The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-09-25
CROP Is NOT DAMAGED
EARLY AND LATE WORK REPORT
ED IN THE HARVEST FIELDS.
Considerable of the Grain Has Been
Cut with Binders-News From
Various Points.


Reports from the various parts of the
grain producing country say the rain
did no practical damage to the wheat.
Some of the threshing crews are working
10 or l6 hours a day. The past week has
witnessed the saving OF more grain than
any period of like length in the history
of the Palouse country. Conservative es-
Inmates place the amount saved in Whit
man county at quarter of a million
bushels each day. This would make
100000, worth at the lowest price now
offered, $l,05O,OOO 1t is believed this
record will be broken this week, as nearly
all machines are running today and q
steady run of several days is expected
this week. From NOW until the end of
harvest Sunday will not be kept holy"
by the farmers of the Palouse country.
Some farmers are just beginning to
harvest while others have their entire
crop cut and threshed. One great diff
Guilty which confronts the farmers is the
scarcity of horses. The low price of
horses has caused farmers to stop raising
them, and this year the immense crop
made it necessary to purchase many new
harvesting and threshing machines, and
there are not horses enough to run them.
Much of the very late grain, which it was
feared would never ripen, is now ripen-
ing very rapidly and it is believed will
be saved in good condition. If the
weather continues good for three more
weeks the bulk of the grain will be saw
ed. OF course, there will be hundreds Of
acres left standing in the fields at that
time, but there will be more grain saved
than was ever produced here in sin
gle season if the weather only remains
fair three weeks longer
Prunes in the POtIatch.
The prune crop in the Potlatch coun-
try this year will be something enor-
nous. A conservative estimate places
the number of acres of this fruit on the
ridges tributary to this place at 3OOO
Here can be found nearly every known
variety, although the Italian seems to be
the general favorite. Among those who
are largely interested in the raising OF
this fruit might be mentioned James
Hutchinson, who has 80 acres; II. A.
Russell, who has 60; John Hutchinson
40; w. III. Mcfarland, 20, and M. V
, Thomas 20 acres, while nearly every
farmer has from one to 10 acres. G.. w
Burford, manager of the Potlatch fruit
= drier, estimates that the total number
of pounds will be 100000, of which he
expects to dry about one-third. He has
orders so far ahead now that he has t.
\ list them and request the owners to avail
their turn. The drier starts Monda,
= morning and will run day and night un
: til the season is over.
In stevens County.
The fact has developed that Steven
county, Wash, is now and will hereafte
. be a grain producer of more than ordi
: nary capacity. There are not enough
i threshing machines in the county to tax
Il care of the crop this year, and 1t is est
e mated that there will be considerably
more than 100000 bushels of wheat alon
produced this season for the market
WnIIa wnIla Mortgages.
r The auditors records in Walla Wall
county, Wash, show about Sal 90
T. TENDER l to September Is. During til
y same period last year $76O7 was paid o
l. mortgages in the county. the mortgage
s. paid thus far this month range frol
n 500 up to $4,000. The larger mortgage
ID held in the county are not yet satisfies
Id but it is probable that they will be cal
a. celed before the end of the month. II
n local banks are heavy creditors.
d, Eighty Cents Refused.
n Prof. w. j. Sutton recently received a
r, offer OF so cents per bushel for his enti
ir crop of wheat in Adams county, Wasf
IS estimated at 10000 bushels, which he I
to fused.
In Columbia County.
Records are being broken in threshir
in Columbia county, Wash. Some m
chimes have been running far into Il
night on account of the threateniI
weather. 1t will require aboue foi
d" night more to finish harvesting.