Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-01-14
A LOOK OVER NORTHWEST
SHUT DOWN OF sHINGLE MILLS
Large Payments of Delinquent Tax
es-shfpping Horses to Honolulu
-Irrigation Project i'm Montana
More Townships to BE Opened for
Filing in Idaho.

A wing 100 by $50 feet is to be added
to, Fidalgo island cannery.
The cargo shipments from Tacoma for
the IL months of 1897 were 70, lS0,59O feet
of lumber, an increase over 1896 OF nearly
two million feet.
It is estimated that the mills of Sno-
homish county, numbering 40 or more,
annually consume l0O,O0O,O00 feet OF
timber.
Work has begun on the erection of
building 24xl00 and wing 24x50 for the
evaporator works at Puyallup.
John Kinney of Goldendale has receiv-
ed letter from his son John, who has
been in Alaska for the past two years,
stating that he had made a rich gold
find.
Out OF the 207 single mills in the
state of Washington, no fewer than 1876
are shut down and will make no output
until after February l. The daily prod
uct of the POT mills when in operation is
l2,560,0OO shingles.
South Bends tax is reduced one-half,
being $4053.7O this year as against
$S48l .65 for 1896. The same is also true
of Ilwaco, where the taxes for 1897 are
$63l.23, as against $l025.04 for 1896.
The Whatcom county treasurer re-
ports about 100000 in taxes paid to the
date of delinquency, December l. A great
deal of this was for the three preceding
years, and the amount is about three
times the sum received each of those
years.
An Ellensburg man shipped carload
of horses to Honolulu the other day. The
car was made up Of roadsters, some three
or four inside the 2:30 limit, and some
French Percherons. The heavy horses
went 1900 to 1900 pounds, and were con-
z tracted at $400 to $3.50 per span.
The foreign lumber trade of Gray's har-
Dor for the year 1897 is 200 per cent
larger than the trade of any previous
year. In 1896 ii vessels sailed from
Gray's harbor with cargoes of lumber ag-
gregating 100000 feet. During 1897 %
vessels have cleared from the harbor,
carrying l0,649,OO0 feet of lumber, valued
at $4,000.
Pacific county's tax rolls for 1897 show
tuC OOt<tt hHlOunJ Vi tdAto lCflc0 W NC
$62, 1872, or $6Ss6.2S less than last year.
The taxes would have been much less had
not the levy for state purposes been in
creased nearly one-half. The taxes levied
for county, school, city and road pur,
poses in 1897 amount to $40,263.90, as
compared with $50,332.07 last year, or a
reduction of $l0,06S.l7 in local taxation
For county expenses alone there has been
reduction of $2733.S7, the total amount
levied for 1897 being $l6,O02.35, as com
pared with $ls,736.22 for 1896.
Montana.
II is proposed to put under irrigation
large tract of land south of Big Timber
The Montana Society of Engineers viii
hold its eleventh annual meeting in tn,
city of Butte January and 8, 1893.
The attendance of the college in Boze
man is now almost 200, and will be con
siderably increased. This does not in
clude the students of the high school
some so in number.
About dozen or fifteen old timers me
at the Boulder hot springs the other da,
and effected an organiz,a by eleetinl
George Benjamin president and P. B
Mills secretary and treasurer.
The delinquent tax list in Gallatil
county for the year 1897 is lower than i
has been for many years past. TIL
amount collected by the county treasure
amounted To $ll5,53472 December IL
leaving balance of 50l7.lO yet to be col
lected, most of which is due from tn
Northern Pacific Railroad Company an,
the West Gallatin Canal company.
In his annual report for the fiscal yea
of 1897 State Land Register H. d. Moor
suggests a new policy for the state lam
department. He recommends the with
drawal of all public school and universit
lands from the market, on the groun
that it would be more far-sighted POI
icy to lease the lands and to secure a
annual income from them than to dispos
icy was first suggested by Governo
Smith in his message to the legislator
last january.
Up to December last Treasurer Gal
rett of Lewis and Clarke county collect
ed $224,35l.46. The aggregate tax of tn
county, based on the equalized asses
ment, was $256,24s.95, so that there WEI
delinquent at the close of business D,
cember $3l ,S97.49 of taxes By far tn
greater part of that amount will be co
lected. Collections as a whole were niue
better than they were last year, althoug
the delinquencies on the first Monday
December, 1896 were $23,S2S.2l, or les
than the amount delinquent this year.
Among the accomplishments of Ii
past year for western Montana, the col
struction of the wagon road from Gil
louisville, Idaho, to the upper Bitter RoC
valley must be accounted one of the mo.
satisfactory. The county of Ravalli bui
the road from the Bitter Root valley [
the Idaho line, but could not appropriai
public funds for its construction into til
neighboring state. The people of Gil
louisville raised fund that did much {