii City and ali of Gainas Prairie
viii be such desirable addition to
the market and general business ad-
vantages Of Richfield, that their fin
ancial value to this community can
not well be overestimated. With
multiplied thousands of people go
ing through Richfield every year,
on their way in and out, and every
one traversing the Richfield tract
for twelve miles---twelve show miles
of crops cf every kind---it must be
a great advertisement that hereto
fore the tract has not known AS
the read builds on westward to
Boise, and is made a main line for
travel, this advertis-
ing value will multiply. In n woay
can the building up of the Camas
Pr; ssii5 II ii
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-04-18

a prize-winning exhibit this fall
If these men do not call on you
first you go in to any of their Of
fices and insist on taking an oath
substantially as follows
Il (giving name) being interest
ed in the welfare of the Richfield
tract, and being willing to do my
share of the necessary work of ad-
vertising this section to the end
that more settlers and more crops
are the shortsts, easiest road to
general prosperity, do hereby prom
Use to give my best efforts to the
raising Of crop of Chere name She
prize crop you will undertake) to
be exhibited at the Richfield Day
exposition. And l promise that
will give the prize crop aforesaid
my very best efforts to make it the
best of its kind in Idaho"
Then get book on culture, take
a sharp spade, fertilizer fork. hoe
and rake and cultivator, get the best
seed proeura hie, leave your cost IN
the house and go to work as if it
were a base ball game and there
were two out on the last inning and
you were at bat with two strikes
and hit meant to score the winning
run. Then you'll raise some stuff
thar will win prizes anywhere.