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

DllnQ lot years, was at IHc pldCc1
seriously i'll at the time OF our visit
and some of the neighbors were at
the place expecting they might lose
her by death at any time.
Sawmill Charlie is d nelghbor of
Captain Wiley and Mr.. Tindoy. He
has a good house that is well painted
and everything about the place is
very neat and tidy. There is an CID
house that was partly built a number
of years ago and it has v been
, completed.
J. +. Midkiff is a white man leasing
100 acres near the Indian mission
and he is seeding 0 acres of the land
this spring. This is his first year
on the lease.
Billie George is a Shoshone Indian
who came from Boise 80 years ago.
HE has a nice house and a grove OF
trees that he set out 80 years ago.
HE has a nice we'll and pump at his
house. At the time of our visit, on
"a rather chilly day in May, he and
Mrs. George had just taken a bath
lin the canal and after returning they
laughingly admitted that it was a
lpretty cold swim.
Paul Bannock lives near the mis-
sion. He has a well 81 feet deep
and a nice house but he lies in a
tent house.
William Penn has a farm near
Gibson, but he is not doing much
farming this year.
P. B. Robinson is a white man and
lis farming extensively at Gibson. He
married Dorothy Clapp, a former
Blackfoot and Arco- girl and they
have a three-months old baby.
J. F. Latourette is experimenting
1.-THE irrigation in the district extend
ing from Wolverine to the forks of
1.-THE Portneuf and Snake river. There
lare about 10 farms in the district,
rs of this number belong to white
men who are leasing land. He has
a. distance of "a miles to cover.
L S. Simons Is a young white man
engaged in the government service
as ditch rider. He has about IS miles
of canal under his supervision and
has two saddle horses at his place
near Gibson. He rides them turn
about and in that way covers his ter
ritory daily.
Ralph Dixey, a very successful
H.on a.I cfanE mon ID living one
mile south of BlackfOot. He has a
good house ON the place as we'll as
"a fine barn and good orchard. MT
Dixey has some meadow lands or
the Fort Hall bottoms and has sew
eral hundred head of cattle there
Last winter he bought 100 tons Of
hay which he fed his cattle. Among
the cattle he brought up to consume
this hay were two Texas range cows
During the winter these two COWS
went where they wanted to regard
less of fences and they destroyed 6
great deal of bark on the apple trees
They gnawed the body of the trees
and the lower limbs but usually die
not bite clear thru the bark, and HI
thinks that some of the trees will
die as a result of it. Mr.. Dixey has
go or 70 acres in grain and 4 acres
in potatoes at the home ranch. Mr.
Dixey always keeps n of the hes
automobiles that is to be had in the
local market. This year he has al
eight cylinder WHY'S Knight.
:, r. H Alfred has a tractor engine
operating on his lease just west o.
Mr., Dixey's place. The engine anC
) gang pillow weigh about $500 pounds
/. and cost $500. 1t is a Happy
Farmer" tractor and has been work
ing very satisfactorily. 1t ploW'
about six acres per day at a cost o.
about SO or 60 cents for gasoline
!, Mr.. Alfred is the manager of the
J state farm bureau, but his son, Lot
hair, is in charge of the farm. Ht
} has about 1870 acres in crop consist
t ing mostly of wheat, hay and oats
} and Is acres of potatoes.
Lothian Alfred and Oran Clarl
took a trip to the ranch near the
Blackfoot reservoir, recently, ano
they report a great deal of snow in
that part of the country.
!. ] P. Hansen has a lease near the
Blackfoot river and has As acres Of
wheat, 3 of potatoes and 4 or 5 Of
beets.
Herman Warjack is an Indian liv'
ing neighbor to Mr.. Alfred and Mr.
} Hansen. He has 80 acres which is
mostly all in grain. His land is or
the west or lower side of the Alfred
place and we asked If he had any
trouble with Mr.. Allred's waste
water running on his crops and he
said that they had very little trouble
along that line and that Mr.. Alfred
was a good neighbor and a careful
irrigator and that they got alonl
very we'll together.
!. Sam Honena is an Indian who doe
!, not read and his land is situated
, near the butte.
Big Johnson, Joe Johnson ant
,lDave Bigman are prominent Indian
living neal the Blackfoot rive
southwest of town. They do a lit
!, tie farming and are prominent horse
men.
Wallace jerks is a white man VIII.
! moved recently from the Bannocl
l yalJey country to the reservation an,