Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-01-26
BOOSTS FOR
THIS DISTRICT
COUNTY ASSESSOR TELLS SOUTH.
ERN IDAHO OF OUR ADyANT-
AGES AND RESOURCES
ATTENDS ANNUAL CONVENTION
Assessors Favor the Establishment of
Tax Commission.

w. G. Reid, county assessor, re-
turned Monday night from Boise where
he spent several days last week at
tending the sessions of the annual
convention of county assessors and
the meetings of the state board of
equalization. At these latter sessions
the following valuations were set:
milk cows, $40 per head; range stock,
$40 per head; yearlings, $40 per head
bulls, 500 and up per head; sheep,
"a per head; hogs, So per hundred
weight; work horses, $50 and up;
range horses, $25 per head; graded
and heavy draft horses, 500 and up;
goats, SO per head.
One of the important results of the
assessors convention was the adoption
of resolution favoring the abolish
ment in Idaho of the board of equali-
zation and the creation in it place of
a tax commission.
In the matter of the collection of
auto licenses for 1922 the assessors
fall agreed upon March 1st as the
"deadline" when all 1922 licenses must
be obtained and when grace for neg
lect will cease.
Assessor Reid was able to give
Boundary county some favorable adj
vertising while at Boise and the Boise
Statesman, of last Friday, contained
the following article about this dis
trict:
"In an interview with w. C. Reid
assessor for Boundary county, the re-
porter learned lot of interesting
things about Idahos most northerly
county. In this small but most scenic
county the resources are practically
untapped. At present there are nearly
two hundred thousand acres of land
suitable for agricultural purposes un-
occupied and less than $4,000 acres
under cultivation. The timber land
Will run about one hundred thousand
acres; grazing land one hundred fifty
thousand acres and about $4,000 acres
of cut over land This county claims
a rainfall of 27 inches and boasts that
there is no such thing as droughts in
their midst
ASKED about the reclamation pro-
gram for the Kootenai valley Mr.. Reid
stated that this was an assured sue
cess, he believed. The Canadian gov
ernment must act Jointly with the
United States government, he explain
ed, and this all entails a tedious pro-
cess but the latest reports from the
state engineers show the feasibility of
the project and everything points
toward action in the near future.
This, he pointed out, will reclaim
about $4,000 acres of overflow land in
Boundary county. This soil has been
tested in many places and its analysis
shows 1t to be almost perfect from the
standpoint of fertility
"A drainage district has already
been formed, Mr.. Reid said, and work
has been in progress for the past six
months. This district contains nearly
5000 acres and is located three miles
southwest of Bonners Ferry. Bonds
totaling one hundred thousand dollars
were sold by this district and the work
will be completed this coming spring.
Seeing that Mr.. Reid was an enthu-
siast for his own county the reporter
continued, well, what else do you
have in Boundary county?"
Most everything" was the reply
you see we have good schools. our
high school at Bonners Ferry offers
full courses in manual training, home
economics, agriculture, commerce.
music, art, physical culture, gymnas-
tics, military training, in addition to
all the regular academic work and is
a member of the Northwest Associa-
ton of Secondary Schools and Col
leges. We have some good roads and
are building more. The past year a |
surfaced road was constructed from
Bonners Ferry to Standpoint. Plans
now in the process of completion will
give to Boundary county hard roads
from the Canadian line and from the
Montana line to Bonners Ferry, from
which point first class roads are as
sured to Spokane.