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Show PROMINENT III COMING TO BOISE Invitations to Attend Irrigation Congress Bringing Many Favorable Responses. CONTRACT AWARDED FOR STEEL FOR CAPITOL Track Being Laid on the Boise & Interurban Railroad Line. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, July 15. Letters are being; constantly received by Chairman Gwinn of the executive committee of the Irrigation congress, In reply to Invitations In-vitations sent to attend the sessions of the congress, In which prominent personages per-sonages from all over the country promise to attend the national convention, conven-tion, to be held here the first week in September. Charles Burtch, Jr., the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Burtch of South ' Boise, was drowned in a small irrigating ditch which runs through the back yard of the Burtch home. "When found the little one was lying on his face In the shallow water, his feet being still up on the bank, where he had stumbled and fallen Into 1 the little ditch, and was unable, In the position he lay, to extricate himself. Xew Construction lingine. A twenty-one-ton dummy engine, standard guage, arrived in Boise Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The engine is to be used in the construction work of the Boise and Interurban lino in hauling Hat cars loaded with ties, gravel, poles, etc., and will also be used in stretching the trolley trol-ley wire. Work on the Boise and Interurban Inter-urban line is progressing as fast as material can be secured. The builders say that considerable trouble has been experienced In getting steel and that In order to get somo of the material quickly It was necessary to pay a premium pre-mium on It. Tho track Is now laid along Stato street and outside of the city limits to where the right of way cuts into the Ellis tract. At the wool sale Wednesday but one clip, that of Joseph Gostol, was sold. It consisted of 2400 pounds and was sold to J. Koshiand & Co. for 1C cents. Steel for Capitol. The contract for furnishing the steel for the capitol building has been awarded to the American Bridge company com-pany of New York. This firm's bid was $10,980, the lowest. There were a few modifications made in the contract, however, regarding the time limit for furnishing the steel and when; the con- Liiiut papers were signea tno price was set at $17,000 or $20 more than tho bid. There were seven bids offered as follows: fol-lows: Vierllng, McDowell & Co. of Chicago, $20,900; Whitehead & Kales of Detroit, $18,295; A. S. Whiteway of Boise, $21,000; Millikin Brothers of Now York, $17,GS1; St. Paul Foundry company, com-pany, $17,627: Minneapolis Steel Machinery Ma-chinery company, $18,531; American Bridge company of jSTew York, $10,980. This Includes steel for the grade and first stories complete and Includes about sixty columns which extend through one and more stories. The conditions of the contract require the steel to be furnished within seventy days in sufficient quantities to permit the rapid execution of the masonry work. The managers of the big mining companies com-panies In the Coeur d'Alenoa havo agreed to the change from a ten-hour to an eight-hour day for all underground under-ground employees. The change will take place as soon as possible and three shifts will be put on most of the mines. Sucessful Placer. The Lolson placer, near Resort, reports re-ports a very successful run. This property prop-erty belongs to the Flora Placer Mining Min-ing company. It is a well-known placer tract that was well opened before the death of the man whose name It bears. The Flora company, of which John Hunter Is manager, took hold of It recently, re-cently, Last fall a large quantity of supplies was sent in so work could be started early in the season. Operations were begun on April 15 and the mine will bo kept running until un-til fall. Two giants are running and they are kept going night and day. 'Ihe work Is superintended by J p Corcoran, the Boise basin placer miner Mr. Hunter brought in a partial clean up. Pie states that the yield of tho property for the season will be fullv $25,000. y E. L. Marvin has returned from Halloy, where he made filings for tho State or, 2800 acres of as fine timber land as ho says can be found in Idaho It is mostly yellow pine. On the tract It is estimated conservatively that there are about 21,000,000 feet of saw timber easily worth $45,000. It Is all located close to tho south fork of tho Boise river In Elmore county The Great Western Sugar company, through President Havemeyer and General Manager Morey, has offered a magnificent solid silver loving cup valued nt $500. for the best State exhibition exhi-bition of BMgar beets at the exposition of irrigated products to bo held at Boise during the fourteenth National Irrigation congress, September 3 to 8 Inclusive. For this valuable trophy the sugar beet raisers of Colorado Utah Idaho, Washington and California will enter Into competition, and the largest and most varied display of this profitable profit-able crop ever exhibited will be a leading lead-ing feature of the exposition. The sub-juct sub-juct of sugar beet culture will be one of the most important agricultural topics discussed at the congress |