The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-16
Invitations to Attend Irrigation
Congress Bringing Many
Favorable Responses.
CONTRACT AWARDED
FOR STEEL FOR CAPITOL
Track Being Laid on the Boise
& Interurban Railroad
Line.
Special to The Tribune,

Special to The Tribune,
BOISE, Idaho, July 15-Letters are
being constantly received by Chairman
! GwInn OF the executive committee OF
the Irrigation congress, In reply to in
Ntations sent TO attend the sessions Of
the congress, in which prominent per-
sonages from all over the country
promise to attend the national conven-
| tion, TO be held here the first week in
September.
Charles Burtch. Jr,, the two-year-old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Burtch
Of South Boise, was drowned In
small irrigating ditch which runs
through the back yard Of the Burtch
home. When found the little one was
| lying on his face In the shallow water,
| his feet being still up on the bank,
where he had stumbled and fallen into
! the little ditch, and was unable, in the
position he lay, TO extricate himself
New Construction Engine.
A twenty dummy engine,
standard guage, arrived in Boise We'd
nesday. The engine is to be used in
the construction work of the Boise and
| lnterurban line in hauling fiat cars
loaded with ties, gravel, poles, etc., and
will also be used in stretching the troll
ley wire. Work on the Boise and Inter-
urban line is progressing as fast as
material can be secured. The builders
say that considerable trouble has been
experienced in getting steel and that
In order TO get some OF the material
quickly 1t was necessary to pay a pre-
MUM on It. The track is now laid
along State street and outside Of the
city limits to where the right of way
cuts into the Ellis tract.
At the wool sale Wednesday but one
clip, that Of Joseph Gestol, was sold.
1t consisted of 2400 pounds and was
sold to j. koshiand & Co. for l6 cents
Steel for Capitol.
The contract for furnishing the steel
for the capitol building has been
awarded to the American Bridge COM
pany Of New York. This firms bid was
$16,sS0. the lowest. There were a few
notifications made in the contract.
however regarding the time limit for
furnishing the steel and when. the con-
tract papers were signed the price was
set at $4,000 or $40 more than the bid.
There were seven bids offered as fol-
lows: Vierling, Mcdowell & CO. OF
Chicago. s20,eoO; Whitehead & Kales
Of Detroit, s1S,295; A. S. Whiteway Of
Boise. S21,000; Millikin Brothers OF New
York, S176S1; ST. Paul Foundry COM
pany, $l7,627, Minneapolis Steel Ma
chnery company. s1S,531: American
Bridge company of New York, SIG $50.
This includes steel for the grade and
first stories complete and includes
about sixty columns which extend
through one and more stories. The
conditions Of the contract require the
steel to be furnished within seventy
days In sufficient quantities TO permit
the rapid execution of the masonry
work.
The managers OF the big mining COM
panies In the Occur d'Alenes have
agreed to the change from a ten-hour
TO an eight-hour day for all under
ground employees. The change Will
take place as soon as possible and three
Shifts will be put on most Of the mines.
Successful Placer.
The Loison placer. near Resort, re-
ports very successful run. This prop
erty belongs to the Flora Placer Min |
Ing company, It is a well-known placer |
tract that was we'll opened before the
death or the man whose name II bears.
Inc Flora company, OF which John |
Hunter is manager, took hold of II re- |
Gently, Last fall large quantity OF
supplies was sent IN so work could he |
started early in the season.
Operations We're begun on April *
and the mine will be kept running nm
Gil fall. Two giants are running and |
they are kept going night and day
me work is superintended by T. p
Corcoran, the Boise basin placer miner
Mr.. Hunter brought in partial clean |
up. He states that the yield of the
property for the season will be fully |
$4,000 'S
T., l.. Marvin has returned from
HALEY. where he made filings for tho |
state on $500 acres of as fine timber |
lahd as he says can be found In Idaho.
1t is mostly yellow pine, On the tract |
II IS estimated conservatively that |
there are about 81 000.0 900 feet OF saw
timber easily worth $4,000. It Is all
located close to the south fork of tbe |
Boise river in Elmore county.
The Great Western Sugar company
through President Havemeyer and |
General Manager Morey, has offered a
magnificent solid silver loving cum |
valued at $500, for the best State exhi- |
oition OF sugar beets at the exposition
or irrigated products to be held at |
Boise during the fourteenth National |
irrigation congress. September 3 to |
inclusive. For this valuable tronb,, ,he |
sugar beet raisers OF Colorado. Utah |
Idaho, Washington and California Will |
enter into competition, and the largest |
and most varied display of this profit
able crop ever exhibited Will be a lead |
ing feature OF the exposition. The suh-
Juct OF sugar beet culture will be one
or the most important AGRICULTURAL
topics discussed at the congress.