The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-10-31
IDAHO WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW.

| KelloggContract let for EOS miles
Pacific highway from Moon creek to
Van Gelders. IS
Fairfield - Big Five Mining and
Milling Co. have completed large new
mill
American FaIls-Largest dam in U.
IS to- be built, to supply water for
entire Snake river valley. ~
| Twin Falfs--Fifty acres bring rec
ord price of $s35 per acre.
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. may re-
slime operations soon. ~
| ,Osburn-Repairs to be made, on
bridge. at mouth of Two Mile.
/ WallaceAReports, show great i'm
pfovement on Giant property.
| Buhi-Large acreage of state land
l.sflls for SIPS an acre.
Twin Faffs-Fifty1two hundred
acres sell at $125.50 an acre. s
Lava Hot Springs-Bristol Memoir
Iia1 park opens.
States wheat crop for the year worth
$40O0O,OOO.
+ Wallace--Many more men needed
made.
+ Glendale - $4,000 substitution
raised to build a resrvoir to be u.s. 7
for irrigation purposes
Old Pine creek PROPERTY to be de-
lyeloped. Extensive work planned b..
Kingsley Mining Co.
| Jerome=-Paving.wo work held upon ac-
count of machinery trouble Is q
Rur ert- Machinery arrives for
Farmers Co. operative cheese factory.
prospects good for this industry VI
I Three quarter million dollars paid
for wheat in Palouse county.
| Boise-Large reservoir contem
plated to supplement. water used ;a
THAT district.
Oneida county farmers organizing
to kill off too numerous rabbits.
Idaho Falls Work begun on new
court house. a
Butte-Strikes in copper mines 70.
mented by agitator and which resulted
in weeks of lost time for the men.
have. all failed for the simple reason
there was no legitimate grounds for
them. Pies. Kelly of the Anaconda
Co., said that his company had for
months done everything possible 10
meet demands but as soon. as one had
been met concessions of a new nature
had been asked until the company had
reached a point where mot another
step could be taken to meet strikers.
The conservative labor element voted
by an overwhelming vote to return 10
work. Efficiency. of labor is increas-
ing as jobs become scarccr due to IN
flux of workmen The big Coerr
d'Alene strike just failed for the same
Twin. Falls--l8 acres red clover
yields 2l0 bushels and 80 lbs. seed
which sold for 5000.
ldaho's total wheat production as
indicated Octiber l, is IL ,604. 900 bush.
tels. 1t was rown on estimated area
of o6o, ZOO acres with average Weld Of
1871 bushei per acre. Last wear aver
age per acre was 2i,4 bushels. com
pairing with 20.3 bushels in 1917: 23S
bushels in 1916. and % bushels in lof5.
spring wheat on irrigated land aver
aged 26 to IS bushels per acre and
many maximum Yields Of so 20 and
~ bushels were reported. Low yields
OF spring wheat on non-irrigated land
IN southern and eastern counties. due
10 prolonged drouth. lowered the state
average.
'Pocatello--Sugar beet harvests we'll
under way in Twin Falls and Poca-
eSAAo ufSuhtS Wilt crops reported
good. to fair Potato digging in full
swing. t ~
More than 40 silos have been and
are being. constructed in Washington
county this summer and fall. Salubria
community reports yield of so tons
sunflower ensilage on acre and
quarter. xSs
The question that has been bother
ing copper producers, namely when
will Uncle Sans brass supply be con-
sumed. seems in fair way to be
answered. The labor troubles that in
the late summer tied up. operations in
the brass mills have now been
Strengthened out and. according to one
authority, the past month saw a very
considerable amount of government
brass purchased for immediate use All
very substantial proportion of govern
ment copper has been turned into
finished goods. While these are but \
speeks on the horizon of the copper
aging. ""
Mullan--Miners flocking into This II
section. Both the Hunter and Morn II
$3.50 -