Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-07-03
NORTHWEST BREv|T|ES
PROGRESS IN DENELOPMENT CF
THE COUNTRY'S RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of Gem
erAl Interest in Idnho. Montana
and Washington.

Charles Lee, a pioneer Of Vancouver, y
dead, aged 81.
Two new shinele mills are under con-
struction at Porter, in Chehalis county.
The Seattle chamber Of commerce Is
collecting an exhibit OF the mineral
wealth OF the state. -
Gail Latin, on trial at Colville. Wash,
for the murder of ). l.. Moody, has been
convicted Of manslaughter.
The volume of farm products Of Lewis
county promises to be greater this year
than ever before
Work on Scattles Magnolia Bluff army
post site is TO be commenced August l.
the available installment appropriation
being $4,000.
The Pierce County Fair Association,
among other Improvements, will build a
third of a mile track, 40 feet wide at the
home stretch and 25 at the back.
The fruit crop in southern Mason coun-
ty will be somewhat light this season, but
in the northern part Of the county there
will be Il good crop Of apples, pears, cher
ries, plums and prunes.
Captain j. NJ Skilmorc Of South Bend
organized the Indian war veterans OF IL
waco and vicinity into Il post, which Is
named in honor OF Ex-Governor /. |. Stev-
ems f. B. Stone is captain.
Spokane county warrants are still in
creasing i'll value Offers made by brok-
ers at 90 cents have been refused by hold
ers Of blocks aggregating amounts sutli-
cient to justify bidding.
A lagoon in Sequim bay is being pre-
pared bv the Park Oyster Company for
the cultivation of eastern oysters. A dam
has been built across the mouth of the IL
goon and seed and Gull oysters are on
their way from Baltimore.
The Lewis county commissioners at
their latest meeting decided to postpone
indefinitely the proposition to issue fund
ing bonds to take up the county's float
ing Indebtedness.
Material for the new Northern Pacific
depot at Chehalis has arrived, and most
of it is now stored in the old building OF
on the tracks in the yards.
In Lewis, Cowlitz. Clarke and Skamarla
the showers of the past week have been
vely beneficial, and there has not been
too much rain. Cherries, raspberlies and
blackberries are ripcning. Prmes and
apples appear to be doing weii. In Clarke
county haying has been interfered with
by the rains: clover is somewhat light.
Pota toes are fair.
Secretary Of the Interior Bliss has dis
patched two members Of the United
States geological su,vey-G L. Fletcher
and Thomas G. Gerdine-to Washington
for the purpose Of making q report upon
the Cascade forest reserve. one Of the
tracts set apart BY eX-Pre5dent Ceve
land with view TO the modification, and
possibly the complete revocation Of the
order as it regards this reserve.
Montana.
More than 25G.O0O pounds Of wool al"
already in the Northern Pacific ware
house at Big Timber. and it is being re-
ceived at the rate of $4,000 pounds daily.
The register of the Montana state land
Office has completed his labors in Boze-
man. having leased 4 tracts OF land,
amounting 10 5000 acres. for about Sl3Oo,
and sold 32O acres for :S34iO.
Tom Cooper Of the Northern Pacific
land department says that a conservative
estimate OF the amount Of railroad land
disposed Of in Lewis and Clarke county
since the first Of the year would be loo,-
600 acres while he believes that about
10000 acres OF Northern Pacific lands 10
Gated in Choteau county have been sold
in that time.
What will be important news 70 the
large lumber companies who have been
cutting timber on public lands under spe-
cial permits from the government has
been received at the Helena land office ~
the form of an order from Commissioner
Binrer Hermann Heretofore it has been
the custom to allow the companies the
right to cut timber from no more than
four sections, or 25GO acres. The maxi
mum has been reduced to lGo acres, d
quarter of Il section, and restrictions are
to be placed upon the granting OF permits
even for that acreage.
Idaho.
1t is expected that the telephone line
between Salmon City and Gibbonsvllle
will be in working order July !.
There are G5 convicts at the state pen-
itentiary at work about the institution.
OF this number there are 4S who are
working about the grounds, tending gar
den and clearing some OF the land OF
sagebrush.
The report of Superintendent McGinty
of the soldiers home for May shows the
total expenses for the month were $l6s.47.
The total appropriation available was
$93G.35. The saving for the month was
therefore $lG7ss. For the first five
months of the year the expenses were
S95277 less than the available appropria-
ton.
Work on the hot water well at the bar
racks at Boise has been resumed. The
funds were exhausted a short time ago
lust when success seemed to be within
sight, a good sized flow having been en-
countercd Senator Shoup was commn-
nicated with and he at once secured an
order authorizing necessary additional
expenditure.
Il. I. Perkins of the geological survey
is on his way to the northern part OF the
state. He goes there to run the line be-
tween Montana and Idaho from the Can
adian boundary southwark, about 75
miles to the summit Of Bitter Root noun
tains The line is the 39th meridian
west from Washington. 1t has never
been surveyed, and there is now much
confusion arising from the uncertainty
respecting lis exact location.
NO WORK FOR THOUSANDS OF MEN.
Shut Down of Window Glass and Tin