Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ed at Grangeville. The building will
cost about $4,000 and will be three
stories high.
The Darlington Carey act project,
one of the smallest under the Carey
the way TO completion.
The Big Lost River Irrigation oom,
pany has now purchased six of the
farms which villa be covered with
water when che project is complete.
Twin Falls county seven years ago
was an unproductive sagebrush plain
in Cassia county 1t is now rich
farming section and paying taxes on
100000 of valuation.
In a very short time the longest
bridge In the world will be completed
across Lake Pend d'Oreille at Sand
point The bridge and the approaches
are over two miles in length.
Ex-Governor Mcconnell of Mos
COW, has filed caveat for a patent
on new method of saving fine or
flour gold, such as is found In the
Snake and other river bars.
Senator Hepburn has appointed
Augustus Wilson Walker Of Gilmore
as cadet from Idaho to the military
academy at West Point and Robert
Burns of Payette as alternate.
Boise's free mail delivery district
will be more than doubled In size
should the proposed extensions,
which have been applied for, be al
lowed by the postofice department.
At Twin Falls, work has begun on
Idaho's first state park. Plans for
the improvement of the grounds GEd
the boulevard from the city have
been adopted and by next spring
great transformation will have taken
place.
Postmaster George Wall OF Black
foot, who has been a resident of that
town for thirty-six years, has resigned
the position of postmaster and will
leave soon for southern California
where he will make his home in the
future.
The directors OF the Idaho Falls
Interurban Electric Railway company
are in receipt of the estimate as mace
by the engineers who went over the
route this summer. The figures as
submitted call for an expenditure OF
$4,000.
During the past two years over
100000 acres of land has changed
hands on Camas Prairie. Over 1907
900 acres of decided lands have been
purchased. Seventeen homesteads
and desert entry men will make final
proof during December.
The supreme court has handed
down an opinion holding that all
county assessors must assess all tax
able property at its full cash valuation
and that, as officials, they have no
authority to assess. 1t otherwise or
agree to make such assessment,
The Oregon Short Line has pur-
| chased the San Francisco, Idaho &
Montana railroad, which was organ
lied to build an electric line from
| Caldwell, Idaho, south to Jordan val
| ley Oregon, thence southwest via
Duncan and south to Winnemucca. \
The growth of the state Of Idaho is
indicated in the annual report OF State
Bank Examiner Cruise In large figures,
| the resources of the various financial
| institutions operating under state
laws aggregating S25,687, 172 as COM
pared with $18.992,05S year ago.
Governor James H., Brady has ;S-
| sued "a call for the organization Of a
State Geographical society. to have as
| its object, the correction of maps, pro
vision Of names for mountains, creeks
ETC., where a serious conflict is found
| in counties or various parts of the
state.
BY vote of almost to 1, the tax
payers of Payette have authorized the
| city officials to issue $4,000 in bonds
for municipal Improvements. OF this
amount $4,000 will be expended as
| the citys proportion of the cost OF
laying a sewer In improvement dis
trict No. 1.
The banks throughout the state are
experiencing very great d~mand for
money. This especially applies to the
banks of the northern part of the
state. The farmers are, as a rule,
holding their grain for better prices
and this necessitates the banks carry
ing these farmers along.
There are prospects on the Camas
Prairie for three railroads in the near
future, 1t being almost assured that
line will tap the valley in the next
year and the C. & N w. railway mas
entered the state and has surveyed
through this valley to Boise. Then
there is a proposed electric line
The Boise Statesman announces
that the Oregon Short Line has about
completed survey with the view of
building a line that will double track
the system from Pocatello to Hunt
ington by parallel Vine that at places
will be far remote from the present
route. Boise is to be on the proposed
new line.
Figures from mining companies
show that at present approximately
$500 men are employed in the great
silver-lead mines and the prospects
Of the Occur d,Alenes, making q