The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-21

Martin Jensen lives one mile cas-
of Shelley and has just completed
six room house with pantry an,
closet. At present he has a cisterl
on the place and is planning to drill
well o He has his new hous,
wired for electric light and every
thing about the place is as neat a
a pin.
Ettrick Miller is building a fou.
room house with a full basement
IN. NJ. Larson has the contract TO,
the brick work. He has been Twin,
in Jefferson county, but is planning
to NOV to Shelley to work at hi.
trade. Mr.. Larson built the Shelley
high school.
j. M. Humphreys, of Shelley, Ii
planting 10 acres of beets, 7 of poD
~itatoes and some grain. He also has
some hay on the place. He has lived
there for IL years and has done well
raising hogs. He recently sold 19
yearling hogs for $3.50. They weigh.
ed $50 pounds each. He says it did
not cost anything to feed them dur.
ing the winter except the hay they
ate and wasted. Mr.. Humphreys has
been keeping some sheep on the
place and is much interested in the
profit. He says in 1915 he bought
four ewes for $45. The coyotes got
three and he raised nine lambs. He
sold one wether at the age of about
eight months that weighed 148
pounds and the rest of the bunch
averaged 1928 pounds. They all to-
lgether brought $56. The wool clip
brought $3.50 and he had the old
stock left plus three eve lambs. He
reinvested the $56 in IL old ewes
and kept them in the pasture during
the summer and fed them hay in
winter. The sheep do not eat much
expensive feed and keep the weeds
down in the fields. They prefer to
Craze along the bitches and do not
run thru the fields much. Mr..
Humphreys moved to that locality
IL years ago with an old team and
wagon, a little household goods and
$3.50. He purchased the farm he
now lives on for $1,000 and has
since refused $4,000 for it. He has
built a fairly good house in the
meantime and made other improve
ments about the place. He has 27
head of cattle as we'll as hogs, horses
and sheep we mentioned. He also
has a good automobile and is out of
debt.
Nelson Miller, of Shelley, is build
ing a four room cottage, 26X40 feet
on his farm 2 " miles south of town.
He has also just compre,ed a small
barn.
Mr.. Patchin bought 40 acres of c..
T. Hiemke, south of Shelley, for
$137 per acre with some improve
ments on the place. He came here
from Iowa.
V. Bateman of Shelley is leasing
some land Of James Christensen.
Ollie Humphreys raised a fine crop
of potatoes last year on land where
he plowed under the alfalfa in June.
S. r. Graham has leased 42O acres
Of land owned by the Briggs invest
ment company. ,
L. ]. Henderson, of Ammon,
lie acres Of the Albert
Walker place at $50 per acre last
fall. 1t had one acre of choice vari-
ETY. of orchard and a six room house
On the place, lots of tumble weeds
and a good many sand hills. He is
planting 80 acres of wheat, Is of
bats, 8 or 10 of potatoes and IA
acres of beets.
Christian Peterson's son, Jens, of
Goshen, is in San Antonio, Texas,
among the men who enlisted from
IDAHO Falls last October. He has
of 27 motor trucks.
James Anderson bought 120 acres
L. c. Peterson on which there is
| house, two small potato cellars,
large potato cellar, a granary
a chicken course. All of the
buildings are in good condition and
he purchase price of the place was
5000. Last year Mr.. Anderson
eased a farm of Bowen Curley on {
Which there was about 10 acres of
liable land. He paid a cash rent ,
# 1915 and sold $4,000 worth of
rops from the place. He had 9 I
cres of potatoes that yielded $4,000, !
Z acres of red clover seed that :
rought him $1,4OO, 20 acres of =
heat Of which he sold 500 worth !
t crop and he had 5000 worth of
ay. He was delighted at making =
D much money and said Mr.. Curley +
also greatly pleased at his share d
nd did not seem to be at all sore II
the small amount he received in .,
'mparison to Mr.. Anderson as that .
as the bargain. o X
H. A. Davis is leasing the Ezra al
lristensen farm north Of Goshen. tt
Q dug a well during the winter to
depth Of 80 feet and large enough
operate a barrel for lifting the HI
ater. b!
b:
Heber Christensen has a Is horse lie
Wer oil pull engine operating on ar
place. 1t takes two men and SD
ey pillow about an acre an hour. 1t an
said that the outfit cost twelve m
fourteen hundred dollar s and CON n,