Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-03-26
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Caledonia Pays s2e,o5o Dividend.

COHlDdHI utCldlcu 10 uoudi nv
dividend of $26,050, according to
Stanley A. Easton, president, at kel-
logg. Idaho, recently. This is at the
rate of a zen a share on the issue of
2,6O5. 900 shares. Payment will be
made on April 5.
Parmenter Buys Ranch.
MOSCOW.-For a reported cash
consideration of $35, 900, B. c. Par
menter of this place. cattle dealer, has
purchased the 640-acre ranch, owned
by Bruce S.. Mcdonald, which lies
between Cheney and Medical Lake,
one mile south of Silver lake. The
farm will be used as a feeding and
winter fattening station for cattle
purchased by Mr.. Parmenter at the
Spokane yards.
Want Mountain Time"
BOlSE.-The state public utilities
commission will Immediately ask the
interstate m commission to
put mountain time in effect in Idaho
and eastern Oregon between Poca-
tello and Huntington. The Idaho
commission will ask that a hearing
be set and will present arguments
in behalf of civic bodies, which have
filed petitions.
Mining in Idaho in 1919.
CAS- a result of the national indus
trial reconstruction effort that has
prevailed in the country at large
since the close of the war, the Idaho
mining industry suffered more seri
Gus Interruptions and setbacks dur
ing 1919 than in any similar period
for 20 years says Robert n. Bell
Idaho mine inspector, in his annual
report, recently issued.
THE result of these conditions is a
marked reduction in metal production
compared with several previous years,
According to practically complete re
turns, this production was 1884 ,00C
pounds of lead. 5,269,395 ounces OF
silver, 20,414,OO0 pounds of zinc, 2,
48S,4O0 pounds of copper and 2S,77l
ounces of gold. The total gross value
of this production was $19, 1902, 1913, as
compared with 1912 ,0S2 in 1918;
$1S,217,35S in 1917. There was a more
serious cut in dividends, which are
estimated at $2,52S, 900 in 1919, as
compared with $7,106, 900 in 1918.
tThe serious decline in output in
nc way reflects a weakening in ore
rocourcoc n Il. prnductiva oanaoity ~
the principal ore producers in Idaho,
particularly in lead silver values.
Tuberculosis Institutions.
One of two tuberculosis 'sanitariums
to be erected by Idaho will be built
at Sunnyside, near Standpoint. Choice
of Sunnyside for the northern institu-
ton was definitely made at a recent
meeting of the state board at Boise.
The Idaho state board has about
$4,000 available for building pur-
poses and work on the Sunnyside in
~stitution will start as soon as the
architect returns from inspecting sani-
tarium sites in the southern part of
the state. Additional funds will be
forthcoming next year.
Sunnyside is situated on Lake Pend
Oreille, at a point where the lake
never freezes. The building site is
about three-quarters of a mile from
the Northern Pacific right of way.
Citizens of Standpoint made up a
subscription for purchase of the site
and the expense to the state for the
site will be small.
The site of the southern sanitarium
Is expected to be selected soon.
Those under discussion are at Hager-
man, New Meadows, Mailey and Pay
cite.
House Membership Reduced.
There will be but 10 more repre-
sentatiyes than senators in the next
Idaho legislature, due to the light
vote cast for governor in 1916. This
no law requiring the secretary of
state to publish, prior to April /, the
number of representatives each coun-
ty is entitled to elect at the coming
election. L.atah and nine other coun.
ties lose one representative each.
Every county is entitled to one
senator and to n representative for
each $500 votes cast for all candidates
for governor at the last preceding
election, and n for each fraction of
1000 or more above $500. Thus if a
county east $500 votes it would be
entitled to two representatives, which
would be the number to which it
would be entitled if it cast 1899 votes,
but if it cast 5000 votes it would be
entitled to three representatives.
The last session of the legislature
created three new counties, making
a total of A. Each is entitled to one
senator and n representative. even
if it did not cast $500 votes at the
~gubernatorial election. There we're GA
members of the house in the last SEES
sion and there will be but "a in the
next session.
The light vote in 1918 was due in
a large part to bad weather and in
fluenza. Election day was one of
the worst of the early winter. Thirty
six counties will have but one repre-