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IDAHO
DAILY STATESMAN – BOISE, IDAHO
NOVEMBER
4, 1898
DISTILLERY
IN IDAHO – One to Be Put in Operation at Grangeville
J.W.
Hathaway, deputy internal revenue collector at large, with headquarters
in Helena, arrived in the city yesterday.
He is on his way to Grangeville to make surveys of a distillery
which will be started there by Reynolds brothers within the next two
weeks. Incidentally, Mr.
Hathaway will attend to some internal revenue business here.
He was in consultation yesterday with Senator Shoup with
reference to some Idaho appointments in the internal revenue service,
and afterwards it was announced that Mr. Bonebrake of Grangeville would
be appointed storekeeper and gauger of the new distillery.
This
will be the first distillery to be operated in the state of Idaho, that
is, the first legal one, as it is understood there have been illicit
stills operated here in times past.
The liquor will be manufactured from grain-rye, and corn.
Mr. Hathaway does not know the capacity of the Grangeville
distillery and it is to ascertain it that he will make the survey.
He will ascertain the capacity of the fermenting tubs, stills,
etc., and determine how much grain will be allowed for the manufacture
of a given amount of whiskey.
Mr.
Hathaway is one of the oldest internal revenue officers in the northwest
and his experiences have been varied.
His present jurisdiction embraces Montana, Idaho and Utah.
He has just surveyed a distillery in the latter state.
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