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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1939
Page
2
A fragmented letter to the editor describes pear growth in a valley scene. It references nature's hidden work under a white blanket and hints at blooming beauty arriving in a few weeks as spring returns.
Bear Lake county 4 H youth received compliments for their showing and fitting of steers at the Ogden Livestock Show. Homespun notes describe grading by market readiness and premium receipts for steers rated prime to good while Matthews brothers dominate Hampshire sheep prizes and other livestock sales reach top prices.
The excerpt envisions distant future improvements under changing laws, imagining homes built on stable principles with truck gardens, trees, flowers, shrubs, barns full of hay, and premium cattle in pastures of new grasses growing under improved conditions.
Minutes from the adjourned February 11 1939 meeting show mileage claim itemization required for county officers and bond approval for Justice of the Peace G C Gray. The board discussed road and snow equipment purchasing choosing a Caterpillar type tractor and approved budget changes totaling a reduction in current expense and maintenance of other funds. Final purchase set at 5307.09 from Landes Tractor Machinery Co and budget totals approved by the board. Attest Sam V Tunks Clerk.
The column notes visits by Mr and Mrs Claud Sprouse to Sal Lake Sky and Logan Utah with children, plus several Logan and Laketown locals visiting Garden City. Sheriff Benjamin Weston conducted business and investigated deer shooting, warning rogues of prosecution. Royal Pope returns after four months ill, after a bull goring incident in November. Other couples visit Randolph and Coding Idaho, with Hodges and Sprouse families traveling to Salt Lake City and Randoph areas this weekend.
Representative White of Idaho seeks 1 million dollars to construct 22 miles of road inside Yellowstone National Park. The proposal would connect the Old Faithful Inn to the Idaho state road ending at Cave Falls in the Bechler basin, a plan the park service calls unnecessary and unlikely to proceed.
White introduced his bill authorizing the appropriation shortly after Idaho lawmakers memorialized Congress to fund the new road. He said he planned to have plenty to say about the park service's opposition when the measure moves forward.
The speaker recalls historic Park Service resistance to building a reservoir near the Bechler river basin, arguing the land should be kept for highway use rather than water storage projects.
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