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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (IDAHO.) 



Gold-Mining and Development Company, at Hai- 

 ley, capital $2,500,000; the Alice Mining Com- 

 pany, of Wallace, capital $1,000,000; the fith 

 Sinker Gold-Mining Company, of Silver City, cap- 

 ital $1,000,000; the Basin Mining Company, of 

 Wallace, capital, $1,500,000; the Ajax Mining 

 Company, capital $1,600,000; the Idaho-Iowa 

 Lateral and Reservoir Company for reclaiming 

 the desert lands of the Boise" and Snake river val- 

 leys of Idaho, capital $100,000; the Idaho Pros- 

 pectors' Finance Company, of Bois6, capital 

 $2,000,000; the Wake-Up- Jim Gold-Mining Com- 

 pany, capital $1,200,000; the Idaho Exploration 

 and Development Company, of Weiser, capital 

 $1,000,000. 



Geological Maps. The United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey issued in September reprints of the 

 Bear valley and Idaho basin map sheets, which 

 cover portions of the mountainous country of 

 western Idaho. Portions of Idaho, Custer, Boise 1 , 

 Ehnore, and Alturas Counties are included in the 

 maps, as are also the Idaho City region and the 

 rugged crest of the Sawtooth range for much of 

 its length. By the use of contour lines the moun- 

 tainous topography of the district is admirably 

 represented. The maps are drawn on a scale of 

 about half an inch to the mile, and are uniform 

 with those issued of other parts of the State. 



Intermountain Fair. The Idaho Intermoun- 

 tain Fair was opened at Boise, Oct. 22, and was 

 thronged with visitors. The mining exhibit was 

 particularly fine, embracing ores and precious 

 stones from every part of the globe. The agri- 

 cultural and horticultural exhibits, which occu- 

 pied the whole right-hand side of the building, 

 contained chiefly the products of the State in 

 these lines, and displayed many splendid speci- 

 mens of Idaho fruits and vegetables. The qual- 

 ity of the entries in the dairy department was also 

 exceptionally fine. The stock exhibit attracted 

 much attention, the exhibit of sheep excelling 

 anything of a similar sort that had previously 

 been shown in the State. The main building has 

 four wings, each 50 feet wide and 150 feet long. 

 The grand stand is an immense structure, capable 

 of holding 2,000 persons. There are several other 

 fine structures on the grounds, which are almost 

 encircled by box-stalls and pens for cattle. 



Land Office. The report of the Land Office for 

 January showed that it turned into the State 

 Treasury $219,620.82 in 1901. Of this, $137,189 

 was proceeds of sale of timber lands, the remainder 

 representing sale of school and other State lands. 

 The number of acres of school, normal-school, 

 university, and school of science lands sold was 

 15,997. In addition to the amount turned into the 

 general fund of the State, there was turned into 

 the common-school fund, interest earned upon the 

 general school fund, the sum of $45,609.77. 



Legal Decisions. In March the United States 

 Circuit Court handed down a decision that is con- 

 sidered of great interest to the mining interests 

 of the State. In The Empire State-Idaho Mining 

 and Development Company vs. The Bunker Hill 

 and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, 

 Idaho, judgment was reversed and cause remanded 

 with directions to enter judgment for the defend- 

 ant. This was what is called the King case. It 

 turned upon the extralateral rights of two claims 

 located side by side upon the same ledge, each 

 covering a portion of a very wide outcrop, the end 

 lines of the claims not being parallel. Judge 

 Beatty held that the lines of the older location 

 must govern. The older location was the Viola, 

 on the great Bunker Hill vein. The adjoining 

 claim was the San Carlos. The point in contro- 

 versy was the ownership of ore bodies far below 



the surface. As it seems difficult to cleave a 

 vein in two, permitting one owner to follow the 

 hanging-wall portion between lines in one di- 

 rection and giving the foot-wall owner the right 

 to follow it between lines laid in a greatly differ- 

 ent course, there was great interest in the decision 

 of this case. 



In December the Supreme Court reversed the de- 

 cision of the lower court in the case of Kindall 

 vs. The Lincoln Hardware and Implement Com- 

 pany. An interesting question of the mortgaging 

 of community property by the husband and the 

 status of such mortgage after the death of the 

 wife was involved. Kindall and two others pur- 

 chased certain agricultural implements from the 

 Hardware and Implement Company and gave 

 chattel mortgages to secure their notes given in 

 payment. One of these mortgages covered the 

 crops then growing and to be grown on a certain 

 piece of land that was the community property of 

 Kindall and his wife, this mortgage being executed 

 without his wife joining in it. The Hardware and 

 Implement Company foreclosed the mortgage. 

 Kindall and his wife then began this action to en- 

 join the company from foreclosing the mortgage. 

 While this action was pending Mrs. Kindall died. 

 The court then permitted Kindall to prosecute the 

 injunction proceedings alone. The defense held 

 that, though the mortgage on the community 

 property might not have been good while Mrs. 

 Kindall lived, it was valid against him after her 

 death, a view held by the lower court and re- 

 versed by the Supreme Court. 



Fort Hall Indian Reservation. The Fort 

 Hall Indian Reservation was opened to settlers 

 June 17. It consists of 418,000 acres, about 100,- 

 000 being fine farming land, and the rest known 

 to contain abundance of copper and other min- 

 erals. Nearly 3,000 prospective settlers and mi- 

 ners rushed into the reservation when the sun 

 reached the meridian, raced madly for favored lo- 

 cations, and then ran back to Blackfoot to regis- 

 ter their claims at the Land Office. Although the 

 lands within the 5-mile limit of Pocatello had 

 not been thrown open to settlement, they were 

 open to location, under the mineral-land laws, and 

 the hills east of the city swarmed with prospectors. 

 About 1,000 claims were staked on the first day 

 Avithin 6 miles of Pocatello. The Fort Hall treaty 

 provided that the Indians should be allotted such 

 lands as they occupied at its ratification. The 

 Indian agent allotted 320 acres to heads of fami- 

 lies, and 80 acres to each child, some Indian fami- 

 lies receiving in this way from 600 to 800 acres of 

 their own selection of the lands ceded. This ex- 

 cited much dissatisfaction among the white set- 

 tlers, who asserted that allotments had been made 

 to half-breeds and to Indians not belonging to the 

 reservation. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 met in Boise", Aug. 20, and nominated this ticket: 

 For Governor, John T. Morrison; Lieutenant Cov- 

 ernor, James N. Stevens; Secretary of State. Will 

 H.Gibson; State Auditor, Theodore Turner ; Stalo 

 Treasurer, H. N. Coffin; Attorney-General, John 

 A. Bagley; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Miss Mae L. Scott; Inspector of Mines, Robert 

 Bell; Justice Supreme Court, J. F. Ailshie; Con- 

 gress, Burton L. French. 



The platform approved the foreign policy of the 

 administration ; denounced " the unpatriotic atti- 

 tude of the Democratic party " toward the army 

 and navy; declared that "the wisdom of the pro- 

 tective policy of the Republican party is made 

 manifest by its results," but favored a revision of 

 the tariff " which will place upon the free list 

 every article and product controlled by any mon- 





