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Letters From Our Subscribers Weiser, Ida., Dec. 8, 1924.—The Vedette: Please find enclosed check for $2.00, for which please send me your paper for another year. The mail carrier comes past our place about nine o'clock, and we are especially glad to see him come on Monday morning, as that is the time we always get The Vedette — and then we make a rush for the old neighborhood news. We are having our first spell of winter; about three inches of snow in the last few days, but not very cold. We are farming and dairying, so we have a job, all right. We have a dairy association, and the Payette Co-operative creamery buys our cream, and the cream truck comes three times a week for cream. This is a great dairy country, and we understand the pay check for the Weiser Valley Dairymen's association amounts to $500 daily and there are three other cream stations besides in Weiser, as the old cow is the main standby since the banks went broke. The Weiser National bank closed its doors the last of June. One million, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars were involved. Then on August first, the Weiser Loan and Trust company closed, or failed to open, and Weiser was left without a bank, and the money is still tied up, or gone. But in less than 30 days from the time of the failure of the loan and trust company, a new bank, the Weiser State bank, was doing business. Weiser is the county seat of Washington county, and has about 4,000 inhabitants. The city is located on the banks of Snake river, just below where Weiser river empties into Snake, and the valleys are mostly irrigated. It is a great fruit country, there being many ranches that produces fruits exclusively, while others raise grain, hay, spuds and sugar beets. There is quite a boost for raising head lettuce, and quite a bit has been shipped out and sold for a good price, but the expenses eat up most of the profits. There are two state highways across the county, one from east to west along Snake river, through Weiser and on down to Old's ferry, where you may cross over into Oregon; or you may cross on a bridge at Weiser and strike the Oregon state road two miles out, which is a fine road. My daughter, Bertha, is teaching school at Durkee, Oregon; Aden Rogers, our eldest son, is teaching at Rifle, Colorado, and the youngest one lives on and farm a part of my ranch here on Man creek. Golda Rogers Webb lives on a ranch next above us. Arzo Rogers was recently married, and is making his home on Man creek for the present. C. P. Ellis lives about two miles farther up the valley. These are all Dade county people, and are doing well. Man creek has a small valley that is irrigated with the water from the creek, and the hills on either side of the valley are dry farmed. P. E. Rogers.