The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-08-19

INDUsTRIAL NOTES.
One halibut caught near Marshfleld,
Ore. the other day sold for s.. 80.
The beet sugar crop of the Grand
Ronde, Ore. valley is now estimated
at 10000 tons. or more than double last
years yield.
w. H. Long, manager for the Farm.
srs' Warehouse Company. has nearly
completed the 100-foot extension to the
warehouse at Oakesdale.
The Winlock, Wash, creamery is re-
ceiving 5000 pounds of milk per day.
When 1t started operations In the
spring it received 400, pounds daily.
According to the most reliable in.
formation from all over the country
the potato crop at Colville. WASH. will
be short at least one-half this season.
The Puget Sound Fisheries Com.
pany's fertilizer plant. situated on the
shore Of Bellingham bay, is now turn
ing out three tons of finished fertilizer
per day.
The salmon season has been a fail.
ure, and unless there is large run be
tween now and the close of the season
there will not be half pack on the Co
lumbia river.
The records for catching sockeye sal.
mon were broken one day last week.
At the Pacific-American Fisheries COM
pany's cannery 10000 were received.
OF these over $4,000 were sockeyes.
The La Grande. Ore, sugar factory
expects to handle about 10000 tons of
beets at the factory this fall. This
should give product of about 4.50O,-
900 pounds of dry granulated sugar.
The exports from Gray's harbor for
the year ending June 30 were valued at
$826,346 and juding from present In
dications the coming year will pass the
| $1,OO0,OOO mark.
The demand for Washington oats
this spring and summer has been so
| great that for the first time in many
years it has been necessary to draw
on the east for supply to tide over
the market until the delivery of the
1899 crop.
In the live stock department. Of the
Spokane Industrial Exposition $2450
in prize money will be given away,
Prizes will be distributed as follows
for each of the three breeds of cattle
the beef cattle, dairy cattle, and general
purpose breeds.
John Calvin passed through Che.
halls, Wash, short time ago with a
herd of 725 sheep, which he had pur.
chased in Oregon. This is the largest
herd that has passed through Chehalis
in the memory Of man. Sheep raising
is becoming lucrative industry in
Lewis county.
Harvest hands are in demand in
Sherman county, Ore. Many men who
usually 60 to the county for work at
this time of the year have kept away
this season on account Of reports that
the grain crop would be short. 1t is
now said that the wheat crop will aver
age from l 5to 20 bushels an acre.
1t Is currently reported that John
Edwards of Wyoming has bought the
Breyman & Summerville interests in
the Baldwin Sheep & Land Company
whose store, ranches and sheep are sit
uated at Hay creek. Cook county, Ore
Mr.. Edwards is the largest and best
known sheep raiser in Wyoming.
1t has been reported from time te
time that the grain crop in the Big
Bend section would be almost an en-
tire failure. This statement is denied
| hv forroorc Whi1o tho uio1d mill M
be as great as it has been formerly, II
will average well, and farmers gener
ally are feeling good over the pros
poets.
When the Cowlitz river creamery al
Winlock. Wash, started up q few
months ago the daily receipt Of mill
was 400 pounds. Now it is receiving
5000 pounds per day. When it started
up it could only churn once every thres
days. Now it churns every day ani
turns out 120 pounds of butter at eacf
churning.
er of Payette, Idaho, sheep are crowd
ing the cattle raisers out Of business
Mr.. Erwin has had to reduce his herdl
from 10000 to about 700 on account o
this difficulty. He says as conse
quence of this condition beef will b.
higher and mutton cheaper before long
A shipment of more than the usua
interest to farmers and dairymen ha
been received by Dilworth Bros. of Spo
, kane. 1t consists of car of register
ed Jersey stock purchased in New Yorl
and Connecticut. The purchases wer,
made by V. e. Fuller, the gentlen.al
who had charge of Jersey stock at th'
worlds fair, and is considered the bes
Judge Of stock in the country. w.
Dilworth went after the cattle, ant
saw that they reached Spokane in goot
condition. The heard Of Jerseys arr
now at the Jersey dairy on the soutl
side of the river in Ross Park.
Chinese Robbers Defeat Soldiers.
Canton, Aug. l6.-Five hundred sol
. diers were surrounded at Cotkon, on thu
Weret river, by 10000 robbers and des
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