The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-05-18
Idaho State News Items.

The highest price on record paid
for Idaho beef cattle is $40 40 per
hundred.
The Utah Idaho Sugar Co. is to
pay 81 ton for sugar beets for the
1917 crop.
Three grain elevators are to built
at Vollmer of $4,000, $1,000 aud TO-
600 bushels, respectively.
Judge James f. Ailshie of Occur
d'Alene has announced that he will
be candidate to succeed Senator
Borah when the proper time arrives.
The e. M. & St. P. Ry, is to extend
a line into Clearwater county to tap
the white pine belt. The estimated
stand of timber in Clearwater basin
is 500. 900, 900, 900 feet.
The BOISE Municipal Entertain
ment course, after its winter's series
of entertainments, is $l25 in debt
and this shortage will have to be
made up by voluntary subscription.
The governor asks the people to lay
In coal supply. He says a shortage
next winter can be averted il consum.
ers seize the opportunity to buy dur
ing the summer. Storage is the only
solution in sight.
An Idaho winter wheat crop 3,640,-
900 bushels less than the 1915 pro-
duction and more than half million
bushels below the 1916 figures is
forecasted 10 the May summary of
the United States bureau of crop
estimates.
The creation of the new county of
Payette was completed last Friday at
an election held under the provisions
of the enabling act passed by the last
| legislature. County division won by
an 85 per cent margin, only &c per
cent being needed.
The railroads of the west repre-
sented To the interstate commerce
commission last week that the re-
ouested Is per cent increase in freight
rates would fail by at least $40, 900,
900 to meet advanced operating costs
already effective and anticipated.
A sale of about 10000 pounds oi
wool was made at Boise last Friday
at 52B cents a pound. Idaho WOO
has sold on the average, it is estimat'
ed. at AZ or 43 cents, and there are
l6, OoO 900 or II 1000, 900 pounds of it,
Less than a million pounds remains
unsold.
Idaho's mining business is not only
revealed by the growing output on'
by comparison with other production
in the state. The metal productlot
for 1915, over $49,oO0,O 900, was al
most 30 per cent of the total produc
tion of the state, including farm pro
J duction, livestock, timber, fruit ant
dairy output.
The governor is undecided as t.
what action he will take upon tn
suppestion of the Idaho council O
!, defense that be close the pool hall
!. in some sections of the state for In
purpose of forcing idlers to go l
work. The governor said that b
, wished time in which to turn over
his mind the recommendation rela
8 tive to the closing of the pleasur
e parlors before acting.
: The demand for farm help is 10
j creasing, according TO Dick DonoVat
I head of the labor department in tn
state farm markets bureau, an
y aosnito efforts to meet the calls ff
e mon IT. has been found impossib.e
D furnish all asked for Donovan say
e the greatest shortage exists 10 II
J, Twin Falls district, but the deman
i is no greater this spring 10 other Sc
l. tions of the state than 1t was la
d saoson at this time He is OF IL
q opinion that enough school boys ca ca
e ho sant to the farms to I'LL the Ut
e" mands for help.