Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-12-31


mss In Idaho
,;oe 100 by $50 feet is to be added
na.leo island cannery' No.
aa. .srpo shipments from Tacoma Tor
d. ~ .tbs Of 1897 were 70, $50, $50 feet
u n~ ~ increase over 1896 Of nearly
n''l' '.;mated that the mills of Sno-
y county, numbering 40 or more,
aSn consume lOO,OOO,OOO feet Of
uualy consume
PEI Ia. begun on the erection of
s eu", oAxlOO and wing 24x5O for the
nu artor works at Puyallup.
, sv has been formed at Mount
-. for the purpose of operating a
I'm IN a. Lake Bennett next season.
!. .xtension of the Palouse branch to
" - before spring is generally &C.
..d a. true by the people in the Pot
sentiment sheep man and farmer of
,r.l;t.t county says that everything
:. exceedingly favorable for another
mpsrous year for farmers and stock
IL, Kinney of Goldendale has receiv-
. Litter from his son John, who has
:, in Alaska for the past two years,
..;,o that he had made q rich gold
~
mt Of the POI shingle mills in the
NJ Of Washington, no fewer than 1855
I. ,hut down and will make no output
MI after February l. The daily prod
4 Of the POI mills when in operation is
s5s00OO shingles.
South Bends tax is reduced one-half,
.pr S4O53.7O this year as against
mai e5 for 1896. The same is also true
Ilvaco, where the taxes for 1897 are
ssl2 q. as against $lO25.94 for 1895.
The Whatcom county treasurer re-
brs about 100000 in taxes paid to the
ate Of delinquency, December l. A great
lm Of this was for the three preceding
,au, and the amount il about three
hines the sum received each Of those
years.
An Ellensburg man shipped carload
81 horses to Honolulu the other day. The
sar was made up of roadsters, some three
Or four inside the $3.50 limit, and some
French Percherons. The heavy horses
went 1900 to 1900 pounds, and were con-
tncted at $500 to $3.50 per span.
The foreign lumber trade of Gray's har-
her for the year 1897 is 200 per cent
larger than the trade of any previous
year In 1896 IL vessels sailed from
Gny's harbor with cargoes of lumber ag-
regating 100000 feet. During 1897 q
vessels have cleared from the harbor
carrying lO,849,OOO feet of lumber, valued
lat 100000
Pacific county's tax rolls for 1897 show
the total amount of taxes levied to be
Sd2, 1852, or $6SS6.2S less than last year
The taxes would have been much less had
not the levy for state purposes been in
creased nearly one-half. The taxes levied
for county, school, city and road pur
poses in 1897 amount to $4O,2639O, as
compared with $50, 332.O7 last year, or 8
reduction Of $lO,088.l7 in local taxation
For county expenses alone there has beer
q reduction Of $273387, the total amour,
levied for 1897 being SIG, OO2.35, as com
pared with $lS,736.22 for 1896.
Montana.
1t is proposed to put under irrigation
large tract of land south of Big Timber
The Montana Society of Engineers will
hold its eleventh annual meeting in tn,
elty OF Butte January 7 and 8, 1898.
The attendance of the college in Boze
man is now almost 200, and will be con
slderably increased. This does not in
elude the students of the high school
some 80 in number.
About dozen or fifteen old timers me
at the Boulder hot springs the other da!
and effected an organization by electin.
George Benjamin president and p. b
Mills secretary and treasurer.
The delinquent tax list in GallatiI
county for the year 1897 is lower tnan i
mas been for many years past. Th'
amount collected by the county treasure
amounted to $ll5,534.72 December II
leaving balance of 5Ol7.lO yet to be col
iected, most of which is due from tn
Northern Pacific Railroad Company an
Inc West Gallatin Canal -ompany.
In his annual report for the fiscal yea
Of 1897 State Land Register H. d. Moor
suggests new policy for the state LAM
department. He recommends the with
arawal of all public school and universit..
lands from the market, on the groun
mat 1t would be more far-sighted pol
ICY to lease the lands and to secure a
annual income from them than to dispos
o. them finally through sales. That POI
ICY was first suggested by Governo
smith in his message to the legislator
last January.
Up to December last Treasurer Gal
rett OF Lewis and Clarke county collect
Cd s224,s5l.46. The aggregate tax of tn
county, based on the equalized assess
ment, was 256,24S.95, so that there wer
oeiinquent at the close of business Dt
eemher 6 $3l 1914 of taxes. BY far tn
greater part of that amount will be co
,ected. Collections as a whole were muc
better than they were last year, althoug
Inc delinquencies on the first Monday