The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-29
NORTHWEST BREVIllto
rnoGnEss IN DEVELOPMENT oH
THE CouNTRY's RESOURCES
New Industries and Matters VI
ernI Interest i'm Idaho Mon'"
and Washington.

Ground has been broken for door l"'
tory at Ballard.
A shin has Just cleared from New
Whatcom with 10000 feet Of LUMBER io'
Calais, Peru.
Ranchers and sheep owners are COM
plaining of the scarcity of laborers
Many new residences are under con
struction and still there is complaint oil
no houses to rent at Everett.
About 200 pounds of sugar beet seed mas
arrived at Vancouver direct from Ger
many A dozen or more plots in as many
portions of Clarke county Will test the
conditions of it's growth.
: shipment of $500 tons OF coal Will pe
made from the Roslyn mines to san
Diego Immediately. 1t is sample snip
ment. 49,
1t is unlawful to take oysters from the
natural beds, except with tongs from
boat. The beds cannot be raked at low
tide.
The state board of control at Olympia
has fixed the price of grain sacks at oAc
from this time on, instead of 4.6 as
formerly. owing to the advance in the
price of jute.
The one store established four years
ago on the Colville Indian reservation mas
proved such a prosperous venture that
its owner is about to start another IN a
more central location.
After a bitter fight, extending over
period of some six weeks, the city council
of Seattle has granted all railways run
ming into Seattle a franchise extending
their several lines on the tide flats to
connection with a proposed Touring mill.
The franchise further provides that the
railways may build on to the southern
city limits.
Montana.
The sheepmen of northern Montana are
encouraged over wool prospects.
The miners union of Silver City will
erect and conduct a hospital.
The state treasurer has sold at private
sale 100000 of Montana State university
bonds at a premium of s25.
The county attorney of Cascade county
is of the opinion that the new liquor
license law does not apply to unincorpo-
rated towns.
Many Montana miners and prospecto"s
are going to Alaska to spend the summer
in the gold fields of the Yukon.
Montana mineral production last year
was about 100000 1t is estimated that
/ the coming season will show an increase
of from S5,OOOO00 to COO.
/ The state board of land commissioners
has sold the timber standing on 20U acres
/ of deaf and dumb school land in western
Missoula county for $1.5O per Thousand
feet. Is is estimated that there are 1856, ON
feet on the land.
Cascade county owes Meagher county
$21 1919, for which a warrant will be is
sued. This was the verdict of the COM
mission. appointed by house bill No. =
to apportion the amount of Meager county,
Indebtedness to be assumed by Cascad,
| county by reason of the segregation o
/ Meagher county.
Idaho.
Bright fruit prospects are reporte,
from Snake river districts.
The water in the river at Shoshone i
l higher than ever before known.
The promoters of the Payette railr oai
are still in the east for the purpose o
placing the bonds.
The governor has received from the ma
/ tional government $1625 as the allowanc,
for the soldiers home for the quartz
ending March 81.
partment is busy sending out notices t.
delinquent purchasers of state lands. TIL
board proposes to give them stirring II
all around.
A sheepman tells the people in Bots
that his crop of lambs is very good thi
spring. The other day he marked 2Sl
lambs in his flocks that represented "a
increase of los per cent. He believe
that the increase all through his flock
will be above 100 per cent Other sheep
men report great many lambs tn
wool clip is also most satisfactory.
The governor has received complaint
from the southeastern portion of tn
state to the effect that Utah sheepme
are disregarding the quarantine law en-
acted at the recent session of our legis
lature. The law requires that sheep mus
be inspected and dipped before bein
driven in from another state, but tn
Utah people are driving upon the Idah
ranges without paying any attention I
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