Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-08-27

in Idaho sugar beet fields. the disease
Is transmitted from plant to plant by
a diminutive insect known as the sugar
beet leaf hopper.
Highway Work Suspended.
ELK RIVER The Clearwater high
way district shut down its road camp
recently because of lack of funds. The
men have been working ON the high
way between Elk River and Bovll.
Officers Discover Still.
MOSCOW.-After working for IA
months on the case deputy sheriffs
of Latah county were recently re-
warded by capturing IA still in full OPP
Grafton in the deep woods on Gold
creek, six miles from potlatch.
Nez Perez Grain Yield Big.
NEZ PERCE.--A number of thresh.
ing machines have started threshing
in this vicinity The fall grain is
making from % to 80 bushels an acre
or about 20 per cent better yield than
last season.
Railroad Purchased.
Purchase of the Pine creek branch
of the O.-W. r. 4 n in the Occur
Alenes by the Milwaukee Lumber
company and plans for the construc-
ton of six and a half miles of addi-
tional line to tap rich mining and
timber section is announced
State Allows Raise in Rates.
BOISE. railroad freight and
passenger rate increase hearing held
recently by the public utilities com
mission was closed by action of the
commission authorizing the freight
rates in conformity with the order of
the interstate commerce commission
passenger fares except where the fare,
when increased, will exceed three and
| siX-tenths cents mile. The commits
sion regarded the hearing as IA purely
revenue matter affecting the trans
| portation systems of the entire coun
try and as such an emergency situa
ton which must be met and therefore
did not 20 into individual rates t.
ascertain whether they were unreason
able or discriminatory.
Huge White Pine Deal.
Purchase of the lumber mill an,
timber holdings of the Milwaukee
Land company by Winton Bros, of ST
Paul. is the latest rumor in lumbe
circles. The mill is at st. Joe, Idaho
and the timber holdings, which ar,
mostly of Idaho white pine, in tn,
valley of the ST. Joe river are ex
tensive. The purchase price is est
mated by men acquainted with tn,
lumber industry in northern Idaho tt
have been between $2,000,000 and So.
100000. The purchase will make thu
Winton Bros. the largest operators il
the north Idaho woods. For number
of years they operated the Rose Lake
Lumber company mill at Rose Lake
Idaho, and two years ago they bought
the old mill of the Stack-Gibbs Lum
Der Co., at Gibbs, Idaho, near Coeul
dAlene.
lThreshins Crew Wages Decided.
GRANGEVILLE. Twenty-eigh
threshermen met at Cottonwood Sun
day to establish wages for skilled
and unskilled labor and agreed on 81
cents an hour for 12-hour day tt
pitchers, helpers and drivers, includ
a day. The price for a team was sci
at $3.50 an hour. The pay for engi
neers and separator tenders was left
to the threshermen, and the rate paid
varies from 81 to SO per day. 1t was
concluded, threshing on the basis of 8
125o-bushel average per day for {
20-day run during the season, that the
actual cost of threshing a bushel oil
wheat is as follows: % cents a bushel
where ,thresher furnishes the com
plete outfit, including cook house; q
cents bushel without the cool
| house; IS cents where the farmer
! furnishes four pitchers, four bundle
teams and machine crew; IA cents
where farmers furnish the machine
| crew of four men.
Banks Show Big Gains.
| BOISE-F'igures compiled from 14l
state bank and trust company state
| ments of June 80, 1920, by the com
missioner of the department of com
merce and industry and state bank
commissioner, show an increaes in de
| posits of approximately 100000 and
gain in resources Of more than H.,
| 100000 over the report of June 80
| 1919. according to announcement
made recently. Deposits in Idaho state
| banks and trust companies June 50
| 1920, amounted to SIS. 107, 470.29
Bankers throughout the state re
port crop prospects considerabl!
| above the average and anticipate {
heavy liquidation in agricultural com
munities 1t is said that in the mex
six months deposits will reach thu
highest point in the history of the