The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-08-27
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happsnlnss In This state
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
preadnauoht Idaho.

curly top ID present again TINS year
In Idaho sugar beet fields, the disease
is transmitted from plant to plant by
. 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 Bovill.
Officers Discover Still.
+, MOsCOW.-After working for II
months on the case deputy sheriffs
of Latah county were recently re-
warded by capturing a still in full op-
GRAFTON in the deep woods on Gold
creek, six miles from Potlatch.
Neg Perez Grain Yield Big.
NEE PERCE.-A number of thresh-
ing machines have started threshing
in this vicinity. The fall grain Is
making from Is to IS 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. & N in the Occur
d'Alenes by the Milwaukee Lumber
company and plans for the construc-
ton of six and q half miles of add.
tional line to tap q rich mining and
nm Ia
state Allows Raise In Rates.
BOISE.-The 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
and also authorizing the increase in
passenger fares except where the fare,
when increased, will exceed three and
six-tenths cents a mile. The commits
sion regarded the hearing as a 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 60 into individual rates to
ascertain whether they were unreason-
able or discriminatory.
Huge White Pine Deal.
Purchase of the lumber mill and
timber holdings Of the Milwaukee
Land company by Winton Bros, of st.
Paul. is the latest rumor In lumber
circles. The mill is at st. Joe, Idaho.
and the timber holdings, which are
mostly of Idaho white pine, in the
valley of the St. Joe river, are ex.
tensive. The purchase price is esti
mated by men acquainted with the
lumber industry in northern Idaho to
have been between $4,000, 900 and ST.
100000. The purchase will make the
Winton Bros. the largest operators in
the north Idaho woods. For a 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 Occur
| d'Alene.
Banks Show Big Gains.
| BOISE.-Ffgures compiled from 141
state bank and trust company state
ments of June 80, 1920. by the com
missioner Of the department of com
MERGE and industry and state bank
commissioner. show an increaes in de
posits of approximately 100000 and
gain in resources of more than IL,
100000 over the report of June 30
1919, according to announcement
made recently. Deposits in Idaho state
banks and trust companies June 80
1920, amounted to $4S,1O7,470.29.
Bankers throughout the state re
port crop prospects considerabl!
above the average and anticipate q
heavy liquidation In agricultural com
munities. 1t is said that in the. mex
six months deposits will reach tn,
highest point in the histo ryof the
state.
Total resources of state bank!
amount to 68,712,O43.58 State banks
are doing business on capitalization
of $5,2S5, 900; surplus. $1.508, 597. Al
and undivided profits of $534,596.
! lThreshing Crew Wages Decided.
| GRANGEVILLE. -, Twenty-eigh
threshermen met at Cottonwood Sun
day to establish wages for skille,
and unskilled labor and agreed on 81
cents an hour for a 12-hour day t,
pitchers, helpers and drivers, includ
ing board. Sack sewers will get s
a day. The price for team was Sc
at $3.50 an hour The ipay for engi
neers and separator tenders twas lef
to the threshermen, and the rate pal,
varies from 81 Ito 80 per day. 1t wa
concluded, threshing on the basis of
125O-bushel average per day for
2O-day run during the season, that tn
actual cost of threshing a bushel o
wheat is as follows: 20 cents bushe
where .thres1er furnishes the con
plete outfit, including cook house; 3
cantS q huSbol without tho cSo