The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-07
Industrial NEWS
IN STATE OF IDAHO
POTATO CROP RECORD BREAKER
THIS YEAR-BOISE TO HAVE
PACKING PLANT


county will be held in Fairfield De
cember 10, 20, and FL.
Peter Mckinney has sold herd o.
lambs, about 1900 in number, to W
D. Oliver of Dillon.
Bernard Eastman of New Ply
mouth is pulling his 135-acre orchard
and having it plowed preparatory tt
putting in fall wheat.
The road running north and south
past the Binford farm at Greenlea1
has been graded for two miles soutt
of the car line, making 1T splendid
highway. =
Superintendent of Schools R. c
Egbers has announced that the joint
teachers institute for Benewah, Bon
ner, Boundary, Kootenai and Sho-
shone counties will not be held prior
to September, 1919.
C. S. Law has broken his record
on Weld of red clover seed in the
neighborhood of Greenleaf, making
2315 pounds on little more than two
and a half acres. 1t brought $816
making $500 an acre.
Crushed rock roads are planned for
Caldwell by the city council. The
present plans are to begin by laying
mile of road in the city with
crushed rock, costing about $4,000, fol-
lowing city administrations to con-
tinue the work.
The formal opening of the NAM
moth milk condensery of the Carna-
ton Milk company, which began OPP
GRAFTON in Nampa some two months
ago. has been set for December 16.
The plant was installed in Nampa at
an approximate cost of $250,0OO.
Manager D. w.. Cole of the Boise
irrigation project has just issued a
statement in which he says that the
United States reclamation service will
definitely postpone delivery of irriga-
ton water to 1000 acres of land IN
the Arena division Of the Boise pro-
The Lapwai highway district has
begun the work on new grade from
the Lapwai valley to the intersection
of the DEMONSTRATING road. The
survey was made by County Engineer
Burns and the road will be built on
7 per cent grade. This will do away
with Soldier canyon grade, which is
considered dangerous.
The Lincoln County Hay Growers
association was formed recently at
Shoshone. with Wilders Veazie as
manager. Mr.. Veazie will devote his
time to the marketing of hay, and
already has orders for large num-
Der of cars. The price to the grower
will be $40 per ton f. o. b. jerome,
the Grading to be made at Jerome by
a state grader. -,
ARRANGEMENTS have been made with
the directors of the Northwest Live
Stock association by the Northwest
Shorthorn Breeders ASSOCIATION TO
have a sale at Lewiston at the i've
stock grounds December IL, Joe
Turner of Meyers Falls, WASH, VIII
be sales manager. Inc Nortn"e:S,II
Hereford Breeders association VIII
also hold a sale at Lewiston december
IS, with L. R. Mccall OF Portland,
Ore, acting as sales manager.
The Idaho Citizens Grazing assocl-
alton was organized recently at Boise
for operating on lands IN eastern
Idaho now being held by the SOFA
Springs Grazing association. Ap,,
10000 acres will be BID
for by the new association, and the
of the $4,000 acres now
held by the Soda Springs association
is to be leased for agricultural pur-
poses to farmers living near 1t.
Boise will start her postwar. ac-
tivities with the erection OF a huge
packing plant by company capt
alized for 100000, which will be
early in the year. The
nlant has been made possible at this
time bv the consolidation of the IN
terests of Herbert Lemp and the
Idaho Packing company, the Davis
Meat company and the Davis estate
interests and the Boise Valley Pack.
no company. with the interests OF
Ernest A Evans, together with con-
siderable outside capital.
One hundred and two potatoes from
2ne hill is the record OF >: +. Ham
nond of Acequia. Of this number
six were large ones, averaging two
pounds each. while large share OF
The remainder were OF marketaple
;ize. few of them being smaller than
/ hens egg. The potatoes were were
yrown on moderately sandy soil. This
las been splendid year for potatoes
n most parts of the state. Digging
8 we'll along and labor difficulties
ave been fairly we'll handled in most
districts.
Since southern Idaho has gone to
he front as potato country, and
IS notato growing has been confined
q the irrigated districts, the problem
# storage has had to be met. Last
year southern Idaho farmers sustain
ID heavy losses because OF the lack
# storage and their inability to Sc
ure transportation when needed.
orofitinr hv that experience the
armers of the Minidoka project got
ogether this year and built storage
.ellars to take care of their surplus
tocks. At Ruper the farmers snh-
;cr;hed very readily t. the plan. IN
lividual shares averaging about 500.
Sufficient funds were secured to build
wo cellars. each 128x32 feet. inside
Measure. At AcAouia a cellar was