| Show IDAHO TO SELECT SL CT OTHER STATE ST T L LAND D Senator Announces that Commissioner Has Hils Accepted Re Ue as Sought ROAD HOAD TO 10 THUNDER MOUNTAIN Governor Gov Gooding anti anil Commission Will 1111 Take n a Trip Over Ow the Route I This Month Special lIaIse Idaho April 6 Ono result of ot thus the reorganization of oC tho the state land laud board undertaken by lo boding Gooding Immediately after atter hIs MH lute been evidenced by b a 1 recent dispatch from remit Senator that the thi of ot tho flue general land had hind finally 1 thin tho tel of ot acres of ot land lamud on und tumid un 1 Joseph Josol h In Idaho county count antI and allowing tho time state stale tho the privilege of or selecting other land In iii lieu of ot those lands lamude re to relinquished The state administration Is he highly over Oer the tho lie news nel H and In III Inthe the tho opinion of at o the governor and amid other othmer of ot tho the state chile land humid board this actIon netlon will viii result In profit to tim tho to lo on nn amount greater than luau half halt a n mil million million mu lion dollars In lii July 1903 the state land board tiled flied a IL selection of ot acres of at Und land In tho the land hand tho the lands landA selected elected being all In lie tha Salmon river country mind and on what was vas soon POOH discovered dl to lo bo ho only valuable for or grazing purposes and amid with little or orno ortie no tie selling value probably for Cor many man earH to lo come tumid nn which very ery r probably ably will silil never have hate ent value alue to toto to It worth orth tho the minimum price of ot MO 10 0 an all au acre ocre for to I state lands under tinder the hue constitution m In Imi February 1904 the hue stale mutate Hied a II 1 of ot acres I res resIt of It t these lands land and an In September Se 1904 the tho commissioner of or the general lamud In 1111 to lo accept such lIuch al lit that time notifying the tho hue state slate land board that hint Us lis filings could only bi 1 In iii the event that the hue conflicted with the claims of prior settlers that lust the hue land was Willi mineral minerai or that fraud had bind been pine lime iced In tho tint of ot such ouch lands When the tho new liEns administration hogan began It was Willi decided to make u n strenuous effort to savo this largo large amount of ot land to tho the state stale A rigorous was WIlB commenced und anti a mass maSH of ot testimony was watt gathered Senator Interest was ww enlisted and thus testimony sins by ity II him submitted to 10 tim ho secretary of at the tho Interior to whom an nn nh appeal hind been taken ny fly persistent und and painstaking effort tho tue attention ot Of the tho lund land department wis directed to this matter a clear th tr showing Watt was made auntie that the various endowment land of ot tho the different state were verc being depleted by h this nc ne netlon und mulish the tho decision outlined In tn Sen Setu Senator ator Ho dispatch was sins the re to sull stahl In addition to this thin great grent saving to tl tho the state Investigation of ot tho the books of ot the tile hind department shows shown that hunt In ono one nine ono cute institution In was charged with having 1400 I OO of It o land which had never nevel Detected gen Een at nt the tho hue minimum of ot 10 an au aero acre this would a n of ot COMMISSION COM lIS ION The Tue Idaho wagon toad road commission adjourned thin lila evening af aC after aCtor tar ter 11 IL two days H Ion The Tho commis commission sion was WOI organized by b the tho election of ot M If r 10 R I Lewis Lewin one ono of ot thu members as nA secretary lid by hy the hue of ut a 1 resolution providing that In all nil cases where wh rn roads were sera built hullt the tha section s benefited would 1 have havo to In pay IllY half hult tho flue expense of ot the tue road rond Dur During DurInA lag ing tho tue two days session the hue commis commission sion gave audience to a 1 number of oC del delegations desiring to present tho the claIms of ot certain localities A for roads The Ilie com corn commission mission has ban prepared tho the following statement of ot proposed road Improve Improvements ments meats with tho hue estimated cost and und length of oC each road and trail I Length Estimated Bead noad In tiles Miles Cost 18 1000 South Fork Clearwater 12 jl ar Garden 16 Atlanta 33 25 2 3 00 18 Loon Creel Creek oooo Creek 36 Three South Houth Fork lork Ork of ot 20 Hol O 45 1200 Salmon Trull 50 BO Rt St Joe divide Co IS River r canYon 3 1 Johnson Crook 41 l Under Un tint thi resolution provid ing thai lint but halt of ot tho the cost will bo he borno homa by hy h the this state If IC tho th wa Wins to attempt tho hue construction of ot nil all tho time roads asked for or It require an jun of ot according to the figures gures anti In III nil probability at It least bust 61 51 00 per pcr cant cont moro morn thun thull tills this would actually bo be required to tu pay pitY for tor half the work werk necessary Time Tho which the tho com coat commission mission has Inus to tn ii spend amounts to The flue commission hues has decided to make an 1111 mu Immediate Into Inspection of at tha proposed o 11 vomit road from rein to Marsh which would 1 n IL shorter connection between and Thun dr Mountain tooth road this Inspection will wIli hue hI made auntie tomorrow Then Thenon on out April IB III Commissioners When ice lor and Low Louis Is win will leave heave Wei Yei Yeiser ser per to inspect t the lie proposal rond remit Warrens to fig Creek Creak They T toy will bo hue Joined by hy Governor tit lit Will War Warion WillIen ion uen about April 1 I when tho the trip Into Thunder Mountain wilt stilt bo be undertaken last nil Ill rond Is III apparently time the most 1101 Important of ot any amly asked nal ed for tor open openIng mug Ing up tip the Rig HIE Creek Mining country from both the thuc north amid Governor yesterday appoint appointed rd ed 11 James of oC lumber for the thus flo district Mining Muting Commissioner loner Bradley of ot th the Idaho Lewis and Clark Exposition com COlli illusion lum hilA him returned from rent a trip to Ic Owyhee he lie has hau been gath gathering slithering ering oring up tIme the mineral states lito teA that tho mining men nien In Sliver Silver City CIt mind mire oro enthusiastic In regard to th this mineral exhibit In lit Port lort Portland land lani and amid have expressed the th Intention of ot giving a better mineral exhibit from county alone than will bo 1st shown by b any an other state In the tho Unit United United united ed States Slates Mr Bradley Is U also ulio endeavoring oring to secure the Col Cal Dowey oro ore cab cub cabinet met inet now on exhibition at nt anti If It possible the lit magnificent cabinet owned by Hosea Eastman n In Iii These sure aro two of ot tho the finest mineral cabinets In Iq h tho flue world |
