, 1890-10-02
LARGE WHEAT YIELDS.
A Thousand Bushels From
Twenty Acres
THE NEz PIERCE INDIANS
Over q Hundred Carloads of Water
melons Shipped From North
Yakima.

A. Oliver, whose farm lies mile
or two east of Garfield, has finished
threshing q good crop, says the Gar
field Enterprise. He had 103 acres
OF wheat that made an average yield
OF thirty-fve bushels per acre, and
nine and u half acres of oats that
made sixty.four to the acre, total
Of 4,2l3 bushels from 1l24 acres.
Luke Follis has IL forty-acre field
of barley, which at this writing is
half threshed. 1t has made, 80 far,
n yield of oigbty-four bushels to the
acre, aud the part that Is to be
threshed yet is thought to be equal
ly good.
II. G. McCroskey has crop of 450
acres, part of which he has rented
and part he farmed himself. Two
hundred acres are threshed, making
1000 bushels, or IN average OF
thirty-tive bushels to the acre.
/ From u twenty-acre field of wheat
lying within half q mile of Garfield,
Henry Larkin has threshed an even
thousand bushels, making fifty
bushels to the acre.
William Gore, living two miles
west of Garfield, has threshed 100
and some odd acres of wheat that
gave an average of forty-two bushels
to the acre.
William Gill has threshed from
seventy acres near Garfield, 1900
bushels of wheat, or about forty-one
and half bushels to the acre.
An enumeration of the Nez Perce
Indians recently made shows that
there are /, ,75O Indians on the reser-
walton, says the Lewiston Teller. OF
this number more than one thous-
and have already been given their
lands in allotment of land in sever
atty. Miss Fletcher has nearly COM
pleted her work at Kamai. Most of
the remainder of the lands will be
taken about Lapwai and north of
the Clearwater. The allotment Will
be completed early next year. The
opening of the reservation tor actual
settlement will soon follow.
Over 100 car loads of water
melons have been shipped from
Yakima this year, says the. Yakima
Herald. The shippers claim that
the ears will average l,4OO melons
each, which would give an aggre-
gate of 140,O melons. If these
melons were strung out lengthwise
they would extend from North
Yakima to Ellensburg, thence up
and through Cle-Elum to the II islyn
coal mines, and fthey were pOunced
upon by the people of this state they
would afford provocation for IA
stomach ache for every man, woman
and child in Washington, and there
would be enough left to give cramp
to portion of Oregon's population.
Yet for all of this our capacity for
raising melons has hardly been sam
pied. Yakima presents the bestinduce
ments for the location of a Jamaica
ginger factory OF any city ~ the
world. tiY'
Among the samples brought to
our office this week, says the Coulee
the ranch of John Northrup; 1t
measures eleven feet high with
three large developed ears on it.
Northrup has fifteen acres of such
corn. Boyd Teter, of Foster Creek,
brought I'm Tuesday TWO punches of
evergreen milet, Il very prolific
forage plant that grows OH our up
land prairie To the height of four
fleet six inches, and can stand con-
siderable drouth. Experiments of
different grasses will lead to II per-
manent pasture grass that will make
meadow of our bunch grass up
lands.
The iron mine belonging to Mr.,
A. Chandler and situated on the
Pend d'Oreille about six miles from
the Pend d'Orielle houring-mill,
is showing up in great shape, says
the Colville Miner. j. r., Gund-
vunt. who has been doing the assess
ment work on the property, has
sunk shaft twenty feet through
best fiuxing ore in the world. The
ore Is found to exist In quartzite
with no lime to interfere.
The average daily grain receipts
of the Dayton market for the past
week has been about 22, 500 bushels,
making total for the week of about
1876 900 bushels, says the Dayton In
dependent. This is about $1,000
more than was received last week.
We defy any town in the state to
equal this showing. Who says we
haven't got the best farming coun-
try i'm the state or the world either?
An Astoria fisherman says sar-
dimes are very plentiful at the mouth
of the Columbia, according to the
Baker City Reveille. He WAS salts
fled that whole boat load, a ton or
more, could be taken with two hauls
ofa seine. a sardine cannery would
certainly be paying Institution If
this Is the case.