The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-23
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


Eight ships will be necessary to car
ry the salmon catch of British columbia
to Europe.
w. A. Lander OF the Moscow Fruit
company will ship a car soon Of Ouch
ess apples.
A company has been formed to estab-
lish a wholesale and retail boot and
shoe house in Spokane.
Cattle shipments from Pendleton.
Or, over the Washington & Columbia
road are brisk this season.
Articles OF Incorporation OF the Co
lumbia River Live Stock and Trading
company have been filed in Spokane.
The natural oyster beds at Samish
bay, Puget sound, are being destroyed
by lack Of attention and the star fish.
Fairhaven's industries employ 1852
men, Of whom 600 are Chinese, and the
monthly pay roll runs up to nearly $780,
600.
Clemans and Bradley Of Asotin.
Wash, have crew on roundup Of
their cattle In the Grande Ronde coun-
try.
Wheat is coming in In the best con-
dition for years. Grain buyers say 1t
is dry and hard and No. l In every
respect.
The new order increasing the pay OF
certain workmen at the Great North
ern shops at Hillyard went into effect
last week.
The New York brewery of Spokane,
owned by the heirs of the Rudolph
Gorkow estate, has been bought for
$15O,000 by Spokane parties.
From one-acre orchard in the pres
ent poor fruit year, w. D. Mule will re-
alize 5000 this season. His place is lo-
Gated on Lake Samish, Wash.
The receipts Of the Portland custom
house for the month Of August were
$107, 7,079.33. The value OF exports for
the month amounts to $44O,639.
Fully 1,400 Indians are camped ON
the Tacoma water front, waiting for the
word to move on the Puyallup hop
yards, where the picking will last about
three weeks.
The packing plant of the Frye-Bruhn
company was destroyed by fire recently
in Seattle. together with q large
amount of hams and beef. The loss IL
$150,000; insurance, $4,000.
Humphreys & Troop OF Steptoe,
Wash, have made the record run for
the season with headers. They cut
1900 acres in 13 days with two l2-foot
headers on the farm Of Lillis F. Smith.
the wheat king Of Endicott.
James Callahan Of North Yakima has
bought and shipped to Chicago the fol-
lowing lumber Of lambs purchased
from the following: Vessey & MacRae,
1929; J. L. Underwood, 1909; Robert
Hamilton, S99; g. w. Olney, 3.O10: q.
M. McCready, 2,2O2.
Fifteen car loads of tin cans for Fair
haven canneries arrived a few days ago
from Astoria, the Fairhaven plant of
the Pacific Sheet Metal works being un-
able to turn out the cans fast enough
to supply the demand, although the fac.
tory runs till 9 o'clock every night.
Jesse Drumheller of Walla Walla had
1900 acres in wheat this year. Nearly
all of 1t has been harvested, the great
bulk Of it having been gathered with
machines that cut and thresh the grain
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average yield was about 33 bushels to
the acre.
Thirty car loads of prunes have been
shipped east in the past week from
North Yakima. Purdy Flint shipped
nine car loads and he is not half
through. He offers packers six cents
a box. The highest price heretofore
has been three and q half and four
cents. The cars hold 10 to IA tons. and
John Kelly.
DR.. J. A. Lamberson of Lebanon, Or,
has during the past few months bought
for shipment $40 tons OF cascara bark.
for which he has paid $50 ton, or q
total of $4,000. He has also bought 20
tons of Oregon grape root, paying there
for $1,000. The doctor Is also investi
eating the market for fir balsam, hav
ing bought 66 barrels of that article
paying $3.50 per barrel. He is now
convinced that the collection of medici
nal bzarks. etac., will prove a perma.
nent industry in this section of the
state.
Rebels Gain In Venezuela.