Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-02-16
ANOTHER LETTER
FROM BOISE
Representative HuSSman Tells
More About How Laws are
Made-Work of Committees
Most Important.
Boise, Idaho, February 4, IT

0S' ANoAAOS ECOAud H IL
Friend Winner: So near and
yet so far, at least that is the
way it looks to one in Boise,
when thinking of home. The
past week l have received very
little news from Cottonwood, and
what l did get was several days
behind time.
/ noticed in the Lewiston Trib-
une that the prairie line has been
snow bound on one or two occa-
sions. To one living in Boise,
this is real news for there is
nothing here to suggest such a
condition. While it has been
cold here, the thermometer regis
tering 4 below zero, it lasted a
little more than a week. 1t is
generally conceded however,
that this so far has been one of
the severest winters they ever
experienced in Boise. There is a
light skift of snow in protected
places and considerable ice in the
street curbs, but the sidewalks
and streets are generally barren
so that the use Of overshoes can
be dispensed with. This appar-
emily is not news here but in con-
trast with what I hear from
home, and to my own knowledge
of conditions up there, I know it
will be news to you. Roads out
into the country are equally as
good, if not better than in sum-
mer and automobiles galore are
to be seen in town all the time.
This condition of course is due to
the absence of snow, and in
summer there is just as much
absence of rain. No doubt it
gets terribly hot and dusty
here in summer time. The soil
is a sandy, volcanic ash and in
character about the same as that
of Charleston.
l have not had time or the in
clination to acquaint myself with
farming conditions, but the many
and large alfalfa stacks and here
and there a silo, suggests some
thing worth while going out to
see. And before l start home,
if I have to stay a week longer. I
am going out into the country to
see just how they manage to
grow alfalfa that looks so green
and is so fragrant, that really
it seems good enough to eat.
Say, if our farms would produce
such alfalfa and three and four
crops per year of it as they grow
here, low VOW; it's too much
to wish for. Of course, the Sc
cret of fine alfalfa here is the
ideal curing weather during hay
ing time.
Last week l promised some
revelations from the book o f
Moses, but I hardly feel like
tackling SO big a job tonight.
Conditions here, and the duties
of representative are irreconciI-
able to my previous conception of
what constituted a days work of
a representative, provided, of
course, he did his duty. And I'm
sure such is the case with most
of my friends. AS evidence of
this | have only to remind them
of what was generally their last
greeting, II hope you'll have a
good time while in Boise" Well
it's rattling good time we are
having. The first thing a legis-
lator has to do is to re-adjust the
work hours of the day which, of
course, necessitates a re-adjust-
ment of meal time, bed time and
every other fixed routine. In
fact, you can't keep a schedule of
any kind. The House convenes
at ten o'clock in the morning and
the calendar is so long already
that we had an afternoon session
nearly every day last week. Now