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Show 3N GEM STATE Tho Htato fish and gnmo department recently distributed 1 1.T.000 trout fry In Oneida county from the stale iiiitchery at Hay Spur. Cantaloupe raising Is an Important industry in-dustry in the sou thorn part of the slate. F. II. Laird, a prominent rancher of King I 111, will soon begin lo harvest the crop from Mvo acres. Rono Fork is lo Iiavo a new school-housc school-housc of most modern lypc for tho district. dis-trict. The Increase iu population in the reservation town necessitates the construction con-struction of thl building A report on the barley crop In Nez Pcrco county places the yield at slxly-II slxly-II vo bushels to the acre around Vollmcr and the nstlmnto on winter wheat at from Ihlrty-tlvc lo forty bushels. The Juno building iccord for Bolso showed an increase over May of over S200.0nn, tho total amount, being 'iJS.-72ft. 'iJS.-72ft. The record for tho year will eclipse all other years in the history ot the city. Pry farming at Soldier has been put lo a sevoro test thin seuaon, thcro having been no rain since early spring, but In spite of this grain Is looking fine ami better, and on average crop seems certain. cer-tain. The League of Commercial clubs of tho Upper .Snake River valley will be guests of the I'ocatcllo Commercial club on Thursday nc.vt. the 2Sth Inst. liuslncss intcrcsls of this section of tho state will be dlscussod. fi. M. Kennedy, near Rlackfoot. cut his first crop of alfalfa this year Juno IS, and commenced cutting hla second crop thirty days later, or July IS. He expects ex-pects to cut his third crop August IS, nnd may cut a fourth crop this year. Tho fruitgrowers of Lewlston and the Snake river section havo been granted a concession from tho Faclflc Fruit F.x-presa F.x-presa Refrigerator Car company, which provides dor tho cleminiation of a 510 xtra charge per car and saves ?3000 for the growers on tho season. The Castle Butte project on the Snako river. In Ada county, hno closed a contract con-tract with James Lynch & Co. of Salt Lake for constructing of tho power house and dam, tho same to be completed In five months. The regular Curcy act drawing of lands under tho project will be held Tuesday, July 25. at Castle Butte, when assurance Is had that every acre of the 17,000 will be taken. Thomas Arglll, ranch foreman for H. O. Ilarkncss nt McCammon. who was struck by lightning and terribly burned while driving a bender. Is reported to be improving, and the belief is expressed that he will come out all right. The bolt struck him over the loft car, passed across his chest into his right arm, with which lie held the lever of the machine he was driving. Reports from various parts of Bear Lake county are to the effect that the wheat crop is turning out to be better than had been expected. In most cases tho yield Is about half what it would be with abundant water, and a considerable quantity will produce more than this. The feeling among the farmers Is much more hopeful than It. wa.s beforo harvesting har-vesting began, as many of them feared tho arid land crop would be a complete failure. There Is some hay in the Camas Prairie county. Hero Is the way the Camas "!!! xx d !! o d alfalfa a ! I ! ! . Cut out Ihc above Pralrlo Courier speaks of the crop: lines, paste them on a phonograph record and turn the machine loose. You will thus be able to hear Herb Carpenter Car-penter tell about tho bumper crop of alfalfa he is putting up which, by the way. Herb says is tlie best stand ever cut on his ranch,!' Moro alfalfa and leas grain and potatoes, po-tatoes, according to reports from the Twin Falls tract, characterize the changed conditions there this year ns compared with the season of J HOD. While reports rrom nil over tlie country snow that tho drought, is ruining the spud crop, the Twin Falls potatoes seem to be In a flourishing condition and Indications Indica-tions aro that tho yield will be far in excess of 1909 and the quality superior to any grown heretofore. Some of the finest fields of winter wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and alfalfa are to be found on Richfield tracts, and the capital Invested in substantial houses, barns and other farm buildings, and tho high class of livestock owned by the set Hers certainly give evidence of the faith and never tiring energy of the settlers set-tlers on this project. Spring wheat will yield front thirty to forty bushels per .acre. The fiscal year of 1910, just ended, June 30, 1010. closed a period of great activity In tho matter of tlie disposition of the public domain under tho federal fed-eral land laws In the Blackfoot district, which comprises Fremont, Bingham, Bannock, Ban-nock, Onnlda and Bear Lako counties. During that year the receiver of the Blackfoot land offlco deposited to the credit of the treasurer of the United States ?95,109.G1. The area entered under un-der the various laws was 263,266 50 acres. During that year thero were 1609 homestead home-stead entries made and 261 entries under tlie desert Jand law. |