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Show I BIO IDAHO TIMDKn DBAL. la.OOO Acre, on Ih. I'ayell. CouUlnlof n00.00O.ouo r..t of Timber, rill on. One of the largest timber deals ever, rmade In the atate of Idaho wat brought to light Haturday by the filing on 13.-000 13.-000 acres of laud, thlt being the flrtt filing on a tract ta finally loclude 40,-boo 40,-boo acrca, and which ha between 00,-000,000 00,-000,000 and eOO.OOO.OOO feet of avallablt timber standing "wn It. When tht full plan I contumatrd It will mean the Investment along the I'ayette ol tome 1300.000 aud tho Installing 'and operation of large milling plants at I'ayette, llmmett, and Horse alio llend. The firm of Cobbln tc Casey of Montana Mon-tana Is going Into the lumber buslncsi on the largest scale of any corporation In southern Idaho. For many yean paat thla firm has been practically supplying the mines of llulte with timber, telling more of that kind o material than any other one firm ol that city. All tho land being taken In through timber land scrip, which Is now practically prac-tically the asmo aa rath. The lands being taken over by the firm com. tnence near Mmlth'a ferry on the I'ayette I'ay-ette river and ex lend on up tn tbt I'ayette lakct, In the vicinity of which they have n vast acreage In a compact body, A conservative estimate placet the amount of timber at 000,000,000 fetL |