The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1912-03-28
IDAHO STATE news

Nez Perce-At a meeting of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive union held here contract was
let for supplying the $50 members
with grain sacks 1t is estimated
that 800, 900 sacks will ~be needed.
The union will buy sacks through its
Seattle representative, C. w. Nelson.
The price paid wag not made public
Stites-Plans for the establishment
Of creamery at this place are COM
pieted, and it is thought that March l
will see the cooperative plant in oper-
alton. The demand for the products
from outside creameries is heavy,
with excellent prices all the year.
The ground was donated by the peo-
pie Of Sites. and the new business en-
terprise will enter upon its career
without cent of indebtedness.
for the new Bunker Hill & Sullivan
mill has arrived and is being installed
1t is expected that the mill will be
placed in operation by April 1. 1t
will have the capacity of 500 tons
every "a hours, and will raise the ca
pacity of the combined mills of the
company to about 1000 tons daily, the
largest in the district. The new mill
has been equipped with the latest ma
chinery and several innovations have
been installed.
Spokane, Wash. -Seventy-fve mill
lion feet of saw logs, chiefly white
pine, is contained in drives to be
started on the Occur d'Alene, ST. Joe
and ST. Maries rivers in Northern Ida
no late in March or early in April.
The drive on the Occur d'Alene river
amounts to 40, 900, 900 feet, and is the
largest yet sent down that stream.
The drives on the ST. Maries river
total 20, 600, 900 feet and those on the
st. Joe are estimated at Is, 600, 900
feet.
Most of the logs are from the
burned over national forest districts,
which were swept by flames in Au-
gust, 1910, when more than 100 fire.
fighters lost their lives and several
million dollars worth of timber was
destroyed or scorched. Six weeks to
two months will be consumed in reach
ing the lakes, where the logs will be
sent to mills in Northern Idaho and
Eastern Washington. Large drives
also are planned in other parts of Ida
no, Washington, Oregon and Montana,
thus giving employment to many river
men.
lewiston Within week or so
the Lewiston orchard growers will
have perfected one of the most active
fruit associations in the Inland En-
pire. After investigating many of
the fruit growers unions in the North
west and selecting material the grow
ers have completed details for final or
ganization.
Stock to the amount of $25, 900 will
be issued to the fruit raisers, accord
ing to the amount of acreage in actual
bearing. For every acre under bear
ing S. in stock will be issued. The
grower will then be held closely by
contract to cooperate with the organ
ization in marketing his fruit.
The membership association. based
upon stock company, is, according to
leading fruit managers, the most
binding and surest method of market
ing fruits. The association as a
whole will assume obligations of the
growers. The growers as a whole
comprise the association.
When the fruit season opens the
growers will construct modern pack
ing house, to be supervised by an ex-
pert foreman
For the first time over 400 acres in
the Lewiston orchards come into bear
ing. This will affect about 100 grow
ers in that vicinity.
According to E. E. Samson, mana
ger of the Yakima Valley Fruit Grow
ers' association, the orchardists here