Old Timer's Column
From the Bonners Ferry Herald
Dec. 13, 1912
The Herald has the information on good authority that a $6 million corporation has been formed and is now at work harnessing the Kootenai River at Kootenai Falls with the purpose of entering into competition with the Washington Water Power Co. for the electrical field of the Inland Empire.
The company is known as the Kootenai Power Co. A water power of 40,000 horsepower at the lowest water stage will be developed, giving the company ample means to supply the large field that it will enter.
The company made its filings some time ago on the power site at Kootenai Falls, but was in litigation with the government for over a year in regard to it. The litigation has been passed upon and the right of the company fully established.
The power line from the company's power house at Kootenai Falls will extend across the country to Heron, Mont., and thence down the Clark Fork River, through Sandpoint and to Spokane via Rathdrum and Coeur d' Alene.
The company is capitalized for $6 million, and Boston capitalists are behind it.
The big pulp mills recently announced to be built on the Kootenai near the Idaho-Montana state line will take power for the Kootenai Co.
Bond Issue Lost
The $40,000 bond issue for Independent School District No. 4 was lost at the election held Saturday afternoon by a vote of 138 for and 105 against. A majority of two-thirds of the votes of the district was required to carry the bond issue.
The bonds were to have been used in the building of a new school house, as the present buildings are not large enough to properly accommodate the present daily average attendance.
Bragg Estate Sold
The Irving Bragg estate was sold Monday by W. P. Mahoney, administrator, to Charles Troutfether of this city for the sum of $3,251. The only other bidder of the land composing the estate was S. M. Bauman, who bid $3,200.
The Bragg estate consists of a little over 100 acres of land located a half mile south of Bonners Ferry on “The Bench.”
Briefs
J. P. Dunn of Moravia is the plaintiff in a suit filed last week against the Idaho Gold and Radium Mining Co. of Leonia to collect the sum of $375.75, claimed to be the payment due for 25 tons of hay supplied by the plaintiff.
E. A. Hart, a brakeman on the K. V. branch of the Great Northern railway, caught the forefinger of his right hand between the couplings of the two cars last Friday and severely mashed the member.
O. N. Southwick went to Katka this week with several tie makers and expects to put in the winter at the tie making business.
The Club Pool Room and Cigar Store. I. D. Grindstaff, Prop. The largest up-to-date pool room in Bonners Ferry. Soft drinks, fruits, confections, cigars and tobacco. “Meet your friends at the Club.”
The boom camp of the Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. was closed down Tuesday for the winter.
Utopia opens Wednesday. Manager Belcher announced this week he would re-open the Utopia theater at its new location in the James Egan building next Wednesday night, Dec. 18. The new theater will be equipped with fine opera chairs, which will be placed on a slanting floor and allow for a perfect view of the picture screen from any part of the house. The new theater will seat 225 people. The news of the re-opening of the theater will be welcome as the people of this vicinity have had but little means of amusement since the burning of the old moving picture hall.