The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-04-21
State n ews.


The sheep shearing season has
begun at Mountain Home.
The state wagon road commission
will meet in Boise City May 1st.
A bimetallic league will be or
ganized at Caldwell the 9th inst.
Gov. Mcconnell has designated
Friday, May 4th, as Arbor Day in
Idaho.
Attorney jeremiah Brumback
has sued Boise City for $4,000
damages for digging ditch through
his addition for the purpose Of car
rying off the water of HulPs gulch.
Nampa Progress Governor Nc
Connell came in from Boise last
Wednesday with a party of eastern
capitalists going to Cassia county
to look for place to put in an
electric power plant. If the capt.
talists conclude to put an electric
plant in the Snake river it will
mean the expenditure of 81 100000.
Silver Messenger: 1t is reported
that the Bayhorse smelter and mill
will resume operations this sum-
mer. 1t is hoped such is the case,
as it will give employment to a
large number of idle men.
Alec Kleupfer has put four men
to work on the Daisy mine, on Mt.
Estes.
Pocatello Tribune: 1t is com
monty rumored around town that
ex-Mayor Stein, ex-City Attorney
Keller, Attorney T. M. Terrell, and
Ed Gallett have decided to go over
to the Populist party. Gallett is
the only one of the crowd we have
seen since hearing the rumor and
he says that so far as he is con.
cerned the rumor is true He says
he is sick of the Democracy and
wants a change.
The Idaho Gold Miner says that
Messrs. Bond, Van Arsdal and 9TH
ers are prospecting for an electric
railroad to connect Boise City and
Lewiston, via White Bird, Little
Salmon and the Weiser Valley
The proposed scheme is perfectly
feasible. The water rights located
ostensibly as placer claims, could
be used to develop power for the
road. The length of the road i;
about 300 miles and the estimated
cost is 100000.
Payette independent On Mon
day of this week number of the
land owners on the bench south o
the Payette river completed the or
ganization of the new ditch projec
which has been in contemplation
for some time past. The A. J
Crook Irrigating Company is th'
name of the corporation. The cap
ital stock is 100000 divided int
shares of $40 each. Something lik
!, 5000 acres of land is represented il
the corporation. The directors 70
the first year are as follows: A.
Crook, A. A. Branthoover, r
Pearse, Eugene Ance and c. c
Haines.
Shoshone Journal: Root Brother
| & Dunbar, of Chicago, are maxim
f extensive preparations to mine tn
| bars in the bed of Snake river, be
tween the Shoshone Falls and tn
Blue Lakes. The bars are fror
, three to six feet under the water an
the dirt will be raised with centri
fugal pumps. The machinery, con
sisting of boiler, engine.and pumps
arrived here on Wednesday iron
, Chicago. A flat boat 30 feet Ion
! will be anchored in the middle O
the stream, over the bar, and o.
this the machinery will be placed
and the dirt and gravel will b
raised from the upper end of th
boat. While this is a new syste q
of mining bars there in no doub
but that it will prove successful
and as soon as it is demonstrated
success, thousands of Snake rive
bars, now under water, will b
worked.
Gilmore Bulletin: The Bullet
man is indebted to James Carol
,, who is now in Alaska, for larg
: photographs of Alaska scenery
They all show that it is a thickl
timbered and snowy country, an
upon which we will comment NOR
t fully later on. Mr.. Carroll write
: that there is big rush of men t
that country this spring and pre-
\ diets that the Yukon section wi
be overrun and much suffering en-
e dured by prospectors. Provision
| are very high on the Yukon rive
; and the only way of navigating tn
! stream for four or five hundre
e miles is by polling" small boats
He also says that it is daylight a
the time up there in the summe
and darkness all winter.
: J. NJ. Johnson went to Brunei
e valley a few days ago, and viii
i there he purchased $500 head {
q sheep, at prices ranging from SIC
t to $3.50 per head.
: C0ur d'Alene Miner; Soren So
r enson, man who arrived here froi
the Wood River country less tina
two weeks ago, died at the Spokan
] lodging house on Monday. He wa
a miner, had secured a job and wa