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50-558: Porthill can refer to several places: Port Hill in Oxfordshire Porthill, Idaho Porthill, Shropshire Porthill, Staffordshire Porthill-Rykerts Border Crossing , on the Canada–United States border Porthill Bridge Porthill Park Porthilly See also [ edit ] Port Hills (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

100-476: A customs office doubled in size was erected. The 1929 crossings were 9,722 autos and 29,230 people. The statistics exclude the immediate local traffic. The next year handled 13,233 autos and 45,421 persons. During 1934, the road was being upgraded to a standard width highway. The opening of a good highway for the Eastport–Kingsgate Border Crossing caused a 10 per cent drop in traffic for

150-508: A fire started in a shack alongside the Whitney hotel. Destroyed were the Whitney and English hotels, their stables, the Ingram and Kelly general store and implement warehouse, the unoccupied Billings hotel, and a former poolroom/barbershop. Surviving were a barbershop, Spot's saloon, and the H.A. French general store/post office. With state prohibition imminent, only the Ingram and Kelly store

200-524: A government, individual, or legal entity from their prior owners. "Patent" is both a process and a term. As a process, it is somewhat parallel to gaining a patent for intellectual property , including the steps of uniquely defining the property at issue, filing, processing, and granting. Unlike intellectual property patents, which have time limits, a land patent is permanent. In the United States , all claims of land ownership can be traced back to

250-593: A land patent, first-title deed , or similar document regarding land previously France , Spain , the United Kingdom , Mexico , the Kingdom of Hawaii , Russia , or Native Americans . Other terms for the certificate that grants such rights include "first-title deed" and '"final certificate." A land patent is known in law as "letters patent" and usually issues to the original grantee and to their heirs and assigns forever. The patent stands as supreme title to

300-529: A log cabin across the river, which the 1894 spring flood reached, requiring towing to higher elevations as the waters rose. Consequently, the family relocated to Lister, part of which is known as Huscroft. Prior to Miss Agnes McKay becoming the inaugural government school teacher at Ockonook in 1895, David McLoughlin taught the settlers' children from both sides of the boundary using a room in Mike Driscoll's rudimentary hotel. The McLoughlin farm residence

350-419: A log house, which also served as a trading post and a hostel for prospectors traveling downstream. In 1878, prospector George Wallace Hall preempted 320 acres (129 ha) in today's Lister, British Columbia . In 1883, John C. Rykert established a Canadian customs station immediately north of the boundary to intercept steamboats and other river traffic sailing from Bonners Ferry to Kootenay Lake . Rykert

400-717: A one-week trek northward from the Sandpoint, Idaho railroad stop. In 1893, Albert K. Klockmann and John Manley bought the property, each holding a half interest in what became the Continental mine. By 1897, they planned a road to the Kootenay River for shipping ore by boat. In 1901, the mine was incorporated as the Idaho Continental Mining Co, and the wagon road to Porthill was completed. In 1902, 12 horse teams were hauling 12 tons per day to

450-505: A particular tract of land that has gone through various legally-prescribed processes like surveying and documentation, followed by the letter's signing, sealing, and publishing in public records, made by a sovereign entity. While land patents are still issued by governments to indicate property is privately held, they are also often used by sovereign citizens and similar groups in illegitimate attempts to gain unlawful possession of property, or avoid taxes and foreclosure. Land patents are

500-697: A system of written laws, Crown rights and officials, courts, and permanent records. After the American Revolution and the ratification of the US Constitution , the US Treasury Department was placed in charge of managing all public lands. In 1812, the United States General Land Office was created to assume that duty. In accord with specific Acts of Congress and under the hand and seal of

550-592: Is Hillcrest Mines, now part of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. The north-flowing Kootenai River is just west of Porthill. In 1860, a boundary cairn was erected on the east bank of the Kootenai River . The former US name was Ockonook, meaning "a grassy hillside with rocks." Around 1871, David McLoughlin and family relocated south from the Kootenay Flats to Ockonook, where he built

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600-535: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Porthill, Idaho Porthill is an unincorporated community in Boundary County , Idaho , United States , located at the Canada–United States border into British Columbia . It is one of only three Ports of entry for Idaho into Canada. (#3308) It is named for founder Charles Plummer Hill, as

650-582: Is established. Land in the United States of America was acquired by claim, seizure, annexation, purchase, treaty, or war from France , Great Britain , the Kingdom of Hawaii , Mexico , Russia , Spain , and the Native American peoples. As England , later to become Great Britain, began to colonize America , the Crown made large grants of territory to individuals and companies. In turn,

700-628: The US Congress . An example of Congress granting land through patents to corporate entities is the railroad grants made under the Pacific Railroad Acts to compensate the railroad companies for building a transnational railroad across America. When a territory agreed to enter the United States, an Enabling Act was agreed to as a condition precedent of statehood. The Enabling Act requires that all unappropriated lands, which are not yet privately owned, to be forever disclaimed by

750-572: The US President , the General Land Office issued more than 2 million land grants made patent (land patents), passing the title of specific parcels of public land from the nation to private parties (individuals or private companies). Some of the land so granted had survey or other costs associated with it. Some patentees paid those fees for their land in cash, others homesteaded a claim, and still others came into ownership via one of

800-450: The right , title , and interest to a defined area. It is usually granted by a central , federal , or state government to an individual, partnership, trust, or private company. The land patent is not to be confused with a land grant . Patented lands may be lands that had been granted by a sovereign authority in return for services rendered or accompanying a title or otherwise bestowed gratis , or they may be lands privately purchased by

850-473: The 1910s, the condition of the Creston highway was considered inferior to the highway south of the boundary. In 1922, J.C. Rykert retired as the border officer after 40 years continuous service. In 1920, less than 200 cars used the crossing, but in 1926 about 4,000 cars and 18,000 persons crossed. In 1928, a new road (present Highway 21) was built from Creston upon the abandoned K.V. Railway right-of-way, and

900-556: The 1934 Rykerts crossings, which recorded 11,512 autos and 36,892 passengers. In 1956, paving of the highway was completed. In 2014-15, 270,085 travellers crossed at the port of entry. A new facility was built in 2017 to replace the previous building erected in 1972. In the April 2020 COVID-19 restrictions, Canada reduced the previous border hours of 8:00am to midnight (winter) and 7:00am to 11:00pm (summer). The current hours are daily from 7:00am to 7:00pm. In 1909, Geo. Price sold

950-463: The B&;N at Porthill. After a fatality in 1902 and 1903 from thawing dynamite, activity ceased at the mine. During these two years 1,200 tons of high-grade silver-lead ore had been shipped. In 1911, work began to reactivate the mine, which comprised 20 claims and a mile of underground workings. A concentrator and a power plant installed in 1913 cost $ 300,000. The 14-mile (23 km) access road

1000-535: The Bedlington name fell into general disuse. During the 1890s, provincial Constable Sloan was stationed at Rykerts, and beef drives from Alberta commonly came south into the US and north through Porthill. In the cemetery on a hill above Porthill, the oldest burial site is for Louisa Sloop (wife of John), dated 1898. In addition to farming, resident J.E. Sloop was a merchant. In 1907, John Jacob Stitch bought part of

1050-607: The Canadian ones. In 1915, a new 100-ton ferry was installed for crossing the river at Porthill. In 1920, the Boundary county commissioners let a contract for the construction of a replacement ferry. Around the 1960s, a logging truck boarded the river-crossing ferry on the western shore. J.H. Huscoft Co. owned the ancient vehicle, which had hauled a load from the Selkirk Mountains via an access road which traversed

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1100-470: The General Land Office issued a land patent for the claimed public land and sent it on to the President for his signature. The first US land patent was issued on March 4, 1788, to John Martin. That patent reserves to the United States one third of all gold , silver , lead and copper within the claimed land. Usage restrictions (such as oil and mineral rights, roadways, ditches, and canals) placed on

1150-627: The Porthill hotel, and C.J. McClure, the GN station agent, purchased the Barnes general store. At this time, Martin Peterson and H.S. French were also storekeepers. In 1911, the former Whitney hotel became a restaurant. The next year, Jim English reopened his hotel. Joe Stick was mayor during this period. In 1913, John T. Lingrell (Ingram?) and Mark F. Kelly purchased the J.W. Gardner store. In 1915,

1200-647: The Sloop property. The IOOF chapter, which founded in 1901, bought an acre from Stitch in 1908 for a cemetery. The Roman Catholic Church later similarly purchased half an acre from him. On the lodge closure in 1972, the Porthill Community Cemetery Association, became the cemetery owner. During the construction of the Kootenai Valley/Bedlington & Nelson railways, Great Northern Railway (GN) subsidiaries,

1250-556: The US replaced its 1938 brick border station with the current wooden structure. A redesign of the road approach positioned the new facility in a different location, preserving the former building. In 2014, the old border station was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boundary County, Idaho . A post office and tavern with gas bar exist at Porthill. US border post hours are identical to

1300-410: The boundary. Positioned at the front of the ferry, the vehicle was in neutral with the motor running. The ferry pulling away from the shore jolted the empty cab, which jerked the shift into low gear. Slowly, the truck moved forward, forced down the front apron of the ferry, and plunged into the river, where the logs provided flotation. After the ferry pushed the load to the eastern shore, a bulldozer towed

1350-550: The companies and colonial governors later made smaller grants of land based on actual surveys of the land. Thus, in colonial America on the Atlantic seaboard , a connection was made between the surveying of a land tract and its "patenting" as private property . Numerous other land patents were granted by the Crown for lands purchased by private individuals from Native American tribes. Many original colonies' land patents came from

1400-722: The corresponding country of control like Great Britain. Most such patents were permanently granted. Those patents are still in force; the US government honors those patents by treaty law, and, as with all such land patents, they cannot be changed. Many early patents of lands originally granted by Native peoples were contested, occasionally in court, as a result of different understandings of "private property" and "ownership" between those people. Indigenous Americans often held land and its bounties communally, reinforced by oral tradition, while those from Western Europe who held established and finite views on assets, their transfer, and their adjudication in

1450-478: The crossing after gravelling of the hill to the south eliminated the need for chains. In summer during that decade, buses to Spokane could complete the Creston–Porthill route in 20 minutes. Creston Bus Lines provided a Creston–Porthill service at least for 1947–1953. By 1909, the Creston–Porthill highway was considered good. The next year, the wagon road from Erickson was upgraded for auto travel. During

1500-518: The end of Benjamin Harrison 's presidential term in 1893. That year, Barnes became the inaugural US postmaster at Ockonook. Charles Plummer Hill took over as the US customs officer, a position he held for 10 years. William Roger Huscroft and family rafted down the north-flowing Kootenai River to Ockonook, crossing the border in September 1891 to settle just on the other side. The family built

1550-451: The fuel. Over a 10-month period, the mine shipped 175 carloads of concentrates. By 1919, the trucks had increased to 12, and the workforce reduced to 130. The community, named Klockmann, had a post office. During the 1920s, employee numbers gradually fell. The removal of the electric plant in 1929 indicated the mine had permanently closed. Land patent A land patent is a form of letters patent assigning official ownership of

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1600-593: The land are spelled out in the patent and are distinct from state and local statutory regulations relative to property appurtenant to the land, such as zoning and building codes, as well as property taxes applying to both land and property. Private property rights accompanying land patents can also be thereafter negotiated in accord with the terms of private contracts. The rights inherent in patented land are carried from heir to heir, heir to assignee, or assignee to assignee and cannot be changed except by private contract ( warranty deed , quitclaim deed , etc.). In most cases,

1650-407: The land because it attests that all evidence of title existent before its issue date had been reviewed by the sovereign authority under which it was sealed and was so sealed as irrefutable. Thus, the land patent itself so becomes at law the title to the land defined within its four corners. In practice, the irrefutability of counter-claims is relative, but once a patent is granted, permanence of title

1700-807: The law of a particular piece of patented land will be governed by the Congressional Act or treaty under which it was acquired, or by terms spelled out in the patent. For example, US laws govern the land may involve the Homestead Act or reservations placed on the face of the patent, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo governs certain jurisdictional dicta relating to large amounts of land in California and adjoining territories. Legal entities other than natural persons (such as trusts and corporations) may not obtain land patents except by express act of

1750-467: The local registrar records to make sure the claimed land was still available. The receiver (bursar) took the claimant's payment, because even homesteaders had to pay administrative fees. Then, the district land office register and receiver sent the paperwork to the General Land Office in Washington. That office double-checked the accuracy of the claim, its availability and the form of payment. Finally,

1800-411: The many donation acts that Congress passed to transfer public lands to private ownership. Whatever the method, the General Land Office followed a two-step procedure in granting a patent. Firstly, the private claimant went to the land office in the land district in which the public land was located. The claimant filled out entry papers to select the public land, and the land office register (clerk) checked

1850-514: The prime construction contractor operated a hospital at Port Hill. In October 1899, the Bedlington depot was built and the rail head passed northward across the boundary in advancing from Bonners Ferry to Wynndel . Southward to Bonners Ferry opened, but northward did not open until late 1900. In the interim, the latter portion continued to be worked by a steamer, including through the winter. The terminal for regular train service quickly cut back to Wynndel, then Creston. Certainly by February 1904,

1900-455: The railroad construction contract was let in mid-1898, Smith foresaw his service as redundant and retired from staging to his ranch on the west side of the Kootenay River above Porthill. During the mid-1910s, Dunc. Cameron operated a Porthill–Bonners Ferry auto stage. In 1923, a new Creston–Bonners Ferry daily auto stage commenced. In 1930, the Cranbrook – Spokane motorcoach began using

1950-425: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porthill&oldid=877708985 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

2000-445: The settlement Porthill (called Port Hill by the railroad). Hillcrest Mines, now part of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta , is also named after Hill. From 1897, the place name Bedlington was synonymous with Rykerts. Bedlington was a mining camp in the boundary vicinity. The Bedlington & Nelson (B&N) stop immediately north of the boundary initially assumed this name but had been renamed Rykerts by 1904. Over time,

2050-556: The territory and the people of the territory and the title to ceded to the United States for its disposition. For example, the enabling act of the Washington Territory declares in part: ...that the people inhabiting said proposed States do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes; and that until

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2100-495: The three times weekly mixed train ran no farther north than Creston. In 1907, the Yale-Columbia Lumber Co. established a new lumber camp, accessed from a spur at Rykerts. The next year, the company Shay locomotive with three cars ran out of control and derailed on the spur. Two crew members escaped, but the engineer died from a broken neck. In 1911, the three occupants of a horse-drawn sleigh traveling along

2150-421: The title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States. .. After the right and title to land was disclaimed by the people of the territory, it was held in trust by the United States until someone proved a claim to it, typically by improving the homestead parcel for a certain period of time. Once a proper claim has been filed,

2200-604: The track escaped serious injury when struck by a train near the Yale-Columbia crossing. In December 1914, the final twice weekly mixed train ran north to Creston, and the Wynndel–Porthill track was lifted in 1916. In 1915, Port Hill became the northern terminal for the mixed train. About 1927, all passenger service ended. Freight service ceased in the 1970s. In 1892, Sam Smith extended his stage service beyond Bonners Ferry to Ockonook, important especially during

2250-467: The vehicle up the ramp out of the river. The motor restarted, the truck continued on its way to the company sawmill at Creston. The Porthill ferry operated at least till the mid-1960s. Porthill has a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ) with some mediterranean ( Csb ) influences. In 1891, Billy Houston and Fred Sutter staked the claim in the Selkirk Mountains. The location was

2300-585: The wintertime, when ice could block river traffic. The service soon became Bonners Ferry–Kootenay Landing. The wagon roads were rough, but the winter sleigh travel was smoother. The hotel and saloon accommodation at Porthill was satisfactory. However, at Chambers City (south end of Duck Lake), a necessary destination when ice blocked the river upstream, William H. Chambers ran the only establishment. His Palace hotel, operating from 1893 to possibly as late as 1897, lacked beds, benches and chairs, and served only beverages, but meals may have been provided initially. After

2350-513: Was 200 yards (183 m) south of the boundary. In the mid-1890s, Clarke Quarrie was proprietor of the Boundary Line hotel. By 1897, J.I. Barnes also ran a general store. That year, McLoughlin received a land patent for 120 acres (49 ha) on the present site of Porthill. C.P. Hill challenged the title, but prior to a court case, Hill purchased 80 acres (32 ha) from McLoughlin. That year, as postmaster, Hill succeeded in renaming

2400-535: Was a customs officer, immigration inspector, gold commissioner's agent, and registrar of shipping. By 1890, Mike Driscoll was proprietor of the Palace hotel at what was then known as Rykert's custom-house. To Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wood, Ockinook residents, were born children in 1891 and 1892, before the family moved to the Creston Valley in 1898. Major Joseph I. Barnes was the US inspector of customs until

2450-401: Was rebuilt. In 1916, a new concentrator with a 300-tons-per-day capacity was erected. That year, 72 cars of high-grade silver-lead were produced. Employees numbered about 200. From 1917, eight trucks joined the horse teams in hauling ore. While drawing gasoline from one of the half dozen tanks awaiting to be unloaded from a scow at Porthill, an employee placed a lantern too close, igniting all

2500-488: Was rebuilt. Later that year, Sam T. Jordan opened a store. Ernest D. King settled in Porthill around 1904 and married resident Mabel Smith in 1915. Hartley Lester King was born in 1916. Hartley died in Bonners Ferry in 2018, three weeks shy of his 102nd birthday. In 1925, a new highway north was within 8 miles (13 km) of the border. In 1932, a service station and lunch room opened at Porthill. In 1967,

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