The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

In Nevada farm and livestock pro
duce amounts to nearly 100000 per
year. It's livestock-its cattle aud
sheep-are worth probably $40 600. 900.
In product per acre and prices real
lied Nevada now leads many OF the
western states with established repu.
tations for wheat, barley, oats, alfalfa
and potatoes.
A reasonable investment of capital
should within ten years bring under
irrigation at least one-half of Nevada's
100000 acres estimated as suitable
for reclamation.
Representatives of the Western Pa.
cific railroad have announced that an
agreement had been reached with the
Nevada California Oregon Railroad
company which would give the West.
ern Pacific it's long-sought entry into
Reno.
Fire, originating in an unknown
manner in the warehouse of the
Wyoming Mercantile company at New
castle, Wyoming, destroyed most OF
the business center of the towS, in.
ficting damage of about 100000,
partly insured
Scientific soil culture will reclaim
several million acres within the next
ten years in the region in northern
I Nevada in which the rainfall is light
The result of sugar beet culture in
Churchill county prove the possibili
ties in that direction.
George F. Cotterill containing nearly
| $4,000 names has been filed in the
comptroller's office at Seattle. Circu.
lation of the recall petition was be-
gun few days after Mayor Cotterill
took office last spring.
Nevada's wheat fields average about
thirty bushels per acre, for which
nearly 81 per bushel has been recently
realized; forty bushels per acre of
barley and forty-eight bushels of oats
have been fair averages, and high
prices have been received.
The value of Nevada farm lands
and buildings, according to the census
figures of 1910, was more than $685..
100000, an increase of 150 per cent.
| over 1900. A similar gain during the
next ten years will put Nevada well
along in the procession of the great
agricultural states of the west.
George Graham Rice, a mining pro-
moter of Reno, in the days when wild
cat schemes were easily foistered on
the gullible public, has been released
from the federal prison on Blackwells
| island, New York, where he was SEN
fenced for a year for using the mails
| to defraud.
Nevada is big state--in area
| 100000 square miles or 10000, 600
acres, with great mineral output and
probably the greatest in possibilities
for agricultural development in the
near future of all the Pacific coast
states, writes Charles S. Fee in the
San Francisco Call.
Governor Vests measure for the
adjustment of capital punishment in
Oregon has been defeated. The fate
Of six murderers now confined in the
penitentiary depended on this meas
ure. Governor West reprieved them
all until after election, saying that il
the people should declare for capital
punishment he would allow them to be
hanged
Nevada will be a great potato state,
great as to amount produced and
quality and price. An average Of
more than 100 bushels per acre,
worth about SIPS per bushel, or
over 5000 per acre, is a recent record.
Less than 10000 acres are now in
potatoes, but the conditions would
seem to justify quick addition Of
many thousands of acres.
Failure of a switchman at Lima,
Mont, to properly set the derail
switch allowed two loaded coal cars
there to pass out of switch onto
the main line, and speed northward
into passenger train going south, re
sulting in the death of Engineer Will
| lam Purdy and Fireman Eugene Bare,
at Kidd station.
With the death of John Laverson-
Cover, an English capitalist, at Colo
RADIO Springs, the mystery surrounding
the supposed poisoning of seven per-
sons at the Mary Murphy mine, near
Buena Vista, two weeks ago has deep
ened. Five deaths already have oc-
cured among persons who ate in the
boarding house October 81.
The small gasoline schooner Os-
prey and her entire crew of six men
were lest at the entrance of the port
Of Marshfield. Ore, when the vessel
crashed into the jetty in a heavy sea.
Failure to secure promise job in
Nevada is believed to have led to the
suicide of Joseph H.. Rawson, aged 3S
years, at his home in Ogden, Utah.
Death resulted from dose of strych-
nine.
Richardson and BackstFum, two of
the convicts who escaped from the
Wyoming penitentiary at Laramie on