The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-15
INDUS TRIAL NOTES.

The ruling price Of wool in Grant
county, Ore, 10 127a cents pound.
A grain elevator of a capacity Of co.
900 bushels is being built at Scio. Ore.
One tree In the orchard Of Elmer Pat
rick, in Ashland, Or. yielded 38 gallons
Of cherries.
The Big Bend Milling Company, OF
Davenport, WASH, has its first order.
1850 barrels Of -four for Japan.
The Palouse River Lumber Company
of Palouse, will furnish lumber for the
new college buildings at Pullman.
Work has been commenced on the
shaft on the coal property Of the Thurs
ton County Coal Company. at Bucoda.
Wash.
Portland is expecting the establish
ment of white lead factory soon; the
plant to cost $250.000 and to give en-
ployment to about 100 men.
The Everett Railway & Electric Com
pany has received one 80-light multiple
arc machine. the only one Of its kind ON
the Pacific coast, costing over $4,000.
Charles Marvin and others will start
up the Crescent Creamery plant at Ia
coma, which has been idle over i've
years, for freezing and shipping fresh
fish east.
HoQuiam shipped seven cargoes. con-
tanning 2,317, ,0D0 It. Of lumber, in May:
Aberdeen 3.652,000 IT,; Cosmopolis. 3.
565, 900 IT,; total, 21 cargoes containing
6,533, 900 It.
The Pacific q Idaho Northern is re.
ported graded for 20 miles, four miles
of track being laid. It runs IS miles
north from Weiser, with 17-mile
branch to the Seven Devils mining dis
trict.
Secretary e. Lister Of the board Of
audit and control, in Washington. says
orders have been taken for 100000
more grain sacks than the penitentiary
mill can turn out. They are sold for
$5.25 per 100 this year.
1t is reported that the Tacoma, Olym-
pia & Chehalis Valley line Of the North
ern Pacific is 10 be extended east to tho
coal fields Of Hanf0rd creek. and thence
to the Cowlitk valley, the first i've
miles to be built this year.
Ranchers around Great Falls. Mont.
report that the prospects for grain
crops in that vicinity are very poor.
Much Of the grain is barely out Of the
: ground and hay on cultivated land 10
only 16 inches high and fully headed.
The wool market of Great Falls.
} Mont, still continues dull. Out Of 80
buyers who ought to be there at this
season, and who will be there later on.
\ but nine have arrived, although most
: of the others have written that they
will be there later.
} Owing to the fact that the shutting
down of the shingle mills on the Sound
: has resulted in an advance Of cents
per 1000 on "A" shingles, the Washing
. ton Red Cedar Shingle Manufacturers'
, Association has decided to resume op'
: erations July 10th.
Union county. Oregon, is a land Of
+ big horses and s'out wagons, the own
!. ers thereof ia king great pride in big
!, loads. General Carrier of Elgin now
3 holds the record. His fine team recent
: ly brought from the mountains 81 rail
road ties at one load.
+ During the past year 2S vessels en-
b tered Grays harbor from foreign ports
s IA for Aberdeen and IA for H0Quiam
! In the same period 38 vessels cleared
a for foreign ports, 26 Of which cleared
e from Aberdeen, nine from Hoquiau
and three from Cosmopolis.
l. George Biehn and two associates ART
+ building fruit dryer In the Selah val
J, ley, Ore. 1t wiss have a capacity o
/ $500 pounds Of green fruit day, but
& is being so constructed that the capac
d ity can be increased without mucl
trouble or additional expense.
TlO In, VNma pA1A lin