The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-01
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

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sheared at Malta, Mont, this year.
]. A. Parker will burn $4,000 brick at
his yard, west of Dupuyer. Mont, this
week.
Continued cooler weather improves
the wheat prospects wonderfully about
Pendleton, Ore.
Two car loads of 3-year-old steers
were sold at $42 head in eastern Ore
gon; also choice lot of wool at IA
cents.
Joseph Holtz, of Glendive, Montana,
has his wool clip of $4,000 pounds stor-
ed in the warehouse, ready for sale or
shipment.
The Hoquiam. Wash. shipyard clos
ed the contract to build the largest
steam schooner ever built on the Pa
cific coast.
L. A. Porter, of Lewiston, Idaho, has
made his first shipment of cherries to
distant points. The shipment, consist
ing of 81 boxes, went to Montana.
Pierre Wibaux, the large cattle own
er of eastern Montana, has gone to Tex
as where he will purchase several thou
sand OF Texas cattle to ship to Montana
A. M. Cree, of Miles City, Mont, re-
Gently purchased 5000 head of sheep,
which he now has on his ranch north
of the Yellowstone, opposite the Rose
bud.
One of the most valuable natural oys-
ter beds in the state has just been pur-
chased by logging company as tide
land. 1t is in Samish bay, Whatcom
county.
The Fairfield Lumber & Planning Mill
Company is beginning the erection of
building in Fairfield, Wash, to be used
as a planning mill and store room for
dressed lumber.
Farmers from the Puyallup and the
Stuck valleys report that hops are
about three weeks late, but otherwise
are looking well. There has been little
trouble so far from the lice
The Pacific Sheet Metal Works has
shipped out over 100000 salmon cans
already up to this time. and the season
has not yet fairly begun. Most of
these have gone to Alaska.
Judge Gaddis, of Montana, has sold
IA head of horses, the pick of his band.
to Messrs. Brown & Anderson, of Cal
gary, N. w. T., for s37 per head, and
was offered $40 per head for the re-
mainder.
The game and fish laws of the state
of Washington are now in the hands of
the state printer. AS soon as printed,
copies can be had by fishermen, sports
men and others interested by applying
at the office of the commissioner.
The wool clips of Messrs. A. w. Stan
ton and II. L. Perkins & Son have be-
gun to arrive in Red Lodge from Basin
City, Wyo., for shipment to Billings.
Mr.. Stanton has $4,000 pounds en- route
to the railroad, while 10000 pounds
comprises the clip OF Perkins & Son.
The Pierce County (Wash.) Wool
Growers Association has sold its 1899
wool crop to Herman Meter, of Port
land, for 15A cents per pound, to be de-
livered in the Northern Pacific ware
house at Roy, June 9th. The clip is
estimated at from 10000 to 10000 lbs.
The Puget Sound Wire Nail & Steel
Company is now the property of the
American steel and iron trust, which
has decided to close up the business at
Everett, Wash, and is fast working up
the odds and ends of the wire on hand
preparatory to closing down the works
The Gaddis herd of stock cattle about
$50 in number, passed through Fit Ben
ton, Mont, the other day on their way
from the Smith river valley to the Bear
Paw range. The bunch, which is al
most wholly grade white faces" is
said to have cost Mcnamara & NARROW
$26, geo.
The big plant of the Washington Mil
Company, at Hadlock, Wash, which
has been inactive for several years pas
has begun operations and there is ev
cry prospect that the mill will continu,
to turn out first-class lumber for many
months to come. Employment is fur
nished for in the neighborhood of 20(
men, most of whom are already on tn,
ground.