Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-04-21
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


About forty men are now employed
at the Blue Canyon coal mine, on Lake
Whatcom.
There is considerable prospecting for
coal going on in the hills surrounding
Deming, Wash.
Andrew H. Smith, of Van Wyck, has
been appointed manager of the What.
com creamery.
The repairs to the bridge across the
Nooksack at Everson will be completed
about the first of May.
1t is said that there are 200 Portland
hoboes making their way to Astoria.
They expect to live easy during the
fishing season.
F. c. Damn, a Seattle linotype oper-
atOr, has invented a typesetting ma
chine which he has sold to the Mergen.
thaler Company.
At meeting of the Columbia River
Fishermen's Protective Union the
price of salmon for the ensuing season
was set at 5 cents a pound.
The Chinese in Portland are fighting
the poll tax law for the reason that in
the past they have been imposed upon
by unauthorized parties who collected
the tax.
The ROSSland Miner states that it
will not be long before 1000 tons of ore
per day are being shipped from the diff
ferent mines in and around Rossland
to the smelter there.
There is complaint from all parts of
Kittitas valley, Wash, in regard to
the freezing of clover and alfalfa. The
loss will be heavier than was at first
supposed, and much replanting will be
necessary.
RabePs mill at Stanwood, Wash,
made cut during March that comes
pretty near being record, turning out
2,O46,OOO shingles in the twenty-five
working days, an average of over So
600 per day for the month.
The state board of audit and control
OF Washington, at their last meeting
reduced the price of penltentiary made
grain sacks to 1925 per 100. This
Will make a saving to the farmers of
Eastern Washington of $4,000 a year.
SIX hundred men are employed in
the construction work of the Seven
Devils railroad. Work has been he.
gun on the first tunnel near Hunting.
ton. This tunnel will be $50 feet in
length. Men are in demand for this
work.
Inc indications for a large grain
crop In klamath county, Oregon. were
never more favorable than at the pres.
ent time. 1t is claimed that nearly a
half more acreage will be put in this
spring, and the abundance of moisture
which has fallen this spring will bring
klamath to the front as one of the hest
farming counties in Oregon.
Z. E. Whitney & Co., of San Fran.
CISCO, nave contracted for the entire
output OF the Coos Bay Creamery
company, of Oregon. The outnut NJ
butter from now to August LIST will he
canned for the Alaska trade and II 10
estimated that the amount manufoo
tured up to August LIST will exceed
ioo'ooo pounds. The number of cheese
contracted for is 1900, and the net
weight will be about 5000 pounds.
All the logging camps on Gray's bar.
Dor are running full crews, save a few
On fresh water streams. The purchase
Oh new engines still goes on. and one
can see new one being sledded almost
all the time. The camp of PauIson
Bros, on the Hoquiam river will ont
'o'ooo'OOO feet of fir during the newt
year. having cut 100000 feet last
year. A great many think that the Ar
viii be overdone and that the
prices will fall. ZIG
IT Is doubtful if the farmers of Wash
ngton are aware of the amount of
money sent out of the state for tho
purchase of the small white navy baan
me farmers of California supnlv Tho
people OF this state with about sSo 0oo
Vorth OF them annually. In that state
ney net the grower $50 a ton. Now
mere Is no doubt the farmers of Wash
ng.on can grow cleaner and better
'eans than can be raised anywhere ~
ne coast, and there is no reason wbx
hey should not supply the homo DE-.
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