Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-02-28
Idaho Weekly Industrial Review

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Caldwell Will vote March 18th on
$4,000 city hospital.
Boise making fight to get freight
refrigerator cars to handle potato
crop.
Emmett pushing municipal work.
New sewer system employs SO men.
Boise.-Political leaders here in
session favored state-owned elevators
and warehouses.
Emmett-During the past month
the Boise Payette Lumber company's
big sawmill added a night shift, and |
is now running day and night with
total force of over 800 men. Two
big trainloads of logs are brought to
the mill each day from the company's
logging camps at Cascade where ap- |
proximately 800 men are at work in |
the timber. The log pond at the mill
here has great supply of logs. This
pond is capable of holding 85,000,000
feet of logs.
Power plants in western states are
saving ten millions barrels of fuel
oil per year.
Lewiston has ordered street OPP
ened and improved.
Twin Falls.-Engineers will at
once proceed on the plans for calling
for bids for the construction of a new
municipal water plant.
Arco capitalists organize company
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try.
Nampa will spend $500 resurfac-
ing Eleventh avenue.
Buhl.-Sugar beet acreage being
increased.
Mackay.-Gilbert mine preparing
to ship ore.
Weiser-Cold air storage fruit
warehouse here to be enlarged. Air
storage plants will prove the greatest
solution for the apple growers of
southern Idaho.
Idaho's quota of shipbuilders is be-
ing enrolled by o. G. F. Markhus Of
Boise, with the cooperation of the
state council of defense and county
councils Mr. Markhus is the federal
state director.
Blackfoot is to have a milk con-
densary.
The fight on the l. w w. in Latah
county has reached such stage tina.
the county council of defense has
taken IT into its own hands and has
adopted resolutions calling on all EN-
ployers of members of this organiza-
ton TO discharge them because of
their beliefs and teachings. They
are also asked not to employ |. w. w.
members in the future.
e Warren-Rich samples of lungs
= ten ore being taken out of UNITY
/, mine.
8 Potato -four will be the output o.
= the Idaho Products Co. at its mill al
o Meridian, which is now in the pro
:, cess of construction.
Idaho apple crop now figured &c
e have been 567 900 barrels in 1917.
d Feed reported abundant in south
= ern Idaho at 50 to $40 ton.
y Lewiston Chamber of Commerce
& invites conference to discuss aims o.
Non-Partisan league.
Hope.-Announceme has beef
made OF what is said to be valuabl,
vein of ore near here. in Standpoint
district. The vein was struck at
tunnel depth OF 1884 feet. penetrat
ing the vein / feet without strikinI
the footwoll. Samples of the ore hav
indications OF being rich IN sulphu
s. chlorides. with indications of som
l. native silver
w. /. w. w. leaders in one western
H. stae did 100000 damage to one irri
of cation ditch.
Kuna.-Ada county grangers hav
q adopted the following: "Be it furthe
re resolved. that we urge the govern
ed ment in its various departments {
X continue its work of price fixing ur
:, til all products of the farm shall b
he standardized in price and the sam
at efforts shall be put forth upon a
ne commodities the producers have
" buy. especially farm implements an
.ss supplies"
on The fifty newspapers in the Pal
o, handle counties are to be organize
into a press association.
nd Lewiston.-Penny Stores Co. wi
lie, add twenty new branches in the ives
>. Kellogg.-Diamond drill oper
nc lions at the Hypotheek mine hay
been completed. 1t is said that Il
bodies. one OF which is said to sho
at least six feet OF solid first class &
NJ lena ore. Two cars per week go
n the smelter.
Buhl.-Carload OF 102. 200 lbs.
beans sent to Chicago last week.
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