Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-01-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

close OF the fiscal year June ~, l3lb
was 34,505.S SAC and the unsurveyed 49,
84O,7O4.
The six Boise banks. all OF which
are national. show an increase Of AZ
per cent in bank deposits this year
over last year
While Idaho has close to $40, 000,-
900 invested in irrigation projects,
either in private capital, government
or state money. the past year saw lit
tie development in new irrigation
projects.
The records OF the state treasurer
show that Idaho had at the close of
the year invested in mortgages ST.
817293.24, in bonds $2,319.511.04 and
certificates of sales s2.619, 435.23 or a
total Of $7756.239.51.
The famous Occur d'Alene district,
where the great lead and zinc depos-
| it's of Idaho seem to be conferred was
I unusually prosperous during the past
year. The mine payroll at Wallace
alone was s1,OO0.00O a month.
From the vast range sections OF the
state and from the farms livestock,
horses and cattle went to the eastern
and western markets by the trainload
last year. One locality sold more
than $3,000,O00 worth of horses.
A round 100000 people represent
IdahOs population today. The re-
markable increase in the 1916 general
election vote proves this. The presi-
Dental vote in 1908 was 97,288 and
1885, 900 in 1912. In 1916 it jumped to
134,SO7.
In 1870 there were Ala farms in
Idaho, representing 77,139 acres. In
1916 there were 10000 farms repre-
senting approximately 100000 acres. |
The average assessed value per acre |
is $50. The total valuation of land is
over $15O,OOO,OOO.
With the quantity mined about the
same in 1916 as in 1915, the mines of
Idaho in the year that has just passed
into history mined ore in 1916 with
a total gross value of over $40000,000,
as compared between $2S 100000 and
S39,00O,00O a year ago.
Bids for the construction of $4,000
feet of fourteen-inch pipe line eX-
tending from Gibson Jack creek to
Mink creek were opened at Pocatello
last week. The contract was award.
ed to the Mitchell company of Seattle
for the sum of $42,S13.SS.
In 1915 Idaho raised and sold 1900
cars of apples of various kinds, which
netted horticulturists $2,000,000. In
1916 northern Idaho raised but 200 |
carloads of apples, and for the first
time in the history of the state there
was failure in the southern portion.
Good road building is proving an
important factor in the development
of the state-so important unat the
state highway commission has decid-
ed to ask the next legislature for an
appropriation of 81 100000 for which
It expects an equal amount from the
federal government.
The grain crop was 80 per cent less
Turing the year than the preceding
season. This fact was lost sight of
With the gradual rise of prices. The
acreage was greater. hence there was
10 loss in the number of bushels of =
rain finally marketed when the two
seasons are compared. T
There were 5000 carloads of pota- >
oe shipped out of Idaho during the 8
'ast year and fully 1000 cars are now q
eld in storage waiting for the muir n
'hys to reach an even higher mar n
et price. The yield was slightly less +
han in 1915, but as in the case of o
;rain the prevailing prices were il
luch higher.
An ordinance authorizing the mayor
nd city clerk of Pocatello to enter
alto a contract with Joseph Burns, his
uccessors and assigns, for the pur-
base of water right on the Port
cuff river, a power site, hydro-elec- B
'ic generating plant and transmission
ystem, passed its first reading last
eek. II
The board of directors of the Black vi
lot asylum reported to the governor
the close of the present biennial
sriod a saving of $4,000 had been 9,
ade for the past two years, $4,000 -,
deficiency warrants having been -
eaned up. An appropriation OF $780, =,
% for the maintenance of the asylum -
T the next two years is recommend :.
l. 70
The mining industry in this state co
ems the new year with more encour- an
ing prospects than it did the old.
lie industry has always been a pros 90
rous one and the promised develop IN
ant of the past twelve months is of
ken by mining men to indicate that on
,re ore will be mined in 1917 and 81,
3 metal sold at as good, If not bet of
:. prices. is,
The new officers OF the Idaho State TIL
achers' association are: President, ju,
f. Turner. superintendent of the
iools at Payette: first vice presi-
Mt. II. S. Stevenson, superintend-