The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-19
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

at 10000 tons, or more than double last
years yield.
w. H. Long, manager for the Farm
ers' Warehouse Company, has nearly
completed the 100-foot extension to the
warehouse at Oakesdale.
The Winlock, Wash, creamery is re-
ceiving 5000 pounds of milk per day.
When it started operations in the
spring it received 400 pounds daily.
According to the most reliable in
formation from all over the country
the potato crop at Colville, Wash, will
be short at least one-half this season.
The Puget Sound Fisheries Com
panys fertilizer plant, situated on the
shore of Bellingham bay, is now turn
ing out three tons of finished fertilizer
per day.
The salmon season has been a fail
ure, and unless there is a. large run be-
tween now and the close of the season
there will not be half pack on the Co
lumbia river.
The records for catching sockeye sal
mon were broken one day last week
At the Pacific-American Fisheries COM
pany's cannery 10000 were received.
OF these over $4,000 were sockeyes.
The La Grande, Ore, sugar factory
expects to handle about 10000 tons of
beets at the factory this fall. This
should give product of about 4,50O,-
600 pounds of dry granulated sugar.
The exports from Gray's harbor for
the year ending June 80 were valued at
$S26,S46 and juding from present in
dications the coming year will pass the
$1,OO0,O00 mark.
/, The demand for Washington oats
this spring and summer has been so
great that for the first time in many
years it has been necessary to draw
on the east for a supply to tide over
the market until the delivery of the
1899 crop.
In the live stock department of the
Spokane Industrial Exposition $245O
in prize money will be given away
Prizes will be distributed as follows
I for each of the three breeds of cattle
the beef cattle, dairy cattle, and general
|. purpose breeds.
J. John Calvin passed through Che
n halls, Wash, a short time ago with q
e herd of 725 sheep, which he had pur
0 chased in Oregon. This is the largest
e herd that has passed through Chehali:
:. in the memory of man. Sheep raising
IL is becoming a lucrative industry IL
Lewis county.
Harvest hands are in demand IL
ia Sherman county, Ore. Many men WHIT
70 usually go to the county for work a
re- this time of the year have kept ava.
# this season on account of reports tina
the grain crop would be short. 1t i
~ now said that the wheat crop will aver
eff age from 1 5to 20 bushels an acre.
ID 1t is currently reported that Johl
Edwards of Wyoming has bought tn
Breyman & Summerville interests Il
the Baldwin Sheep & Land Company
* whose store, ranches and sheep are si'
III uated at Hay creek, Cook county, Ore
is Mr.. Edwards is the largest and hes
is known sheep raiser in Wyoming.
CT 1t has been reported from time
y time that the grain crop in the Bi
'u Bend section would be almost an Ell
:" tire failure This statement is denie
by farmers. While the yield will M
-, be as great as it has been formerly,
= will average well, and farmers gene
-. ally are feeling good over the pro
oh poets.
When the Cowlitz river creamery {
Winlock, Wash, started up a fe
5e months ago the daily receipt OF mil
N. was 400 pounds. Now it is receivin
5000 pounds per day. When it starte
up it could only churn once every thr'
days. Now it churns every day an
of TURNS OUT A@o pounuS VI OU''@4 a. 0'->
os churning.
ra- According to H. Erwin, cattle des
Id err of Payette Idaho, sheep are crow
- ing the cattle raisers out of bushes
"a Mr.. Erwin has had to reduce his herr
no from 10000 to about 700 on account
ed this difficulty. He says as a cons
is uuence of this condition beef will
ld- higher and mutton cheaper before lon
raj A shipment of more than the usu
interest to farmers and dairymen h
ion been received by Dilworth Bros. of ST
ng- kane. 1t consists of car of registt
ba. ed Jersey stock purchased in New Yo
I'VE and Connecticut. The purchases we
les. made by V. E. Fuller, the gentlemi
who had charge of Jersey stock at t
worlds fair, and is considered the be
'tei Judge of stock in the country. w.
cen Dilworth went after the cattle, a
Inc saw that they reached Spokane in go
ooo condition. The heard of Jerseys a
Iof, hn