Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-23
Another Enterprise!
A NEW SAW MILL AN ASSURED
THING FOR LEWISTON.
Broken Hydrant,
A Steamer to be put on Snake River
Between Lewiston and Seven
Devils-Other News.

Messrs J. NJ. Harrington and A. B.
Forte, lumber manufacturers of Hart
ford, Minnesota, from whom letter.
we're rec ived by Il number of our citi
zens, two or three months ago, regard
ing the location of a large saw-mill al
this place, arrived in this city last Fri
day. They We're here for business and
dld not lose much time in getting at it.
They had looked around and found d
suitable site ard on Monday went be.
fore tn, board of trade and stated their
proposition, which, in substance, is
this: For the donation of suitable
site, which they had selected, they
would erect and have in running order
within one year, II large saw mill, full
and complete. The board of trade was
favorably impressed with the ploposi-
ton and went to work at once to see
what the yards would cost and to raise
the required amount. The location is
IN the ea part of town and to cost
$500. The committee having in
charge the raising of the money report
the amount almost raised. Mr.. Har-
rington says he visited several places
in the Occur d 'Alene country and was
offered liberal inducements before COM
ing to Lewiston, but is better pleased
here, by far, than at any of the other
places. One thing in particular that
he is so well impressed with, and that
is our fine system of public schools,
which are excelled by none other in
the northwest. The plant to he put in
will cost many thousand dollars and
employment will be given to about
forty men, most of whom are men of
families and will accompany Mr.. Har-
rington here from Minnesota. The
gentlemen left yesterday morning for Il
trip in the timber regions of the Clear
water country, for the purpose of get
ting some knowledge of the river AMI
country, and the kind of timber they
would have to work with. Messrs Har.
rington and Forte seem to be very en-
ergetic gentlemen and are the kind of
people we like to see locate in Lewiston.
H. s. Coburn and others were out
Monday afternoon trying number of
the hydrants to see if they were in good
working order. No trouble was met
with until they went to the hydrant at
the corner Of A. Damas' general mer-
chandise store. They opened up the
valve and the water gushed forth as
freely as at the other hydrants, but
when they tried to close tn water off
they were unable tc do it. They tried
again and again, but were not success
ful and the water continued to pour
out for an hour AMI half, until it wss
shut off at one of the water gates in the
cas- part of town. A machinest was
summoned who took the hydrant to
pieces and discovered a large cobble
stone resting on top of the valve, and
which had caused the valve-stem to be
twisted into in the attempt to turn the
water off How the stone got there is a
mystery to everyone, but the suppnsi-
ii IN is that some worthless scoundrel
who desired to do all the damage possi-
ble, had taken one Of the caps off and
put the stone in and then replaced the
cap. How long the stone had been
there is not known, but this little ex-
perience Is certainly lesson enough,
and the dydrants will be investigated
oftener in the future. The damage done
amounted to about fifty dollars.
We understand that Captain Bangh-
man will soon go to Huntington for
the purpose of making voyage from
that place to Lewiston, by way of
Snake river, with steamer. The OBJ
ject of this trip is to make careful in
vestigation as regards the feasibility of
running boat from Lewiston to the
Seven Devils mining district, and to
bring the vast amount OF ore that Is
mined in that region down the river
to this place. The The Union Pacific
system has, at the present time, a boat
running from Huntington to the mines
for the purpose of taking out the ore
that way, and find it hard task and
almost wholly impracticable, but are
of the opinion that the same scheme
can be successfully operated by rum
ming to this place. The company has
selected Capt. Baughman, who is an
experienced riverman, to make the ex-
ploring trip, and If he thinks the idea
worthy Of a trial, a boat will be put on
the river and make one or two trips q
week, and the ore probably taken to
the Spokane smelter.