The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-10

the disk in the canal with a long
rope extending to team on the end
of the rope, to draw the disk up and
down the canal. When the moss is
cut loose it rises and floats and is
forced in the bitches along the way.
The moss grows two or three feet
long and waves in the current like
a horses name waving in the sun.
Alma Cluss has no potatoes but is
raising an acre of mangels and forty
acres of grain and hundred acres
of hay.
John Carman has 100 acres of
land and is leasing it this year. He
has twenty acres of potatoes, and
has storage for seven or eight hun
dred sacks. There are forty-five
acres of grain and some hay. The
place is being operated by w. A.
Stern.
M. G. Ropp lives northeast of Pin
gree on what was formerly known as
the Peter Graham place and is rails
ing hay and grain.
| Frank Stern has eighty acres Of
land that he is leasing of George
Carman. He has thirty acres of po-
tatoes and storage for three hundred
sacks; twenty-three acres of grain
and twenty acres of hay.
Heber c. G. Rich and three sons
have about 1000 acres of land
bordering the river southeast of Pin
gree and just north of the Ferry
Butte. They have thirteen acres of
potatoes, about two hundred acres
of hay, thirty acres of grain and
considerable pasture land. They
have storage room for about $4,000
sacks of potatoes. They have straw
berries, raspberries, multiplier on
ions, honey bees, bantam corn and
many other things in their garden
and orchard. Their houses are built
on the edge of the bluff overlooking
the timber on the river bottoms. A
large, cold spring comes out at the
foot of the bluff and they have the
milk house built over it and a ram
to elevate the water to the resi-
dences.
William Horton traded his Pin
gree farm to Vest Long for property
III CHO CdChSOA llolO SOuAJlys VII
the Horton farm there are five or
six acres of potatoes and some hay.
Walter Cope is leasing the J. Fl.
Naillon place, has thirty-five acres
of hay, fifteen acres of Grimm alfal-
ia Seed, ten acres of grain. He has
eight acres of potatoes on the Nail
Ion place and twenty acres on the
Horton place. He expects to have
storage room for about 5000 sacks
of potatoes.
A. L. Carlyle lives southeast of
Pingree on an eight-acre farm and
has seven acres of potatoes, fifteen
acres of grain, fifty acres of hay
and has large potato cellar for
storage. Mr.. Carlyle has suffered
considerable loss from not having
water from the canals early enough
in the spring.
| w. O. Bales has eighty acres
southeast of Pingree and has six
acres Of potatoes and storage for all
of them. He has six or seven acres
of beets, forty-five acres of grain
and some hay and pasture. He has
Strawberries, raspberries and some
raise JERSEY hogs and cows.
Henry E. Dockery has 100 acres
southeast of Pingree and has nine
acres Of potatoes, thirty acres OF
hay, forty-five acres of grain, seven
acres of beets. He has storage for
his potato crop. He also has five
acres Of very fine potatoes that he
Is raising for seed; he intends to
have them certified. He has been
grading up and sorting his seed
carefully for four wears, having OBJ
4 tanned his seed originally from For
rest Dale Of Riverside, who raises
superior seed. He has four acres
which he expects to dig and ship
about the middle of August.
/; Ray Moody lives east of Pingree
and has five and one-half acres of
potatoes and no storage. He has
twenty-five acres of grain, ten acres
of hay, eight acres of pasture and A
acres of Grimm alfalfa. He has
forty-two head of sheep on the place
and considers them good invest
ment as they live off of what would
otherwise waste on the place.
G. c. Anderson lives northeast OF
Pingree and has two acres of pota-
toes, two acres of beets, eighteen
acres of hay and some pasture.
i w. F. Hawkins has eight acres OF
u. beets, eight acres of potatoes and
thirty-five acres of hay.
s. e. Beebe has a forty-acre farm
northeast of Pingree and has six
acres of potatoes, seven acres OF
grain, six acres of beets and some
hay. He is going to build storage
cellar for the potatoes.
/ P. B. Dance lives northeast of
Rockford and has thirty acres of
hay, thirty-five acres of wheat,
twelve acres Of potatoes and some
beets. They have planted trees and
fruit and garden a number of times
and had them die for want of water
in the canal early enough in the
spring.
M. Mckinney lives west of Rock
ford and has ten acres of potatoes,