Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
HOME CROWN STRAW
BERRIES MARKETED
N. B. Matheson Grows Early
Fruit on Slope Farm Near
= Bromwell; Record Log Goes
Through Sawmill.

Emmett, May 14.-The first home
grown strawberries Of the season were
brought to town yesterday by N. b.
Matheson, who grew them on his fine
slope farm about eight miles southwest
of here, near Bramwell. These are
probably the first ripe berries to be
marketed in southern Idaho. The EN-
NETT slope has become famous for it's
fine fruit, berries, grapes. melons, etc.
2650 FEET IN A LOG
The biggest log so far cut into lum-
Der In the great sawmill plant here
went through the mill Tuesday even
ing. The log scaled 1850 feet. 1t was
| 16 feet long. SO inches in diameter at
| the small end and So inches at the big
end. 1t required 20 minutes to saw
| up the log. To cut log Of this size
in the old circular sawmills requires
several hours. Walter Eward is the
sawyer at the big mill who sawed the
| log. He was assisted by Gene Grafton
and J. G. kauble, settlers. The log was
SO big that the settlers could not see the
sawyers signals. M. Staff, night fore
man of the mill, stood on the log deck
and transferred the sawyers signals to
the two settlers. The log was yellow
pine. The tree from which the log
came, a monarch of the forest, stood in
the company's timber belt near Cas-
cade
SHEEP REPLACE MEN
The Boise Payette Lumber company
has solved the problem of weeds that
grow in the sawmill plant here, espe-
cially in the alleys between the i'm
mense piles of lumber. Formerly a
force of men was employed during the
growing season to cut down the weeds.
Now there are so sheep in the plant.
They are permitted to run loose and
they are doing q fine job of keeping
down the weeds. The plant is entirely
enclosed SO the sheep cannot get away.
A CAR OF LUMBER DAILY
There is being delivered to the Mich
igan Idaho Lumber company here an
| average of q carload of lumber daily
from the Hoff e. Brown sawmills at
Payette lake. The Michigan Idaho
company made contract last month
whereby they purchased the years out
put of lumber from Hoff e Browns
two sawmils at the lake. The EN-
NETT company now has a force of IL
men employed here. The force will be
largely increased when the box-mak-
ing season opens up in the near future.
NEW SHOE SHOP
w. II. Durkee has opened a shoe
shop at his residence just south Of the
big mill. Mr. Durkee for so years was
u shoemaker In New England. For
some time he was employed in the
great shoe factory of w. l.. Douglas
in Brockton, Mass. Mr.. Durkee not
| only will do general shoe repairing,
but he will also make new shoes.
TRANSFORM INTO BUNGALOW
Louis Larson has the contract for
remodeling the w. T. Crouch resi-
dence at cost of about $4,000. The
house at present is a cottage. 1t viii
be transformed into modern bunga
low. The roof plan will be changed,
| two new rooms will be added, and a
| full basement will be made and a fur
mace installed.
MoDERNlZiNG BANK
| The Bank of Emmett is installing a
safety deposit box vault in part OF
its present vault. The vault door is
to be removed from it's present loca-
ton and installed on the south side OF
/ the vault. "A Dooth nearby Is pelhs
arranged for use by the banks GUS
toners in examining the contents of
their safety deposit boxes, just the
same as in the cities. The bank will
build in the basement a storage vault
for the storage of the banks papers,
etc. The growth in the business of
this bank indicates the prosperous
conditions existing in the Emmett
country.