The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-09-24
F0URTHOF JULYAND
ITS DEVELOPMENT

Fourth CT July ranches win this
year produce maximum crops Of the
oid staples of hay and grain. besides
the first new crop of sunfIowers This
nem crop Is Well matured on the Pal.
nele"ray ranch, where silo has Just
Ceen completed to receive the crop.
olA acres comprise the present har.
vest OF growing gold.
Al the very entrance OF the fertile
Vaiiey and affording an index of its
prooucts stands the model truck farm
OF !. Z. Crook. Mr.. Crook has already
marketed many tons of vegetables
this season but has hardly made a
mark In the total product OF his ranch.
what one ranch can be made to pro-
duce, even though in the hands of a
novice is shown on the place of Allie
Wnte Mr.. White left the grocery
store OF Arthur Greene few years
ago 10 take up farming on this creek.
IL was new business for him except
for his knowledge as boy of Kansas
farming. His friends feared he had
made bad break when he left Sal
mon, but his crops this year have
served to disabuse their minds as TO
any anxiety for him and his growing
family in their new home. where they
are all workers in veritable bee hive
OF industry. The White hay crop
alone this year will amount to upward
OF 200 tons. One thing only Is disap-
pointing to mother and father, and
that is the lack of school facilities in
their new home. The district built a
fine school house not long ago. but,
like a good many other places-both
rural and urban-there is no teacher
to be had at any price. A better
neighborhood in all Lemhi county is
not to be found for the teacher look.
ing for iob
An enterprise of extraordinary i'm,
portance is that of Karl Kriley, who is
laying out and digging high ditch
from upper Fourth of July for his
lands lying over on a bench of Boyle
creek. Next to the Dryer ditch this is
the biggest undertaking in all the
countryside and when completed will
water a good deal of valuable land
frcm the unfailing supply OF Fourth
of July creek.
Theodore Gautier & Son have one oi
the best of the productive farms OF the
valley, and Richard Holmes another
though the latter is rev place as tc
the most of it.
The family of H. N. Benham. whs
recently came to their new home OF
the John Dryer place, is made up o
three children at home and is the
farthest away from any school, thei
ranch being the uppermost on th'
creelA The wagon or automobile roai
ends at this ranch. A good trail eX
tends up the creek and over the diyid'
! into Montana. distance OF ten miles
Two miles beyond the divide are tw'
lakes, which are described as attrac
| tive If they could be made accessible
by motor travel. At the same time tn
ascent is not forbidding but easy u
the water course and very soon, II i
predicted, highway will use Fourtl
of July creek for interstate travel
| There is a saving of twentyfiv
miles in this proposed cutoff in inter
state travel, with the attractive lake
on the way to draw hundreds of tour
lists
One of the enduring testimonials 4
the enterprise of the first settlers o
/ Fourth OF July is the Dryer cana
which stretches around the Benhar
ranches and TO other ranches belo'
for two miles or more. John {. Drye
laid out and constructed this fin
waterway and reclaimed several hur
dred acres of land by its flow.