The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-02-04

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| Man Use not anxious to head in thai
direction just yet, but if he ever does
land up there he is going to say
Mrs. Pierson, please pass some more
OF them there good beans" just like
| he owned the place and at night when
1t is cold and stormy outside he is 60
ing to say with all the assurance pos
sible: Mrs. Pierson, won't you have
hot iron tucked in at my feet to-
night" You bet l will get the beans
and the iron too.
The Hired Man is asked how he
supposes a family can make a living
| on forty-acre salt grass ranch, and
the identical forty-acre ranch was
named. The Hired Man has been on
this ranch and has walked about over
it and has had time to think il all
over. He doesn't believe family can
make living on such a place, and he
doesn't believe that even three fam
lies could make a living on such a
farm no matter what they tried. When
you can't raise an uproar on piece of
land its pretty bad. To tell you what
to do with some of the salt grass land
about Caldwell is more than the Hired
Man can do. Some of these DAYS
some Dutchman will come along and
tell us. Then We will all wonder
what has been the matter with us
However. it seems to the Hired Man
that the best thing we know to do with
It, would be to plant sweet clover in
hills about ten feet apart each way
by putting about twenty seeds to the
hill and make the hill of about a pal-
lon of new soil that you haul in for
the purpose, and then keep it wet. The
sweet clover will doubtless grow and
do well, roofing down good and deep
and lossening up the soil and thus
benefit it. Bees will gather ten dol
lars worth of honey to the acre each
year while the soil is being thus re-
claimed. A preacher told the Hired
Man the other day that all liars are
shut out of the rest promised the
righteous in the hereafter, and a good
many people in this region have said
their lands were not alkali when thew
were nothing else.
Chas. P. Allen of Boise, has been to
see the Hired Man on the subject of
cheaper light and fuel in connection
with the power that is now not being
utilized at Arrowrock and the diver
sion dam below. Sagebrush is soon
going to be a thing of the past in all
the inhabited country in Idaho. From
year to year coal is going to be more
and more in demand, and even if there
could be some way to prevent it going
higher as time passes oar there ought
70 De some way to use electric energy
since we have 1t in stock. If, as it is
claimed, the power equipment can be
built to cover all the lands now COW
cred by the Arrowrock reservoir. for
$1O0,OOO.00. and supply light and heat
10 one thousand homes, it does seem
to the Hired Man that that is the
next move to make. The thousand
homes would be able to stand thirty
dollars a year for the fuel. and this
would bring in 100000 on the in
yestment, which would be IS per cent.
Doubtless it would be an easy matter
to secure one thousand subscribers at
a much better figure than thirty dol
lars per year. Then there are num-
bers of other uses to which the DOW
er can be applied. There seems to
be use Tor an equipment that would
cost million dollars. The next thing
the people hear will be that their
power has been sold to some corpor-
alton or individual who sees the point
The Hired Man>was called down
this week pretty hard owing to a little
squib in his columns week ago
concerning the art of doctorinp. by
manipulating the bones of the human
frame. If there is any one thing that
everybody will have to allow for the
Hired Man it is that he does moi
mean to do harm to a living soul. nor
to a cat nor a dog nor a bird. nor
anything else. He is not out to do |
harm, but all the good he can do until
such an hour as the undertake. has
him in hand. The other day he was in
Boise and felt out of sorts somewhat
md passing from one Office to another
ne noticed a physicians sign above
he door. He went in because he fell
re need of little physical help.
mars the way any sensible man
mould do-if you are sick go to
ioctor' II you want house built, 90
carpenter, il you want a steak,
20 to the butcher; if you want to
now about music, go to a musician.
" Ell, TINS doctor put me on bench
no rubbed me all over; he twisted
ny, arms and legs and lifted my ribs
no turned my liver and squeezed my
angs and nearly broke my neck with
me sudden twist and jerk and took
KIN, kink out OF my spine and then said,
III let you go this time" He didn't
harge me anything and really did
le good