Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-05-01
NORTHWEST BREv|T|ES
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

Ground has been broken for door fac
tory at Ballard.
A ship has just cleared from New
Whatcom with $4,000 feet of lumber for
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 doXen or more plots in as many
portions OF Clarke county Will test the
conditions of its growth.
A shipment of 2500 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 514c
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
proved such prosperous venture that
its owner is about to start another in a
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 a proposed Touring mill.
The franchise further provides that the
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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 SlGV,000 of Montana State university
bonds at a premium of $25.
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 $4,000 Geo. 1t is estimated that
the coming season will show an increase
Of from S5.o000OO to $4,000 GOO.
The state board of land commissioners
has sold the timber standing on 2Gp acres
of deaf and dumb school land in western
Missoula county for $50 per thousand
feet Is is estimated that there are ,0d(
feet on the land.
Cascade county owes Meaeher county
$21 1913 for which a warrant will be il
sued. This was the verdict of the conl-
mission, appointed by house bill No. !:
to apportion the amount of Meager county
Indebtedness to be assumed by Cascade
county by reason Of the segregation OF
Meagher county.
Idahe.
Bright fruit prospects are reported
from Snake river districts.
The water in the river at Shoshone is
higher than ever before kroWr.
The promoters of the Payette railroad
are still in the east for the purpose o
| placing the bonds.
! The governor has received from the ma
| tional government S1625 as the allowance
for the soldiers home for the quarter
! ending March 81.
! The chief clerk OF the state land de
! pertinent is busy sending out notices t.
delinquent purchasers of state lands. The
board proposes to give them a stirring ~
| all around.
! A sheepman tells the people in Bols'
! that his crop of lambs is very good thi:
spring. The other day he marked 25r
lambs in his flocks that represented al
| increase of 103 per cent. lie believes
| that the increase all through his flock
will be above 100 per cent. Other sheep
| men report a great many lambs. T1'
wool clip is also most satisfactory.
| The governor has received complaints
! from the southeastern portion OF tn
| state to the effect that Utah sheepm9l
are disregarding the quarantine law en-
acted at the recent session OF our lnslS
lature The law requires that sheep mus
be inspected and dipped before beln:
| driven in from another state, but tn
Utah people are driving upon the Edah
ranges without paying any attention Il