The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-08
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Wool receipts at Ontario. Ore. SO far
this season have been $1,000 pounds.
Malheur county, ore. has q cattle
company which has 10000 cattle on the
ranges.
The Puget Sound oyster season, Just
closed, resulted in the marketing of
100000 baskets.
Last week sales of wool at Hunting
ton, Ore, amounted to 1885, 900 pounds.
The price ranged from IL to 1917 cents.
Already the hop buyers of Oregon are
becoming active. Big contract orders
are being placed with the growers, and
Notwithstanding the crop outlook is
good, the price paid on such orders is
good.
The brickyard has resumed opera
tions in Fairfield, Wash, after a two
weeks shut down for repairs to the
machinery. They are now turning out
100000 bricks per day, and the first kiln
has been burned.
During the latter part of last week
considerable wheat changed hands at
Walla Walla on the bulge in the mar
ket. Buyers estimate that 10000
bushels were sold at so cents for club
and SO cents for bluestem.
Hoquiam, Wash, shipped seven car
goes, containing 2,317,000 feet of lum-
ber, in May: Aberdeen, twelve cargoes.
containing 3,652,000 feet; Cosmopolis
two cargoes, containing 565,000 feet,
making total of twenty-one cargoes,
containing 6,533.000 feet.
L. A. Conn, of Vancouver, Wn., has
been awarded the contract for the erec-
tion of the government buildings at
Fort Stevens, Ore. at contract price
of about $4,000. Albany, Ore, has do
mated a site and gets $250,000 saw
mill, employing 500 men.
During the oyster planting season
just closed on Willapa harbor, Wash
| ington, over 200 men were engaged in
longing in the various channels for
young growth for transferring to the
artificial beds. About 100000 baskets
were taken, and twenty-five sloops and
forty batteaus were employed.
The last weekly crop bulletin of the
Northern Pacific contained the follow.
ing relative to Idaho, Washington and
Oregon: "West of Pasco, weather cool
and prospects good; east of Pasco,
crops looking we'll. Along the Spokane
and Palouse branch crops are looking
fine, with good growing weather"
Eighteen Of the leading cargo mills
of Washington shipped during May
2S,O94,644 feet of lumber by water, OF
which a surprising preponderance, or
19,225,SS9 feet, went to foreign ports
and it may be added, the record of for
eign clearances for June promise tc
hold up to equally large figures.
Articles incorporating the North Am
erican Fish & Fertilizing Company
are filed in Seattle. The capital stock
is $1,50O,000. The company has secur
ed the Robinson & Colt fertilizing plant
at Anacortes, which will be ultimately
enlarged to an annual capacity Of 300,
900 gallons of fish oil and three hun
dred thousand tons Of fertilizer.
The receipts of wheat at Tacoma fol
the month of June are the largest il
several years. June is always yer!
: light month. An average of over TWEEN
J ty cars a day has been received, thu
, total to date being $50 cars, which tn
grain inspector predicts will reach 65'
, or 700 by the end of the month. Farm
ers are shipping to save storage. TO
: which contracts expire July 1st.
: An agent who has been investigat
ing the wool outlook in Utah, Idaho
and Eastern Washington and Oregon
says there is an enormous quantity o
wool to be shipped from those regions
"The quantity is not any larger. prof.
ably, than it was last year," he says
e 'but the quality is much better. Al
: has been sold, and it brought top prices
: There will be about 200 carloads Q
$ wool from Idaho alone this season."
J, John Watts, who lives eight mile
i southwest of McMinnville, Ore, ha
had an unusual experience with bee'
a One year ago he hived swarm in
coal oil box. Within a period of min
days recently five living swarms hav
come out of that box. The average II
n crease in bees is about two swarms
Y season. Mr.. Watts has never know
/, so great an increase in his experienc
is with bees. and can find no one who ha