Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-16


practical nd true and, the growers
would realize a fair sum for this fruit
that must go to waste as the laws are
now.
PEACHES AND PRuNEs.
Peaches and prunes brought enorm-
Gus prices in this market this season,
five pound basket of prunes selling as
high as Sc cents and rs cents each.
Potatoes are selling from $1.f5 to $500
per bushel in this market and other
vegetables proportionately high.
Another reason l note that the APP
pies growers of Boise valley have no
room for encouragement is that In my
travel through several states from Me-
braska to the Indiana line, Kansas and
Oklahoma 1 have failed to see single
young orchard and the old orchards
all seem to be in failing condition.
consequently in the near future this
country must look to the northwest for
their apples. Buyers from eastern
Arkansas were in the market in St
Louis Tor Idaho apples and two cars
of Harmon & company's apples that
had charge of were sold to go there.
This is evidence that the apple grow
ing section of southern Missouri and
Arkansas cannot supply their home
demands. Messrs Harmon & company
assured me that they would be in the
Boise valley next year and would be
prepared for much wider range of
business and would put up sufficient
storage plants if proper encourage
ment were given them. that the fruit
growers might expect a square deal
and fair prices through them.
LIVING COMES HIGH.
The high cost of living 1 find is
more keeniy felt here than In Boise.
With practically no fruit of any kind.
potatoes and other vegetables scarce
and high, meats equally high, butter,
eggs and poultry scarce and costly.
Camp Funston and Fort Riley are
almost at the gates of this city and
this wonderful cantonment of between
forty and fifty thousand men is busy
place. The camp just now is quar-
antined on account of an epidemic Of
spinal meningitis and measles, but
through the kindness of friends here
had an auto ride through the Dor
ders of this camp and through the
beautiful drives of the fort and wit
messed the scores of massive stone
buildings filled with men in khaki
uniforms, the larger portion being
physicians and officers.
The site Of Camp Funston four
months ago was a bare meadow, to-
day it is a modern city with it's sys-
tenn of sewerage and steam heated
barracks and paved streets, all costing
over 100000, over 5000 men being
employed in building and preparing
the camp to receive the men. And one
never LOOKED upon finer looking or
better behaved lot of men.
These men are all drafted and come
from the farms and best families with
the city business men in evidence
everywhere, college students and lab
oring men all have been called from
their usual avocations and with
earnest look upon their faces betoken
loyalty. bravery and determination
to assist in overthrowing and aveng-
ing the wrongs and awful cruelties
of the German armies. General Wood
Is in command here and Is a great
favorite with both soldier and citi-
zen The men are well cared for and
the most sanitary measures used for
the comfort and health of the SOL
diers.
Cold winter and zero weather Is
upon us now and the bowling winds
make me thing of and wish for the
and friends will perhaps keep me here
and in Oklahoma few months.
r. M. LEHEW.