Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-01
A LOOK OVER NORTHWEST
SHUT DOWN OF sHINGLE MILLS
Large Payments of Delinquent Tax
cS-Shippin. Horses to Honolulu
--irrigati0n Project in Montana
More Townships to Be Opened for
Filing in Idaho.
A wing 100 by $50 feet is to be added
+, Fid loo iS1a nd ta,,nary

the ] ! months of 1897 were 49, 1870 $50 fee
OF lumber an increase over 1896 of nearly
two million feet.
1t is estimated that the mills Of Sno
homish county, numbering 40 or more
annually consume lO00oo.0O0 feet O
timber.
Work has begun on the erection Of .
building 24SlOO and wing 24X50 for the
evaporation works at Puyalup.
a party has been formed at Mount
Vernon Tor the purpose OF operating q
sawmill at Lake Bennett next season.
The extension of the Palouse branch tc
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 recev-
ed letter from his son Jehn, who has
been in Alaska for the past two years.
stating that he had made rich gold
find
Out of the POI shingle 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
net of the 2O1 mills when in operation is
12.560,00O shingles.
South Bends tax is reduced one-half
being $405310 this year as against
Ss4Sl.65 for 1896. The same is also true
of llwaco. where the taxes for 1897 are
$63l.23. as against SlO25.94 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
years, and the amount is about three
times the sam received each Of those
years.
An Ellensburg man shipped Il carload
of horses to Honolulu the other day The
car was made up of roadsters, some three
or four inside the 2:}0 limit. and some
French Percherons, The heavy horses
went 1900 TO 1900 pounds, and were cen
tracted at 500 to $3.50 per span.
The foreign lumber trade of Gray's hal-
Dor for the year 1897 is 300 per cent
larger than the trade Of any previous
year In 1896 ! vessels sailed from
Glays harbor with careoes of lumber ag-
gregating 340O00G feet. During 1897 %
vessels have cleared from the harbor.
carving lO.G4o.O0O feet Of lumber, valued
at 81 10000.
Pacific county's tax rolls for 1897 show
the total amount Of taxes levied to be
- 1n.4
The taxes would have been much less had
not the levy for state purposes been in
creased nearly half The taxes levied
for county, school, city and road pur-
poses in 1897, amount to S4O,263.9O. as
compared with $50.3332.07 last year, or a
reduction Of $lO.06S.l7 in local taxation |
For county expenses alone there has been
Il reduction of $2733S7. the total amount
levied for 1897 being Sl6,OO2.33, as com
pared with $lS,736.22 for 1896.
Montana.
1t is proposed to put under irrigation !
a 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 I and s, 1898.
The attendance Of The college in Boze \
man is now almost POO. and will be con
siderably increased. This does not in
clude the students of the high school,
some 50 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 il
has been for many years past. The
amount collected by the county treasurer
amounted to Sll5, ,534.12 December II.
leaving balance Of 5Ol7. 10 vet to be col
lccted, most Of which is due from the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company and
the West Gallatin Canal -ompany.
In his annual report for the fiscal year
Of 1897 State Land Register Fl. d. Moore
suggests 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 to December 6 last Treasurer Gar
rett of Lewis and Clarke county collect
ed 1924 1851 40 The aggregate tax of the
county, based on the equalized assess
ment, was S256. .24S.g5, so that there Were
delinquent at the close of business De
celnber $3l .s97 40 of taxes. BY far the
greater part Of that amount will be col
lected. Collections as a whole were much
better than they We're last year, although
the dclinquences on the first Monday in
December, 1896 were S23,92S.2l, or less
than the amount delinquent this year.
Among the accomplishments of the
past year for western Montana, the con
struction Of the wagon road from Glib
louisville, Idaho, to the upper Bitter Root
valley must be accounted one of the most .
satisfactory. The county Of Ravalli built
the road from the Bitter Root valley to
the Idaho line but could not appropriate
public funds for its construction into the
neighboring state. The people Of Glib
louisville raised fund that did much of ,
the work on the other side Of the range,
and the business men of Hamilton, Mis-
sQula and other towns subscribed the {
amounts necessary for the completing Of s
the work. ;
Idaho.
Deer have been seen within the town ;
limits of Kendrick. .
Work has begun Oh the Great North
ern coal chutes at Standpoint
A movement is on foot to establish Z
telephone line between Weiser and
Grangevillc.
The settlers along the Pend d'Oreille
river are gratifed at having six more ]