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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
4
The Weiser S11 NAL notes a tough year for produce prices and hints M McGregor may buy Weiser Creamery shares to boost value. It urges stronger publicity, waterworks expansion, and a city street fair idea. Editorials praise Judge Goodwin and critique shady streets, urging tree planting to boost home appeal and visitor impressions.
Last Wednesday the surveyors finished the preliminary survey for an aerial tramway from the Peacock mines to Landore. The three and a half mile route is deemed practical. The Devils Co plans ore-bin expansion as Decorah mines accelerate, with ore pouring into bins and a rich new ore body opened in old tunnel.
A Vale special reports strong hay demand with every hay sale in the country expected this fall. Willow Creek already sold all hay, including last year’s crop measured at $3.50 per ton, and many Malheur valley buyers have contracted at the same price.
Mays reports that a Chicago company aims to purchase the Idaho mining group owned by Perkins Kroger and Colby in the Seven Devils district. The mine shows 160 feet of tunnel, a 16 foot ore body, assays from 1542 to 100, and two favorable expert inspections. The Idaho mine, in a belt along the Snake River, is deemed among the district’s best properties.
A flax crop near Peck yielded 22 bushels per acre on a 100 acre field, bringing $1.53 per bushel. Total crop value was $3356 with a cash return of $33.66 per acre and production costs around $3 per acre, leaving a net profit of $25.66 per acre. Land value in Peck runs about $20 per acre.
The piece compares Prince Chun's 20th century voyage to Berlin with Henry IV's penance journey, noting royal robes and a German battleship escort. It ponders reception at the German court and hopes for better East West relations alongside church teaching reforms. Other items cover Sunday school teacher training, Bible institutes, self-reliant West Virginia girls, a Griffithville pistol incident, a Texas woman warding off a thief, and plans for a Young People’s Society convention in Calcutta 1904 plus a South Africa rail expansion scare and near-assassination headlines.
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