Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-06
NEz PIERCE IS
A KING COUNTY
Statistical Information Of
Varied Resources of
the State

the forth coming annual report of the
labor and statistics. The book will
be out in about two weeks, with
fine new map Of the state, and the
most complete statistical report ever
made in the state, all set In a frame
Of the purest, most lucid English by
Colonel Allen Miller. the past master
OF literary art in covering the dry
skeletons Of figures with rosy garb If
beauty.
Some OF the figures cover the year
1905. while others are brought up to
the close of 1906. In not all lines Of
statistics were the latter figures avail-
| able.
Ice Men in the Hole.
1t is usually charged that the ice
man is the king bee. the high mogul of
all cut-throat fnanciers who operate
| under the cover Of the law, and take
| no risks as do the burglar or the
holdup artist. But according to the
| book the Idaho Ice makers are differ
ent There are two ice factories in
the state. They have $4,000 invest
ed in the business. Last year they
sold only $500 worth OF ice, accord
ing to their own figures. while this
cold stun cost them more than 10000
| to produce. 1t looks like frenzied fl
with these figures. the 46 flour mills
of the state, which are valued at $7S4..
500, produced $2,735.196 worth of vari
Gus products, or three dollars wortl
for every dollar of capital invested
Their cost for labor was only IL
The vulgar ice man got back onl.
about cents on the dollar of his in
vestment. and paid $4,000 for eve,
that privilege
Millions in Timber.
The one big manufacturing indust
try of the state is the making of lum
Der. There are go sawmills, wort
$7154.400, employing 464s men. The
product amounted to *7,243.19s. an
they paid In wages $2.516,26s. Thel
factories In the state, which produce
$911. 4s0 last year. They paid 1884
GIT in wages. There are 100 newsps
Q pers in the state with almost a reg
ment OF men employed. The Offices a
. reported to be worth $62s. $50, and tn,
produced within $4,000 of that mu.
during the year. The highest wag
reported from any manufacturing W,
reported from the printing Office
There are 80 breweries and bottleris
worth 1856. 500. which turned out SSH
1874 worth Of various soothing drink
There are ~ brick yards, wor
$235.1O They produced brick al
tile worth s137,s15. Thirty-six ele
trio light and gas companies have 5:
7os.s00 invested and their produe
sold for s457.5s0.
n, There are approximately 10000
acres of the forest reserves Of
, state. This Is about one-third of t
state. Idaho county and Kooter
county have lost from 20 to so r
"A cent OF their area to the stead
growing green DlOtCn on the COVER
ment map.
We Buy Abroad.
Idaho is buying a lot of stun abro
that could be produced at home A
fproximately 100000 pounds each
bans. bacon and lard is shipped IL
the state annually Sixty thousa
dozens OF eggs have come into
state through one firm; the total WI
Y not known. will run up to many c,
loads. Almost a million pounds
butter have been bought abroad.
all the IS creameries and the h,
dreds of small private diaries. It
estimated that 100000 pounds
butter are used In the state a ye
Beans by the carload. thin scaley be-
where the Idaho fields would 81
fiat. succulent beans that wo
4 make a Bostonese throw a fit; cam
fruit by the train load from Utah C
ifornia, oregon. every point of
! compass. California and Oregon G.
a bages the size of walnut where L