The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-02

Lane county Oregon warehouses have
received $4,000 bushels Of this years.
wheat.
The Capital Box Factory of Tacoma,
will establish a factory at New West
minister, B. c.
Fred Ruht, Of Elgin, Oregon, will
take a carload OF fat Wallowa county
hogs to Dawson.
Millmen in Lewis county, Washing.
ton, complain Of a scarcity of cars on
which to ship lumber.
The Yakima Indians recently deliv.
cred 316 horses at the Dalles for ship
ment to the Linnton cannery.
The men desiring to earn few dol
lars in the harvest fields have no troub.
lie securing employment in the Big
Bend district, Washington.
Eleven hundred thousand feet daily
is a conservative estimate Of the am
cunt Of logs being put In the Sound now
from Thurston and Mason counties.
Millmen Of Washington report the
shingle market very firm at present;
In fact, prices have had an upward ten
tency during the past week.
The Griffin Lumber and Single Co.,
OF Deming, Washington. has purchased
Phillips and Holmes Bros.'s mill and
will probably continue to operate it.
The Pacific American Fisheries Co.,
Of Fairhaven, has been running nights
the past two weeks in order to keep
pace with the large run Of salmon.
Aaron Kuhn, the Colfax merchant
and grain dealer. has bought the grain
warehouse of Denham and Kaufman
at Moscow. and will buy grain there
this fall.
The Okanogan Flour Mills Company,
limited, Of Armstrong, B. c.. has again
declared dividend of per cent on its
paid-up capital as q result Of its past
years operation.
1t Is quite scene about the grounds
of the Washington Agricultural Col
lege, at Pullman, where fully SO men
are employed in Transforming the
grounds and erecting new buildings.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
has addressed letter to the chairman
Of the lighthouse board at Washington
d. c.. urging the construction of at
least six lighthouses and tog signals
in southeastern Alaska.
Orders have been received by mana
ger Merriam, Of the American Steel Co.,
to pack the company's nail machines
now in Everett, Wn., for shipment to
San Francisco. where they are to be
used In enlarging the nail mill opera
ted by the trust in that city.
This year Horst Brothers, the hop
men of New York and London, have
bought nearly 700 acres of land in the
vicinity of Doves landing, and now
they are figuring on buying the Rach
ael Dove place. containing about 300
acres more, says the Portland Telegram
AS a compensation for the poor croI
of calves this spring, the cattlemen O
Montana are likely to have both ia
steers and good market this fall. Thu
grasses ON the ranges was slow In grow
ing, but 1t is now both thick and nu
tritious, and the effect on the stock i
very appreciable.
One boat alone has brought to tn
canneries at Fairhaven this year 1,760
900 salmon. These salmon will evel
age about six pounds each. Tha
means 100000 pounds of fish har
died by one boat this season. Thi
will give you some idea Of the salmo
industry of Bellingham Bay.
The action Of the Moscow, Idaho. al
thorities in driving so-called tramps OF
of town, or rather in not allowing thel
to enter the town, has resulted in q DO.
colt on Moscow by harvest hands, an
signs are numerously distributed owe
the country along railroads and Wagon
roads warning workingmen to keep
way from Moscow.
The Hale and Alexander peaches al
varieties of the past for this year. say
the Ashland. Oregon, Tidings. Earl
Crawfords are in the market this wee
The Ashland fruit association expec
to start them OF at so cents box, (.
b. Ashland. Parties are now here n
gotiating for carload lots for Easter
shipment.
The 10000 subsidy for the big say
mill plant of the Curtiss Lumber Cor
pany. at Albany, Oregon, has been full
raised. and the required water priv
eyes secured. This will assure the g
tablishment Of this big numbering CO
Germ in Albany. The sawmill plan
planning mills, dry kilns. artificial lal
for holding logs will occupy about
acres. The plant will cost $250.O00.
Several prune buyers have been
the Yakima valley, Washington. for Il
last few days. and have been offerir
growers from $12 to $3.50 for the
shipping varieties on the trees, and
cents to IS cents box packed for shi
ment. A number of the largest groy
ers are urging others to hold out Il
higher prices. They say prun'
should bring cent a pound this yes
on the trees or so cents q crate II pac
ed. There is a very large crop Their
and the fruit Is of unusually excellel
quality. The crop is ready to pick.