Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-11-27
MAKE HIT IN PORTLAND.
Livestock Journal Tells of Idaho
County Shippers and Stock.

Two well known citizens of Idaho
county--Seth d. Jones jr., and George
Troeh-came in for considerable pro
minence in the columns of the Portland
Livestock Reporter on their recent trip
to Portland and incidentally got by
, with a substantial boost for their home
community which is fast becoming
known as one of the leading live stock
countries in the northwest. The Port
land paper says:
One of the most interesting char.
acters whom the Reporter has ever
met the yards, was Seth ID. Jones
of Grangeville, Idaho, who brought in
his first shipment to this market this
week, consisting of four cars of good
cattle, mostly steers. Mr.. Jones
big stockman in every sense of the
word, as he tips the beam at $50
pounds and is known to be the big
gest cowboy in the world, and saws
he was recently asked if "ridng so
much didn t tend to reduce him. and
he says he told the party it ddn t re-
duce Jones, but usually had that effect
on the horse, for he and the saddle to-
gether weighed 4l0 pounds. The Jones
ranch, up about Whtebird, is well
stocked with cattle, sheep and hogs and
he shipped 5000 hogs in one year to
Seattle and intends to raise porkers on
big scale right along. Mr.. Jones was
known far and wide for his unique
team of horses one with five legs and
one with three-which he drove around
to all the shows, round-ups, etc, but he
has now disposed of them to a Portland
firm He is also known to be the best
natured fellow living. Even his own
wife says it's getting monotonous as
she can't provoke a scrap and get him
mad, and though he struck very
ordinary cattle market this week, it
didn't phase the big fellow, but he
actually spoke pleasantly of the com
mission men and the yards in the face
OF it. Mr.. Jones is stopping at the
Imperial Hotel, the stockmen's head
quarters and only had one complaint to
make; that when he got in the bath tub
he acted as human sponge and there
WASH t any water left to bathe in, but
Phil Metschan is negotiating with a
plumbing concern to build him tub
of heroic dimensions by the time he
comes down with the excursion q. Lew
iston stockmen, who will visit the
Pacific International Show in Decem.
ber. As he intends to keep up with the
Portland market, Mr.. Jones ordered the
official sheet for 1914. His shipment
was handled by Kidwell 4 CasweI.
Troeh Adds Boost.
George Tr0eh came in from Grange
vile, Idaho, with car Of good hogs.
This was his first trip to Portland since
the Lewis Clark Exposition, but he
has sister living here SO he thought
he could kill two birds with one stone
and see her and size up the situation
at the yards at the same time. He has
a good ranch and raises hogs, feeding
them barley and wheat. Mr.. TrOeh
says he has been over lot of this
western country and the Snake river
district but Grangeville is the best
he has struck yet, and his white winter
barley, hybrid wheat and oats have
given the most magnificent yield to the
acre OF any country in the world, and
not just one acre, but 81 acres have all
produced these splendid results. We
added Mr.. Troeh s name to our big list
of Idaho boosters.