Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-01-10
ELMORE BULLETIN.
q. II PAYN1 kAnxL l. PAYxy
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publisher.
IDAHO NEWS.
Boise has eleven churches.

81, 4OO,OOO
The Idanha, Boise's new hotel.
opened the 3rd
Idahos mineral product for 1899 was
4 sl4,15o,ooo
The total assessed valuation of the
state is s47,451,113.
4 The production of silver for the year
past is placed at SC, ,Oo0,o 900.
The past year has proven the most
prosperous in Idaho's history.
Boise is putting on metropolitan
\ airs again and has a case of smallpox.
Public land entered in the Boise
4 land office in 1900 totals 100, ass. AZ
\ acres.
Idaho produced $4,000, 900 worth of
lead last year and copper to the value
of $3.50, 900.
The average precipitation in the
state for a number of years has been
17.52 inches.
New buildings costing sass, 900 we're
erected in Boise during 1900, as against
sl52, 900 in 1899.
Gold bullion to the value of 81 1,570.-
636. 40 was purchased at the Boise as
say Office last year.
From Beatty station, seven miles
from Boise, 1,5OO, 900 pounds of prunes
were shipped last season.
A patent for rock drill sharpener
has been issued to Ralph H. Crockett
and II. J. Bundy, of Moscow
The Couer d'Alenes shipped 1so,oo
tons OF lead concentrates last year,
and handled ! 600, 900 tons Of ore
The Short Line last year settled
1,500 heads of families on railroad
land tributary to its lines in Idaho
In eleven townships in Latah and
Shoshone counties the state has se-
lected timber lands valued at $500, ,19l.
Idaho produced s., 1000, 900 in gold
during 1899, decrease of half q mil
lion from the previous years produc-
tion.
For the last decade Idaho shows a
greater percentage of increase of
wealth than any other state in the
Union.
The state land board last year leased
$1,000 acres of land, deriving a revenue
of sic, 200; 10, 500 acres were sold for
s126,1Os.
Three hundred cars of prunes and
apples were shipped from the fruit
growing districts of southern Idaho
during October.
Senator Shoup has introduced bill
in the senate providing for an appro-
priation of S25 900 to establish fish
hatchery in Idaho.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the patent to the state of Idaho
of list of lands in the Lewiston dis
trict selected under the grant to aid
state asylum for the insane. 1t en-
braces 3,a10 acres.
The Liberal group of mines on the
HALEY gold belt, about 2s miles north
west from the town, has been purchased
by a syndicate of New York people
who, after having the property thor
oughly examined, have decided to de-
velop it on large scale. A force of
miners will be put to work as soon as
practicable.
Corporal Steunenberg of troop A,
Eleventh cavalry, who was last week
nominated as first lieutenant of volun-
teers, is brother of Governor Steun-
enberg. Lieutenant Steunenberg Is
now with his regiment in the Philip
pines, and it is said that his promotion
is due entirely to his military services
and efficiency. The Eleventh cavalry
is the only volunteer cavalry regiment
in the army, and IL was recruited almost
entirely from the volunteers in the
Spanish war serving in the Philippines.
Edward Rice, convicted of the MUIR
der of Matt Mailey in Wallace last
October, and confined in the peniten-
tiary under death sentence, severed
his windpipe with an old knife last
week, inhicting probably fatal in
juries.
State Auditor Sinclair in his biennial
report gives the Indebtedness on ac-
count of the Couer d'Alene riots at $780,
$40, and suggests that Shoshone coun-
ty, where the trouble occurred, be re-
quired by the legislature to pay por-
tion of It.
Governor Steunenberg has appointed
c. A. Leper, G. w. Bramm and Perry
E. Miller commissioners of Nez Perce
county. TO fill the unexpired term of
the commissioners ousted by the
courts. The men appointed were Off
cers-elect
The L%aho Poultry and Pet Stock as
ISOLATION will give an exhibition in
Boise February 5, 6 and 7, the first ex-
hibition by the new association, but IL
is with the hope and intention of max.
Ing these exhibitions events OF yearly
occurrence.