Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-17
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE STATE

Ninety thousand brook trout
were planted in Idaho county
streams Tuesday under direc-
tion of George Carlyle, deputy
game warden, of Kamiah.
Twenty-Five states and the
District of Columbia drew on
Idaho for Potato supplies, ac-
cording to check just complet-
ed for the disposal of the 1922
% crop of 10,130 cars by Idaho
agricultural officials.
Twenty-Five million feet of
sawed lumber is the estimated
output of numerous small mills
within a radius of twenty-five
miles of Orofino. Of this amount
about 100000 feet lis white
pine and 100000 is yellow
pine.
The largest grain sale Of the
season in the Lewiston market
has been made by H. T. Barnes,
who farms just south of Lewis
ton. He sold 10000 bushels of
wheat to M. B. Mikkelson of the
Prairie Mills company for 81
cents bushel.
What is said by shippers to
be the heaviest lambs ever ship
ped from the loading station at
ketchum, Idaho, have been ship
ped out by ]. w. Newman. There
were 1896 lambs in the shipment
and the average weight was 93.-
27 pounds. They were pur-
chased under contract last MAY
at $40 per lamb, or $4,000 for
the shipment. :,
The University of Idaho has
purchased the harvester plant
in Moscow from Jerome ]. Day
and will use it for machine
/; laboratory for the college of
! engineering. The plant Is said
5 to have originally cost the Idaho
4 National Harvester Co. $1OO. 900.
: 1t is understood that the price
! paid by the University was
q $4,000.
Herbert Wright, former busi-
ness man of Lapwai, now living
upon a berry ranch near there,
has returned from Detroit, Mich
I, where, as manager Of the REQ
! nard Roller Gear Thresher Co.,
an Idaho concern, he says he
sold to large auto wheel manu-
facturer his company's patents
upon a new disc auto wheel for
e 100000. The first installment
i upon the purchase price will be
c due October /.
w. ]. Hall, state commissioner
of public works, finished two
days conference with university
: authorities, Tuesday evening.
The conference had to do largely
. with the plans for the construc-
{ ton of the new science building,
s and Mr.. Hall urged that work be
/ started as soon as possible. A
portion of the money for the
construction of the building will
be- available Immediately after
y the state board of equalization
o makes the levy.
d Calling upon the people of the
g United States to give President
d Calvin Coolidge "a chance to
: make good" Senator William E.
l. Borah Of Idaho declared Coolidge
r. was a logical candidate for the
g republican nomination for the
: presidency in 1924. Fate and
> circumstances have made Calvin
o Coolidge president" Senator
r. Borah said in an interview In
3. Spokane Saturday. "He takes
d up heavy task. There are some
a very difficult problems asking
y or rather demanding, attention
E. Public utilities in Idaho viii
q make-a strong demand before
" the state board of equalization
Monday for a reduction in theil
assessed valuation. The Oregon
Short Line railroad has hac
l. special agents in Idaho in the
1T past year making an exhaustive
TO study of valuations in all coun'
d ties through which their hines
II run. 1t is said that they are
prepared to introduce a hundred
instruments dealing with pro.
ly perty transfers, which show
ut actual values. On the basis Of
I8 these instruments they contend
5 that it can be proved that ths
a railroad is assessed for taxation
re on a valuation which if properly
a equalized would be reduced
~ from 20 to 80 per cent in order
" to compare with other proper
ties in the same county.