Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-01-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

Meridian has two churches and six
lodges.
Nampa almost doubled in population
last year.
The late legislature cost the state
s40,e55.93.
Four stage lines run out of Noun
tainhome.
The railroad assessment increased
sl2s,3 last year.
County assessors made returns on
9o6 mules last year.
Preliminary steps are being taken to
incorporate Meridian.
Receipts at Boise express Office for
the year were $59,s70
A second elevator is in course of
erection at Idaho Falls.
Idaho's assessment increased in 1891
e4,7sS, ,375. Al over 1900.
The total income of the state last
year was sl,117,25341,
Bannock county erected new court
house last year at cost of $50, 900.
Manyfine business buildings and res
1901.
The Camas mine at Haley, will be
equipped with 2O-stamp mill this
year.
One hundred and fifteen families
settled in the vicinity of Payette last
year.
Diphtheria is raging in Weiser, and
strongest quarantine measures are in
force.
The increase in property valuation
in Cassia county in 1901 was about
$4,000.
Taxes are paid on 525 goats in the
state, ATS of which are in Cassia
county.
The monthly payrolls of the Short
Line compiled at Pocatello aggregate
s19O,ooo
The expense of the Soldiers Home
to the state during the year past was
s7,37o.5o.
During the current year over $50 cars
of baled hay have been shipped from
Meridian.
Caldwell shipped 1000, 900 pounds of
wool in 1901, an increase of 25 per cent
over 1900.
Business buildings approximating
$4,000 in cost were erected in Weiser
last year.
Stocks of merchandise in the state
were valued by assessors at So, ,9o4, ,o74. sc
last year
The mining industry in Boise county
has not been so productive since the
palmy COS.
Caldwell will expend $4,000 in
waterworks and $4,000 in canals
during 1902.
Lots in the business portion OF
Nampa have been sold for 500 per front
foot, recently.
One hundred and ninety-three min.
ing claims were surveyed for patent
during the year.
Nine business establishments have
been opened in Emmett during the
past two months
Boise police made 500 arrests last
year, and fines collected from offender.
amounted to $3,595.
Business buildings and residences
approximating $4s,0 900 were erected a.
Payette the past year.
There are 1,42s,1o2 sheep, 165, SO:
cattle, s6,444 horses and mules and 30,
95s swine in the state.
A sawmili with capacity of Sc, 90,
feet daily, and box factory, are be
ing erected at Payette.
Emmett, with population of 700
was entered by railroad last ve.r
and large scope of country opened
up.
The state normal school cost th,
os"eo Pioi~o~. fOi anu JHe UNIVERSITY
$4,000 last year, a slight increase ovel
1901.
The Short Line doubled its bnsines.
at Payette last year, shipping 3,076, 64t
pounds of wool and many carloads O.
melons.
Pocatelle extended her waterworkt
system and increased the supply durin,
the past year, at an expenditure 0
$40. 900.
The Hotel Dewey, the pride O
Nampa and the finest hotel in the state
was completed recently at cost O
SEQ, 600.
There are 2,s45, 119 acres of pate,
ted land in the state, valued at S13,152
764.35. improvements on the same
s2,759.523.5o.
The Lewiston Commercial club ha
asked Charles Francis Adams of Bosto
to act as Idaho representative at Wash
ington in presenting to congress th
n project of opening the Columbia rive
from Lewiston TO the sea. Mr.. Adam
n is heavy property owner in Lewiston
The supreme court has decided th
case of the Idaho Independent Tele
phone company of Boise VS.. tho Orepo
Short Line Railroad companv in fave