Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-07-02
NORTHWEST BREv|T|ES
PROGRESS IN Development OF
THE COUNTRY's RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matter" OF GEN.
eral Interest in Idaho. Montana
and WnshingtOn.

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 5. 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 Seattle's Magnolia Bluff army
post site is to be commenced August /,
the available installment appropriation
being $4,000.
The Pierce County Fair Association,
among other Improvements. Will build ii
third of "a mile track 40 feet wide at the
home stretch and 20 at the back.
The fruit crop in southern Mason coun-
ty will be somcw hat light this season, but
in the northern part of the county there
will be a good crop of apples, pears, cher
ries, plums and prunes.
Captain J. NJ. Skidmorc of South Bend
organized the Indian war veterans of H.
waco and vicinity into II post, which Is
named in honor of Ex-Governor !. !. Stew
ems. f. b. Stone is captain.
Spokane county warrants are still in
creasing in value. Offers made by brok
ers at 80 cents have been refused by hold
ers of blocks aggregating amounts suili-
cient to Justify bidding.
A lagoon in Sequim bay is being pre-
pared by the Park Oyster Company for
the cultivation of eastern oysters. A dam
has Deen built across the mouth of the Ia
COON 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 Chehals has arrived, and most
of it is now stored in the old building or
on the tracks in the yards.
In Lewis, Cowlitz, Clarke and Skamania
the showers of the past week have been
very beneficial, and there has not been
too much rain. Cherries, raspberries and
blackberries are ripening. Prunes and
apples appear to be doing well. In Clarke
county haying has been interfered with
by the rains; clover is somewhat light.
Potat toes are fair.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has dis
patched two members Of the United
States geological survey-G. l.. Fletcher
and Thomas G. Gerdine-to Washington
for the purpose of making a report upon
the Cascade forest reserve, one of the
tracts set apart by ex-President Cleve-
land, with view to the modification, and
possibly the complete revocation of the
order as it regards this reserve.
Montana.
More than 25OOOO pounds of wool are
already in the Northern Pacific ware
house ut 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 Al tracts Of land
amounting to 5000 acres, for about $500
and sold 800 acres for $344O.
Tom Cooper of the Northern Pacific
land department says that a conservative
estimate of the amount of railroad Ian,
disposed of in Lewis and Clarke count,
since the first of the year would be 100,
600 acres, while he believes that abou
$4,000 acres of Northern Pacific lands Ia
Gated in Choteau county have been sol'
in that time.
What will be important news to tn
large lumber companies who have beef
cutting timber on public lands under spe
cial permits from the government hi
been received at the Helena land office i
the form of an order from COMMISSIONS
Binger Hermann. Heretofore it has bee
the custom to allow the companies tn
-:-lA a., I,
four sections, or 256O acres. The max
mum has been reduced to 100 acres,
quarter of section, and restrictions al
to be placed upon the granting OF permit
even for that acreage.
Idaho.
1t is expected that the telephone lin
between Salmon City and Gibbonsvill
will be in working order July l.
There are IS convicts at the state pc,
itentiary at work about the institution
OF this number there are AZ who III
working about the grounds, tending ga
den and clearing some OF the land
sagebrush.
The report of Superintendent McGint
of the soldiers home for May shows IL
total expenses for the month We're $16S.4
The total appropriation available Wa
$936.35. The saving for the month W.
therefore $l67.Ss. For the first fl,
months of the year the expenses WEI
$952.77 less than the available apprOpri
ton.
Work on the hot water well at the la
racks at Boise has been resumed. II
funds We're exhausted short time ae
just when success seemed to be With
sight, good sized flow having been el
cOuntered. Senator Shoup was COMM
nicated with and he at once secured a
order authorizing necessary additions
expenditure.
4. T. Perkins of the geological survc
is on his way to the northern part of Il
state. He goes there to run the line b
tween Montana and Idaho from the Ca
adian boundary southwark, about
miles, to the summit of Bitter Root moul
<ains Tho limo Ia tho 2pfh ,periHin