The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
To TOUR BOISE
VALLEY SEEPED
LANDS TUESDAY
Business Men to Visit
Project to Learn, First
Hand, of Urgent Drain
age Need.

Caldwell business men will see Boise
project lands first hand next Tuesday
when an excursion will tour the pro-
jet. Not only will lands already
seeped be visited but other localities
where the rising water level i'll wells,
Easements and depressons already in
dicates the constantly increasing area
of seepcd lands will be inspected.
Urgent need Of drainage is the mes
sage that the excursionss designed to
bring home r. T. HURT, Commercial
club secretary, T. NJ. McConnaughey
and Grant Ward constitute CONNER
cial club committee OH arrangements.
The excursionists will leave Caldwell
early next Tuesday morning accord
ing to present plans. Every part OF
the propect now requiring drainage
or likely to be seeped in a short time
will be visited.
Inspection of the project is the in
itial step in formulating plans for con
certed action toward definite and al
together satisfactory program looking
toward drainage. Tuesday evening al
the Commercial club meeting consider
able discussion led by Walter and
!, Henry Griffths, on the respective
merits Of the irrigation district-water
users association controversy 60 no.
where in tangible progress toward
solution for the pressing drainage
problem. Proponents of the associa
ton method of project representation
Offered to conduct joint debate in
the near future of the merits OF TINS
controversy. This challenge went un-
. accepted but such discussion may be
/ arranged following the drainage excur-
sion next Tuesday.
] Idaho and eastern Oregon eggs will
no longer be pooled with Oregon eggs
!. in a common Portland pool, accord
ling to an announcement made by
F. Talcott, a member of the board of
directors. who returned last week
from a directors board meeting at
Portland. Mr.. Talcott said that
l. charges made that he was not loya!
IS to the Pacific Cooperative Poultry
1t Producers were false, that the only
d eggs he had ever sold outside the as
ISOLATION since affiliating with it wer
d two crates which he was authorize.
d to ship to Butte, Montana, to get d-
is b ct comparison between Butte
y association prices.
X George F. Durant, local branch
al manager of the association, spoke
lie briefly of the results of the recent
1T pools He cited that members of the
I'd association had consistently received
tn from six to eight cents more per doz,
Id en- for their eggs than had producers
Id who sold their stuff locally. The Butt,
e. market, it was pointed out might bt
n somewhat higher than association
a prices but that any considerable guam
tity dumped on the Butte marke
sh would break that price in the sam
ne way that Boise valley prices have al
n ways been depressed because of al
in versupply of eggs.
us Jess Gowen, secretary of the Ger
III State Poultry show, which will be HEX
eS this year in Caldwell four days, De
~ cember 1922, outlined plans for tina
us exhibit. He said that indications point
ue ed strongly to far better and bigge
'in show than the first one held last yea
u preliminary finance arrangements wer
! recommended to the board of the De
Oh velopment league by Commercial clu
eh members at Tuesdays meeting.
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