The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-09-09

TNDrsTRIAR. HOTmA
The Puyallup hop growers have held
meeting and reached an agreement 70
pay 81 a box to hop plckers.
The machinery for the new Touring
mill At Lewiston. Idaho. has been ship
ped and is expected TO arrive soon.
An employers association represent.
ing from s7.O00.O 600 to 5000. 600 OF 10
cal capital. has been organized in Spo-
kane.
Plenty Of hoprpiekers are reported In
the Puyallup and White river valleys.
Picking viii not commence before Sep
TENDER IL.
The straits Of San Juan de Fuca are
reported alive with salmon. The run
OF fall salmon is expected to reach the
island traps within a few days.
The Victoria District Farmers Insti.
tute has appointed a committee to look
into the question Of establishing a Co
operative creamery in the district.
TEe Puget Sound Oyster Company
has bought about 1890 acres Of oyster
bed land near Union City. and is plant
ing 1t to native and eastern oysters.
A phenomenal run OF fall salmon
is now making toward commencement
bay. near Tacoma Each trap brings
10 the Sow lying alongside anywhere
from 2.5O0 to 1000 fish.
Indians from as far north as Queen
Charlotte sound are pouring into Ia.
coma in their canoes en- route TO the
Puyallup valley hop fields. attracted
by the offer OF 81 per box for hop pick.
ers.
A train load OF twenty cars OF sheep
went from Ellensburg. Wash, to Ar.
mour & Co. OF Chicago. and a similar
train is expected to leave every week
for the next month. Prices are good
and there has been considerable rival
ry among the buyers.
Three hundred cayuse horses passed
through Goidendale. Washington. en-
route to The Dalles for shipment to the
Linton cannery near Portland. They
came from the reservation and are the
property OF a number of Indians. They
were sold for 81 per head.
Portland oyster dealers are excited
on account OF the Morgan Oyster Com.
pany. Of San Francisco, having con-
traeted for nearly the entire output. OF
oysters at Shoalwater bay. paying. 1t is
said. 81. so per sack for them and fur.
nishing the sacks required.
1t is reported from Mount Vernon
that it is conceded by all that the thous-
ands OF acres of oats, which promised
prolific yields, are total loss, as the
continuous rains have packed the
stalks into the ground as IL a heavy
roller had passed over them.
Salmon canning in British Columbia
for the season Of 1899 has ceased. The
completed returns are not at hand, and
may not be for several days. A week
before the end of the season the pack
promised to show up we'll. Fraser riv.
er was put down for $4,000 cases,
against 100000 cases last year.
There is a fruit-paper famine in
Roseburg, Ore. the entire supply for
wrapping pears and peaches being sud
denly exhausted in the middle OF the
shipping season. Several tons OF this
paper were shipped, but the fruit crop
was so large that the supply proved in
adequate.
The destruction of the oat crop and
the late hay covering not only the
whole coast. part Of British Columbia.
but also the Kamloops plateau, by the
late Is days rain, is a calamity which
must be generally felt in all interests
through the province. The loss Of
much Of the crop on the lower Fraser
valley is due to the scarcity OF work
men, nearly 10000 OF whom are en-
ployed in the Fraser fisheries, and
nearly one-third OF this number are
from the building trades, who while
they were earning Sc per day at their
trade, had been allured to gamble in
fish, and as 1t has turned out have
averaged SIS per day. The building
progress has been seriously retarded
by the desertlon of even the most skill.
ed workmen to engage in the fishing
enterprise.
c. A. Beaver. living between Jackson
vile and Medford, Oregon, is building
new fruit drier and warehouse. It
will have q capacity OF 5000 pounds in
"a hours. Mr.. Beaver has about 80
acres OF young fruit trees which win
yield this season about one ton to the
acre OF very choice prunes.
The treasury department has advised
American customs officials on Puget
sound that fishermen who find them
selves in over five fathoms OF water at
hign tide for a distance of seven miles
from the eastern shore OF Point Rob
erts, toward Blaine, are almost certain
to be fishing in American waters.