Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-15
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The lodge of the Knights of Pythias
at Boomers Ferry has definitely decld-
ed to build a $4,000 brick building on
it's lodge site.
e. d. Griffin of Lewiston is engaged
in moving his plant to Charleston,
where he will operate daily paper,
beginning May 10.
Richard Damrow, a brakeman en-
ployed nearl Clarksfork, was perhaps
fatally injured recently when log
rolled off and crushed him beneath it.
Senator Borah denounces the tariff.
He says proposed legislation duplicates
reciprocity, and declares the real right
on schedule changes is now between
the east and west.
A scarcity of laboring men is affect
ing the Occur d'Alenes, according to
report. Approximately $500 men are
employed in the various mines and
prospects throughout the district.
The Grangeville Electric Light and
Power company has deal on for new
territory, including the towns of Orc
fino, Peck, Kamiah and Nez Perez and
power sites on the Salmon river, Lolo
creek and at Orofino.
A state demonstration farm, in con-
nection with the state university at
Moscow, will be established in Sand
point, is the report. Funds for the es-
tablishment of the farm are available
if the site is acquired by the state.
A complaint was filed in the court
at Boise demanding the removal OF
Mayor Arthur H. Hodges of that city
from office because of his alleged re-
fusal and neglect to enforce the laws
of the state and the ordinances of the
city in reference to number of saloons
The people in the eastern part OF
Bannock county, in the vicinity OF
Bancroft and Chesterfield, have made
application to the interior department
for the purchase of sufficient water
from the Blackfoot reservoir to irri
gate from 10000 to 10000 acres Of
land
The Plummer new water works sys
TEN has been put in operation. The
water is furnished by several large
springs at an elevation of about zoo
feet above the town. The pressure
of the water at the highest point in
the village is about 60 pounds to the
square inch.
1t is planned to gridiron Nez Perez
county with a network of highways
with laterals serving every section
the whole to be planned to coordinate
with the state highway systems O
Idaho and Washington and the grea
national highways from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
Ed Pulaski, chief ranger of the
Occur. d'Alene forest, has just an
nounced that as soon as weather con
ditions will permit the replanting oil
approximately 700 acres of the area
burned over in 1910 on Placer creek
near Wallace, will be commenced
This area will be planted to yellow
pine and red fir seedlings.
Major Fred R. Reed, appointed by
the governor as commissioner of i'm
migration, labor and statistics and con
firmed by the senate, but left with &
long title and without a salary, has
petitioned the supreme court for {
writ of mandamus to compel the state
auditor to pay his salary of 5000 pei
month, since the auditor refused to dc
so.
The department of agriculture has
begun advertising two large tracts OF
timber which aggregate $50 million
feet on the Payette river within the
Boise and Payette national forests
Idaho. The district forester at Ogden
Utah, will receive bids upto and in
Guiding June 1, 1913, and for an addi
tlonal month if intending purchasers
wish more time to examine the tim
Der before deciding on their bids.
One of the largest ranch deals in
the history of Nez Perez county was
concluded recently when Henry Thies
sen, the well-known farmer and stock
man of the Mccormack ridge section
secured the preemption home of Mrs
William Caldwell, located on Lapwat
creek, about midway between Lapwai
and Culdesac, and consisting of Gao
acres. The consideration involved was
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The city of Moscow, Idaho, has com
menced work on improvements that
will call for an expenditure of over
$15O,0O0. The improvements include 9
storm sewer system, which is to be
first installed, then the laying of new
water mains in the section to be
paved, the grading of streets and the