The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-06-24
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

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Wool receipts at the Dalles SO far this
year have been 100000 pounds.
Many Of the farmers in the vicinity
Of Milton planted sugar beets this year
The first crop Of alfalfa is being cut
in some parts of Morrow County, Ore
Roy & Roy, of Seattle. have bought
the American Lumber Company's shin.
gle mill.
The wooden block pavements of Par.
Is. France, are said to have cost over
81, 900, 900.
William Blackman, state inspector OF
mills and factories, has established
an Office in Seattle.
Grande. Ore. from Utah, to work in
the sugar beet fields.
| A Salem, Ore, paper says that hop
lice have appeared in many parts of
Polk and Marion counties.
! T. G. Boardman, of Mountain Home,
has sold mis- wool clip Of 10000 pounds
for 13 cents per pound to ]. M. John
son.
It Is said there are 1000 strawberry
pickers at work in the fields at Hood
River and vicinity, and they are gath
ering 1000 and 5000 crates daily.
The cold rains having given place
to warm weather, 1t is possible to tell
the amount Of damage done to crops
by the backward spring in Thurston
county.
Persons who have travelled over the
farming sections Of Wasco county, Ore,
say there never has been a better pros
pect for heavy crops In this country
than at present.
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. have
just sold to the Great. Northern two
Gates stone crushers, boilers, engines,
and other stuff. amounting to $4,000.
1t goes to the big tunnel in the Cas-
cades
w. H. Vessey, large sheep rancher,
from the Yakima country, recently sold
10000 pounds of this years crop at
IN and 81 cents. Most of this goes
to the Penoleton wooden mills. He
says that hard winters don't hurt the
sheep as much as the sheep owners.
Recently bids were received in Seat
tie for about 100000 feet of stave
pipe or flume stock. The specifications
are very rigid as must be the inspec-
ton. The stock is to be worked curved
on two sides, beveled on two edges and
special cut for joining. no knots to
show through or saps to be allowed.
An extraordinary condition of the
lumber market continues and the
Grays' Harbor Commercial Company
will start their mill at night as soon
as men can be had. Fifty can find
work at once. The mill will run for
four months at night and the men will
not need fear for work. The great
band saw is an experimental success.
1t cuts 100000 feet per day.
The fruit crop of East Sound and VIC
Unity has been injured by the cold, wet
spring. The Italian prunes have suff-
cred more than any other fruit. There
will be a very small crop of them.
There will be fairly good crop of the
other varieties of prunes. The apple
crop has also been injured, but it is
not known yet to what extent. The
small fruits seem to have escaped in.
jury.
What is probably the largest CONNER.
cial enterprise organized and owned by
American Negroes has just been estab-
lished by prominent colored men of
Mississippi. They have obtained a
charter. Incorporating the Mississippi
Cotton Manufacturing Company, with
a capital stock of 100000 and the priv
ilege of increasing. A site for the com.
pany's mill has been chosen in Jack
son, and the work of erecting it will
begin as soon as the proper plans are
adopted