GOOD PROSPECTS
This report is not official in any
sense, but it believed by the writer to
be a reasonably accurate statement of
the situation.
I have at hand numerous letters
asking the status of developments of
the black Canyun Project and take
this means of supplying the informa
tion as far as I am able at the pres
ent time. The status is briefly as fol
lows: Since August, 1914, the U. S
Reclamation Service has run several
fly lines, or grade surveys, apparent
ly as tests of position, formation and
grade, for proposed ditch lines for
carrying water from the Boise river
to and upon the project.
They have surveyed out some pros
pective storage reservoir sites in the
project a,nd have made a topographic
al survey of probably half of the pro
ject. These surveys have been or are
being compiled from which it is ex
pected reports are being prepared and
placed with the U. S. Reclamation
Service Commission at Washington,
D. C.
The surveys cannot at this time be
completed nor carried to other parts
of the project by reason of insufficient
funds available.
Bills have been introduced in Con
gress a.nd provision has been asked
for funds to complete the surveys and
contract the project over to the Recla
mation Service to be built, but the
military expediencies now confront
ing the nation have required the time
of Congress and such measures as
ours have been forced to await a place
on the calendar.
Reports recently completed of the
available water supply in the Boise
river show that if sufficient storage
caji be provided to save the winter
and spring flow, there will be suffi
cient water in the Boise river for all
lands which can be reached at rea
sonable cost on tthe south side in
cluding Mud Lake, Kuna and Mad
den Butte lands, and other lands
nearby and in addition thereto there
will be plenty of water to irrigate all
of the lands of the Black Canyon by
gravity from the Boise river.
It is reliably reported that there will
be from the Deer Flat reservoir a
surplus of water sufficient to irrigate
from seven thousand to twelve thous
and acres of Black Canyon lands and
this water can not be used elsewhere,
and by using this water on the Black
Canyon lands it will tend to greatly
reduce the total cost of water to the
Boise project.
Several meetings have recently
been held for the purpose of making
investigations on behalf of the settlers
and land holders, with a view of get
ting ■* clearer understanding of the
conditions with a view of co-opera
tion between the settlers and the di
rectors of the district, also to secure
co-operation between the district and
the Water Users' Association on the
south side and other water users of
the Boise Valley, relative to a con
sistant use of all of the water of the
Boise river.
The results seem to be most en
FISK REALTY COMPANY
BULLETIN.
We have a first class 80-acre farm
in one of the best sections of Nebras
ka for trade for cultivated land here
abouts. This man is here on the
ground and ready to make an im
mediate trade for spring or fall posses
sion. It will pay you to investigate
this.
We have another 160-acre Nebras
ka farm, owner also here, who will
trade for an improved farm here.
Both of these properties are in the
corn belt and going, prosperous
farms.
40 acres two miles from Caldwell in
good neighborhood and good improve
ments wants to trade for town prop
erty that will rent. This is a first class
offer.
160 acres at Midvale in good state
of improvement and cultivation wants
to trade for property in this valley on
a liberal basis. *
160 acres near Carey, Idaho, adjoin
ing fine free range 18 miles deep, im
proved and nearly all in cultivation
and crop. Very low price for trade
for property around Caldwell.
Plenty 8% money on farms.
We have several dwellings in Cald
well that we can sell you on rental
payments and some big bargains for
cash.
FREE!
To any person buying a COUPON
BOOK from any of my contestants,
I will give you for every $1.1X1 Coupon
Book purchased, an opportunity to ob
tain FREE OF CHARGE—
One 26-Piece Set of
Wm. Rogers & Son Silverware.
Each contestant will explain to you
how to obtain this Free Silverware.
You cannot help your favorite con
testant any better than by purchasing
Coupon Book* from them. They need
your help.
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
and
MONDAY, APRIL 24
5 Extra Votes on each lc value of
anything purchased at my store.
WTCKOFF DRUG
couraging where the people are in
possession of the real facts, and all
necessary now is to have all of the
people of the Boise Valley become
fullv informed as to the facts recently
given out officially when it will be an
easy matter to get what we want from
Congress and water for our own lands
as well as for our friends south of
Nampa and west of Boise.
It is not possible to predict what
Congress will do but it is hoped some
money will be available this year to
at least make use of the surplus wa
ters from Deer Flat for 1917. This
will cover the lands north of Notus
and Parma, then we can expect the
rest after the proposed investigations
have been completed.
W. R. CUPP.
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* LOCAL AND PERSONAL. ★
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Read the Fisk Realty Co. Bulletin.
Dan Larrabee is remodeling his
residence in this city.
Mr. C. S. Faurot is in town from
his fruit farm on Snake river.
Mr. C. D. Gates is visiitng with re
latives in Iowa and enpoying a busi
Reporter.
Did you get a set of those premium
dishes with our Buster. Brow.n Coffee?
Conic in and we will tell you how to
get them. Flynn's Grocery. 421
We are informed that an elevator
of 60,000 pounds capacity will be erec
ted at Midvale by the Midvale Mill
ing & Elevator Co. As soon as a
suitable site for same can be secured.
Mrs. F.dith E. Brown, daughter,
Olive, and son, Arnett, and Miss Anna
and Ivan Packenham motored from
Boise to spend the week-end with
friends and relatives in Caldwell.
The Boise-Payette Lumber com
pany is making some improvements
in its yards at this place. It is remov
ing the porch that was around the
front and side of the office, and rein
roofing and repainting the office room
and store rooms, where the windows,
doors and fancy stocks and lumber are
stored.
The Priscilla club meets today with
Mrs. Flora V. Cole.
Just received a complete line of
stone-ware. We can now fill your
wants in churns, jars, milk crocks,
jugs, etc. Flynn's Grocery. 421
James Munro audited the Good
Roads books at Frutland last week.
W. P. Lyon and family of Cald
well and Mrs. Fred Lyon of Ontario,
were in their car Sunday calling on a
REPORT OF TREASURER OF THE CITY OF CALDWELL
For the Quarter ending March 31, 1916.
SOURCE.
GENERAL FUND.
City Clerk
County
ROAD FUND 655.70
Balance Receipts
Jan.l, for
1916. period
$4,567.18
$ 393.35 -
4,989.23
Amount
PAID OUT FOR Paid
Bal. on
Hand.
Warrants $1,510.56
City Clerk
County
CEMETERY 549.93
City Clerk
County
WATER WORKS .... 2,573.15
269.29
8,358.13
Warrants
$8,439.20
9,283.12
188.00
558.84
Warrants 114.80
1,181.97
Supt. Water Works
Int. on Deposits
LIBRARY
County
2,738.81
30.79
Warrants 1,479.22
3,863.53
61.24
838.35
SPRINKLING 323.40
County ..._ 2,073.42
By transfer 11.50
Warrants
PARK FUND 225.29
County
PAVING FUND 586.23
County
SCHOOL DIST. NO.
28 60.00
City Clerk
BOND AND IN
TEREST Fund.. 2,507.34
County
Returned from B.
& I. Acc't
WARRANT RE
DEMPTION ....
698.55
651.93
12.50
11,176.88
27.25
899.59
12.50
2,396.27
923.84
1,238.16
72.50
Bonds
.50
Warrants paid 22.40
8,673.89
833.64
PER. CEM. SINK
ING 425.83
City Clerk 82.50
BRIDGE BOND
Sink. Fund 375.00
CITY HALL BOND
Sinking 3,729.87
SPECIAL ASST.
BOND 1,509.%
WATER W. EX. B.
SINK. NO. 1 701.63
WATER W. EX. R.
SINK. NO. 2 .... 7,047.46
FUNDING B. SINK.
NO. 1 1,987.24
FUNDING B. SINK.
NO. 2 2,658.38
GEN. PAVING 10.32
SEWER DIS. NO. 3 631.08
County 4,813.44
By transfer 16.04
L. SEWER D NO. 3 543.84
County 452.39
By transfer 230.02
First N. B. & Int.
Account 1,000-00
L. SEWER D. NO. 4. 1,211.49
County
F. N. B. & Int. Act.
Warrants 220.00
833.64
315.33
375.00
Warrants 1,567.94
2,161.93
Warrants
1,509.96
Warrants 252.62
449.01
Warrants 937.04
6,110.42
Warrants
Warrants
9.50
1,977.74
53.50
2,604.88
Warrants 3,741.19
*3,730.89
5,460.56
2,217.25
755.48
1,057.75
Bonds 1,000.00
2,024.72
•Deficit.
Total Balances
Total Receipts ....
$28,778.52 T'l disbursements $10921.32 $63012.51
41,424.44 Deficit 3,730.87
TOTAL
Total Disbursements
$70,202.96
10,921.32
$59,281.64
Balance on hand.... $59,281.64
Approved by the Council this 19 tli day of April, 1916.
S. BEN DUNLAP,
City Clerk.
number of friends. They enjoy these
visits to Weiser, but not any more
than their friends enjoy them.— Wei
ser Signal.
I. S. Froman is making extensive
preparations to improve his desidence
property at the corner of Kimball and
Dearborn streets. He will put in some
350 feet of cement sidewalk. He is
now ready to begin on the walks.
F. L. Keller, our esteemed fellow
tow.nsman, received word last week
from the Morning Sun, Iowa, of the
death of his brother-in-law, Frank
T. Paisley, an old resident and a pro
minent and well-known horseman of
that place". He married a sister of Mr.
Keller, Miss Jane Keller, in 1869, and
the wife and four children survive him.
Buy your corn flakes at Flynn's
Grocery S for 25c. 421
ness trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Bert Badley, who lives be
yond the dam, sustained a minor oper
ation last Saturday.
Friday evening, while riding on
grain drill with her father, the little
three-year-old daughter of Charles
Smith of Greenleaf, fell off and broke
her left elbow. Dr. Gue of Caldwell
was hurriedly called to dress the in
jured member.
Order some of those little sweet
oranges at Flynn's Grocery, 20c per
dozen. 421
Mrs. I. N. Sullivan, wife of Judge
Sullivan of the Supreme Court, who
has been the geust of Dr. and Mrs. J.
W. Gue the past week, will return to
her home in Boise, today.
Last week E. M. Soloman sold his
ranch near the county poor farm to
Thos. Pierson.
Sunday Dr. J. W. Gue removed the
tonsils and adenoids of the little
daughter of Wm. Hall, living above
Middleton, and on Monday he remov
ed the tonsils of Mrs. A. E. Lindsay,
of Nampa.
B. L. Newell is making improve
ments of his dwelling on Cleveland
boulevard by adding outside sleeping
porches.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Wisner of this
city were visitors in Parma, where
they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Smith, last Sunday.
Nina Pierce, of Arena Valley, left
for her home last Saturday, having
spent a few days with her sister, Mrs.
H. V. McCoy.
N. Baker is making improvements
on his place about three miles west of
the city on the Notus road by adding
a barn and cow sheds.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kingsburv and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore
and family motored to Boise Friday
to attend "The Birth of a Nation."
C. R. Emmett, a prominent con
tractor of Caldwell, was in town yes
terday figuring on some of the pro
posed new brick buildings.—Midvale
CALDWELL PEOPLE ATTEND
BOISE PRESBYTERY MEET
The Spring meeting of the Boise
Presbytery was held in Parma, on
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week, and was attended by Rev.
H. H. Hayman, of the College of Ida
ho, Rev. D. A. Clemens, L. S. Dille,
Chas. S. Hawkes, and Rev. Geo. A.
Wilber, Rev. L. F. Jones of Sunny
Slope, the inspiring leader, preached
the opening sermon on Monday even
ing and presided at the administration
of the sacrament o fthe Lord's Sup
per.
On new organization Rev. G. Wm.
Barnum of the 2nd church of Boise,
was chosen moderator and Rev. A. J.
Kammar of Notus. clerk.
On Tuesday evening, Men's Bible
Class work was discussed, at a popu
lar meeting, by Messrs. Russell, Wam
sley, Kerrick and Mitchell, members of
the Greenfield Men's Bible Class of
Parma Presbyterian church.
At the same meeting the congrega
tion listened to an inspiring address
by Dr. R. M. Donaldson, of the First
Presbyterian church of Boise, on "The
Church for the Times."
The regular sessions of the meeting
were largely devoted to the annual re
view of the work of the churches of
Presbytery, to reports on the activi
ties of the church at large and con
sidering plans for the coming year.
Special attention at this meeting
was given the reports on Home and
Foreign Missions, Sunday School and
young peoples' work, and of the Col
lege of Idaho,
Most gratifying reports were receiv
ed of the rapid growth of the college
in numbers, especially of students in
the college department proper, which
now enrolls 123 members in the four
classes. The total enrollment of the
entire institution being 214.
Not a little amusement was aroused
by the reading of a sadly muddled
article in the Boise Statesman of Sat
urday, crediting the College of Idaho
with but one graduating class, in spite
of the five classes who have received
College degrees from the institution
since 1911.
Presbytery took up the matter of
more general information regarding
the splendid institution in our midst
and appointed a committee to act in
connection with the College authori
ties to that end.
Presbytery was most hospitably en
tertained by the pastor and the people
of the Parma church. An especially
pleasant feature being the social priv
ileges at the dinner a,nd supper served
to the entire Presbytery in the Odd
Fellow's hall, on Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Presbytery at its close made ar
rangements for the early installation
of two new pastors, Rev. Gates E. M.
Young in the Nampa church, and Rev.
R. A. Finlayson at the Boise Bithany
church.
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+ FAIRVIEW. *
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Mrs. Mamis Chase received word
Saturday that her mother had passed
away at her home near Haynes, Ore.,
Friday night. Mrs. Chase left on th;
evening train Saturday to attend the
funeral. Mrs. Chase's mother spent
the past year in this neighborhood
and returned to her home just a week
before her death.
Mrs. Anna Spencer was down to
the ranch a few days the past week.
Mrs. C. L. Butts and daughter have
moved to the Earl Moreland house for
the summer.
There was a ditch meeting a.t the
J. L. Powell house Saturday.
Horace Rowland of Long Valley
was visiting with Lee and Leroy Row
land a few days last week.
H. S. Burnett is nursing a bad hand.
He was stung by some kind of an in
sect.
School meeting was held in District
35 Monday.
Judas Iscariot and Anarchy.
(A "Garfield-Taft Republican" in the
(New York Sun)
What sort of topsyturvy "Alice in
Wonderland political life are we liv
ing today? I read in the newspapers
of a man who only recently voted at
the Progressive party's presidential
primaries and who in 1912 bolted the
Republican party and by his course
defeated it, now layin? down "terms"
on which he might accept the nomina
tion of the Republican party for pres
ident! I even read of assumed Reptib
licans talking of this man's "strength"
as a Republican candidate. What does
* all J nean? Shade and spirit of Taft'
Are Republicans to be presented with
a Judas Iscariot candidate on a plat
form of party anarchy? Better four
more years of Wilson than a cycle of
Rooseveltism.
When Democratic spellbinders go
out on the stump next summer and
fall, it will be interesting to listen to
what the*' have to sav when some far
mer gets up and calls their attention
to the fact that during the 10 months
the Underwood tariff law was in effect
prior to the European war, foreign
countries shipped into the United
States more than $40,000,000 worth of
meat, and dairy products as compared
with a little more than $12,000,000 in a
corresponding period under the Re
publican tariff act. The fact is that
these imports cut the price of the
American producer, or the goods
could not have been sold in the Ameri
can market.
Ex-Senator Knox of Pennsylvania
predicts that "statesmanship and not
politics will be reflected in the tariff
legislation of the future." Pennsylva
nia s high priests of high tariff will
put on a deeper mourning than ever
if their compatriot's nrophecy comer
imes-Picayune
. com Patnot's prophecy conies
true.—New Orleans Times-Pi
The Pickayune's" conception of
statesmanship' is to place a hiirh
protective tariff rate on sugar To
protect any industry outside of Louis
lana is ' politics". Protection is a „ill
which to get into the Pickayune's ''in
nards must be heavily sugar-coated
but its effect on th. Gumbo State has
always been magical.
Fidello P. Ball, the stateliest 85
year-old man in the county, true to
his first name given him by a k' n dly
mother, came to the Hired Man one
day this week and asked where I had
lived in the South. Upon being told
that I had never lived in the real
South, he wanted to know where I
learned what I know of the southern
people. A piece in these columns a
week or two ago, delineated the south
ern character so perfectly he supposed
I must be bragging on my own land.
Mr Ball used to run a big store in
South Carolina. He did business with
a New York City firm, largely, and
when he got ready to remit he did not
go to get a draft with a thief-proof
stamp across its face but he simply
got hold of South Carolina paper
money, folded it up and put it in a
common envelope and addressed it to
the cerditors, and dropped it in the
postoffice. If he had five hundred
dollars to send, it went that way. If
he had a thousand to remit, it went
that way. If he had fifteen hundred
dollars to send off, he sent it that way.
Many fifteen hundred dollar remit
tances were sent in this way and he
never lost a dollar by it. All other
featurej of his business was done on
the same basis. He got so along to
ward the last that he did not know a
single dead beat in a county-wide
strip. No wonder the mothers got to
naming their sons Fidello. Of course
this was thirty-five or forty years ago.
Butter was not put uo so beautifully
as it is now, and the well out by the
store had a gourd in it, and some of
the women would chew the calico to
see if the color would stick, and it
usually did, for calico makers were
honest also in those days. No 6:00
p. m. found his store doors closed and
you could get stuff in time to cook it
for breakfast. The colors from which
to select did not dazzle the woman
shopper as they do now and if a wo
man left her purse on the counter to
Practical Economy
Baking powders made from alum or
phosphate may be bought for a trifle less
than Royal Baking Powder, which is made
from cream of tartar, derived from grapes.
Alum powders are not only cheap, but
they differ greatly in leavening power.
If a cheap baking powder is used for a
fine cake and the cake turns out a failure
there is a waste of costly materials worth
more than a whole can of the cheap bak
ing powder.
Royal Baking Powder produces the
finest food, and its use therefore, results in
an actual saving.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.
New York
WE STAND FOR
the
Economic Distribution of
Lumber
from
Forest to Consumer
Not Only That
But Idaho Trees Manu
factured Into Lumber for
Idaho People
Then
Why Not Co-operate
Buy
Lumber Made In Idaho
You Need the Money
We Can Save You
See
A. H. Lauenstein
At the
Boise Payette Lumber Company
go out doors to see if the baby had
awaked in the wagon, she alwa V 3
found it where she had layed it. Mr
Ball supposes that colico might fade
a little even down there by this time
and that a real nice looking pocket
book should not be thrown absolutely
away if it had much money in it but
the oatriarch sees a vast change every
where in the sixty years since he was
a young business man.
Idaho Has No Cowards.
(Cambridge News)
It should be definitely understood
that Idaho has no cowards; that this
state is not willing to nominate a man
for the highest office in the nation
simply because the people fear he will
again cause the defeat of the party. If
we have to die, let's die game.
With Powdered Alum.
"Now," said the boss barber, ques
tioning an applicant, "what is the
thing to do if while shaving a man
you cut the hide?"
"Hide the cut," was the prompt
answer.
Paddy's Ready Reply.
An Irish soldier had lost his left
eye in action, but was allowed to re
main in the service on consenting to
have a glass eye in its place. Being
a typical "absent-minded beggar," | le
appeared on parade one day minus his
left "lamp."
"Nolan," said the officer, "you are
not properly dressed. Why is your
artificial eye not in its proper place?"
"Sure, sir," replied Noan, "I lif t | t
in my box to keep an eye on my kit
while I'm on parade."—Boston Trans
cript.
See Fisk Realty Bulletin this issue.
Quick money to loan. Fisk Realty
Company.—Adv.