The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-15

T. Hofer and his sons Joe and
Bert are farming the Hofer place OF
12O acres. They have fourteen acres
of potatoes, fifteen acres of grain,
six acres of beets, one acre OF man
gels, strawberries and other fruits,
twenty-five acres Of hay, four acres
of red clover sowed with the grain.
Klein brothers, Mark and Leander
came from Roberts, Idaho this
spring and leased the Grover Kirk
patrick place of forty-five acres
They have twenty acres Of potatoes,
nine of wheat, ten or eleven OF nay,
and some pasture.
G. E. Buckley bought forty acres
of what was the original Aurel1us
Thompson place. He has ten acres
of potatoes, ten of grain, eight OF
hay, three of beets, some peas, and
some everbearing Strawberries and
raspberries. He has some apple
trees and pear trees on the place.
The man who was on the place be-
fore him advised him to pull out the
pear and apple trees because he did
not consider them profitable, but Mr..
Buckley said that he thought that
it would be wrong to take out any
trees that were producing fruit; he
wanted to give them trial.
James Elsbernd bought sixty-four
acres of Rufus Babcock on which
Eskel Eskelson has been living be-
fore he moved to town. He has
twenty acres of potatoes, fifteen
acres of grain, and some hay and
pasture. He reports that there is
some weevil in the alfalfa. Mr..
Elsbernd came from Dakota and
paid 1925 an acre for his land. He
has a good brick house on it and is
doing some grading.
Southeast of Blackfo0t
Harvey Roylance bought five
acres of H. S. Jacobs at the east end
of Judicial street on the east side
of the road that leads to the Black
foot river. He bought it in 1921 for
$4,000. 1t has a good house, a we'll,
and much of it is set to orchard. He
has built chicken house 12x40 feet
in size and shipped in White Leg
horn chickens. He shipped in 200
last year to experiment with and
this year he shipped. in a larger
quantity. He has about $50 adult
chickens that he carried thru the
winter.
James Pendlebury has fifteen
acres and is building a new house
28x36 feet in size. He commenced
excavating for the basement about
the last of May. 1t is to be a frame
house with full basement. Mr..
Pendlebury has raspberries, cur
rants, apples, and other small fruits
on the place and is raising some
potatoes and hay. AL.
Samuel Goodenough has 4.99
acres that he bought for $4,000 with
a good house on it. 1t has some
sand dunes on it and he has consid-
cradle grading in progress.
James Hunter has twenty-five
acres that he bought at different
times at prices ranging from SIS to
500 on acre. 1t needed consider
able grading and he has it nearly all
under irrigation now. He is raising
barley, potatoes, hay and some
truck.
Noise Gagnon has ten acre
farm and has part of it under culti-
walton. Mr.. Gagnon has been suffer-
ing from partial paralysis for the
past five years.
Henry Bollweiler has two acres
south of the asylum. He tried dry
farming west of Aberdeen for
several years and made failure of
it as did nearly everybody else in
that community. 1t is on the high
lands several miles west of Aber-
deem.
T. G. Peterson works at the land
office and has five acre tract south
of the asylum. Mr.. Peterson is one
of the prize winners at the fair for
fruit and garden truck. He COM
mences planting as soon as the snow
goes off in the sprng and works
night and morning at the task, keep
ng everything in fine condition. Last
year he had some products that took
prizes at every fair they were shown
at.
East Of Groveland
James Christensen has fifty-four
acres and is raising ten acres Of po-
tatoes and some hay. About twenty
acres of his place is above the water
for irrigation.
Wallace Lindsay and Farley Lind
say have eighty acres and are rails
ing ten acres of potatoes, forty of
grain, and the rest is in hay and
pasture. The pasture consists of
blue grass, alfalfa, timothy and
other varieties. They are on the
McCarty place northeast Of Grove
land, a farm nearly all set to apples
but did not prove profitable and
most of the trees have been pulled
out. Mr.. McCarty worked num-