The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-28

harrow to the evener, passing 1t
under the harrow rather than on top
Iof it. Mr.. Humister says he does
all his clearing by this method and
he has the proof that it is a success
full method.
Jim Smart is an Indian operating
la good farm and he has everything
about the place very neat and clean.
On the nineteenth of May he was
selling some very fine alfalfa hay at
$35 per ton, spot cash.
J. M Black is a white man who
moved on his place the twenty-1fth
of April and he has built a shack
since that time and put 10 or IL
lacres into crop. Mr.. Black formerly
lived in the Pahsemaroi valley.
G. .,.Rist is a white man who came
lfrom Salt Lake in 1915. He is leas-
ling so acres on the reservation south
of the Stewart school house. He has
built a house "a by 26 feet and has
about 25 acres in crops.
Orval Alfred has Is acres on the
lCharlie Buckskin place south OF
Riverton. He has 80 acres of wheat
5 of potatoes and 2 acres in beets.
Stroll Wright and M. Thompson
have a lease of 60 acres south of
Riverton. They found some ancient
gold mines" on the place which
they will spread on the field as soon
as they get time.
Racehorse is an Indian living
south of Riverton. He said he was
putting in three sacks of wheat and
two sacks of oats.
Pat Tyhee is an Indian who is
farming 81 acres south of Riverton.
Lewis and Frank Truchot are
brothers who are farming 10 acres
between the butte and Fort Hall.
They have only three horses between
them and have not been able to do
much. They have been on the land
about four years and they have lum-
Der on the ground to build a house
for Lewis. Lewis stated he bought
la Jersey COW from a Blackfoot auc-
ton man and paid $50 for her and
was informed that the cow would be
fresh some time in the spring, prob
ably about June. He thinks now
that the COW may be fresh about next
January. Mr.. Truchot thinks some
white men engaged in the auction
business are apt to lie a little. They
lhave 20 hogs, SO chickens, 200 little
chicks and some ducks and geese on
the place.
Jack Hurley is an old Indian who
has been nearly blind for a long
time and Mrs. Wagner, wife of the
minister at the mission has had his
eyes treated and his sight is much
improved.
John Neider. of Blackfoot, bought
40 acres of land west of Fort Hall
from John Pambrum for $65 per
acre. He has a house on the place
and a we'll 48 feet deep, a straw
stable and Is acres of the land is
under cultivation. The land is all
fenced and possesses a water right.
He bought the land for his sons and
they are farming it.
-Johnney Pambrum has built a
house on a piece of land adjoining
what he sold. 1t belongs to his son,
Doolittle. They have a we'll Al feet
deep and are putting in 20 or 25
acres of crops. Mr.. Pambrum is a
half-breed of Scotch-French and Ne2
PIERCE. He took out papers of citi-
zenship some time ago and by that
act acquires the right to buy and sell
property as he wishes and he also
becomes a tax payer.
John D. Pambrm has 20 acres in
crop, he dug a we'll 3S feet deep
on his place 1h miles west of Glib
son. This is his second year on the
place and he is raising wheat, oats
and alfalfa.
Joe Torres has so acres of land
and is blowing and breaking 20
acres. He will have 10 acres OF
grain and 6 acres of potatoes.
Roy Fairbanks is working for P.
B. Robinson this summer. They are
farming 40 acres of which 100
acres is in wheat and IA in potatoes.
Abraham Lincoln has a farm at
Gibson and has 10 acres in alfalfa.
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