The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-08-18
THE CUB SAYS

James Lloyd has 800 acres in Til
den burn, seven miles north of Taber.
He has lived three years on the claim
and Is now 58 years old. MI. Lloyd
had a misfortune that left him for
many years on crutches and last
winter while riding a horse it jammed
him against a post and injured his
lame foot so he has suffered greatly
with 1t this spring and summer. He
is alone in the world and with the
handicap that we mentioned is COM
batting the big job of making a home
in the middle of the desert, where
he has to haul his water seven miles.
Young men who r working for
wages and hesitate about making a
start in the world where adventure
involves some risk, ought not to feel
discouraged when they see a man of
Mr.. Lloyd's age and condition under
taking to make a home in the center
of the Snake river desert.
J. F. Clements had a dry farm two
miles north of Cerro Grande and his
family are living on the claim. He
put out some spring wheat on fall
blowing and it matured but is short.
The grain is plump and we'll filled
and it will just about pay for harvest
ing and threshing, Mr.. Clements
thinks. They inclosed a small tract
with wire for gardening and have
raised good hearty looking vines and
plants of squash, kaffir corn, onions,
cabbages, carrots, turnips and beets.
Before the ground was plowed the
tractor engine was driven across what
is now the garden spot, and the
ground was plowed up and narrowed
and in the spring the garden was
planted. The particular part or strip
where the big wheels Of the tractor
passed over it last fall, before it was
plowed is the part where the plants
are largest. The fact that the ground
had never been broken when the en-
CINE wheels passed over it, brings up
a new problem in soil culture.
H. McAuley has a claim three miles
from Cerro Grande and has been
working on Little Lost river part of
the summer. He has 35 or 40 acres
of land cleared off and they expect
to nut in a crop for next year.
Mrs. c. A. Discher has a dry farm
about five miles northeast of Cerro
Grande and is alone on the desert
with her children. She is doing some
farming on the dry plan. Mr.. Discher
is working in Ogden and she and the
four children are clearing the brush
from the land for the 1917 crop.
Mrs. Ollie Conner moved out from
Missouri last summer with a large
family and took a homestead about
four miles north of Cerro Grande.
She has erected good buildings and
has horses, mules, cows and poultry
on the place. They haul water from
the spring at the big Butte about
seven miles away. The spring went
dry a couple of weeks ago and if it
dry, these settlers will have
to get their water from the Delzer
we'll, by making a long drive around
the lava beds. Mrs. Conner is raising
some garden truck this year on her
newly plowed ground. The reader
will understand that all of these gar
dens that we mention on the desert
are grown without any water and
scarcely any showers. Lettuce,
radishes, onions and early peas have
good returns.
C. e. Edmonson has a claim five
miles northeast Of Cerro Grande and
has a crop failure this year. The
grain was sowed in the spring under
conditions and did not