The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

the time of payment of grazing fees a
second time in year, this time TO
december l, came as pleasant sur
prise to hundreds of stockmen and
Sheepmen on the forests of Idaho and
Wyoming recently.
ii. W. L. Neimeyer, secretary of the
Nampa Chamber of Commerce. late
tuesday, rendered his resignation to
the board of directors. 1t was accep-
TED. He will continue to reside In the
junction city and maintain headquar-
tiers for the Idaho State Automobile
association Of which he is manager
Inc construction of a station by the
Short Line Railroad company at
Georgetown, a small town west of
Montpelier, has begun. Railroad Off
Gals have issued instructions for the
construction of shelter station ana
proper freight handling facilities at
futile, station on the Bliss cutoff.
o. W. Worthwine, Boise attorney.
received Tuesday an invitation to adj
dress approximately 10000 FORMER SER
vice men at Torrington, Wyo., who will
be there to register for entries on 215
units of so acres each In the Shoshone
Carey act project in Wyoming. Mr..
Worthwine will be unable to address
the meeting.
While residents of the town of Plains
slont., northwest of Missoula, fought q
lire in the w. B. Russell lumber yard,
believed TO be of incendiary origin, two
unmasked men entered the First State
nank there and escaped with $500 In
currency and $4,000 In Liberty bonds,
according to a telephone message re-
ceived at Missoula.
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Governor Davis received last We'd
nesday an invitation to accept the hon.
orary craftsmanship of the Army and
Navy Club of America for Idaho. Gov
ernor Davis accepted the invitation, &C
cording to announcement from his of.
flee. The invitation was extended by
Brig. Gen. Howard S. Borden, chair !
man of the national committee
c. S. and f. E. Maxwell, operating
the W S. Stewart farm north o. Kim
herly, have completed threshing and
report yield of 1890 bushels of wheat
from 21-acre patch. By bushels the
result from the patch is &C 4-2l bushels
per acre. The farm operators have
sold about 80 per cent of the yield, the
remaining half being stored in bins.
George L. Watt, who lives one and
one-quarter miles east of BuhI, has 1O4
acres of wheat, which averaged ca
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Watt has four
acres out of this field in certified whea-
which produced 7215 bushels TO the
acre. The wheat land was sowed to
alfalfa for five years and two years t.
sugar beets previous to this wheat
crop.
The Wyoming National Forest is do.
ing considerable work this summer re
pairing the roads that were DESTROYED
by the extreme high water this spring.
force of men have been at work for
some time in Swift Greek Canyon and
another force in Dry Creek. Neither
road is pasSable at present. but the re-
ports are that they will soon be ready |
for use
A new record in the number of cars |
handled through the POcatello Short |
Line yards was attained for the 24
hour period ending at midnight Friday, |
1t was announced at the yard office
morning. Two thousand three
and thirty cars were handled
during that time. This number rep
resentS considerable increase over
those of several weeks ago and indi-
Gates that the railroads business is on
the increase
A formation of the mountain north
of the BlacSfoot dam on the Fort Hall
irrigation project is reported in Poca~
tell0]0y members of the Greater Fort
Hall Irrigation association engineering
board. II Is reported that on the side
IF the mountain. about two miles north
IF the Blackfoot reservoir is COM
new lake at the bottom of
'avedin pit. The body of water i
about 10 feet in diameter and approx
nately 14S feet Ia depth.
A move is on foot to interest a num-
'er of the farmers and feeders of the
dah0 Falls section of the valley in the
'uying and feeding of from 10000 to
5000 head of lambs of Dillon. Beaver.
ead county, Montana. The matter
las been taken up with Bonneville
tockmen and feeders and the plan APP
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