Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-01-07
POINTS IN NORTHWEST NEWS.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK GENERALLY
Preparations for the Rush to Alaska
stock Interests i'm Montana
Lewiston Branch of the Northern
Pacific-Facts From British Co
lumbia.


A Tacoma firm is making a portable
house l6x60 feet, to be shipped to Skaguay
for railroad contractor.
Councilman w. d. Lambert of Walla
Walla is dead. He was born in England
in 1928, came to California in 1852, and to
Walla Walla in 1868.
A. R. Hawk, pioneer of Washington,
died at his home, four miles south of Roy,
in Pierce county, the other day. Mr..
his parents in 1852 and was widely known
throughout the state.
A Tacoma man has closed contract
for three twin-screw steamers for use on
Lake Teslin in connection with the Stick
cen river trade. The boats are expected
I to make 10 knots an hour.
Wheat is beginning to move in linn
tied way at Rosalia, in Whitman county,
but the sales are kept pretty quiet; they
are in he neighborhood of 65 cents for No.
l and 63 to GA cents for good to choice
No.2.
The transportation companies are ex-
periencing a demand for freight space
WHICH, 10 SlNillS tltili iilOit thcy Soh
handle by the steamers now on the route
between Seattle and Alaska ports.
Tyee salmon are running fairly well in
Quartermaster harbor. They are there in
greater numbers than any other place in
that part of Puget sound, being attracted
to the locality to feed on the numerous
herring that frequent that harbor.
The mammoth tramp Steamship Algoa
has just sailed from Tacoma with the
largest cargo of grain ever loaded in a
single bottom. The cargo comprises H.
$50 short Tor American) tons of Washing
ton wheat, amounting to 377 500 bushels.
and valued at $4,000.
The state board of audit and control
has decided to raise the price of sacks
made at the penitentiary jute mill from
1925 to $40 per 100. 1t is claimed that
the mill ought to pay interest on the
money invested.
| South Bend reports that during the
food of last week the log boom in the
Willapa and North rivers broke, and the
former freed a million and a half feet of
logs, most of which were caught before
they reached the pay by parties in every
imaginable kind of floating craft. The
boom in Smith creek, containing 1000
feet of logs, also broke, but they fortunate
ly iammed and few We're lost
Commissioner Hermann of the general
land office has decided that no entries or
disposals of any non-mineral lands in the
north of the Colville Indian reservation in
Washington can be effected until after
the lands are surveyed and the presidents
proclamation is issued, opening the same
to entry. AS to issuing permits to cut
timber off such lands, he holds that it
can not be done. Timber cutting is UNI
lawful until after entries are allowed, ex-
cept as to timber growing on mineral
claims and for use in the ordinary work
ing of such claims.
! The records in the office of Treasurer
Alexander of Clarke county show the to-
during October and November amounted
to over $4,000. Of this amount about
l$l2,OOO for for delinquent taxes for years
prior to 1896. The collections made dur
ing the first half of the year brought the
total collections of 1896 taxes up to about
$s5,OO0. The levy for 1896 was $4,000
The amount of delinquent taxes for the
year is $4,000, smaller amount in pro
portion to the amount levied than for a
number of years.
Montana.
Lewistown is to have a telephone ex-
change.
Several new business blocks are to be
erected in Kalispell in the early spring
Sheepmen in the Yellowstone country
fed more hay during three weeks this win.
ter than they fed all of last winter.
From nearly every county in Montana
comes the gratifying news that the delin.
lquent tax list will be the smallest fol
many years.
| The ladies of the Catholic church in
Bozeman have about $500 as the net pro.
ceeds of fair, which will be used to aid
in building the new church.
About dozen or fifteen old-timers met
at the Boulder Hot Springs the other day
and effected an organization by electing
George Benjamin president and P. b. Mills
Isecretary and treasurer.
The materials for finishing up the col
lege buildings at Bozeman are all on the
IgrOund and the students on their return
from Christmas vacation will be able to
find accommodations for the better ad.
vancement of education in the spacious
lecture rooms in the buildings on Capitol
hill.
There are fewer cattle on the ranges in
Custer county than for years back, and
not many cattle are being imported at
this time. The small cattle raisers, real
izing that the day of the free public range
is drawing to close, are feeding more
than formerly. Many of them are rails.
ing alfalfa and other forage for both sheep
and cattle.
During 1897 over $4,000 was expend.
ed in improvements in the town of Chin.
ook, and the prospects point toward dou-
BILE that amount of building this year
Stoekmen and ranchers are all in better
condition, financially and every other
way, than they were year ago, and the
increase in the production of wheat on
the lands about Chinook give ample cause
for more hope.