The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-01

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such as alfalfa, trees and shrubs.
Then he has little tract across the
road south Of it that formerly had a
large sand knoll on it, The Pendle-
burys have hauled and graded and
got the knoll down to mere frac-
ton of it's former size and as fast
as they got tract fattened out so
they could water it, they turned the
water on and dampened it down and
chucked some seed in the ground
and watered it again. Sometimes
the alfalfa would grow for while
and then strong wind the sand
would blow away and leave the new
stalks and rootlets standing in the
sun to dry up and die. After re-
peated efforts all the fiat parts Of the
tract became coated with sod and
the sand ceased to migrate in the
wind. BY keeping it watered they
get generous crops from it, and it
does not dry out very readily in sun
and wind.
James Hunter bought tract of
twenty-five acres at $75 and $10O an
acre, and he assaulted the sand hills
in the same way and has it nearly all
conquered. Samuel Goodenough
Good enuff) bought his title clear
to 49S acres that you couldn't tell
from a five acre patch before the
wind blew, but now it has become
complicated, and we will tell you
about it. The tract had house and
a we'll and some fences and there
was water right and at times,
there were bitches we'll and good.
Sam paid $500 for it and became
ambitious to level it all down and
put it under cultivation. He had
money coming due from our Uncle
Samuel that would be ample to en-
able him to grade and improve the
place, and he cleared off some sage
brush that remained and plowed the
surface ready to commence grading
as soon as he got his money to buy
tools and to hire help.
Sam was not familiar with sand
and wind and he did not know all
that it might do. The wind got busy
and blew all of Pendlebury's hill
across the road and filled up T. D.
Browns ditch that lay across Good
enough's land. 1t took some of
Grosebeck's ditch and it used some
of it to batter and bruise T. G. Peter
sons tender garden stuff and to-
spread deep on part of it. The
same wind took some of Peterson's
sand away and left his plants up in
the air and it took some of his gar
den seeds out and placed them some
where up the country. Frank Kohler
had hill that he was ambitious to
grade down, and he unthoughtedly
plowed it up SO the wind could get
at it, and portion of it blew along
and filled up the Little Butte canal
so nobody could get any water thru
it. The management went to
Kohler and told him to get his old
sand out of there and he told them
to take it out themselves if they
wanted it out. They got some teams
and started to scrape it out, and
were dumping it on the leeside of
the canal SO it would not blow back
in again. but the next man, Voll-
weller or his landlord, objected to
accepting it. He told them they
could not hand him any real estate
in that way, so they scraped it out
on the windward side ready to blow
back in again. They blame Kohler
for stirring up the ground so it could
blow, but he was new at the valley
of the moon and raised the dickens
before he knew what would be the
results. " !.
Neighborhood reports have it that
Mr. Peterson wired Mr.. Goodenough
to come and take back his sand, get
it off of his meadow and keep it at
home, but the report has not been
confirmed at this writing. 1t is also
reported that Mr.. Brown went up
the ditch and found it drifted full
of Pendlebury sand from that hill
we told you about. 1t was Pendle-
bury's sand, but Goodenough had it
in his possession and Brown had it
in his ditch. Brown was puzzled.
His ditch was down under there, but
he couldn't use it. Pendlebury
would probably have been glad if
the whole hill had blown away, and
it is not to be expected that he would
come over and take it back. If it
had been Pendlebury's COW he would
have been premited to repossess or
whatever they call it; Goodenough
was in full and undisputed possess
sion and without any effort on his
part it remained and stayed put. If
it had been cows, this man Sam
Goodenough would probably have
put them out in the road, but as it
was real estate he did nothing about
1t. Brown seemed to be the only
one who was worrying, and he re-
moved it from his ditch, and placed
it on the only adjacent territory,
which was Sans garden, so the re-
port runs. 1t made big bank and
when Sam came and saw it the shoe
was on the other foot, so-to-speak.
Brown had dispossessed insofar as
the ditch was concerned, and Sam
had the sand on his land and
Pendlebury was not worrying,
neither was Brown. Sam told
Brown to take it off Of his garden,
and Brown is said to have claimed
the right to dumping ground.
Other Complications
Sam could not very we'll make
Brown and Pendlebury take the
sand away, for if he did, the joke
might soon be on the other foot.