Payette County ID Archives News.....Proposal to Test Pigeons September 30, 1904
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Payette Independent September 30, 1904
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, September 30, 1904

Proposal to Test Pigeons.

The Boise Statesman says:  J. B. Burns of Payette has made a proposal to the 
fair directors towards which they are favorably inclined.  Mr. Burns is a 
pigeon fancier and in his loft are many homing pigeons of aristocratic 
pedigree.  He would like to test the speed of his birds and offers to bring a 
number of them to Boise to be liberated daily at the fair grounds.  By 
stationing a timer at the home loft in Payette the speed of the birds could be 
ascertained.  

The distance from Boise to Payette, as the birds fly, is about 50 miles, and 
Mr. Burns believes his homers could make it in faster time than the “Canon 
Ball.”  He suggests that three or four birds be liberated each day during fair 
week.  The birds could be numbered and the speed attained by each determined.  


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