Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-21
NEWS AROUND HOME
ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON, IDAHO
AND MONTANA.
Assessment Figures, building Opera
tiOns and Other Interesting
GleaninEs.

Ihe concrete foundation Tor the hight
house at Westport is about completed.
The Stevens County Fair Association
will hold their annual fair at Meyers
Falls September %, 30 and October !.
The current school fund of the state
has been increased 81 ,O20.l3 since April
l, this year. by rents collected from
leased school lands.
The board of audit and control has
passed upon the July pay roll for the
penitentiary, amounting to $2lO9.34.
Eighty-five carloads Of hay were ship
ped from Ellensburg in July, most of 1t
goino to the sound 1t is still being ship
ped at a lively rate.
A survey of the mouth of the Quill
layute river is being made to ascertain
the cost of the Improvements that will
be necessary to make it deep water
harbor.
The Eastern Washington Hospital for
the Insane purchased 100 barrels of flour
at $349 per barrel, and the penitentiary
laid in supply of 204 barrels at 1928,
both just in time to save the recent rise
of 40 cents a barrel.
The railroad company estimate that
they will move about 25OO cars OF grain
from Pomeroy, while there will be about
500 90 to Snake river and be taken by
boats to Riparia and there shipped by rail
to Portland.
H. V. Bayley of Port Townsend, who
for years past has operated pack train
at Cook inlet, Alaska, has with Others
purchased the Cotton schooner Norman
Sunde which they will send to Cook in
let at once with a cargo Of provisions, to
return with miners who wish to come
south for the winter.
Boise is contributing funds for a state
fair to be held in that city in Octo-
Der.
The date of the annual teachers eX
animation in Latah county has been
changed to August 2G.
A new saw mill is to be erected at
the head of Lapwai creek, near Mason
butte on the Nez Perce reservation.
Lewiston reports that the peach crop,
owing to some climatic condition, is not
up to the standard of excellence Of past
years.
The O. R. & n. company has put an
other boat in service on the Snake river.
The traffic demands this additional ser
vice.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company is strnging the poles for the
new line between the Occur d 'Alenes and
Spokane
The Short Line is after the box car
fare collectors and within the past few
days about dozen conductors and brake
men have been discharged for forgetting
to turn in such fares.
Henry T. Ray, who has been Auditor
Bragaw's chief deputy for the last seven
years, has resigned his position and in
company with George f. Roberts, a well
known merchant of Clark's Fork, have
left Rathdrum for the klondike.
It is estima ted that 100000 or 100000
bushels of wheat will be shipped from
Genesee this season. There will be a saw
ing of cent and half bushel in freight
rates, and while last year the market
opened at about "a cents it is almost
double that this year.
1t is found the reports of the assess
ment of sheep is very unsatisfactory
Boise county is the only one that has
reported in the form contemplated by
the new law. 1t reports the number
of sheep grazed in the county two
months, the number three months, and
so on, while the other counties either
average the number or neglect to make
any reference to the sheep grazed only
portion Of the year..
Montana.
Placer mining has been resumed on the
river bar south Of the fair grounds at
Livingston.
Recent discoveries of mica in the up
per Bitter Root are attracting atten-
ton.
There have been 542 quartz and placer
locations filed for record with the county
clerk at Virginia City from January j.,
1897, to August i, 1897.
The Bozeman postotlice is one that will
receive increased pay owing to its improv-
ed business The sum Of 5000 has been
added to the postmaster's salary.
During the month Of July there were
shipped from Townsend by the Northern
Pacific company z-v,oO0 pounds Of wool;
$1,000 pounds of ore.
Notwithstanding the dry weather of
May the Fergus county hay crop prom
ises to be far in excess of what was
originally anticipated
1t is expected that northern Montana
beef shipments will be in full swing about
the latter part of August. The Milk
river pool is said to purpose shipping its
first trainload from Chinook about Aug,
ust 20.
The management Of the new coal com
pany at Gebo are meeting with some IT
tie difficulty in obtaining the right of
way for their proposed eight miles OF
railway by the Indians owning three al
lotments throught which their survey
runs.
Returns from all the counties in Mon
tana shows an aggregate assessa3le prop
erty valued at $ll5,372,75l for the cur
rent year, an increase of 5 per cent over
1896. The above does not include the
railroad assessment, which will be made
by the state authorities.
A recent lamb transaction in the Vi
cinity of Fort Benton is the sale OF about
$500 head by G. H. Evers, the purchaser
being J. b. Long Of Sycamore, Ill. The
price paid is said to be $l.5O per head,
about 200 culs to be taken out of the
bunch.
The wolf pest has reached the Gala
tin valley, in Montana. Game Warden
Keown reports that they are numcr-
GUS in the northern part of the county,
where Mr.. Bagsley recently found a
colt ham-strrng, and is of the opinion
that he has lost many more in the
same manner
The assessment of Great Falls as it now
stands shows that the value Of personal