Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-02-15
IDAHO STATE NE VS.


week forced several families to move
from their homes
There Is s3.500.000 Invested In four
sugar factories In the state which pro
duced s91l.430 last year They paid
s26i,917 in wages.
There arc thirty breweries and bot
tleries IN the state OF Idaho, worth
s666,s00, and which produced s510,1S4
worth of goods last year.
The Rigby creamery is shipping an
average OF $500 pounds OF butter per
week. Some OF It's patrons received
as high az sG5 last month.
Charles Clarkson, OF Sweet. was |
Killed at the Elkhorn mine at Baker
City, falling into the gearing OF the |
pump and being so badly injured that
death resulted
The 40 -four mills OF the state, which
are valued at s7si,5Oo, produced ST.
1876 worth OF various products last
year or three dollars worth for every
dollar OF capital Invested.
Because they had not been paid for
two weeks twenty painters. plasterers
and carpenters working on the agri-
cultural buildings at the university at
Moscow quit work last week.
There are two leo factories in the
state. They have $4,000 invested in
the business. Last year they sold only
$500 worth OF Ice. according to their
figures, while their ice cost them more I
than $4,000 TO produce
The one big manufacturing Industry I,
OF the state Is the making OF lumber. !
There are 260 sawmills, worth 81
1b4. 400. employing 4Gi3 men. Their y
product for 1906 amounted to y7243.- :
1876. and they paid In wages s2,516, 26s.
The bridge over Squaw creek. near
Sweet, was carried away last week. +,
The bridge was being repaired, and
The Ice In the creek loosened by the
recent rains. jammed against the sup
ports and carried away the central ~
pan. w
There are 27 brick yards. worth %
235. 100 in the state OF Idaho. They 40
reduced brick and tile worth s137,- ~
is lee' year. Thirty-six electric DC
over and gas companies have y3,709,- a..
90 Invested, and their products sold sn l'
Dr. s457.56O. ,ol
George V. Leighton OF Payette has tire
Did his big ranch and bands OF sheep Pill
} Il. Van Scklln and Charles Bolton. oa'
Welser for $4,000. The property he
insists OF 132O-acre ranch, a lease thi
q $40 acres OF school land, and 10000 OF
bad OF sheep res
At a meeting OF the Boise city coun. me
strong resolutions were passed
the Boise City charter
II. now before the legislature. II is Say
lieved the bill cannot pass In It's
esent form and Will no doubt be q
lterially amended. -
Daniel DAILY. alias David Daniels. a the
torious horsethief who recently com. mur
tied six-year term In the Idaho con,
tie penitentiary, was arrested In stat
Il Lake last week for stealing three tho
rses near Pocatello. and taken back -,
Pocatelo for trial. pun
there are 1853 teachers in the 80 go
ools OF the state, The men draw tho
average annually salary OF si40614. coed
tho women sii4316 The esti MI
tod value OF the school property is eiar'
'99,SGGib. There are 1881 chill. "ore
o OF school age in the state. salu
lillian Graham. who shot James
ipbell fatally, at Cases ranch, noar
ey, few weeks ago, was dis
fged after preliminary hearing
re the probate court The char
r of the evidence was such that mo
was deemed impossible Nose
ot since 1898. when much damage euiee'
Tied In Boise from high water iounu
the city experienced such condi' girl s
from Hoods as were brought with
( BY the heavy rains OF last week. eNecu
h melted the heavy fan OF snow on Oe
turned streets into verltable oeher
Is. Alexa
drumf
'rk on the big north side irriga.
project on the Twin Falls tract In Til
be begun the first week la March.
ding 10 the latest reports Il is
4 that s2.500.000 will be expend Saie
! the project and that Il will be first h
az the rate OF about 100000 per the Les
J. have
,ompanv has haa, or..,,,,.., and sc
r,a,. prevail.
, ~''o"n ~ me Iayior gent q
90 nooe .v"pa"S, Win a cap / pension
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