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The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20

can grow but from 1 to 3 tons to the
acre, and due to the rains often one
half Of the crop is lost in curing.
Wisconsin farmers are now selling
their meadow and mixed hay for $40
ton and buying alfalfa shipped in
from the west for $24 ton to feed
their dairy cattle. Wheat bran, oats
and barley are the very best Of dairy
feeds nd can be profitably grown on
any Idaho farm"
"The winters are very long and Sc
we're in Wisconsin and Minnesota
which requires large and expensive
stables to KEEP their COWS from freez-
ing to death and their hay from rot
ting. In Idaho COWS will produce
just as much milk when kept in small
inexpensive stables and the hay may
be stacked in front and fed as needed.
This means hundreds Of dollars saved
to the Idaho farmer every year, how
ever, barb wire stables are not the
best for dairy cows"
idaho has the California market
which is now importing form the east
ern dairy states also the export trade
to the orient which is rapidly deveI-
oping. The logical place for Calf
ornia to draw her supply Of dairy
products is the intermountain COM
try and has already resulted in the ].
L. Kraft Cheese Co. interesting the
Idaho farmers in the making Of cheese
"It is also interesting to know that
there has not been bank failure in
the last three years in typical dairy
section, and that few milk stains on
a farmers overalls are much better
basis for credit at the bank than half
dozen wagon loads Of empty milk
cans in the back yard. Also a year
round income from dairy COWS helps
protect the check received from the.
main cash crop on the farm"
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20
ACTIVITIES AT AMERICAN FALLS

From H. L.. Senger, Chief of Con
struction for the Idaho Power Com
pany, has come the following inter.
esting news with respect to the Am.
erican Falls Power Plant development
1--WE are very proud of our camp al
American Falls. When you go by on
the train don't fail to have look. AT
night it's ablaze-the best lighted vii
lage by dam site
"Since the last news issue our ef-
forts have been concentrated in per-
fecting the camp, erecting the con-
struction equipment and completing
the cofferdams.
"Cofferdams as rule are unsightly
structures, temporary in nature, and
to the ordinary person, uninteresting.
To the constructor-engineer in the
field cofferdam is of very vital i'm
portance, for it means that before lie
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20
CENTERVILLE

Mrs. E. S. Dearborn visited with
Mrs. Woodward, Thursday.
Mrs. w. A. Brown and children were
guests at the J. w. Fay home, Thurs
day evening.
Mrs. 1. c. Stone is on the sick list
this week also little Joseph Fay
Mr. and Mrs. Croskery, entertained
the Singing Bee, Thursday evening.
Ice cream and cake was served by
the hostess and all present had a
most enjoyable time.
Little June Brown has been quite
ill, but is now improving nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Dearborn and
daughter, visited at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. I. C. Stone, Saturday even
ing.
Bert Farnworth spent the weekend
at the parental home.
Butch Tressel is home again for
an indefinite visit We are always
glad to see him home and among his
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Farnworth
spent the weekend in Moreland VS.
iting with relatives.
Mrs. ]. H. Augustine and neice Wis
tied with Mrs. E. S. Dearborn Monday
afternoon.
A few men attended the auction
sale in Moreland, Tuesday.
Mrs. E. S. Dearborn spent the day,
Tuesday, assisting Mrs. Mead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown and children
spent Tuesday evening at the ]. w.
Fay home.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20

/ can actually begin the excavation fol
the foundations for the structure he
is to build, the river water must be
removed from within the enclosure he
makes with the cofferdams.
"The building Of cofferdams often
involves the expenditure OF large
sums of money, and, even after the
structure is completed, it remains a
hazard throughout the period that
the service is required. 1t is true that
a cofferdam is an unsightly structure
but, with all it's unsightliness and I'M
gainliness no structure is petted and
humored more than a sogerdam, and
even though it has assumed the qu1es-
cent stage, it exists as an object Oh
continuous suspicion.
"The upstream cofferdam, consist
ing of a timber crib, lined with
boards and filled with sand and grav-
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20

out and accomplishment of the pro-
visions and purposes of the above SEN
fences. For the present this auto
crat is only to have $1,0OO,OOO at his
command but the prospective activ-
tiles of his office would seem to re-
uuire many hundred times that am
cunt. Such a proposed law by its
very absurdity demonstrates some OF
the difficulties of putting into cold
type the state control Of water power"
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20

el was placed In fourteen feet Of wa
tier. 1t seemed for a time that the
first setting could be perfected with
out great deal of trouble, but, after
the water pressure was applied by re-
moving the water within the enclosure
1t was discovered that one end of the
cofferdam crossed over a pocket, or
bowl, in the lava rock, through which
the water found a passageway and
blew hole underneath Materials
such as sand bags, bundles of empty
burlap sacks, willow mats and the
like were piled nearby to meet such
an emergency, and the quick action Of
the men engaged on this work checked
the run of water. It was here that
our foreman, Jack Hurley, consigned
his old bed Of silk blankets, as he
loved to speak of it, to a watery grave
under pressure, so to speak
''The water on the downstream side
is normally twenty-five feet deep and
during the flood period twenty-eight
feet
During the construction period of
the present power plant, in the year
1912, concrete piers were placed and
so arranged with grooves, or chases,
down the sides that large timbers
could be placed between them and the
area to be watered thus enclosed.
"The span between piers is twenty
two feet. The bettermost timber clos
ing this opening with a twenty-five
| foot span and under twenty-five feet
of water is necessarily subjected to a
heavy load The three bottom step
legs are each twenty inches wide by
eighteen inches thick and of coast
| fir. The bottom timber is subjected
to twenty-five tons of uniform load.
The horizonal dimensions of the tim
bers vary to suit the water pressure
which they must resist The three
bottom timbers are twenty inches in
horizonal dimension; the next set Of
three eighteen inches; and the next
three sets, sixteen, fourteen and
twelve respectively.
"a complete set of timbers for one
opening set in position in the step leg
chases sank thirteen feet into the wa
ter Of its own weight, leaving nine feet
Of clear opening beneath. Concrete
weights cast on top of the legs forced
them to the bottom These concrete
weights straddle the top six timbers
like man sitting astride horse.
Each concrete block weighs from ten
to twelve tons.
"The enclosed area is enclosed with
twenty feet of silt placed there during
previous flood water periods To re-
move this silt quickly and cheaply,
water was allowed to pass through a
gate opening, especially constructed, |
in the up stream cofferdam. The wa
ter was then diverted directly into |
this mass of mud After two days |
time ten feet of silt was sluiced out. |
Dynamite and water jets were used |
to loosen the more compact mud IN
derneath, the Water was again applied |
and practically all the mud removed. |
The river was discolored for over a
mile downstream during this process.
"The pumps set for removing the
water from within the downstream
enclosure are now busy.
"Any mud remaining will be sluiced
to point within reach of the eight
inch gravel pump and thus removed.
Within few days rock excavation for
should be under way
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-04-20

WANTED TO RENT-20 to go acre
farm. Crop rent. Close to Blackfoot
with good house. Inquire w. e. Bills
Co. Phone SO.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
WALL STREET BRIEFS.
New Bond Offerings-oply Poor
Statesmen Dropped.

NEW, YORK, October 15.-New Of
ferings of bonds today included $47.-
100000 ten to thirty year 4% per cent
federal land bank bonds at par. and
$6,O0O.000 first mortgage twenty-year 6
per cent gold bonds of the Pillsbury
about 6.45 per cent.
Wall street rumors that great num-
bers of bond statesmen had lost their
positions during the long period of
slackness in the investment market
are only partially true, a canvass of
banks discloses. Bank heads state
they have taken advantage OF the slow
place incompetent statesmen with men
who can produce business. even in
slack periods
The General Electric Company re-
ceived orders totaling $65,483.549 in
the three months ending September 80,
1923, as compared with s5S,914,62O in
the corresponding period last year.
Definite announcement is expected
shortly as to the success of efforts by
American bankers to obtain a sizable
bond issue by the government of Fin
land. The Finnish government has
never borrowed in the American mar
ket and bankers are especially anxious
to obtain the business because il Is un-
derStood most of the proceeds of the
loan would be spent in the country
where it is made.
Stock traders are displaying consid-
cradle interest in the meeting of direc-
tors of the Glen Alden Coal Company
next month. when it is understood the
question of a dividend will be settled
While two dividends have been paid
since the property was segregated
from the Lackawanna railroad, no reg
ular payments have been declared.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

campaign going on in the chain-storo
stocks, based upon the constant in
crease In the business of these COM
panies.
There was nothing new about the
situation in Standard Of Indiana. The
stock simply has a broader market
than most of the other curb oils. and
consequently the natural one to lead
in any general price fuctuation. AT
the high of the day the Indiana
shares were up nearly points from
their low of last week.
Other oils like Standard Of New
York and Humble Oil gained a half
, point or more. Large transactions
occurred in Gulf States Oil Refining
around s. There was also much ac-
tivity in Prairie Oil and Gas be-
tween 168 and les.
Reading rights were in some de-
mand at a fractional advance. Now
that the stockholders have approved
the segregation plan, trading in
these rights will be transferred to
the stock exchange. Other coal
! shares were inactive. Glen Alden
| directors are expected to declare an
| other dividend next month Of either
! $3.50 or 81, but this is not likely to
! be for any stated period
Evening star., 1923-10-15
SEAWEED TABLE DELICACY.
rom the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Guardian.
England is far behind other nations,
especially eastern nations, in appre-
ciating the ncn-animal food that comes
out Of the sea: so the projectors of a
factory to be established at Stromness
for the production of a new patent food
from Seaweed will have a good deal of
prejudice TO overcome. At least eight
British seaweeds make good eating
laver, samphire, dulse, dillisk, sea holly,
eringo and carrageen.
Yet few ordinary households ever
sample any of these delicacies. Sam
phire used formerly to be cried in the
streets of London as crest marine, >
but that cry is no longer heard. Eliza
bethan ancestors seem to have been
fond OF 1t. for 1t is mentioned in King
Lear"
Hangs one that gathers samphire. dreadful
trade.
Shakespeare refers to the fact that
samphire grows on the sides of steep
washed cliffs, where its dark green
patches make a beautiful contrast OF
color with the chalk. OF all seaweeds,
laver appears to be most in demand.
and even laver is rarely seen. exposed
for sale except in Wales.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
FISHERS INDEX SHOWS
RISE IN DOLLARS VALUE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, october 10
The purchasing power of the dollar
last week. computed in pre-war value
cents. increased L of ! per cent over
the previous week. while wholesale
prices were without change, accord
ing to Prof Irving Fishers weekly
index, which is compiled from the
wholesale prices of more than zoo
commodities.
Last weeks prices averaged 157
per cent OF pre-war level The pur-
chasing power of the dollar was
G3 $40 pre-war cents. Crump's index
number was 146
Evening star., 1923-10-15
LABOR SITUATION
MUCH CONFUSED
Sufficient Workers Lacking in
Certain Sections of Coun-
try-0thers Idle. i.
BY J. e. ROYLE.
special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star,
NEW YORK. October 15.-The ques-
tion of unemployment. so pressing two
wears ago, has been succeeded this
year by the question of employment.
which is almost as pressing. In near
~ every section of the country there
are more jobs today for skilled and
unskilIed workers than there are APP
plicants to fill them. The exceptions.
broadly speaking. are in the New Eng
land textile plants. the oil fields, the
tire factories ana i'll the white collar
positions.
Shoe Industry Picking Up.
Employment conditions in New Eng
land have undergone slight improve
ment since Labor day, and while the
closing down of the Amoskeag cotton
mills was severe blow this has been
partly equalized by increased opera
tionS of other textile plants engaged
on different lines of goods. The iron
and steel foundrieS are busy, the cleo
trical Industries fully employed and
the shoe industry, as a whole. Is using
10 per cent more hands than last Sep
tember.
The activity in shoe manufacture is
largely an aftermath of the strike last
July. which left hole i'll production
which manufacturers now are striving
10 HI. Inc fnlSTdllOn Oh IaclOIiSS lipll
Lynn has left surplus of labor there.
however. Jewelry manufacturers are
heavily engaged.
More building Workers Needed.
Building activity is forcing a call
for more workers. both skilled and
unskilled, than can be supplied in
New York. Philadelphia and the mid
die Atlantic states. Demand still eN-
ceeds the supply for skilled factory
workers. Railroads are putting on
more men and road building is alb
sorblng all the pick and shovel men
who apply.
Silk mills have curtailed operations
somewhat but this. it seems assured,
will give way to full-time operation
when adequate supplies of raw mate
Evening star., 1923-10-15

rials arrive from the orient. About
the only idle men are those who have
been employed at work appro.imat-
ing common labor. but carrying q
special name and slightly higher pay
and who are unwilling to step down
again into the ranks of the entirely
unskilled The ship yards are very
quiet and no difficulty is found In
securing an ample supply or skilled
men, but locomotive works. automo-
tories, tool works and clothing plants
are operating steadily with full
crews.
Cotton Pickers Sufficient.
Few able-bodied persons are idle
in the southeast and the industrial
situation there is calmer than at any
time since the war. Migration of
thousands of negroes handicapped the
southern farmers and curtailed cot
ton production. but the crop is be-
ing picked rapidly enough with labor
that remained on the farms.
Continued construction in cities.
towns and rural communities is alb
sorbing all surplus labor as it is re-
leased from the fields. In the skilled
trades there is a disposition to a1-
just differences and many lines OF
industry have voluntarily increased
wage scales recently.
Industrial Boom i'm South.
In New Orleans section practically
every industry is working at or near
capacity. The list includes such large
employers of labor as pine, cypress
and hardwood mills, naval stores pro-
ducers and iron foundries and steel
mills. The most pressing scarcity of
labor III that section is on the farms.
This is due to migration of workers
to the cities, where they are finding
steady work at wages higher than
the farm scale. Road work and build
ing are furnishing employment to
thousands ut high wages.
Big &" have absorbed all the
surplus ~ in Texas and this con-
dition W. continue until after Jan
uary l. The call from the farms has
taken all the idle miners. railroad
shopmen and. surplus building me-
chanlcS as we'll as the men laid off i'll
the packing plants and in the oil in
dustry as a result of the curtailment
of production. Farm workers are at
a premium and farm wages are in
creasiI. : weekly. Texas factories are
running full time with the exception
of the packing plants.
Shortage in Some Linex.
Demands for competent farm help
are pouring into employment bureaus
in st. Louis, especially for corn cut
terS and cotton pickerS.- In the build
ing industry in that section there is
full employment for all artisans and
a marked shortage of plasterers.
bricklayers and unskiiled laborerS.
Road building operations also are
making heavy calls on unskiiled labor
in the middle west. and there is Il
strong demand for railroad workers.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
INCREASE IS SHOWN
IN GRAIN EXPORTS
Department of Commerce Reports
4,875,000 Bushels as Total
for Week.

Grain exports from the United States
last week amounted to 4,875.000 bush :
els. against 3,014 900 exported the week
before.
Figures made public today by the
lowing comparisons between the grain
exports last week and those of the
previous week:
Barley, 7O3. 900 bushels. against 20. 600
bushels; corn, $4,000. against 10000;
oats, $1,000. against $4,000; wheat
100 barrels, against 393. 500 barrels.
Canadian grain exported from Unit
ed States ports last week amounted TO
10000 bushels, against $4,000 BUSH
els the week before.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

especially station, tower and tele-
graph employees.
A slight increase in unemployment
is noticeable in the Chicago territory.
There are more men out of work than
there are jobs, taken as whole. but
decided shortages are apparent in the
steel mills, the building trades and
other lines. Chicago is the center
into which the migratory workers
pour, and the number of these, 1t is
believed, will be readily absorbed by
calls from other sections. There is
rather an alarming number of white
collar workers unemployed in the Chi
cago district.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
SHOWDOWN GROWS
IN TEXTILE MILLS
Cotton Cloth, Denim, Flannel
and Duck Output Cut
Down in New England.
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, October 1.-THE Mas
sachusetts Cotton Mills of Lowell
went on a hree-day-a-week schedule
today, giving further evidence of a
slowing down in the textile industry
in New England. The mills manu-
facture cotton cloth, denims. fiannels
and ducks, and the curtailment is at
tributed to falling off in new busi-
ness. Some textile men are inclined
to believe other mills will reduce pro-
duction. The most apparent weakness
is in ginghams, and the Amoskeag
Company plans to diversity its output
still more, producing handkerchiefs.
curtain materials and imitation silks
Evening star., 1923-10-15
APPLE DEMAND ACTIVE.
Fancy Fruit Brings Good Prices in
New York.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 15. - Fancy
well colored Mcintosh and large
sized greening apples met a moder-
ateIy active demand, while most
other varieties were practically neg
lected. unless of extra fancy quality.
A grade 21a Inch Mcintosh sold from
$3.50 to So per barrel, while green
ings brought from S. to 81. Miscel-
Ianeous varieties ranged from So to
$3.50.
Ounces were in moderate supply
from Western New York sections
Small ounces were practically neg
lected, even at extremely low prices.
Sales ranged from $1.25 to 81 for No.
stock per bushel basket and from
as cents to 81 for No. Is.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
BY WILLIAM F.. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORK, October 15.-Interest
in today's curb dealings was monopo-
lized by three or four individual
stocks. The two leaders were the
newly listed Park & Tilford shares
and Standard Oil of Indiana.
Around 29 Park & TiIford was up
three points from where it had been
selling toward the end of last week
and nearly four points from the price
at which it was brought out Under
the new organization put through in
August 100000 shares, or half the
authorized capital of the company,
was sold through the Schultz inter-
ests at the par of s25. 1t was part
or the deal that the s1,500,000 bank
loans should be liquidated and addi-
tional money provided for more
working capital
No information of an authoritative
sort has come to hand regarding
Park & Tilford earnings under the
new regime. But todays upturn was
set down as part of the general
Evening star., 1923-10-15
FARMERS HOLD COTTON
FOR HIGHER PRICES
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTA, October 15-The last
two weeks have demonstrated that
the old dumping process of selling
cotton is thing of the past Con-
servative business men state that CO.
operative marketing, more economical
farming and other changes in system
have brought about a condition
where supply and demand govern the
price of the raw staple.
Recent declines in price and open
threats OF mills to close down have
failed to dislodge much spot cotton
from holders. The farmer today
knows he owes very little for making
his crop of cotton, that the crop is
short and that he does not have to
sell Immediately. Consequently. he
will not sell until prices reach what
he considers n fair level.
1t is reported here that the large
New England interests which re-
Gently closed their mills ara active
bidders for raw cotton.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
WESTERN UNION GAINS.

NEW YORK, October 15.-Gross
revenues of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company for the nine months
ended September 80 last. partly es-
trasted with s7S.7S3.925 for the cor
responding period of 1922. Deductions
included s13,769.S44 for repairs and
depreciation; s59.46S.269 for other
operating expenses and S1.730,137 for
sc net income me ' Of $1,000 o 5o4 ms against lain 4
s9.4T3,S44 for the first nine months
of 1922
Evening star., 1923-10-15
TREASURY CERTIFICATES.
Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co.,
FRUIT IN BIG DEMAND.

PHILADELPHIA. October I5 (Spe-
cial) The local fruit market is at it's
height Auction sales Of fruit from
Pennsylvania. Delaware. New Jersey
and New York and the Pacific coast
are totaling about 100000 weekly.
Receipts of 400 carloads from Cali
fornia a week are not exceptional.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
INDUSTRIALS,
Washington Stock Exchange.

SALES.
Washington Gas Us '33-s1 900 at zoos,
500 1O0i4.
Chesapeake and Potomac Tel. 5s-s1 600 at
96A. s.. 900 at 96l,.
American Security and Trust Coz at sos.
/ at 305.
Lanston Monotype-10 at 73H.
AFTER CALL.
Capital Traction Company at 100, at
100, 10 at 100. st 100. at 100
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-40 at T0ss
10 at 7ots, so At 7o1a, 90 at 701a. 90 at 70la,
40 at 7017.
Continental Trust Cos at go. at 90.
Money-Can loans, and per cent.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
MOON MOTORS TO MAKE
$4,000 CARS IN 1924

Special Dispatch TO The star.
ST. LOUIS. October l5.-The Moon
Motor Car Company announced to-
day that the 1924 program calls for
the manufacture of $4,000 cars. as
compared with an estimated output
of from $4,000 to $1,000 this year.
Sales for the first eight months total
ed S1,2I2.260 in value. as compared
with s4.000,S64 for the corresponding
months of last year.
Evening star., 1923-10-15
FORD SECURES OPTION
ON LEAD ORE LANDS
Special Dispatch 20 The star.

SPECIAL Dispatch 20 The star.
JOPLIN, October 1.-THE Ford Mo-
tor Company has taken an option on
5000 acres of land containing lead
ore In St Francis and Washington
counties for sl,250,000 and is conduct
Ing diamond drill operations to test
the ore. which Is counted on to sup
ply lead for use in the Ford fac
tories. The option extends to July.
1924.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

Subterranean disturbances in Ha,
waii have caused the surface of tho
Lake of Living Fire Of the Kilauea
volcano to drop coo feet below the
rim.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

WILMINGTON-Diamo State Motors
Co.
HILADELPHIA-Franl< Motor Car Co.
WEST CHESTER-Wood & Taylor.
CHESTER-Counties Motor Co. Inc.
cAMDEN-FrankIin-M McKenna Co. Inc.
Evening star., 1923-10-15

NEW YORK. October 15.-Following
is an official list of bonds and stocks
traded in on the New York Curb Mar
ket today:
Evening star., 1923-10-15

The fire alarm systems of Manhattan
Island. New York, contain over 1900
miles of wire.