The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-04-11

At the State meeting of Idaho
Assessors held at Boise recently,
State Auditor Sinclair read the
following paper
Il have here the last report OF
the state board of equalization
containing an abstract of all the
reports from the different coun.
ties of personal and real proper.
| ty within the respective counties
for 1898. l find that there are nc
improvements reported or assess
ed on the unpatented lands OF
Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Ere
mont, Lemhi or Nez Perez coun,
ties. There is no city or town
lots within the entire counties OF
Boise or Owyhee and no improve
ments upon city or town lots 10
those two counties. Neither are
there any improvements on city
or town lots within Cassia, Idaho,
Lincoln or Shoshone counties
There is no improvements or
mining claims in Washington,
Oneida, Nez Perez, Lemhi, Lin
coin, Kootenai, Fremont, Custer,
Cassia, Blaine, Bear Lake, Ban.
mock or Ada counties. Within
the entire state of Idaho there
are only % grist mills; not one
in Bannock or Bear Lake OF
Boise or Blaine or Custer or Ell
more or Lincoln or Nez Perez OF
Oneida or Owyhee or Shoshone
There are only three planning
mills and six single mills in the
state.
''There is not a set of harness
or robe in Bannock, Bingham
Blaine, Canyon, Cassia, Custer,
Gilmore, Fremont, Idaho or Lin
coin counties.
4 There is only one county il
the state having a bondholdel
and that is Canyon. One bond il
that county is valued at $123.
There is not another taxable
bond in the state. There is only
one county, Idaho, where there
is a single judgment. In Ada
county there is only $1,000 bank
deposits. There are no bank de
posits in Bannock, Bear Lake
Bingham, Blaine, Canyon, Cas-,
STA, Custer, Elmore, Fremont
Latah, Lemhi. Lincoln, Nel
Perez, Oneida or Shoshone.
Throughout the entire state
there is only $685. on deposit
in the banks.
There is not a bee hive in the
state. There is no brandy OF
broom straw, no coal, no con.
signed goods. only seven thor
oughbred cattle, no beef cattle
in either Ada, Bannock, Bear
Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Boise,
Cassia, Gilmore, Fremont, Koot-
enai, Latah, Lincoln, Oneida,
Owyhee or Shoshone. There is
not mich COW in Blaine, Lin
coin or Owyhee counties. There
are no farming utensils in Ban
mock, Bear Lake, Bingham. Boise
Canyon, Cassia, Elmore, Ere
mont, Idaho, Kootenai, Lemhi,
Lincoln, Oneida, Shoshone OF
Washington.
There are no saloon fixtures
and we may justly infer no sa.
loons-in Bannock, Bingham,
Blaine, Cassia, Custer, Elmore,
Fremont, Lemhi, Lincoln OF
Oneida. However, there were
sold 658 licenses in those coun-
ties for 1898. There is only 49,
952 worth of wheat in the state
and that is Kootenai and Latah
counties. Kootenai county has
the only oats in the state, there
100 bushels in that county.
There is no barley, no corn, nc
flaxseed, and no vegetables in
the state.
1.-THE merchandise of the state
is only valued at $1,358, 1853.
There is only 382 tons of hay in
the state and it belongs to Koot-
enai and Lemhi counties. There
are no hogs in Bingham, Gilmore
or Lemhi counties. There are
thoroughbred horses in the state,
three in Bear Lake, five in Latah.
Here is remarkable instan-
cs In Bannock. Bear Lake,
Bingham, Blaine, Canyon, Cassia,
Gilmore, Femont, Latah, Lemhi,
Lincoln, Nez Perez, Oneida and
Washington, there is not an arti-
Gle of jewelry nor watch.
There is no record of sun dial
in either of these counties and
one is at loss to understand their
system of time measurement.
There is no wines or WHISTLES in
the entire state. There are only
five counties where there is any
cord wood, these are Ada, Boise,
Kootenai (which has 100 cords).