The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-05-20
rNpUsrmfAL NOTES.

Strengthening il now starting IN n
Klickitnt.
Many Walla wAllA farmsra are plant
ing asparagus.
Dayton. Ore. has raised . $500 sub
aidy for -four min.
Considerable corn ID being planted
this year in the Palouse country.
orchardists near Centralia say there
will be an immense crop Of fruit tia
year.
A new warehouse 65xl40 feet IL to b
built by the Pacific Sheet Metal Works
at Fairhaven.
Farmers In the western part Of
Whitman county are now through with
their spring seeding.
The 1899 sugar-beet crop In the
Grand Ronde valley, Oregon. has been
about two-thirds planted.
Superintendent Crawford. Of the Ka-
lama fish hatchery, marked 5000 young
chinooks at the hatchery recently.
lone. Oregon. woolgrowers who are
willing to contract this years clip are
allowed an advance of cents n pound.
1t is generally believed that the en-.
tire crop of sweet cherries in tie Pa
louise country. Wash. has been lined.
Quite a large number Of bluebacks
are In the Columbia, which Is some
thing unusual so early in the season.
State Coal Mine Inspector c. +. Owen
says there Is a great scarcity of miners
in Washington. and in fact all over
the coast.
The Canadian Pacific railroad Is
showing great enterprise in improving
the tourist attractions Of the Rocky
mountains.
The Crows Nest Coal Company has
secured another important customer.
and is now shipping coke to the North
port smelter.
Farmers in Oregon say grain Is in
poor shape, owing to continued cold
rains. Wheat is yellow, with u small.
unhealthy stalk.
The Crows Nest Coal Company has
secured the contract to supply the
British feet at Esquimalt with coal
for the present year.
Coral Novello Westwood. Of Comox
road, B. c., has secured an American
patent for an improved means Of col
umn spacing, line spacing and back
spacing on typewriter machines.
Grading is reported to be nearly com
pleted on the extension of the Oregon
Rrailroad q Navigation from Dayton
to Covello. distance Of thirteen miles
Ellensburg, Wash, is quite a cream
cry center, there being no less than sir
ereameries in operation in that Vicin-
ity. They buy $4,000 gallons of milk
daily.
planning that vessels are not plenty for
lumber shipments, and that the stud
is piling up at the mills, awaiting ship
ment
The Columbia river packing season
| opened without a fight over the price
of fish. the first time for years. The
union price of cents a pound is paid
/ without a murmur.
The president of the Oregon Rail
road & Navigation Company has asked
| for permission to extend the surveyed
line from Mount Idaho to Buffalo
Hump, in Idaho.
The season in Choteau county, Mont.
is the most backward known by old
timers The stock men are disposinl
OF their calves at almost any price
and there is great loss in lambs. The
grass is not far enough ahead to fur
nish feed, and the prospects are bluG
for cattle and sheep.
| Jensen, the Astoria inventor Of the
Gambling machine, the can-soIderinl
machine and the fish-net knitting ma
chine, has sold all his interest in his
patents He will soon start on a triI
around the world. He has no imme
date family or near relatives, and
probably has about 500, 900 cash.
D. C. Corbin is making a most lib
eral proposition to the farmers along
the Oregon Railway & Navigation rail
! way who raise beets this year. TheJ
are not only that he will furnish seeC
/ and implements at offered factory
prices, but cost, and will take pay IL
beets next fall for the seed with which
he supplies them, or to all parties fur
nishing a team he will furnish thu
seed and put it in the ground for then
and take his pay in beets when thu
crop is raised. His object in makinl
the proposition is because he Is desir
Gus that the seed is properly put In
the ground. Farmers should take ad
vantage Of this offer and either writt
or confer with him Immediately, as tn,
season is advancing rapidly.
The Pacifc-American Fisheries Com
pany, Of New Whatcom, has placed ar
order for 100000 cans with The Pa
cifc sheet metal works. They will alsC
soon be manufacturing $4,000 per day
at the Eranco-American canneIy anC
$4,000 per day at the Friday Harbol
plant The Puget Sound Saw Mill 4
Single Company will manufacture
100000 boxes for the fish company, anC
Morrison Bros, of Ferndale, will MAKE
$4,000. Manager Shuhbe says the Alb
erdeen Packing Company will begir
making cans within a few days.
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