The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-08-12
INDUSTRIAL NOTEa.

completed.
Corvallis, Or. and vicinity expects
5000 to 10000 bushels Of prunes.
A Lorstine. Wallowa county. Or. cit.
izen has sold his new hay crop of 100
tons for $4.25 per ton.
The manager OF the Everett paper
mill says that the reported strike at
that institution is not imminent.
Thus far the salmon catch at all
points above the Cascades has been
much lighter than it was last year.
K. T. Murdoch of Chelan Falls has
completed arrangements for putting in
a Touring mill at wenatchee. Wash.
This Is the first season in the history
OF Whatcom county. Wash, that there
has been no tiuctuation In prices Of
shingles.
During the month OF July IA cars Of
grain were inspected by Deputy State
Grain Inspector s. J. Goodsell. station
ed at Spokane.
About 2400 Of the Josph Hirschberg
wethers, at Box Elder. Mont, to 1
years old. were purchased at 81. rs for
Is and So. % for IS and Is.
The Independent. the largest tugboat
ever built on the Snohomish river. was
recently launched from the yards OF
the Rice Lumber Company.
A gang OF fifty japanese are at work
on the Colfax- Moscow branch OF the o.
K. N. replacing the old iron rails
with ffty-six pound steel rails.
A Frenchman named Rancourt has
discovered on his ranch. about four
miles below Toledo. Or. what he pro
nounces to be crude petroleum.
Ed Holloway, a Morrow county far
mer. has los acres sown in fax. and
thinks the culture Of that fibre Is the
coming industry of eastern Oregon.
The Apex roller mills at Garfield
Wash. are closed while a number Of
repairs are being made and improve
ments added. A warehouse with a ca
pacity Of $4,000 bushels is being erected
besides internal improvements.
Over 1000 sheep were shipped from
Wenatchee, Wash, recently by Edward
Swift to Chicago. Another band Of
1000 will be shipped next week by Mr.
Swift to the same Chicago firm.
1t Is the judgment OF men who have
seen the growing fields In Washington.
Oregon and California that this year
the Pacific coast will produce a heay.
Ter crop OF hops than last year. with
Washington in the lead in yield per
acre
Edwin Weaver. Of Myrtle Creek. Ore,
sold 300. 900 pounds of dried prunes to
Mr.. Segur, of Eugene. at "A cents net
per pound cash, to be packed in so
pound boxes. delivered at the railroad
station. This Is the first sale Of this
years crop.
A patent for a combined cane and
umbrella has been issued to John X.
Nagel. Of Everett, Wash.
Work on the new farmers ware.
house at Oakesdale. Wash, has com
menced and the cleaning machinery |
and chop mill will soon be here, hav-
ing been ordered several weeks ago. |
The new warehouse will be 7OxIOO feet
and Is being built at the end of another
house Of the same dimensions, also |
owned by the company.
Manager Bolster has received assur.
ance from the railroads that the pas
senger rates to the Spokane Industrial
Exposition this year will be practically
the same as they were last year. The
rate will be cents a mile each way,
Dr. a single fare for the round trip. The
same reduction will apply also to chill.
1ren.
There Is little activity in hops in
valley. though the prices are
irm and strengthening steadily. The
warm weather now experienced is
bringing the hops out in good shape
md the average yield Is expected
probably about the same az last year.
rs to prices, they are an indefinite
Quantity.
llwaco. Wash, fishermen are organic.
ng company to operate a cooperative
.annery. The capital stock is to be
$4,000, with shares at $50 each, and
10 one person to hold more than 20
hares. Three thousand dollars Is nj.
eady subscribed, and the old Elmore
annery building at Ilwaco is said to
ave been purchased. Since the Aber.
cen Packing Company's cannery burn.
d down. over year ago, most Of the
iaker's Lay fish have gone to Astoria.
The strike Of the brickmakers In Chi.
go il practically of.