The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-01-17

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| Aladdin.
Without definite figures as to the
amount of money to be handled in
the improvement of state roads in
Stevens county during 1920, the
county commissioners are not at lib
eity to state how the big fund will
| be apportioned, but it is very prob
able that about 100000 will be avail
! able for the extension and establish
ment work on the Meyers Falls
Davenport road, beginning at the ter
minus of the present improved por-
| ton extending south from Kettle
Falls. This work and the funds will
be handled by the state highway
commission and operations will be-
gin as soon as weather conditions
will warrant this spring.
r. G. Newell has brought an ac-
ton in the superior court against
George w. Perkins and Matilda
Perkins to recover on a contract by
which, it is alleged, the defendants
agree to sell certain lands in section
6, township 80 north, range 80. The
plaintiff claims that he deposited in
the Bank of Colville the sum of $500
as part of the purchase price to be
paid when title was shown perfect
in defendants, but that the defen-
dants have failed to furnish abstract
of such evidence.
When is a ferry not a ferry?
That is the question that has occurred
to the board of county commissioners
quite recently. 1t seems some of the
owners and operators of ferries on
the Columbia river, in addition to the
cable boats on which heavy traffic is
handled, accommodate the light traffic
by litering passengers between moor
ings in row boats or gasoline launch
es. The commissioners declare, it is
claimed, that the cable ferry license
does not cover such service. The
fcrrymen claim that there is no
licensing law governing other than
regular ferryboats and that skiff
or launch is not ferry boat and
that a special statute will have to be
enacted to provide against the use of
such craft in the business of hauling
passengers. The question has not
been definitely settled, but it looks
like the ferrymen will have to stick
to his cable if he expects to collect
fares.
Paul Person, an old man who lives
ported to the county authorities this
week that he had been robbed of $40
by two men who entered his home
Monday night. Two. suspects who
We're apprehended Wednesday and
were brought before Mr.: Person, at
the office of Prosecuting Attorney
Noble, but he could not identify
them as connected with the robbery
and they were released
Electric Point Mining Co., operat-
ing 10 miles from Northport, Wash,
on Dec. 20, paid a dividend of 3
cents per share. upon 793,500 shares
issued out of 100000, making dis
bursements of $23,790. Total divi-
bends will thus be raised to 1901 $50,
all paid within three years. The
property was discovered in the sum-
mer of 1915 and produces lead ore,
containing no silver values, in the
: proportion of around five tons of
carbonate to one ton of sulphide.
the mine, principally upon develop
ment. Shipments are, however, going
forward to the United States smelter
at Midvale, Utah, at the rate of
carload a day. Two carloads of sui
phide ore have recently been deliver
ed to the Northport plant. Ship
ments to Midvale take base rate
of $3.50 from Northport, with local
rate of $1.60 from Boundary to
Northport, making total of $10.40
per ton. Efforts to secure adjust
ment of these rates by elimination
of; the local rate from Boundary to
Nopthport, distance of but Z miles,
have so far failed, owing to the
chaotic condition of railroad matters
at Washington. 1t is expected that
the reduction will be obtained as
soon as railroads have been returned
to owners by the government.
In 1919 the turnover of livestock
at the Spokane Union Stock yards
was $10,5OOO,OOO. This demonstra-
ton of the magnitude to which the
live stock industry of the Inland
Empire has attained is especially
opportune, coming on the eve of the
annual meeting of the National
Livestock association here on Jan.
27-29. The association has not met
in the Pacific northwest for more
than ten years, and in the interval
the stock industry has had splendid
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