Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-23

ing modified for a grand drive next
spring against General Stump and
his thousands of followers, the en-
envy that has so long been entrenched
in our fair land. The Great Northern
railway company will furnish train
load of artillery and various patri-
otto manufacturers will supply the
dynamite and powder required to
hurl destruction into the ranks of
the enemy. The great drive will
be under the direct command of the
Spokane chamber of commerce with
the members of the kootenai Valley
Commercial Club as the supporting
staff. There will be no talk of
peace until Stump and all his CO.
horts are forever driven from the
fertile land they have long held In
subsection.
Translating this effusion into plain
English it means that the Great
Northern railway company, cooperat-
ing with the Spokane chamber of
commerce, will send a demonstration
train through this section next April
fully equipped with powder, ma
chinery and all kinds of stump
remain at Bonners Ferry two
days and an actual demonstration
will be given of the best and cheap
est methods of removing stumps,
using all the known methods and
many different kinds of machinery.
w. p. Romans, travelling SECRETARY
of the Spokane chamber, was in
Bonners Ferry Thursday and Friday
enlisting the support of the local
commercial club. He explained the
plan as outlined above and stated
that efforts were being made to
have each of the different manufac-
turers of stump removing devices
place one of their equipments on the
train with men in charge to give
an actual demonstration of its work.
The local club will select a tract of
stump land near town where the
demonstrations will be made. This
will be divided into as many parcels
as there are methods to be demon
strated and each manufacturer Will
be given an opportunity to show
what his machine or his powder, or
both, can accomplish.
In this demonstration it is planned
to include all kinds of devices, from
a lever to pry out the stumps to the
big. powerful stump pullers, and 10
show the advantages OF using ex-
plosives in connection, with the ma
chinery. There will be a one-man
stump puller, several horsepower
st1mn pullers, a caterpillar engine, a
tractor. machines for drilling and
burning stumps, a homemade trl-
nod stump puller, a stump saving
machine and demonstrations of the
efficiency of different grades OF
blasting powder. There will be from
20 to 25 men in the party, including
fine men who will operate the EQUIP
ment at every demonstration.
The special train will be made
m of a sleeping car, day COACH
boarding car, a commissary car,
. boxcar for the explosives and
tools and several flatcars to carry
the machinery. The towns visited
will nrovide teams and wagons to
move the equipment from the tram
IN the field to be cleared Of stumps.
The land-clearing special will stop
at the following points along the
Great Northern: Eureka, Mont
Apri /; Libby, Mont, April ~;
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, April q;
Standpoint, April %; Newport, Wash.
Anril 25; Elk, Wash, April 2; Deer
Park, April %; Springdale, May l;
Chewelah, May 3; Addy, May D. and
Colville, May I.
At 1880 a. m. on the date an
nounced for each town the equip
ment will be unloaded, from tne
land-clearing special and moved to
the stump land selected Tor the dem
chine will be assigned a tract to
clear and will put in the full day
Getting out the stumps. The powder
crews will have a place of their owl
to work and will break up some
of the stumps for the machines tc
pull out. =,
The noon hour and evening will be
given to conferences with the owners
of cut-over land and discussion OF
the wav to solve the problem OF
clearing land. The schedule allows
one day between demonstrations, tC
assemble the equipment and move
to the next town.
Representatives of the agricultu
raj colleges will give illustrated talks
in regard TO working the soil in Tho
cut-over districts, what crops vii
he most satisfactory and the favor
able conditions for dairying anC
raising live stock. Printed bulletin:
will be distributed that deal witt
soils. crops and land clearing prob
lens. At the meetings there WI
be talks by men of considerable eX
perience in the clearing of cut-ovel
land.
Fl. F. Samuels, who has accom-
plished the clearing of 1900 acres
at Samuels, Idaho, and has trie'
out a number of stump pulling ma
chimes, has promised to accompan!
the demonstration train.
The idea for this movement wa
borrowed from similar work done il
Wisconsin a year or two ago. 4
great impetus was given there b.
one of these trains to the clearini
of stump land, and much new knowl
edge as how best to remove tn
stumps was obtained during the dem
onstrations. 1t is believed that
similar result will be accomplishe'
here.
Back of this movement is the be
lief held by the Spokane chambe