The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1903-11-21
NEWS OF IDAHO
Items Of General Interest Gathered
From Az Over the State.


Throughout OtNy state
! The yolimer- Clearwater grist mill is
now running day and night, and has
difficulty In filling orders for -four and
feed. Last week two carloads Of -four
were shipped to Seattle and Portland
Tor export to the Philippines. This
week the company is loading four car
loads for the same purpose. The Noil-
mer- Clearwater company has ordered
additional machinery for the mill and
by the first Of the year expects to have
the capacity Of the mill greatly in
creased. Since the purchase Of the
mill by the grain company the bust
ness has been in charge Of Paul Rob-
erts, formerly Of the Tckoa mills.
Great excitement exists among pros
pectors and mining men within two
miles Of Salmon. Two years ago Mr..
n. J. Andrews and partners located Is
claims within two miles Of town.
These claims showed gold, lead and
silver. They have worked continually
IN these claims and have them opened
up in good shape. Recently they sent
some samples 10 Denver for complete
assay. The returns show $65 in gold
silver and lead and IL per cent tin.
| Mr.. Andrews showed this to some OF
his friends and II soon got noised about
town and rush 10 locate the ground
adjoining was inaugurated. Whether
or not there il tin in such quantities
remsins TO be proven, but there is GER
tainly some foundation for the excite
ment, and the ones who get in on the
ground floor" ought TO make stake.
Snow still lies on the ground to a
depth In places of nearly foot on
Camas and Nez Perez prairies All
harvesting and hauling operations are
stopped until the roads become better.
This snowfall. which later in the season
would have been regarded as good
thing, is at the present time something
in the line Of calsmity to the farmers
on the higher lands Of the reservation.
When the snow came there had been
several days of rain and the ground
had been softened to considerable de-
gree. The roads were almost impassa-
BILE. { No freezing weather preceded the
snow and now farmers have to contend
with soft road, on top Of which lies
"a In.
there Is considerable amount of grain
not cut, or which has not been threshed.
II is expected that the cut and stacked
grain will be saved with little or no
damage, but standing grain is regarded
as total loss. The amount OF damage
thus inflicted is variously estimated,
machinery men claiming the amount
will reach 10000 bushels, and that
the total Of the grain unthreshed will
more than double this.
M. ]. Wessele, superintendent of ag-
riculture and horticulture of the Idaho
commission for the st. Louis exposition
and the Lewis and Clark exposition is
In Wallace TO gather exhibits for the
St. Louis fair. lie said: 81 have
about completed gathering samples Of
grains, grasses and forage plants. The
exhibit will be thoroughly representa-
tive OF the entire state and will fill
about two box cars. We have $50
varieties OF wheat oats and barley.
Samples and fine ones, too, are shown
Of scoree of clovers, grasses and other
forage plants OF flax and other field
products. We are getting together sew
eral carloads of fruits. which will be
shipped in short time to ST. Louis to
be placed in cold storage there until
Just before the fair opens. These are
chiefly apples, of which we have scores
II varieties and beautiful samples.
Grapes and peaches, as we'll as the
small fruits, will be shown only in
lars. None Of the exhibits OF the root
crops will be shipped this year. Those
we will gather next year during the
fair. We are also arranging TO send
forward fresh fruit to add to our exhibit
from time TO time during the EXPOSE
ton. shall go to St. Louis in short |
time TO personally superintend the
storing of the exhibits"