Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-01-03
t IDAHO SIFTINGS.

The total production of metals in Idaho
during the year is estimated at SI3,623,-
AS, divided as follows:
Gold, $4,000 900; silver, $6,Io3 OPS;
lead, s4,99o4Io; copper, $50, 900.
The gold production increased from ST.
SOS 500 in 1898 The production of silver
and lead was seriously interfered with by
the disturbances in the Occur d. Alenes
i'll the early summer. The total of all
metals for the year is practically the same
as last year.
The new camps, like Buffalo Hump
| and Thunder Mountain, have not yet
begun to produce, but a number of new
districts are expected to run the next
| years production of gold up considerably.
The Natatorium at Boise has been
closed and will in the future open only
on gala occasions. Poor street car service
| is given as a reason for such action.
Dnring the past season ia carloads Of
fruit were shipped from Boise and vicinity
I26 being ptunes and pears and 46 apples
These shipments have resulted in the dis
tribution to the fruit growers of about
100000.
Snow has brcome so deep that grading
operations have been stopped above
Council on tie p. & I. N. road, some 200
men having been called off for the winter.
Grading will be resumed as early as
possible i'll the spring and the work
pushed more rapidly than ever before.
The ice harvest is on in full blast in
and about HALEY. The News Miner re-
ports a fine crop of thirteen inch ice
rolling into the ice houses there at the
rate of forty tons per day.
Attorney Littleton Price slipped on an
) icy side walk in HALEY last Thursday
and broke one of the bones of his ankle.
; The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining
> Co. have built a $1,000 school house al
Kellogg, Idaho and have presented ii to
; the school district. 1t has been done tt
| encourage lHCll Win i'h'liN" w h'"NN
permanent homes in the C9ur d'Alene'
and thus insure better class of men tt
enter the employ of the company. Sucl
policy is a very laudable one.
Trains on the ?. & l. N. railroad nov
run to Cambridge. No further work OF
the extension of the road will be don
this winter
6 w. X. Hilton of Moscow has been ar
pointed shoe and harness maker at tn
:. Fort Hall Indian agency, at salary {
# SIS per month.
Y IL Coakley, who was warden of I'll
Il bull pen during the recent riot trouble
If in the Cnut d'Alenes, has purchased a
e interest in the Vendome Hotel i'll Weise
: and with his brother, J. b. Coakley, wi
v conduct that enterprise.
The county treasurers have been not
l. fed that the states taxes must be sent
y, not later than January 18th. The pa.
r. ment must include the uncollected take
4 This works hardship on counties whe
III large percent Of the taxes are still u
in paid as it prevents the payment of on
II standing warrants.
II Potlatch farmers are raising hogs agai
This happens only when the price
III wheat is below IS cents, which 4
Is farmers generally consider the cost
e, production. Then it is more proftat
Il, to use wheat as feed for hogs. Duri
~ the last few years this industry has be
neglected. There is no wheat bel
hauled to the warehouses and the repo
brought in from the country show tina
good portion of it is being fed to hogs.