The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-05-10


g along the High Line canal have bee
r repairing leaky fumes in recent year
0 and failing in the attempt to ge
g all of their crops watered when the
: need it. Wooden fumes swell an
3 shrink and leak and give people
s lot of trouble. One Of the fiume
3 was over a mile long and one of then
was both long and high, being 3.
: feet high at the middle of the de
J preston it carried the water across
, Those settlers were short of none.
, like everybody else, but they financ
, ed their needs and rebuilt the three
longest fumes, using zinc in place
!, of lumber for carrying the water
The fumes vary in size from foul
and half feet wide to nine and 6
half feet, and carry as much as five
thousand inches of water. They be-
gan this work last November, and
they worked nearly all winter, com
pleting it recently.
i For the first time in the history
of their project, covering a period OF
twelve or fifteen years, loan compan-
les feel safe in advancing money on
farms under that canal system
Agricultural lands there have turned
from doubtful value to substantial
values, and agriculture is getting on
| it's feet. Last years the farms de-
pended on wooden structures to car
ry water and this year they are de-
pending on zinc.
Spritzer Buys a Farm
J. r. Spritzer of the Bistline I'M
plement company has bought ten
acres formerly belonging to Mrs. L..
P. Nelson, situated on the Rich lane
just east of Blackfoot. The house
Is worth about two thousand dollars,
and there was well but no pump,
and not much other buildings. Mr..
Spritzer paid four thousand dollars
for it, has installed a pump and
plans to make it his permanent
home. Mr.. Spritzer's father, John
T., has been living on dry farm at
Bone, Idaho, and he moved down
recently to join his son in the work
on the farm. He says he has been
living neighbor to Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter j. Smith in the Pole Bridge COM
munity, and Mrs. Smith writes the
news of that locality for the Repub-
lican. He says the people in that
sparsely settled region appreciate
having the news of each others do
ings in the paper, and that Mrs.
Smith had remarked that the pub
Usher had been leaving out some of
the items she had sent in, about the
little visits among themselves and
one homesteader entertaining others
at dinner and the like.
CHATS correct; the hard-hearted
editor asked the office girl to review
the country correspondence and cut
out the small items that were not
considered news according to the
standards of the newspaper frater-
nifty, and here is evidence that news
is news among the homesteaders.)
The former residence of S. J. Rich
east of town has been empty since
last summer, and is now occupied
by R. w. Haws and sons who have
rented the farm of 1875 acres and
are putting it in to hay and grain,
mostly hay. They have been dry
farming at Holbrook, between Malad
and American Falls, and have not
been successful in recent years. The
father and three sons have been
baching here for the past five weeks,
and father Haws left Monday for
Holbrook to bring the rest of his
family.
Rulon Wood is leasing the DeHart
place which now belongs to the
City Bank. 1t is situated
north of the Rich farm and consists
Of forty acres of fine land.
Lester Winchell is living on the
Willeford place, but will move to-
Henry, Idaho, soon, where he has .
1 stock farm on the shores of the 1
AXE. w. H. Gibby and son, David, {
ire farming the Willeford place.
Van Capps has moved house on 1
lis old farm where he burned out !
ng the house remodeled and it will '
oon be ready to occupy. 6
Chesley and Leo Woodland have {
,een farming in Marsh Valley the |
,ast two years, and looking after the I
state of an uncle who died. They {
re now back on their own farms a
dr. Lee who leased the Chesley c
Woodland farm last year has moved e
Jack to Riverside. T
L. A. orion and family came from
oakland, California, last spring, and /
pent the summer near the Black
DOT dam. They have spent the
inter at the w. S. Rich farm about 1
our miles east of town, and are C
easing 1t this summer. They plant h
d twenty acres of beets about the S
enth of April, and have good stand d
beets. r
The Hyde farm and the Gregg t
arm just east of it are without oc- O
upants this year, having been va il
ated by the tenants. a
A. Written Is just completing a t,
ew house on farm about two and e.
half miles northeast of Blackfoot. il
Henry OFT has forty acres above "
lie sugar factory and has it all D
,nced and cross-fenced with woven "
ire so he can turn stock in on any cl
art of the farm. He plans his crops
, that certain tracts will be harvest n
l at about the same time and allow tt
: use in this way without disturb b,
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