Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-04-18
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT

INDUS KY ANU lMPhONem EN- !.
One weeks campaign to raise funds
for a greater Whitman college ended
at Walla Walla, April 9, with fund
past the $1,000 mark.
Senator A. w. Miles announces the
coming erection of a business block
at Livingston, Mont. that will be built
at a cost of $150,000,
Hard surfaced roads, connecting
Butte and Helena, Mont, will be con-
structed within the next two years.
The proposed highway will so through
the Homestead Pass and Whitehall
The estimated cost is $4,000 mile
The biggest land deal on record in
the Big Horn Basin was recently
closed at Hardin, Mont, when the Two
Bars Cattle Co. purchased all the land
interests of the Upton pool consisting
of $4,000 acres of land. The purchase
price was Sl75,000.
The election to decide on issuing
bonds for S230,0O0 in Wala Walla and
! Franklin counties to construct Il toll
bridge across the Snake river to con
meet Walla Walla and Franklin coun-
ties, resulted April in an oyerwhelm-
ing vote in favor.
T. II. Horne, resident manager of
the Utah-ldaho Sugar Company, an
nounced at Yakima, Wash, April s,
that he is certain the company would
complete one of the two unfinished
beet sugar factories in this valley, and
says that possibly both will be finished
thus giving Yakima three Sl,000,000
sugar plants.
The commissioners at Wenatchee
Wash, April S, signed a formal agree
ment with the state highway depart
ment under the terms of which the
county agrees to pay over 1000 &c
the state for the Improvement of the
Blewett pass road this year. Bids are
TO be received by the United States
forest service at Portland, under whose
supervision the work is to be done, or
: April 10. The cost of this work il
estimated at $lS0,000.
Warehouses to cost about $4,000
are going up in the Selah, according
to survey made April s. The grow
l ers' service company is now complet
ing a warehouse which will hold 30l
t carloads and it is one of the larges
individual plants in the valley. Ritche.
and Gilbert are making an addition
to their quarters, which will have
capacity of about 100 carloads. Thu
Selah Fruit Growers, Inc, are rebuild
!, ing their burned plant, while T. j
Slusher is spending $4,000 on add
, tons to the present cold storage plant
n WalIa Walla Tractor Demonstration.
q The tractor demonstration at Wall;
/ Walla, Wash, April %, "a and 20 will
J. be the greatest agricultural educa
n tional event in the history of tn
y American northwest.
y Hundreds of farmers will witness
Il actual tests of tractors and farm in
plements of every description. A COO
l acre wheat ranch nea- Walla Walls
J. will be used for the :ests. Man,
) dealers will be present to take advan
II tage of the opportunity to make
l. personal inspection of tractors an
p trucks and watch their performance
l. under various conditions.
IL A feature of the display will be tn
IL newest and most scientific invention
for the farm home-inventions that
II away with drudgery for the farm wifi
II So the Walla Walla exhibition b,
a. comes an event of interest not onl
q to the farmer and the farmers fan
q ily but the dealer as well.
n The exhibition already has the al
n prevail of the governors of Idah,
e Washington and Oregon, the heart
N approval of United States Senate
Miles Poindexter, the cooperation {
at the Washington and Oregon Stat
I'd Agricultural colleges, the Universit
re of Idaho, county and state engineer
lie over the Northwest and commerce;
N bodies. in many cities. Montana wi
ar be we'll represented at the event.
is