The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1904-05-14
NEWS OF IDAHO
Items Of General Interest Gatb,,.a
From All Over the State.
\ nrisi Rsvisw Of Improvements. orn-,..
asA Development Along All Lluss
TArsuxhout Our Stats.

Moscow A large consignment !,
road machinery for Latah conr.s
purchased at the last session "a ~
county commissioners, has arrived and a
is being set up. Among the lot a.a
several large road graders.
Butte--A Pocattello, Idaho snoo;.,
to the Miner says that Special Lava
Agent Capel has received instruct;oaaa
from the interior department provid;ns
for the classification of all public Lanai
within the fve-mile limit OF PocatelIa
The lands will open to settlement af,s.
the acceptance of the classification bv
the interior department
Lewiston-Charles I Helm. forma.
ly we'll known in Eastern Wasbinoto,
politics, has just completed the nnr.
chase Of 500 yearling and 2 year ola
steers from farmers and stockmer l.,
the Sa.mon and Snake river countr;aa
and which he will ship and drive to b;s
range on the Colville reservation. The
cattle will make trainload of is cars
Mr.. Helm says he expects to range and
herd these cattle two years before
throwing them on the market.
Lewiston-Many apple growers on
the Potlatch and American ridges have
been digging up their older apple trees
and setting out young trees of better
varieties than those at first grown
Some of those who have large orchards
say the growing of app es in the Pot
latch is not profitable industry; that
apple orchards are too short lived, the
trees only bearing fruit of good grade
for few years. Then the fruit borne
becomes smaller and smaller, and
finally, when the tree is from IL to Ia
years old, it becomes barren.
Genesee-N. G. Naylor, of Naylor 4
Norlin. who have contract to put in
system of waterworks here, says the
sinking of the artesian we'll is progress.
ing rapidly. The we'll is over so feet
in depth, and water stands at the ton
of the hole. When a depth of 80 feet
is reached test of the water supply
will be made. If it is found that the
we'll at that depth will supply $50 GAL
Ions minute no attempt will be made
to go deeper. About 10 years ago an
artesian well was sunk here, wi hin a
few hundred yards of where the CITY
we'll is located. This we'll at a depth
of 80 feet had heavy flow of water.
1t was continued down for another 100
feet, when the flow stopped, a crevice
having apparently been struck. The
contractors have hopes of striking flow
ing water within the next 80 or 40 feet.
Wardner in April the Bunker Hill
& Sullivan company shipped between
4,500 and 5000 tons of concentrates
and ore, which is the largest monthly
shipment ever made by this wonderful
property, and probably has never been
surpassed by any other mine in the dis
trict. The only other property in the
Occur d. Alenes that approaches the
Bunker Hill in the quantity of ore pro-
duced is the Morning. at Mulian. The
shipments of the Bunker Hill for last
month almost equals the combined
shipments of the Standard, the Mon
arch and the Tiger Poorman, the three
canyon properties of the Federal Min.
ing & Smelling company. The STAN
dard and the Mammoth consigned, ap-
proximately, 5000 tons of concentrates
to the smelters last month, while the
shipments from the Tiger-Poorman
wree slightly over 1000 tons.
Burke The Oreanto Mining company
has an air pipe line under construction
from the compressor of the Anchor
Mining company to the tunnel which
is being driven on the Oreatno proper
ty. The line will be built OF two-inch
pipe and will be 5000 feet long.
For some time the tunnel has been I'M
der way. The drilling has been done
by hand, and, although satisfactory
progress has been made, still the own
ers are anxious to reach the ledge as
soon as possible, and resolved to install
the air to drive the drills.
The tunnel has already been driven
400 feet, and it will be necessary to
proceed | 200 feet farther before the
irst ledge is encountered. There are
three parallel lodges on the surface,
with depth, give promise OF
making a mine. ALI of them will be
tut by the tunnel now under way.
The company is stock corporation.
Carl Amonson is the manager.