Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-06-13
ELM0RE BULLETIN.
G. NJ PAYNE MABHL L. PAYNR
PAYNE 4 PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO NEWS.

ready beginning to arrive.
Guy Hinton of San Francisco has
been appointed clerk in the land
Office at Boise at 5000 year.
The idea of securing new grounds
for the state fair in time for this years
exhibition has been abandoned.
Half a million pounds of wool were
sold at Caldwell one day last week,
prices ranging from 8 to 11X cents.
Surveyors out for the p. e. l. N.
extension announce that practical
i grade into the Seven Devils has been
fornd,..
Many Payette melon growers have
been obliged to replant their fields,
the freeze Of the 5th having killed the
tender plants.
The prune crop around Payette, it
is feared, is a total loss, and the dam
age in that vicinity is placed at fifty
thousand dollars.
The Cobban-Casey company has se-
lected about 10000 acres of timber
in the Payette valley, and SO far has
invested about $500 o0o
Ex-Governor Steunenberg has been
afflicted with something like spotted
fever, but has so far recovered as to be
attending to business again.
James ellison, foreman of the Min
Moore aipa IIail l. ...l
broken and was otherwise injured by
falling rocks in the mine last week.
kootenai county is destined to be-
come great lumber section. At one
place near the new town of Harrison
$4,000, 600 feet of logs are ready for the
mill.
The salary of the postmaster at
Nampa has been increased from $1,000
TO $1,000 year, and that of the post
master at Weiser decreased from $500
to $780,
The Meridian creamery is having a
very prosperous season, receiving
more milk than at any previous time
In its history, and is shipping from
500 to 1900 pounds of butter day.
Herbert W. Noble, representing New
York capitalists interested in the Mid.
land railway project, is in the state
investigating the resources of the ter
rltory through which the road will
pass.
Nardner is located on ground en-
braced in mining claim, the locators
OF which are now endeavorinp to Sc.
cure United States patent. The
townspeople are opposing its issuance
as 1t would wipe out property values.
In the Payette valley is considerable
hemlock, commonly called white pine.
The bark of which is the best material
IN the world for tanning purposes, and
the supply is comparatively inexhaust-
ibie. The pulp is excellent for paper.
making.
The Twin Sisters mine in Boisie ba-
sin, near Centerville, is being equip
ped with fve-stamp mill. If the
saving Of ore values is satisfactory,
The capacity of the mill will be in
creased to comport with the capacity
of the mine.
Governor Hunt, who has ret,r,ad
from a visit to the Buffalo exposition.
says Idaho's exhibit is creditable in
the extreme, equaling many states and
exeelling others. The timber display
and the mining exhibit are far ahead
of most states displays.
Within eleven miles of Orc Fino a
strong company is opening extensive
coal fields, embracing 10000 acres.
The coal is said to be of excellent
quality The company developing the
heid Is from Colfax, Washington, and
IS backed by ample capital.
Two hundred placer mines are in
operation in the new county of Clear
water. The ground averages about
dollar yard There are twenty stamp
mills and three hydraulic elevators in
operation and others projected. There
is also an abundance of timber.
Inc proposition to bond Montpelier
'or 9so,ooo for the purpose of putting
n system of waterworks was de-
asaeea, The vote was light, oN ing to
eiie restriction of the statute, and a
s"o-ehirds vote would have been re-
ao'feo to carry the proposition.
ne Richards sawmilI, which has
80 moved to Council from the can
isw miles above town, EMPLOYS
naeita :, ol thirty men and has a ca
pha phe'.y Of about $4,000 feet per aav.
me. ne payroll approximates s7oo = veal,
a1ef'aily aids the new town.
John Strobe, well known .,oc,,man
diaa oae of the pioneers Of the state
81 ea n AZ his home near Boise on the Ard
hue snemorrhage of the stomach. sinner
awa" sa by injuries received In a run.
of 80 years ago. He was es years
aee and leaves an estate of saso ooa
a = bold robbery was committed !,
!, on'pelier on the 4th, when the s,oss
*asala.' =. stewart, jeweler and bieycle
Noe,a, vas broken into and about $3.50
ke,. u Jeweiry and other yalnablas
kans saken. It Is believed the Same
sns'y operated in st, Anthony.