Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Idaho Weekly Industrial Review

idaho Weekly Industrial Review
Caldwell.-The Gem district vot-
ed $4,000 bonds for bridge on the
Shaker iver
Twin Falls.-First National Bank |
has been remodeled.
Shelly.+More beet acreage must
be secured here or factory will be
moved to another location. The su-
gar companies are paying $1,000 a
ton Tor beets, the highest price on
record.
Nampa.-With the value of silver |
closely approaching the dollar mark |
and strong indications pointing to it |
exceeding that point the famed Sill |
yer City mining belt In Owyhee coun- |
ty is fast assuming its old time pro-
portions of activity and promises of |
rich returns.
Gooding.-Great effort is being |
made to get spur track from main |
line of o. S. l.. to coal mines In the
| Teton basin.
Boise.-Highways of state given
big boost Commission adopts slo-
gan of council of national defense to
lend all financial aid Work on the
north and south highway to be in
full swing early this year. Expen-
diture of $4,000.
Preston.=Unless beet raisers of
this vicinity have change of heart
there is not liable to be a sugar fac
tory erected here as sufficient acre
age is not being signed up.
Weiser.-New concrete and steel
bridge over Weiser river completed
Wallace.-s150.00 to be spent
improving Fourth of July canyon
road
One of the chief reasons why ev-
! cry farmer who can use boy from
the Boys Working Reserve should
do so this year is that he may be
trained for more efficient work in
1919.
Wallace.-Henriett Exploration
Co. ready to resume work.
Wallace property on Bear Creek is
ohave small crew and to start work
shipping ore.
New Plymouth.-50-acre ranch
sells for $4,000.
Wallace.-The old working of the
Bunker Hill e. Sullivan above Ward
ner continues to be the scene OF
much mining activity. Ground is be-
ing worked by leasers, probably
dozen different outfits being engag
cd. and all are reported to be max
ing good money.
IL does not look well. neither is il
desirable to have constant struggle
and seesaw between operators and
miners. The government now stands
between the two, holding one in one
haEc. the other in the other hand,
guaranteeing to each both justice
end safety.
Harley Company of California
and Boise men are organized to
take over the Carrie Leonard the
Grant and the Silver Star mines. in
Little Smoky. They propose a clean
out of the old workings of the Car
rie Leonard and open up the Grant
and Silver Star and TO install cater
, pillar trucks to do the hauling
Boise. In spite of the fact that
dividends were less. ore ceased in
some cases altogether, mines of Ida
ho rose to the occasion of the coun-
trys great war need and increased
rather than decreased. total output
e OF metal in 1917, over year before
as shown by report of Robert n Bell
mine inspector of Idaho.
Meridian-A bank to operate un-
d der state charter with capital stock
e Of $4,000 will be established here
! 30 S Improvements contem
i plated at Julian Davis Park here thi:
y spring
No greater mistake can be mad,
than to heap up additional taxes OF
=. the mining industry in this state
The mines. mills. smelters and con
centrators that are operating profit
y ably are now paying an enormous
Q state tax and in addition county. city
J. school and road tax, to say nothini
y of the United States taxes on income
g and excess profits and federal cor
Il poration tax These taxes rang
l. from ten to forty percent of thei
l. net income. All these are tending
5 to restrict output and discourag
e capital from opening new properties
n There is more than one way to xii
cat besides choking il with butte
q and new state tax schemes for polit
A zeal effect is one of the surest in tn
Ie catalog of legislative experiments.
E. Hailey.-A valuable body of Ga
s. lena ore has been uncovered on tn
If 60O-foot level of the independence
% mine of the Federal Mining an
rs Smelling company near here.
l. Parma. will be let 70
r the $4,000 bank to be built by tn
is Parma State Bank soon.
Too bad the labor treaty formulai
ed by Mr.. Taft and Mr. Walsh fo
the influential commission represent
= ing organized labor ana employer
mr. was not made year age We hav
D. had a year of costly strikes and re
IN tardation of war industry, part {
al which might have been avoided b
r. an agreement so fair and wise.
s. Twin Falls.-Report from ia
of bridge that four foot vein of ore run
20 ming $4,000 to the ton had bee
OF struck near here.