Show CANYON COUNTY i The increased demand for labor of all kinds in Canyon county the past I year practically stopped the operations of rockers on the pincer sands of Snake river In this vicinity The large dredgeboats are still working in thee J the-e jcri men lal stage but enough has I been done to demonstrate the certainty that they will prove successful in the I future J The Golden Giant Hydraulic Mining I company under the management of L C Grossman have practically completed com-pleted the changes in their machinery to meet the local conditions and report re-port an average production of 7 per I hour counting all the time in operation opera-tion Their plant is handled by l two men and works very perfectly Williams Wil-liams Bros the pioneers of the dredge boat idea of working the sands of the Snake river are still at work with full confidence that I dividends will tin ally crown their efforts The dredge Is Idle at present The prosperous times of the past year have been shown more In the agricultural I developments of this county than in anything else With I hay In the stack selling at SI 1 to 5050 per ton apples at 2 cents per pound I and prunes SIr to 20 per ton and stock of all kinds at good prices the farmers I of Jnnyon county are expanding in the i way of improving their farms at a rate unheard o before Thirtytwo cars of green prunes were shipped from Cald jrl well alone while Nampa and Payetto each contributed perhaps us much more tills from orchards the oldest of which have been planted about six or seven years The dried product Is probably more than the shipments of green fruit Three hundred cars of stock cattle sheep and horses have been shipped from Caldwcll at prices that were satisfactory to the growers and shippers Among the permanent Improvements during the past year is the CaJdwel Flouring mills with a capacity ca-pacity of seventyfive barrels per day A woolen mill and a beet sugar factory fac-tory are among the things expected in the near future Yours truly II A GRIFFITHS Caldwcl < Ida Nov 16 1809 |