This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moulton, Swauger Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3550 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho Thursday, November 23, 1899 About 20 Cars Short. The Gem State Rural reports that S. A. Swauger of Weiser, Idaho, shipped a carload of prunes fresh, this year, and also ran his steam evaporator for some time on prunes grown by himself and neighbors; P. H. B. Moulton reported the total shipment of prunes from Payette this year at six carloads.—Oregon Agriculturist. We can’t understand how such an item as the aboe was ever permitted to appear in the Gem State Rural. The editor of the Rural is secretary of the state horticultural board, and he ought to have known better than to make such a statement on the authority of anybody. If our memory serves us right the records at the depot will show that 26 carloads of prunes were shipped from the Payette station in 1899.