Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-08-09

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


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.
A patent for a combined cane and
umbrella has been issued to John h.
Nagel, of Everett, Wash.
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.
r. 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 fiuctuation in prices OF
shingles.
During the month of July 144 cars OF
grain were inspected by Deputy State
Grain Inspector S. ]. Goodsell, station
ed at Spokane.
About 240O of the Josph Hirschbere
wethers, at Box Elder, Mont, 2 to 4
years old, were purchased at s2.75 for
2s and So. 25 for 3s and As.
The Independent, the largest tugboat
ever built on the Snohomish river, was
recently launched from the yards oi
the Rice Lumber Company.
A gang of fifty Japanese are at work
on the Colfax-Moscow branch of the o
X. & N. replacing the old iron rails
with fifty-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 105 acres sown in fax, and
thinks the culture of that fibre is the
coming industry Of eastern Oregon.
Over 1000 sheep were shipped from
Wenatchee, Wash, recently by Edward
Swift to Chicago. Another band oil
1000 will be shipped next week by Mr.
Swift to the same Chicago firm.
: 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.
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 heav
ier crop of hops than last year, with
Washington in the lead In yield pei
acre.
Edwin Weaver, Of Myrtle Creek, Ore.
sold 100000 pounds of dried prunes t.
Mr.. Segur, of Eugene, at Az cents me-
per pound cash, to be packed in 80
pound boxes, delivered at the railroad
station. This is the first sale of this
years crop.
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 70x100 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 2 cents q mile each way
or a single fare for the round trip. The
same reduction will apply also to chill
dren.
There is little activity in hops in
Yakima valley, though the prices are
firm and strengthening steadily. The
warm weather now experienced is
bringing the hops out in good shape
and the average yield Is expected
probably about the same as last year
AS to prices, they are an indefinite
quantity.
llwaco, Wash, fishermen are organic
ing company to operate a cooperative
cannery. The capital stock Is to be
$4,000, with shares at $50 each, and
no one person to hold more than 20
shares. Three thousand dollars is al
ready subscribed, and the old Elmort
cannery building at Ilwaco is said tC
have been purchased. Since the Aber
deem Packing Company's cannery burn
ed down, over a year ago, most Of the
Bakers LAY fish have gone to Astoria