The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-01-01
SHUT DOWN OF SINGLE MILLS
Large Payments of Delinquent Tax
es-Shipping Horses to Honolulu
Irrigation Project in Montana
More Townships to He Opened for
Filing in Idaho.

two million feet.
1t is estimated that the mills of Sno-
homish county, numbering 40 or more,
annually consume l00O00,000 feet of
timber.
Work has begun on the erection OF
building 24xl00 and wing 24X5O for the
evaporator works at Puyallup.
A party has been formed at Mount
Vernon for the purpose of operating
sawmill at Lake Bennett next season.
The extension of the Palouse branch to
Lewiston before spring is generally ac-
cepted as true by the people in the Pot
latch country.
A prominent sheep man and farmer OF
Klickitat county says that everything
looks exceedingly favorable for another
prosperous year for farmers and stock
men.
John Kinney of Goldendale has receiv-
ed letter from mis- son John, who has
been in Alaska for the past two years,
stating that he had made rich gold
end.
Out of the POI single mills in the
state of Washington, no fewer than ls5
are shut down and will make no output
until after February l. The daily prod
uct of the POI mills when in operation Is
l2,56O,OOO shingles.
South Bends tax is reduced one-halt,
being $4O53.7O this year as against
SS4Sl 65 for 1896. The same is also true
of Ilwaco, where the taxes for 1897 are
1851 %, as against $l025.94 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
wears, 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 thsee
or four inside the $3.50 limit, and some
French Percherons. The heavy horses
went 1900 to 1900 pounds, and were con-
tracted at $500 to $3.50 per span.
he foreign lumber trade of Gray's har-
ber for the year 1897 is 200 per cent
larger than the trade of any previous
wear. In 1896 IL vessels sailed from
Grays harbor with cargoes of lumber ag-
gregating 100000 feet During 1897 p
vessels have cleared from the harbor.
carving lO.649 900 feet of lumber, valued
at $4,000.
Pacific county's tax rolls for 1897 show
the total amount of taxes levied to be
1862. 1872. or S6SS62S 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.O7 last year, or a
reduction of $lO,06sl7 in local taxation.
For county expenses alone there has been
a reduction of $2733.S7, the total amount
levied for 1897 being $l6,OO2.35, as com
pared with $ls.736.22 for 1896.
Montana.
1t is proposed to put under irrigation
large tract of land south of Big Timber.
The Montana Society of Engineers will
hold its eleventh annual meeting in the
city of Butte January Z and 8, 1898.
The attendance of the college in Boze-
man is now almost 200, and will be con-
siderably increased. This does not in
elude the students of the high school,
some 80 in number.
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 secretary and treasurer.
The delinquent tax list in Gallatin
county for the year 1897 is lower tnan it
has been for many years past. The
amount collected by the county treasurer
amounted to $ll5,534.72 December IL,
leaving a balance of 5Ol7.lO yet to be col
lected, most of which is dueffrom the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company and
the West Gallatin Canal -ompany.
In his annual report for the fiscal year
of 1897 State Land Register H. ID. Moore
suggests a new policy for the state land
department. He recommends the with
drawal of all public school and university
lands from the market, on the ground
that it would be a more far-sighted pol
icy to lease the lands and to secure an
annual income from them than to dispose
of them finally through sales. That pol
icy was first suggested by Governor
Smith in his message to the legislature
last January.
Up Ito December last Treasurer Gar
rett oi Lewis and Clarke county collect
ed 1924 35l.46. The aggregate tax of the
county based on the equalized assess
ment, was 1856, 24S.95, so that there were
delinquent at the close of business De
cember 6 S3l ,S97.49 of taxes BY far the
greater part of that amount will he col.