Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-06-15

4 dooOCidilOu nelti dU III nleIesIlHS COnNtu~
tion liz Boise last week.
The Scottish development
coHzrsny is thoroughly prospecting its
ground at Junction Bar.
Troop f, Fourth cavalry, until re-
Gently, ationed at Boise barracks,
sailed for Manila last week.
The members of company B, Idaho
National G hards, at Preston, have re-
ceived their new uniforms
Upon the arrival of consignment of
bolts the r hcific & Idaho Northern ex-
poets to lay mile of track day.
The directors of the Intermountain
fair held an important meeting last
week, preparing for this years fair.
Sam Il. Meyer of Boise has been ap-
pointed quartermaster-gener on the
governors staff with the rank of coll
onel.
A. p. BoYier, who until recently was
experimenting mines in Boise Basin,
has departed for Korea, to open up
mines there.
- The snow was still about four feet
deep, on the first of June, in the inn
mediate vifinity of the mines in the
Seven Devils, but it is disappearing
fast.
Letters received from members of the
Idaho troops in the Philippines now in
the hospital state that they receive
every ttention in the hospital, and
have no complaints to make.
The Boise & Nampa Irrigation, Land
& Lumber company, owner of the
Ridenbaugh canal, has been reorgan-
4 lied. The deed conveying the prop
erty bore S50O.in revenue stamps.
A great strike has just been made in
Buffalo Hump, perhaps the greatest on
the noun ain. 1t is just below the
snow line. The vein is eight feet wide
and carries values of nearly $500 to the
ton.
At the recent meeting of the South
ern Idahd Fsnit Growers association
the reports received regarding smudg-
ing satisfied the members that it is an
effective way to protect the orchards
in the ear y spring.
Twelve thousand five hundred dol
lars have recently been added to the
state school fund by reason of the sale
s. of school land in Bear Lake and FIRE.
mont counte Most of the land was
sold for SlO per acre
@. j. Bassett, state commissioner of
immigratiD pm, who has returned from
Wichita, Kan, where he attended the
session of the Trans Mississippi con
gress, says large number of people in
Kansas and Oklahoma will move to
Idaho in the near future.
The state militia is being reorgan-
lied. Ne w companies are being re-
cruited at Boise, Rexburg, Preston and
Pocatello, and other companies in var
ious parts of the state will be formed
soon, so that in case of future trouble
government troops will not have to be
called
The In ter-State Temperance Alli-
ance, which embraces the states of
Idaho, Utah, Montana, Oregon and
Washington, convened in annual ses-
sion in Boise last week During the
year IL, 500 pages of printed matter
was sent put, $50 addresses delivered
and 1000 miles travelled. Receipts for
the year were $3.50. 10 and expenses
4 s582.9&
The De Lamar Mining company has
purchased the Big Buffalo mine for
$500, 900, the first paymefd-sf s25, 900 to
A be made July Is. The price is the same
that the owners were to realize on the
Clark and Sweeney sale which failed,
for their having $500, 900 additional to
pay to the broker, Sam Silverman.
This mine is the original discovery of
the famous Buffalo Hump.
State Treasurer Rice has received a
United States treasury check for
S4,99s.7l n part payment of the claim
of the state of idaho for mobolizing the
Idaho volunteers. The total claim of
the state is some SIG, 900, but the re-
naming TENS have not been attested
in such manner as to pass the auditing
department. The necessary correc-
tions will be made and forwarded.
There has been filed with the secre-
tary of state articles of incorporation
of the Ca Bsia Mining company, capital
$780, 900, organized under. the laws OF
Utah. Il he company owns four-ffths
of the Alice mine in the Stokes dis
trict.
1t is nc W reported that the Burling.
ton is behind the Idaho Midland rail.
road scheme. The Idaho Midland is
the projected road from Boise to the
Idaho-M6ntana line at point about
where the Burlington would come
through