Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-11-01
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Nampa.
Two bars of gold were cast at the
Boise assay Office recently valued at
$50, 32942
HALEY is experiencing very unusual
weather this month, having had sew.
eral heavy rain storms the past three
weeks.
A Chautauquan circle has been
q organized in Hoise, about thirty mem.
bers having been admitted at the FIRST
meeting
Part of the iron for the Boise river
railroad bridge has arrived aud con.
structioh will he commenced at an
ii early date.
d The amount OF coal used in winter
i in Boise is estnt-trd at $50 10 400 ears
with an average capacity of twenty.
Eve tons each
81 The rural free delivery route, rec.
commended for the vicinity of Cald.
well, has been ordered established,
effective Move m her /.
The directors Of the Intermountain
fair last week allowed S3,0lo of bills,
cleaning them up. Every dollar will
be paid and there will be surplus.
The Buckthorn Mining company,
limited, of Haley, capital stock s50,-
ooo has filed articles of incorporation
IN the Office of the secretary of state.
Carl Wohlfarth, German Lutheran
preacher and editor of the German
paper called the Idaho Post, published
at Boise, is missing aud some, at least,
Of his creditors fear he will not re-
d turn.
Last week TWENTY-FIVE thousand
bushels Of bluestem wheat was sold at
Lewiston for Chicago delivery. The
local quotation on bluestem is AZ cents.
and the freight rate TO Chicago is SO
4 cents per hushci 1t Is believed that
the seller received two or three cents
more than the Portland market paws.
Last week near the Boise depot John
1 McManus was thrown from wagon,
sustaining broken arm. He was in
i toxicated aud was trying 10 locate a
friend IN the vicinity OF Lovers lane.
Il The wagon gave lurch as it passed
over the railroad tracks and McManus
was thrown out. The horses stood in
their tracks until he was loaded in.
The Bunch boys who live at the head
Of Garden Valley on the Payette, came
into Boise one day last week with the
hides of nineteen bears, which they
have killed at odd times within the
last thirty-flve days. They intend to
ship the hides to Denver, as there is a
greater demand for them there than in
the local market. The bears weighed
all the way from 250 to 500 pounds
John Meisner met with a severe ac-
cident about Is miles west of Boise
recently. lie was examining a blast
which he had put in a cistern and the
shot went off, causing him the loss of
his right eye. After the shot had
gone off he went to the cistern, which
was only seven feet deep, an saw
that one of the blasts had failed to
explode. He was just turning away
when the blast went off.
The total shipment o. pruues and
pears from the vicinity of Boise during
the past season was the largest for any
single year in the history of the fruit
business in that part of the state The
fruit that was shipped in bull; filed
sol cars. This does not include the
Immense amount that was shipped to
various points under the special rates
that We're established by the express
company in order to introduce Idaho
fruit into new localities When this
can be figured up it win undoubtedly
raise the figure to 400 cars.
Clerk Arney of the State Land board
heid a sale OF school lands, situated
In Latah county. at Moscow last week
They were all agricultural lands and
brought prices ranging from $40 to
slo per acre. MIR. Arney offered for
sale large body of white pine timber
situated ON Potllch river, about thirty
miles east of Mascow. but there were
DO bidders. Tue timber offered agre-
gates lao, ,000, 900 feet Of stumpage. the
appraised valuation OF which is 90
cents per 900. The Land Board had
oeen assured by John L. Glover, con-
sisting of himself aud the Weyer-
hausers of Wisconsin, would pay thu
appraised price, but Glover notified
Mr. Arney that he would not bid on
account of the clause in the statutes
requiring the timber TO be removed
within twenty years from date of sale.
ihe refusal to buy was great sur
prise to Mr. Arney and the people of
that place.
Plans for the proposed smelter with
which to treat the ores of the Boston &
seven Devils company in the Seven
Devils country are now being prepared
Inc high grade ores of the mine are
nndlng ready market In Salt
Lake,