Show IN FAIR IDAHO Elmore County Along the Line of the Railroad Mountain Home as the County Seat and Glenns Ferry as be Railroad Center County Officers at Work Elmoro county along tho Oregon Short Line Includes the towns of Glenns Ferrj and Mountain Home Glenns Ferry is the railroad centre while Mountain Home sports the county seat Elmore county is one of the counties created by tho legislature legis-lature of 1SSS and 1SS9 out of Alturas and of which the end is not yet But the energetic ener-getic people of GLEKN3 FERRY now think more railroad division and the stage line to Rocky Bar than anything else The townsite of W M Stockton has been mado perfect and no doubt it is a permanent perma-nent town of Idaho The latest business rustle here is the stage line from Rocky Bar as opposition to the ono to Mountain Home Glenns Ferry is improving some in business and the surrounding sur-rounding country is settling up The roundhouse the railroad freight division and other main line work shows a monthly payroll of some 30000 and this is the week of the pay car Some Boise City sporting gentlemen have opened the rage in sporting circles that game called shooting shoot-ing craps and the boys here did them up Short cards do well just at this time of the month too Faces well known on Camas prairie in Logan county are seen here and they find tbe Ferry a market for some of their garden sass as well as for purchasing pur-chasing goods MOUNTAIN HOME twentyseven miles west of Glenns Ferry is Elmores capital This place is also quite a shipping point Sheep men make it somewhat of a center and on the depot platform this week there aro several hundred hun-dred bales of wool from Elmore taxed sheep The Elmore tax payers are not proud of their courthouse but they are loud in their boast that their warrants command 95 cents from speculators that is what few warrants are for sale but Treasurer Reynolds informs me that all will be redeemed in December County Clerk Wickersham has a nice set of record books tbe sheriff has a splendid jail of the steel case pattern the assessor is out among the propertyholdes and these facts go to prove that Elmore county is selfsupporting a credit to the state and one her people are proud ofW W B GEORGE MOUXTAIS HOME June 24 189L |