The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

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brothers who have a thousand acre
of land and are improving it. MI
Webb has been nearly an invalid TO
some time and his young wife has re
NAMED on the place, operating tn
drill till she seeded forty acres. Sh'
is doing all she can of her husband
work while he Is in Blackfoot bein,
treated for stomach troubles.
H. A. Fisher lives near the cross
ing of the Taber-Springfield roat
with the Rockford Limited. He an(
the family remained all winter on thu
claim, and he stated that a flock o!
chickens and four cows nearly furn'
ished the living for them. He has
forty acres of winter wheat, about az
much more land broke, and he hopes
to make it $50 by seeding time in
the fall.
Russell B. Wallace and wife came
from Lewiston, Idaho, last fall, and
have 20 acres of barley growing.
w. H. Hubbell has sixty acres OF
spring wheat. He recently installed
a windmill at his well, and it lifts
the water from the 120-foot well,
but it is only a ten-foot wheel and is
hardly strong enough. Last year Mr..
lHubbell was away working most of
the time and Mrs. Hubbell and the
children remained on the claim and
did what work they could.
Gust Hartong has been three years
on his land and has about ninety
three acres under cultivation. He
works as steady as a factory hand,
clearing, breaking and picking up
stones. He is the man who drilled a
we'll, put in a pump and then install
ed a water system with hot and cold
at a cost of $40.
When we say half of the rooms
in the house" we mean the kitchen.
The outfit consists of two barrels
placed on a trestle inside the house,
connected with both the pump and
the water jacket in the range, and
with pipes leading to the sink.
Mr.. Hartong has fifty-five acres of
winter wheat and fifteen acres of
barley. He says that locality has got
to turn out some better crops this
year than it has been doing or he will
kiss it goodbye.
Arthur Sandlin lives a few miles
northwest of Pingree and has forty
acres of spring wheat and barley. He
has a stable built Of %sagebrush laid
solid in a wall three feet thick.
Wallace e. Anderson came from
Utah, in March, 1915, and set
tied about three miles northwest Of
Pingree. He has been engaged in
teaming at Sandy and was anxious to
get out where he could make some
thing besides a mere living. He built
house and barn, saw the wind blow,
the dust fly, and was homesick. He
stuck to the land, was joined by his
kept very busy clearing and
breaking, and has gotten so used to
the quiet of the country that he is
quite happy in the struggle. He has
a we'll sixty-two feet deep, a stone
chicken house, the frame work up for
a machine shed, fifty-five acres of
ten acres Of oats and many
other improvements. He and his
neighbor bought a carload of pine
poles at Trude, Idaho, for 500, and
considered them very cheap and SER
He made quite a modern"
slaughter house by setting up three
as a tripod, with a stone plat
'orm under them, and here he slaugh-
;ers his hogs, using the tripod for the
lerrick and dressing department. For
horse trough at the well he uses an
I'D galvanized iron tank of about
.hirty-gallon capacity, laid horizontal
md the side cut out wide enough for
he horses to drink easily. 1t never
eaks, never bursts from freezing, and
cost but little at it was in the dis
ard. For pig troughs he splits such
tank thru the middle, lengthwise. |
lie warns people against letting small
,igs and young chicks get into them
they are supplied with life
'reservers.
J.. A. Anderson is a relative of w. {
Anderson and came from the same 6
own, Sandy. He participated in the t
purchase of the pine poles, and both I
laces are conducted on pretty much
he same plan. Both put up good t
uildings and everything about their {
laces is neat and clean. j. A. has a r
yell sixty feet deep, a house, stable c
nd granary and some fruit trees. He +
as forty-five acres of wheat, 10 of
ats, five of alfalfa and two of sugar s
eets. I
J. w Lunsford came from Deer t
Mont. in 1916. He was sup
rintendent Of shops for the railroad r
lere and a very good position but C
wanted to get into business for t
He has sixty acres cleared t.
nd has ten acres Of oats and some Q
otatoes and garden. II
w. Atwood came from Spanish
ork, Utah, in 1915. He has seven =