Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-06-15
SPRING CAMP JorTINes.
Visitor Impressed With Greatness of
That Country.

The 320-aere enlarged homestead law
Is being rapidly taken advantage of in
all the region lying between the Snake
and Salmon river, and is promoting the
development of that country very
rapidly. The Spring Camp basin on
the Snake river slopes below Boles is
probably the chief beneficiary of that
law, and most of the and is now taken
and being rapidly improved by the
homesteaders. Most of the land is
rough and broken, but each homestead
has anywhere from 80 to 100 acres of
splendid plow land, and this, with the
grazing and adjoining is bound to make
country of small herds of cattle,
swine and sheep. The settlers are
working every hour in building homes
and breaking and fencing land. A tri-
weekly stage now runs three times
week and return from Boles and Spring
Camp postoffice. A school district,
running seven months school is also
new feature, the school being taught
| by Miss Mckinnon in Mrs. Ed Wyatt s
house until a new school district build
ing is erected. The post office is con
Quoted by Mrs. Davidson, on the old
Spring Camp ranch. All the settlers
have few head of live stock and are
thriving and satisfied that they will
'uake a good country out of that hereto
fore isolated region.
Clifford Powell of Spring Camp has
received letter from a cousin, Private
Il. Right, with the End battalion, Cana
dian M. r., now in Belgium, in which he
says: "The Germans have promised
us that there will be no Canadians left
alive after May 9, but | am still alive
and going strong. | thing we have
them pretty well buffaloed now, and it
is only matter of time until | will be
in God S country again. | am at pres.
ent in large dugout waiting to go into
the front line in 2 or 3 days time.
have been up there lot of times and ii
is getting to be quite a habit. This is
just between a hobo and gypsy life, and
it agrees with me pretty well. | don I
know that / will be able to leave Eng
and alone, as the English girls figure
ON going to Canada after the war;
Your correspondent acknowledges q
most cordial and hospitable reception
from many quarters, with invitations
sufficient to hold him until snowfall
had he accepted all of them. To Mr.
and Mrs. w. A. Jones of the "Fly
Blow ranch, Frank taylor and post
master Sallee of Boles, he extends
1 thanks for generous hospitality. The
Fly Blow racnh, by the way, was named
by Frank McGrane in his early COW
boy days. This is one of the finest
tracts of land in that section, ant
which is very playful and fond OF
among its other attractions are III
educated bear, nearly as large as man
wrestling with the boys. The hall
score of imported bulls are wortl
travelling far to see. The range cattle
are fat as butter and look fine.
The lamb crop this spring runs lOt
per cent, and with the present price OF
wool the sheep growers are surely par
ticipating in a period of prosperity
without an equal
There is good deal of talk about
bonding highway districts in this coun
try for the purpose of building a roat
:. via Rocky canyon to a connection will
the Camas prairie roads on the Point
A survey under an order of the count,
commissioners and approved after thu
survey, made two years ago by count,
surveyor Spedden, the route being al
follows: Beginning at the SW corne
| of the NEA or Section 81, TIP. N, X
| East, and running in a westerly direc
tion to the Salmon river at Batty
ferry; thence across said river; thence
down the left bank of said river to tn
mouth of Rice creek; thence in a SN
) direction to the center of Section 4, T. 2
) NJ. r. / w. The length of this road i
3 l4.36 miles, and Mr.. Spedden estimate