The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1922-01-20
INLAND NORTHWEST

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Efforts of the Nevada Livestock as
ISOLATION to secure an adjustment OF
1 grazing rules In the Tahoe national
forest which will permit Nevada stock
nen to continue to use the forest for
summer grazing on favorable terms
awe resulted In the calling OF confer
snce between stocknen OF the state
and officials OF the forestry service.
| Commissioners Of Cottonwood high.
way district at meeting In Lewis
ten, Ida. recently, passed resolutions
tor the construction OF that section Of
the road on the north and south high
way which with reach from Cotton.
wood 20 the north limits OF the Cot.
tonwood highway district. The CON-
plstion of this portion OF the road will
DO the connecting Iink with the Fer.
dinand highway district for which bids
we're lately opened.
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The county commissioners In special
session In Montesano, Wash, called for
bids for about 10 miles OF new gravel
road and several new bridges.
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Instead of moving headquarters OF
the state national guard from Seattle
70 Olympia, as previously announced,
arrangements had been perfected for
establishing Headquarters at Camp
Lewis.
More than 10000 destructive birds
and rodent pests have been destroyed,
| and a programme of education for the
protection of birds OF value to agri-
culture has been conducted throughout
Linn county as a result OF the IA years
existence of the Ashwale Hunt club,
according TO report on club activi-
ties issued.
Memorial highway, the highline road
between Seattle and Tacoma, will be
| dedicated with appropriate ceremonies
to the memory of men who lost their
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feature Of the ceremonies will be the
| planting, on the same day, Of 1000
American elm trees along the sides of
the highway.
| A herd of 1T antelope near Cow
creek In Malheur county, Ore, is to
BIO guarded against the depredatlons of
sheep herders, according to the Jordan
Valley Express. Without this action
tho extinction of the animals in that
part Of Oregon is certain. Fl. d. Clio
yer, ranchman.. has volunteered to do
the guarding The II antelope are said
to be the result OF three of the species
that showed up In the field of NAL
heur county rancher FIVE years ago.
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/ More than 800 persons have visited
Irukee, Nev. this week in connection
with the opening Of the winter sports
season. The whole Truckee region
is one vast snow field at the present
time and the low temperatures have
made good skating. 1t Is planned to
make the sports season the longest
ever held there and 1t will probably
continue until April.
| William Lewis, owner of the Lake
Tahoe Nevada, fox rench, has given
cut the statement that his firm win
produce about twenty new fox pup
| pies during the present year, At the
| outset OF the enterprise some heavy
losses were encountered but better sue.
cess Is asserted 10 be ahead of the
unusual enterprise.
SIX nfAcs ID new state highway
VIII be started early in February, be.
ginnlng ON the Arrowhead Trail about
II miles from Tas Vegas and ending
a half-mile th other side of Apex Sum
nit. The cost Will Approximate 500,
600
| Carefully planned campaigns GOV,
ering tens OF thousands OF square
| miles of range In the western states
| are now being organized to poison
wolves and coyotes In the annual win
ter drive conducted by the biological
survey. United States department OF
] agriculture.
An experiment IN cooperative porh
/ production to determlne II irrigation
earnsers and wheat farmers may nor
work together 10 the profit of bott
In growing pork Is to be worked Out
this year in Umatilla county. oregan
The Justice Of the peace of Para
disc Valley. Nevada, was summoned
/ on a peculiar piece of business re
Gently. An INDIAN had hargained his
wife off to another man for the stip
ulated price of $40, and both desired
the judge TO witness the transaction,
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