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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
2
The Lewiston Postoffice records indicate a local matter entered for second class mail handling. Details are sparse in the fragment, but the entry confirms official processing at Lewiston.
A study explains irrigation contracts where land buyers receive a fixed acre inch of water. An acre inch means water covering an acre. In the western oils, miners inch varies. California standard equates 50 miners inches to one acre inch per hour, yielding about an inch of water every two days per acre.
The Northwestern Railway aims to finish the line from Huntington to Lewiston, opening eastern Oregon to California and linking Boise with Lewiston in daylight. The project promises new business ties and easier travel, shifting long-standing regional separation and daily schedules for Idaho and neighboring areas.
The Lewiston Waha irrigation scheme has been capitalized with filings showing promoters plans. The project will convert 25,000 acres of semi arid grain lands around Lewiston into orchard and vineyard tracts producing far higher incomes. Rainfall of about 15 inches will be supplemented by irrigation, enabling subdivision into family plots with orchards gardens and clover patches replacing grain fields.
The state land board will not hinder bona fide settlers and will correct blanket filings in Salmon River lands within 60 days. Two investigators will verify claims, ensuring settlers gain their rights. The article notes strong regional prospects with crops, railways, irrigation, and public works boosting Lewiston and Nez Perce county prosperity amid broader market optimism.
Timber land filings in Lewiston Idaho claims under the 1878 act for sections in townships 33 and 25 west. Witness list includes Kettenbach, Smith, and others. notices set for October 1903 before the Register. Claimants urged to file adverse claims by October 1903.
In Nez Perce County Idaho the Probate Court issues an order to show cause why Alfred T. Walker may be granted an order to sell all real estate of the deceased. The hearing is set for August 28, 1903 at 10 o'clock a.m. in the court room of the Lewis ton courthouse. A copy must be published for four consecutive weeks in a Lewiston newspaper. Judge W. B. Rexs signs the order.
Legal notices from Lewiston Idaho detail the dissolution of the partnership of Wm. M. Jordan and J Harding at Sheboygan Knitting Co with Jordan remaining as agent. The notices include Timber Land Act filings by Stephen Jacques and Charles Kenyon about land claims in Nez Perce County with witnesses listed, deadlines in October 1903, and a probate notice for Reuben Cudney with required filings by October 1908.
The Clarkston land sale promotes a residence lot with twenty thousand dollars down and ten thousand ninety per month until fall under land contract No. 1184 signed. The message touts rapid growth from zero to two thousand five hundred residents, electric lights, water service, sidewalks, two banks, and orchards yielding two thousand dollars per acre, claiming safer profits in Clarkston-Vineland real estate as Lewiston Water & Power Co advertises a drive to inspect.
Multiple entries detail settlers from Lewiston and Lapwai Idaho applying for final proof under the Land Office. Names include Puke Peters, William Henderson, Herbert Crandell, Marion Rich, Edward G. Williams, and Ameline Phillips. Witnesses listed include Ira Smail, John J. West, James Vernon Walter Jain, and others. Proceedings note contests, timber land claims, and publication notices with dates around 1903 to 1908.
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