The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-10-23
opportunities
peaches, apricots and plums.


Among the smaller fruits grown in this valley, strawber
res do better than any other nowhere in California
this he surpassed An average of Strawberries yield
100 crates each and the land be kept in berries for
from four consecutive years Blackberres raspber
rics gooseberes, and currns WELL and huceberres
grow a wild state.
All varieties of vegetables are grown in the ST. Maries and
ST. Joe district and these rival in richness size and
many of the choicest products of the There ready
market for all kinds of vegetables and the grower put
to the of gang for the annual rainfall furnishes
sufficient moisture
The land when cleared and cultivat
ed ranks with the most productive land in the world limo
thy hay of the principal crops but red clover and other
forage plants yield largely Wheat barley and produce
good crops, and failures unknown.
The mdness dryness Of the climate raising
of poultry very profitable and it is growing very rapidly
Green fods in Abundance all the year. and good price
always be obtained for fouitry and eggs.
With the clearing of the cuover land the ST. Maries
country is destined to be most important factor in the dairy
ing business for in part Of the west is there
liant growth OF grass of the most nutritious varieties The
sheep and cattle industry in its infancy bound to
extensive for nowhere conditions favorable
greater profits possible
Municipal Improvements
St Mares is city of twenty five hundred inhabitants all
enterpsng and firm believers the future destiny Of the city
and ready to cooperate III anything that will aid in
upbudng OF the city They public spirited citizens
evidenced from the fact that last year they erected fine high
school building Of the best in this part of state at
cost of sixty thousand dollars
They also extended the system until the entire
city is furnished with of the systems the
This year street impro cement work has been taken up
and forty blocks Of macadam with
and drains have been built besides mile of side
walks.
The city its water works, it being supplied by
gravity system This put in several years ago while this
only village and the city has out grown it, Plans
being made to extend and enlarge this system
of from seventyve hundred thousand dollars
and this will be done within short time At the present time
the water is being taken from mountain miles
away and pped to the reservoir HILL from which it is dis
bued over the city The present plans contemplate enarg
ing the system to size sufficient to furnish supply water
for city of twenty thousand inhabitants This water
is from clear cold mountain springs and the finest in the
world for domestic purposes.
The plans include better fire protection of the best
that be put in They include the putting new and
larger mains and hydans This part of the alone
is to cost from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars
The public Improvements that being put testify
in strong terms to the faith that the citizens in the
fuure growth and prosperity of the city
Manes reputation for good hard Yankee
SAFE
Only few log-roing politicians kicking against the
war taxes.
usion that the progressive thing do to line up with
real progressve-W Woodrow Wilson.
President Wilson is the most benevoently effectively
busy Of the age He has addressed messages to mine
demanding cessation of hoste The burden on State and
national and the hardship thousands of people have
reached point almost ntolerabe The Bloomington en-
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