The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-22
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Stayton has a broom factory. Six
persons are employed.
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 II. Smith, of Van Wyck, has
been appointed manager of the What
com creamery.
The repairs to the bridge across the
Nooksack at Everson VIII 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, 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
Fishermens Protective Union the
price OF salmon for the ensuing season
was set at 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 RoSSldnd 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.
Rabel's mill at Stanwood, Wash,
made a cut during March that comes
2,046,000 shingles in the twenty-five
working days. an average of over So
900 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
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Six hundred men are employed In
the construction work of the Sever
Devils railroad. Work has been be
gun on the first tunnel near Hunting
ton. This tunnel will be $50 feet IL
length. Men are in demand for this
work.
The indications for a large grain
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never more favorable than at the pres
ent time 1t is claimed that nearly
half more acreage will be put in thi
spring, and the abundance of moistur
which has fallen this spring will brini
Klamath to the front as one of the bes
farming counties in Oregon.
G. E. Whitney & Co., of San Fran
cisco, have contracted for the entir
output of the Coos Bay Dreamer
Company, of Oregon. The output O
butter from now to August LIST will b
canned for the Alaska trade, and 1t /
estimated that the amount manufat
tured up to August LIST will excee
100000 pounds. The number of chees
contracted for is 1900, and the ne
WCl6HI Will NC dDOul OsOOO pOuuuo.
All the logging camps on Gray's hal
Dor are running full crews, save fey
on fresh water streams. The purchas
of new engines still goes on, and on
can see a new one being sledded almos
all the time. The camp of Paulso
Bros, on the Hoquiam river, will Gu
3O,000,O00 feet of fir during the mex
year. having cut 100000 feet las
year. A great many think that the f
logging will be overdone and that tn
prices will fall.
1t is doubtful if the farmers of Wasl
ington are aware of the amount {
money sent out of the state for tn
purchase of the small white navy beal
, The farmers of California supply tn
, people of this state with about $4,000
worth of them annually. In that stat
: they net the grower $50 a ton. Nov
! there is no doubt the farmers of Was
ing,on can grow cleaner and bette
} beans than can be raised anywhere Q
2 the coast, and there is no reason VIII
they should not supply the home
mand.