The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-09
NORTHWEST Notes

Utah had 206 acres In sweet corn in
1919, yielding S19,639; and Idaho 2o9
acres, yielding $26,105.
| Utah's onion crop. in 1919, grown on
F175 acres, yielded $77,166; Idaho's 131
acres of onions were worth $54,714.
Three workmen were injured at Liv-
ingston, Mont, when part Of brick
residence which they were engaged in
repairing, collapsed.
More than 500 applications for posi-
tons as deputy state game wardens
are on file in the office of c. A.
Nevada, this summer by the Califor-
mia Nevada Mining company.
An intensive campaign to enroll all
teachers Of the state in the National
Education association and in the Ne
vada State Educational association Is
being conducted in every Nevada
county.
Idaho farmers held $500, 900 bushels
OF wheat, 100000 bushels of oats
and 100000 bushels of barley on
their farms on March 1 of this year,
Jakways, state game and fish war
den for Montana.
There were twelve bushels of sweet
potatoes grown in Utah in 1919, with
! market value Of $50. This is one OF
the facts revealed by a preliminary
report of the 1920 census, which has
just been made available.
Tony Darnell, the 13-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. s. T. Darnell, residing
in the Cat Greek field. in Montana,
was fatally burned at his home some
days ago while starting a fire in the
stove with the aid of crude oil.
The interstate commerce commits
sion will designate an examiner soon
to hear complaint of the Nevada
class freight rates maintained by the
Southern Pacific company between
points in California and Nevada.
? Ip tomatoes Utah ranks eleventh in
land cropped, with 364S acres, and
tenth in value of crop, with $518,162
paid to the producers, according to the
census report. Idaho. had 2OS acres
and sold $38,5S4 worth of this crop.
A mysterious bullet, believed to have
been fired from distance, dropped
through the skylight in the Butte
stock exchange and ntomentarily dis
turbed a group of about twenty men
when pieces of flying glass Uttered
the room.
ver-estimating the explosive power
Of nitrOglycerin, yeggmen almost de-
molished the Troutdale, Ore, state
bank building in an unsuccessful at
tempt to rob the vault. The concrete
building will require almost complete
reconstruction.
The value of farm property in Ne
vada in 1920 was $99,779,666, as COM
pared with sec, $780, 1865 in 1910, an in
crease of 65.2 per cent. The value of
land and buildings in 1920 was $685.
255,214; of implements and machinery,
$3,63O,927, and of livestock, $685.
.525. ~ ~~~".>4 =
The Salt Lake Commercial club
and chamber of commerce will Op-
pose movement launched by COM
mercial organizations in New York
and other eastern states to urge
upon congress the enactment of a
measure restoring the daylight saving
plan.
w. V. Moran, Seattle manager, and
Pau. D. Porter, salesman, of d con
Germ called The Wall Stree. Securities
company of San Francisco are under
arrest at Seattle, charged with grand
larceny in connection with an alleged
gigantic coastwise stock swindling
scheme. ~ -,r.~
Corporations which are subjected to
the Montana corporation tax law and
did not make returns for 1920 until
after March II, 1921, when the act
amending the law was signed by the
governor, will have to make the re.
turns under the provisions of the
amended law.
An amendment to the Nevada water
law passed at the last session of the
legislature provides that all maps and
surveys and measurements Of water
that are required by LAT must be made
by state "water right surveyor" who
shall pay fee of five dollars for a
license in case he proves his qualifi-
cation to the satisfaction Of the state
engineer.
Although the number of farms in
Nevada has increased only slightly in
the past ten years, agriculture in the
state has made an enormous advance
between 1910 and 1920, as shown by
the report of the census bureau. The
number of farms in the past decade
increased from 26S9 to 1853, but in
that time the annual value of crops
increased from $5,S7S,425> to $13,9SO,-
3O3.
Representatives of the bureau of
animal industry at Washington, D. c.,
Chicago, and other points attended
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