Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-01-26
FORMER TAzEWELL NAN
IS some BEAa HUNTER
Levi Groseclose Brings Bruin
to Earth With % Rifle-Ida-
no Produces Fine Apples
And Other Fruits.
Juliaetta, Ida, Jan. 10.

Juliaetta, Ida, Jan. 10.
Editor the Clinch Valley News:
like to peruse the columns for
Tazewell news, and as quite few of
Tazewell's noble colony have cast their
lots away out here in Idaho, the land
of sunshine, fruits and flowers, where
the sun shines $50 days each year, up
on humid soil that produces, not only
the finest fruits that can be grown by
4 subtropical climate not only peaches
and pears that are second to none,
but our winter apples are pronounced
best on the New York market. There
is Il small cherry orchard in the Lew
iston Valley that produced $50 car
loads, most of which were shipped
to the Klondle. The producers here
were paid SC per pound, and the ship
ments brought $1.00 per barrel They
were the Lambert and Bing varieties.
Nothing unusual to get lunches of
grapes that will weigh from five to
seven pounds each, of tho Alexander
and Petosku varieties. All small
grains do well, wheat in the Poluse
belt, which embraces the Eastern part
of Washington and the northern part
OF Idaho, an area of possibly three
million acres yield more than double
the amount of any corresponding
amount of land elsewhere in the u. S.
One ranch here known as the Alex
Hunter half section i'm 1916 gave an
average of 62 bushels per acre. This
land was anaiyzed by the u. S. pov-
ernment and tested 60 per cent potash
Forty bushels is the smallest average
N this farm in sixteen years. 1t is
farmed by the Hon. C. N. Clark, of
!uliaetta
These table lands or ridges, as they
are called here, are Fix. American,
PotlGch. Big Bear, Texas, and Genes
see ridges. Each plateau has an ele-
vation of about 1900 feet and are tri-
angular in shape, being about 25 miles
IN length, with level area of about
100000 acres each, which is harvested
by the combined harvester, most of
which are manufactured Mt Moscow,
our town of 10000 and the Holt trac-
tor company of Spokane, city of
10000 population. Levi 'ton, our
county seat, is at the limit of naviga-
tion for ocean vessels and is only 700
feet above sea level. So you see this
is very deep canyon.
There is where Lewis and Clark
spent the winter of 1901 on their mis-
sion for the government, now marked
by the western raitway of continental
railways, with population of 28,-
600, and on the west bank is the twin
sister of it, Charleston, of 5000. These
are most central distributing points
OF mining districts of Pierce, Buffa-
10 Hump, Thunder Mountain and the
Seven Devil copper and gold mines.
hIr. editor just remark all you wish
about your alfalfa, but if vour wish
to see fat cattle as far as your eyes
can penetrate, come to Southern Idaho
where we have three million acres um-
der irrigation of Twin Falls Minido-
ka, Payetta, Boise and others, with
1000 miles Of bitches. All this fine
country was saved to the United
States from England by horse
back ride to Washington, d. c. by
Marquis Whitman. whose memory is
marked by the Whitman College ut
Walla Walla. should treat of the
massacre and the mention of Spald-
ing, who printed the first paper and
translated the Bible into the Nezpercc
Indian language, here at old Fort
Lapwa. I shall enter into some Of the
traditions and customs of the NeZ-
perce, Yacoma, Calvils, Spokane and
Cordae Alones tribes later.
Mr.. editor, l think you should rest
your editorial pen while and pay
your many friends visit out here in
the gem of the mountains. | have
fine rifle, 35-45 automatic, which has
made for its owner quite record,
without one cscape-it has sent twen-
ty bear and 33 mowrich to the earth
in the last five years. Mowrich is the
Indian name for deer. We got three
fine ones for Christmas, one which had
10 points on his antler. On September
1st, 1912, was Oil the roundup in the
North Fork range where we usually
range about 100 head on finish for
the market. AS there are small clear
ed spots where bluegrass abounds,
Cleared by early settlers, otherwise
it is dense forest of tamerac and
white pine, towering 300 feet These
plats are connected by net of trails.
On one of these came in contact with
large cinnamon bear. He reared
ready for an attack, yet had only %
special He looked so fat and lazy,
and only about 20 feet away, l resolv-