Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-30
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY's RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters of GEN
eral Interest in Idaho, Montana
and Washington.

Ground has been broken for door fac
tory at Ballard.
A ship has just cleared from New
Callas, Peru.
Ranchers and sheep owners are COM
planning of the scarcity of laborers.
Many new residences are under con-
struction and still there is complaint Of
no houses to rent at Everett.
About 200 pounds of sugar beet seed has
arrived at Vancouver direct from Ger
many. A dozen or more plots in as many
portions of Clarke county will test the
conditions of its growth.
A shipment of $500 tons of coal will be
made from the Roslyn mines to San
Diego Immediately. 1t Is a sample ship
ment.
1t is unlawful to take oysters from the
natural beds, except with tongs from a
boat. The beds cannot be raked at low
tide.
The state board of control at Olympia
has fixed the price of grain sacks at sac
from this time on, instead of as as
formerly, owing to the advance in the
price of jute.
The one store established four years
ago on the Colville Indian reservation has
proved such prosperous venture that
Its owner is about to start another In
more central location.
After bitter fight extending over a
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 proposed Touring mill
The franchise further provides that the
railways may build on to the southern
city limits.
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 $l00,000 OF Montana State university
bonds at premium of $25
The county attorney of Cascade county
Is of the opinion that the new LIQUOR
license law does not apply to unncorpo-
rated towns.
Many Montana miners and prospectocs
are going to Alaska to spend the summe,
In the gold fields of the Yukon.
Montana mineral production lasr wear
was about $40,0000O. 1t is estimated that
the coming season will show an increase
or from $5,OOO,00O to $4,000, 600.
The state board of land commissioners
has sold the timber standing on 20U acres
OF ueaf and dumb school land in western
Missoula county for $3.50 per thousand
feet. Is is estimated that there are 155 O)C
feet on the land.
Cascade county owes Meaeher county
$l, 1913, for which warrant will be ID
sued. This was the verdict of the COM
mission. appointed by house bill No e
to apportion the amount of Meager county
indebtedness to be assumed by Cascade
county by reason of the segregation of
Meagher county.
Idaho.
Bright fruit prospects are reported
from Snake river districts.
The water in the river at Shoshone is
higher than ever before known
The promoters of the Payette railroad
are still in the east for the purpose of
placing the bonds
The governor has received from the ma.
tional government $1625 as the allowance
for the soldiers home for the quarter
ending March 81.
The chief clerk of the state land de-
partment is busy sending out notices to
delinquent purchasers of state lands. The
board proposes to give them a stirring up
all around
A sheepman tells the people In Boise
that his crop of lambs is very good this
spring. The other day he marked $500
lambs in his flocks that represented an
Increase of 10S per cent. He believes
that the Increase all through his flocks
Will be above 100 per cent. Other sheep
men report great many lambs. The
wool clip Is also most satisfactory.
The governor has received complaints
from the southeastern portion OF the
state to the effect that Utah sheepmen
are disregarding the quarantine law en-
acted at the recent session of our legis-
lature. The law requires that sheep must
be inspected and dipped before being
driven In from another state, but the
Utah people are driving upon the Idaho
ranges without paying any attention 10