The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-08-25
IN THE GEM STATE


Fire at Bull destroyed the opera
house and three buildings adjoining.
The contract for building the Ririe
school house in time for the coming !
.erm has been closed.
1t Is estimated that S,2s0,000 bush
els Of winter wheat will be harvest
ed in Idaho this season.
The new -four mill at Bull is near.
Ing completion 1t will have capac-
ity OF 100 barrels day.
A field Of eight acres of clover near
Filler has produced crop that will
yield the owner 5000 an acre.
The first carload of cherries ever
shipped from the Occur d'Alene dis
trict was sent to Minneapolis last
week.
The August forecast for Idaho po
tatoes is 100000 bushels, as com
pared with a production last year Of
/ 100000 bushels.
The first report of a wheat yield
OF S. bushels to the acre reached
Caldwell from the farm Of J. W. Coop
er of the Huston community.
Work on the new six-foot steel
Hume used to carry out the water Of
Cedar creek to irrigate the Rosen-
worth project is nearing completion.
Huckleberries are now ripe on the
low mountains adjacent to Grange
vile, gIu reports received indicate
a larger crop is found on the higher
mountains.
J. D. Nherrall was shoeing colt
at his home north Of Emmett, when
the animal made lunge forward,
throwing Wherrall TO the ground.
breaking his hip.
The report of the threshing opera
tons near Culdesac show the wheat
yields TO average from 35 to 40 bush
els per acre, while barley will aver
age about 70 bushels.
Considerable damage is being done
to currant, gooseberry and berry
bushes by a minute insect known as
the red spider in some orchards IN
Ada and Canyon counties.
For their ranches in Jordan valley,
Fred Palmer and Arthur Dunning
have just purchased 230 head OF
cows and calves, Palmer taking 130
t head and Dunning 100 head.
When the Improvements now be
: ing made by the Electric Investment
! company are complete, Caldwell will
have lighting system second to
, none in the state. it is claimed.
The early apple harvest is now un
der way at Lewiston, and it now
seems probable that three or four
times as many apples will be har
vested this season as last year.
At the November election voter
of Custer county will vote upon {
proposition to issue 800 600 bond;
for the purpose Of building part o.
the state highway and to repair roads
4 in the county.
1 There is a town for sale in Idaho
1t is DeSmet. 1t will be disposed {
\ at public auction to the highest bi
| der. The government owns DeSmet
i 1t is located on the Occur d'Alene In
4 dian reservation.
The state land board has taken IN
II QGI dUNlSChCAl lLlS AOESAAOA VI AOA
4 feiting the contract of the Twin Falls
II Salmon River Land & Irrigation com
pany to irrigate the lands within tn
H Salmon river project
\ A small boy OF Moscow last yea
4 had a garden at the home in tow
4 and sold SIS worth of produce from
y the little plot, indicating what car
be done by intensified gardening
within the city limits.
George A. Day. state land commits
ID sioner under Governor Frank R. Coco
s ing, James H. Brady, James H. Hav
10 ley and Moses Alexander, resigne
{ August Is. Heber G. Hale. register c
v the land department also resigned.
Z In attempting to cross Snake rive
! at the upper ferry at Heise Springs
where the grade down 10 the boat
! quite steep, the driver of big aut'
: mobile from Pocatello drove into tn
= river, but fortunately no one was il
= jured.
n B. F. o'Neil, better and more Il
4 military known in Idaho and th
!. northwest as Barney" O'Neil, hs
come into prominence again becaus
,e Of his appointment as scout executiy
ce in charge of the Boy Scouts in nortl
he ern Idaho
ad The right TO employ laborers o
ID state work longer than eight hour
ve a day will be tested in the courts (
ne Idaho. A controversy over the er
IN ployment OF men on a state highwa
tc in Nez Perez county forms the bas
tc of the suit.
Two roads leading of of the higl
m way system OF Benewah county wi
ri be built into Hepburn park tn
Sc fall One OF the roads will lead I'M
il the reserve from the south, the otht
lis will give an entrance TO the par
re from the west.
nj With a shortage of 20 per cent
&c the hay production of the state tn