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

swear in English and he thought it
no use to cuss it in Japanese as 1t
was a Yankee invention.
At the Wesley Lantis farm there
was nobody at home, but Pelkey
Brothers, the carpenters, were doing
some remodeling on the house. Mr..
Lantis is the foreman at The Re-
publican office, where he has been
employed steadily for over eight
years. Mr.. Lantis came from San
Francisco in 1914 to accept job as
linotype operator at $40 week, and
he had enough money to pay his fare
to Blackfoot. When he looked over
the town he did not think much of it
and decided that he would stay only
long enough to lay up hundred
dollars. When he had hundred
dollars sailed down he deciced to
stay till he doubled his capital. In
the meantime he had received a
raise of $3.50 a week and the second
hundred came quicker. When he
had sailed down 5000 he decided
that that was about the quickest
two hundred he had ever made and
the town was looking better to him.
When he had doubled his capital
he made the first payment on a
small farm and thus got into the
real estate game. His salary has
doubled since that and Lantis could
tell to cent how many times he has
doubled his capital. He knows the
local Indians and cowboys and print
ing machinery better than anyone
else and the old town is looking bet
ter to him every year.
Vernon A. Kinney bought forty
acres of James Duckworth lying
about two miles east of Blackfoot,
in 1918, and has built fine house
on it and put in water system. He
has neat garden and everything
looks clean and good about the
place. He has nine acres of potatoes
and the rest in hay and grain.
Joe Mark is a Portuguese, who
has ten acres lying between Lantis
and Kinney. He is living in house
that he says is not much good, but
that he has hopes of building good
one. He says that in 1920 he sold
$500 worth of potatoes from his
farm when they were going at IS He
sold ton of clover seed for $1,000.
Delbert Hodson is on the old Hold
son homestead and is planting
twenty-five acres of potatoes, twenty
acres of grain and has six or seven
acres of pasture.
F. A. Bischoff and James Pendle-
bury are on the old George Parrish
place and have twenty acres of po-
tatoes, twenty of grain, ten of hay,
one and half of onions, two of
corn and between four and five acres
OF asparagus. They supply the
Skaggs chain of stores with aspara-
gus.
Charles and A. E. Merrill have Ala
acres, of land bordering the Black
foot river east of town and have
twenty acres Of potatoes, twenty Of
grain, two of corn and abut five of
hay. They used to operate the Rising
Sun dairy, but the high prices of
everything but milk put them out of
business during the war, or rather,
made it impossible for them to keep
the dairy running when they were
in the army. They built a big barn
eight or ten years ago and on the
gable facing the road it bore the big
sign, Rising Sun Dairy" The
Rising Sun" was in black and the
Dairy" was in some bright color.
and just left the Rising Sum-"
minus the dairy. They have about
twenty head of Duroc Jersey hogs
and thirty or forty pigs. They have
about twenty-five head of young cat
tie and take stock to pasture.
U. s. Water Did Damage
In the year 1921 Uncle Sans
stored water released from the
Blackfoot reservoir for irrigation on
the reservation passed down the
Blackfoot river to the diversion dam
and owing to the choked condition
of the channel, it spread out over
the Merrill farm and crops, so they
report, and drowned out ten acres
of potatoes so they had to replant
them; drowned twenty acres of alf-
alta so that it killed the meadow,
and drowned eight acres of grain.
They appealed to the Indian depart
ment and department of the interior
for damages and received blank
denial of any damage having been
done to them, so Mr.. Merrill says.
They then took the matter up in the
court Of claims, where it is now
pending.
Strip Of Road Needed
There is piece of sand road half
mile long between the August
Hoffer farm on the Rich lane and
the Hodson farm at the east end of
the asylum lane, that is impossible
for cars. The mail route leads over
it and it is hard section for him to
get thru. 1t is not up to the re-
quirements for mail road and peo-
pie on the line say there is every
prospect of losing the mail service
II the road is not surfaced. Farmers
living in the community wishing to