The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-09-09
IDAHO STI7Iil NEVIS

second time in Il year. this time TO
December l. came as a pleasant sur
prise 10 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-
ters for the Idaho State Automobile
association of which he is manager.
The construction of station by the
Short Line Railroad company at
Georgetown, small town west of
Montpelier, has begun. Railroad Off
Gals have issued instructions for tho
construction of a shelter station ana
roper freight handling facilities at
tuttle, station on the Bliss cutoff.
o. w. Worthwine, Boise attorneys
received Tuesday an invitation to adj
tiresS approximately 10000 former SER
zee men at Torrington, Wyo., who will
be there to register for entries on 21a
It's of so acres each in the ShoShont
'arey act project in Wyoming. Mr.,
'iorthwine will be unable to address
the meeting
While residents of the town of Plains
Mont, northwest of Missoula, fought a.
fire in the w. B. Russell lumber yard.
believed to be Of incendary origin, two
unmasked men entered the First State.
bank there and escaped with $500 in
currency and $4,000 in Liberty bonds |
according to a telephone message re-
ceiyed at Missoula.
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, ac-'
cording to announcement from his Of
flee. The invitation was extended by
Brig. Gen. Howard S. Borden, chair
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c. s. and H. e. MAXWELL operating
| the w $. Stewart farm north q Kim
berry, have completed threshing and
report yield of 1890 bushels of wheat!
from 21-acre patch. BY bushels the
result from the patch is &C 4-21 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 cast of Bull, has 1O4
acres of wheat, which averaged GO
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Watt has four
acres out of this field in certified wheat
which produced 721A bushels to the
acre The wheat land was sowed to
alfalfa for five years and two years to
sugar beets previous to this wheat
crop.
The Wyoming National Forest is do
; ing considerable work TINS 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 Creek Canyon and
another force in Dry Creek. Neither
. 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 "a
hour period ending at midnight Friday
! it was announced at the yard office
Saturday morning Two thousand three
hundred and thirty cars were handled
during that time. This number rep
resents a considerable increase over
those of several weeks ago and indi
Gates that the railroads business is or
the increase.
A formation Of the mountain north
! of the BlackfoOt dam on the Fort Hal
irrigation project is reported in POca
; tellO by members of the Greater For
Hall Irrigation association engineering
board. It IS reported that on the sid'
II Vi lHe IUOuuLhlll, dDOul lWO HlileS ilVl u
| of the Blackfoot reservoir is com
i paratively new lake at the bottom of {
| caved-n pit. The body Of water Il
! about 70 feet in diameter and approx
| mately 14S feet in depth.
/ A move is on foot to interest mum
| Der of the farmers and feeders of tn
4 Idaho Falls section Of the valley in tn
/ buying and feeding of from 10000 L
Il 10000 head of lambs Of Dillon, Beaver
i head county, Montana. The matte
II has been taken up with Bonneville
stockmen and feeders and the plan ap
II proved. If satisfactory arrangement
II can be made it is altogether probabl
that thousands OF heads Of the lamb
will be shipped from Dillon.