Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-11-12
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
LATEST REPORTS OF THE CROPS
Parties Organizing to Go 10 the
Ixlondike Digging Deep Wells
Items From Washington, ldaho'
Montana ana British Columbia.

formed a pool and raised the price OF
laundry work 100 per cent.
Colfax is to have two new business
buildings, to be completed by December l.
| Garfield county has never had such fine
roads for grain hauling as this fall.
Chehalis buyers are now paying from
81 to Al cents for hogs, and large num-
bers of them are being brought to market
every day.
Puyallup shipped this year to Montana
and mining regions tributary to Spokane
over $4,000 worth of fresh berries.
w. j. Woods of Lost Springs, Columbia
county, bought $40 acres of land one year
ago, paying therefor $4,000, on time. He
realized enough out of this years crop to
pay for the place and had a balance of
5000.
The state treasurer has called for gen.
eral fund warrants from No. 1921 to
No. 1850 inclusive, also military fund
warrants No. 2O24 to 2O3O The call ma
general fund call is $45,S2l.27; military
fund, $473O5O
Twenty-one men from Yakima, under
the charge of j. G. Cameron, have left
this city on special freight with ii cars
or horses and six fiat cars of supplies,
bound for the sound, where four steamers
will take them to the Klondike. Many
of the Yakima men are old miners and all
are strong and hardy.
The largest single cargo of wheat to
leave Tacoma this season has just been
taken out by the British ship Crocodile,
which had stored safely away in her hold
l4l, 1852 bushels, valued at $l23,000. This
makes the total shipments to date l ,49l,-
458 bushels, with an aggregate value of
81, 2SS 900.
A farmer residing in the Eureka Flat
district, Walla Walla county, has just
completed the boring of well 234 feet
deep, which will yield 1900 gallons of
water every "a hours. This quantity is
amply sufficient for his needs, and the
well, which cost $3.50, saves the labor of
hauling water from the Touchet river, Is
, miles away.
, Expert G. P. Dam has filed his report
on his investigation in the Pacific county
treasurer's office He found ex-Treasurer
Lockwood short $4793, of which about
$4,000 was previously known. He found
the accounts of eXTreasurer F. A. Hazel
tine carefully and correctly kept and COM
mends the work of the present incumbent,
S. Heichner.
Idaho.
The surveyor generals office at Boise,
Idaho, has been crowded with applica-
tons for surveys and mining patents this
quarter more than for any quarter for
: the past 10 or IL years.
; There are rumors of large sawmill to
be put on the banks of the Weiser near
the town of Weiser. 1t is said the par
! ties are contracting for 100000 feet of
: sawlogs to be brought down the river
) in the spring.
An immigrant car containing several
> families of Dunkards has arrived at Jul
J iaetta from Boone county, Iowa. These
people are part of colony located near
Nez Perez, and left for their destination
soon after. They went up the grade with
what goods they couldn't get in their
: wagons packed on their backs, the women
and children bearing their share.
In his last quarterly report Auditor
: Woodwork shows Latah county's war
rant Indebtedness to be as follows: Gen
, eral county fund, $l2,494.7S; road fund,
: SGT, 479.49; bridge fund, l525l2; school
: funds, $974.9S; hospital fund, $lO,049. rs;
current expense fund, $lO,235.55; total.
S62,659.67. The county had issued $751;
1920 up to the date of the report and
, | radnno1 GO
: CORVALLIS report showed $4,000 cash on
hand.
The big eddy near Agatha, on the Clear
water, will soon cease to be an obstruc-
ton to river navigation. Twenty men I'M
der an engineer from the war depart
ment are working there, and unless win
ter closes in earlier than is expected, will
soon have enough rock out of the way to
insure good channel. The o. R. & N.
Co. is building boat that is especially
adapted to this river. They expect to
make regular trips between Lewiston and
Kamiah next spring.
Montana.
The telephone line from Sylvanite to
Leonia has been completed.
Inc Troy anK wagon road requires
about 6OOO feet of grading to complete it.
The total value of all assessed property
in Jefferson county for the year 1897 is
$3,25O, $50, on which the total tax to be
collected amounts to $6O,29655.
A Virginia City man expects to leave
for the Sandwich islands about the first
of the year. He will go there to look into
the coffee raising business and if he is sat.
isfied with the outlook may engage in the
business.
William Broderick Cloete of London.
England, has purchased at Marcus Daly's
Bitter Root stock farm imported Matt
Byrnes, by Hampton, dam Cherry, paving
5000 for the horse. Mr. Cloete has also
purchased six Mares The lot will he
shipped to England, when Matt Byrnes
was imported. The horse is five years old
A party of Klondikers from BILLINGS
camped near Fort Benton the other day
with an outfit of 20 horses. The members
of the party We're on their way to Ed.
monitor, intending to reach the gold re-
gion by the overland route They will be
followed by another party with about 80
horses from the same vicinity, each outfit
having with IL a sunnlv of p,.o,,;s;o,,, -