Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-10
THE ROLLCALL OF
IDAHO'S PROSPERITY
Listing Of Betterments and Business
Growth. New Industries that
Have Started in Gem State in
the Past Week.

ROBERTS may get $l,0OO,oOO suga
factory.
Gooding 10 working hard for q bee
sugar factory.
Buhl-Fine new Methodist churc
to be built here.
Lewiston company organized t
build $3.50 900 hotel.
Lewiston - Hotel company inco,
porates here for $$250,OOO.
Pocatello-Over 500 cars of pota
toes shipped from here last week.
Twin Falls-Oregon Short Line pre-
pairing to ballast road from here Il
Minidoka.
Lewis on-Plans adopted for grad
ing, parking and cement sidewalk bol
200 lots here.
Caldwell-One livestock dealer al
Parma has shipped s55.00 worth Oh
cattle past 90 days.
Orofino-Western Lime Co. secures
property of Clearwater Lime Co. and
begins operation here.
Twin Falls-Canal Co. let's contract
for concreting one mile Of high line
canal at about $40 900.
Barber-B -Boise-Payette Lumber Co.
begins saving, puts on night crew all
is installing third band saw.
Buney-Minidoka project crops net
$2SOO,O0O Average return per acre
is $34,3S with potatoes bringing great
est results.
Rupert-Fourteen cars of potatoes
shipped one day tell story of Rupert's
prosperity Some were packed In
tissue paper like peaches
Cottonwood-31 acres of wheat
near here ran 38 1-3 bushels to the
acre, sold for $1.64 or total of $1,954
more than paying for land in year.
Grangeville-22 carloads of hogs
worth $40 900 left Camas Prairie last
week. Frequent shipments of this
character demonstrate wealth OF this
fertile prairie.
Caldwell-353 horses sold here undea
hammer in 300 inmates at average
price Of $156 each 5000 900 worth
of horses and blooded cattle sold here
in four days sale.
Couer d'Alene-Disappearing snow
causes contractors to speed CONSTR
tIon of Beaver Creek spur OF o. W.
r & N. so additional men employed
bal'asttng and aHgnirg track.
Standpoint - Standpoint Interurbau
Railway Co. sends letters to Ponderas
and Kootenai asking more patronage
which it must secure or raise fares or
possibly discontinue operations.
Caldwell-Contract let for a cream
cry here.
Nampa-50 houses to be built here
Soi4A1he dpOu-
Lewiston-$S,OOO bonds issued for
city improvements.
Caldwell-Brlck plant idle here for
some years to reopen.
Wallace-Anaoonda Copper Mining
Co. Will develop Douglas mine.
Idaho wool is bringing top prices
over sister states-41 cents has been
paid.
Nampa-At least 500, 900 to be
expended on new residences here CON-
ng summer.
st. Anthony-New $25, 900 company
offices and sheds for lumber
and fuel yards.
Kamiah-$15, 900 road bonds voted
,or mile road down Tomma Ia Ha
creek to misplace.
Kellogg-Bunker Hill & Sullivan
Mining Co. declares regular extra
Ind special dividend.
BuhE-Much building under way
Pride Of Buhl" 10 name chosen for
leW flour made here.
Buhl to haveconcrete silo, elevator,
'ranery and tank factory to put pro-
iuct on market by March 10.
Bonners Ferry-Spokane Interna.
ional Ry, Co. constructing trestle and
'ridge across Kootenad river here at |
;ost of $25 1000.
Orofino-$400 900 road bopds PLAN
led Tor proposed highway district
It all of Clearwater County outside
II Pierce highway district.
Boise-Active work in Marshall
axe district. Claim located many
ears ago being developed, mill now
n operation and bullion being pro-
Iuced-
opokane-All plans and specifica-
ions for Enavlle mill of Consolidated
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