The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-09
InDusrnIAL norns.

IHDUSThIAL uoTns.
The Puyallup hop growers have held
q meeting and reached an agreement to
pay 81 box to hop pickers.
The machinery for the new Touring
mill at Lewiston, Idaho. has been ship
ped and Is expected to arrive soon.
An employers association represent
Ing from $4,000 900 to $S.0O0.0 900 Of To-
cal capital. has been organized in Spo-
kane.
Plenty Of hop-pickers are reported In
the Puyallup and White river valleys.
Picking will not commence before Sep
tember IL.
The straits Of San Juan de Fuca are
reported alive with salmon. The run
Of fall salmon Is expected 50 reach the
island traps within few days.
The Victoria District Farmers Insti.
tute has appointed q committee to look
into the question of establishing a CO.
operative creamery in the district.
The Puget Sound Oyster Company
has bought about 1900 acres of oyster
bed land near Union City. and is plant
ing 1t to native and eastern oysters. .
A phenomenal run Of fall salmon
Is now making toward Commencement
bay, near Tacoma. Each trap brings
to the scow lying alongside anywhere
from $500 to 1000 fish.
Indians from as far north as Queen
Charlotte sound are pouring into Ia
coma in their canoes en- route to the
Puyallup valley hop fields. attracted
by the offer Of 81 per box for hop pick
ers.
A train load Of twenty cars of sheep
went from Ellensburg, WASH, to Ar
mour & Co.. of Chicago, and similar
train Is expected to leave every week
for the next month. Prices are good
and there has been considerable rival.
ry among the buyers.
| Three hundred cayuse horses passed
through Goldendale. Washington, en-
route to The Dalles for shipment to the
Linton cannery near Portland. They
came from the reservation and are the
property of number of Indians. They
were sold for 81 per head.
Portland oyster dealers are excited
on account Of the Morgan Oyster Com
pany, of San Francisco. having con-
tracted for nearly the entire output of
oysters at Shoalwater bay, paying. it Is
said. $3.50 per sack for them and fur
nishing the sacks required.
1t is reported from Mount Vernon
that it is conceded by all that the thous-
ands Of acres of oats, which promised
prolific yields, are total loss, as the
continuous rains have packed the
stalks into the ground as II heavy
roller had passed over them.
Salmon canning in British Columbia
for the season of 1899 has ceased. The
completed returns are not at hand, and
may not be for several days. A week
before the end of the season the pack
promised to show up well. Fraser riv-
er was put down for 100000 cases.
against 205, 900 cases last year.
There is fruit-paper famine in
Roseburg, Ore, the entire supply for
wrapping pears and peaches being sud-
denly exhausted in the middle Of the
shipping season. Several tons of this
, paper were shipped, but the fruit crop
, was SO large that the supply proved in
!, adequate.
The destruction of the oat crop and
the late hay covering not only the
, whole coast, part of British Columbia.
E but also the Kamloops plateau, by the
late Is days rain, Is calamity which
. must be generally felt in all interests
7 through the province. The loss of
e much of the crop on the lower Fraser
valley is due to the scarcity of work
e men, nearly 10000 Of whom are en-
ployed in the Fraser fisheries, and
nearly one-third of this number are
from the building trades. who while
e they were earning So per day at theil
n trade, had been allured to gamble ir
e fish, and as 1t has turned out have
!, averaged $25 per day. The building
progress has been seriously retarded
>. by the desertion Of even the most skill
J ed workmen to engage in the fishing
&c enterprise.
= G. A. Beaver, living between Jackson
y vile and Medford. Oregon. is building
new fruit drier and warehouse. /
: will have capacity of 5000 pounds il
!" "a hours. Mr.. Beaver has about 81
= acres of young fruit trees which will
4 yield this season about one ton to tn
acre of very choice prunes.
The treasury department has advises
American customs officials on Puge
- sound that fishermen who find them
~ selves in over five fathoms of water q
hign tide for distance of seven mile
- from the eastern shore of Point ROt
= erts, toward Blaine, are almost certai
: to be fishing in American waters.
:: Officers of the G. A. r..
q, Philadelphia, Sept. Sat the sessio
~ of the national encampment of the Gran