The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-10-29
Different i'm the Highlands

John Coumerilh, Paradise valley.
about 40 miles east of Blackfoot,
says he has experiment with oats and
rye and the frost gets 1t on both ends
of the season. The frost affects the
bloom so that it does not fill out at
all. Grass grows luxuriantly and
grain grows to straw. All kinds of
stock flourish during the summer sea-
son. Mr.. Coumerilh states that a
large amount of country has been
taken up under the enlarged home
stead law, but that little has been
done in the way of improvements and
farming above Brish creek. Many
entrymen go in and operate in pairs.
Taking 800 acres each, making a
mile square, and then they cut some
quaking aspens and make the small
lest habitat they can get into and
proceed to acquire title without doing
any plowing or farming. They re-
main long enough to comply with the
law, and it is the common belief that
most OF them expect to sell out to
stockmen and quit the country. Mr..
Coumerilh states that the gross rev.
enue of all the stock interests in that
region are estimated at one and
half million dollars yearly, and that
nF %hat Sc nvnnnAn1 in
the adjacent towns along the rail-
road; that stockmen can summer
there and winter on the Snake river
farms and do very we'll, and be
benefit to the country; if they have
to buy all range from the alleged
homeseekers, it will destroy the stock
industry, and the homeseekers will
still not be developing anything for
the reason that those valleys are too
high for agriculture.
Another View Point
R. C. Loomis, who locates settlers
on lands in the Soda Springs country
and for a great distance northward,
says they are settling up all that
country for SO miles north of Soda,
including many valleys as high as
Henry and Paradise valley and the
government dam. He says they raise
wheat oats, barley alfalfa and all
Finds of vegetables without irriga-
hot to Kn1fno
tion that settlers are we'll pleased
with their new homes. He displayed
a long petition for ruarl mail route,
said a new $500 school house is
now under construction and church
nondenominational has just been
completed and dedicated. He says
people are building pretty good
houses and have raised 70 bushels of
barley per acre, and 80 of wheat and
as high as 1870 of oats. He said that
some of the grain had been frost Bit
ten and that this had been a bad
year on account Of the extreme
drouth of the hot part Of summer.
He said many people are plowing,
and that Mr.. Fink, the sheep man Of
the firm of Knollin & Fink, who have
been discouraging settlers until re-
Gently. has tried some grain this year
and got 35 bushels per acre and now
has 275 acres plowed for grain.
Ioomis spoke of somebody Che said
we) have a gasoline gang plow out
fit in operation, four bottoms, break
ing land for next years crops. The
train was pulling out and Mr.. Loomis
hoped on or he might have told us
more that we don't know.
Sheep Man Talks
]. o. Morgan, sheep man of
Blackfoot and Henry, has herds on
the summer range and does little
farming in the Gray's lake country
at an altitude of 6400 feet. He says
he raised 5000 bushels of grain there
this year, including some black fall
oats that he secured at Nephi Utah.
He raised rs bushels from one bushel
of seed. He also secured little seed
of the beardless, hulless pearl bar