The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-27
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


East Clallam is shipping salmon to
Seattle by steamer, cents paid on the
wharf there.
Capitalists are looking for locations
at Spokane for wooden mill and a
mining drill factory.
At least 20 per cent of the farming
land in the Palouse country will be
summer fallowed this year.
Much of the alfalfa in Yakima coun-
ty, Wash. which was reported winter
killed, is showing up all right.
Trout and salmon are being caught
in large numbers in the irrigating
bitches of Kittitas county, Wash.
The Northern Pacific corps of engin-
4 GERS have reached point in their sur
vey within five miles of Starbuck.
George Halves and other Astoria
men will operate the Chucanut cannery
at Fairhaven this year, under a lease.
Fred Lee, Of Mohler, Wash, says that
all the winter wheat in his part of the
county was killed and had to be re-
planted.
There is a good outlook for fruit in
Hood river valley, Oregon, this spring.
There never was finer prospect for
Strawberries.
j. G. Lyons, of Cosmopolis, Wash,
has invented machine to take the
gold out of placer deposits without the
use of water.
G. f. Klenstra, of Seattle, has leased
the creamery plant of the Montesano
Creamery Company for one year, with
the privilege of purchase.
Reports from all over the Yakima
valley agree that the strawberry plants
are badly frozen out, and in many
cases they are almost entirely killed.
Joe Turner, of Dayton, has bought a
combined thresher and harvester to
take care Of his crop this year. This
makes the fourth machine of the kind
in this county says the Chronicle.
The Skykomish river hatchery, on
Puget Sound, and the Willapa river
hatchery, on Willapa harbor, are ex-
pected to be completed in time to catch
a part of this seasons run of fish.
The Puget Sound Saw and Shingle
Mill Company, of Fairhaven, manufac
tured 100000 feet of clear siding and
11,650,000 shingles during the month OF
: April. The plant is considered one OF
the best on Puget Sound.
The Fairfield cheese factory resumed
operations Monday for the season. e
Robbins, the manager, anticipates that
the factory will be we'll patronized by
the farmers this year, as they are be
ginning 10 realize the profits in the
industry.
The Walla Walla penitentiary ha:
manufactured 100000 grain sacks thi:
year, but is unable to supply the de
mand, The price Of sacks has been re
= duced from s54 to $3.50 per thousand
a Charles Trask, a South Dakota cat
: tie dealer, has decided not to buy cat
: tie for eastern shipment at present
D claiming that the prices at which cat
: tie are selling in eastern markets vii
: not warrant his paying prevailin,
s eastern Oregon prices.
The Wire Nail G. Steel Company. a
Everett, has placed orders for the i'm
n mediate delivery of 5000 tons of wire
e to arrive before the stock ON hand ha,
e been consumed. The mill has beer
running day and night for som,
months. Last month wages were in
= creased 10 per cent.
q superintendent Hubbard, of tn,
!. Clackamas hatchery, and Fish Cultur
:. lists Greenman, Berriam and Weissner
t of Oregon, have been busy for the pas
eight weeks getting steelhead salmon
eggs at the temporary hatchery at tn,
falls of the Willamette. The season il
n nearly closed. About 100000 egg,
r have been secured. A shipment will
f soon be made to the hatchery at For
o Duluth, Mimi, which will hatch Ore
: gon steelhead salmon this year.
a At the N. H. Cottrell ranch. nea1
+ Pendleton, Oregon, there are in opera
s ton 20 strengthening machines, pro
PEELED by a six-horse power engine, anC
the sheep are being turned out at thu
rate of 1000 per day, or at the rate O.
100 to the machine. This is an in
I crease over the number a man could
turn out BY the hand shearing method
but the gain is not so much in the
. greater number-it is in the better
; manner in which the feeces come from
the sleeps back.