Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-08-16
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


One halibut caught near Marshfield,
Ore, the other day sold for $3.50.
The beet sugar crop of the Grand
Ronde, Ore, valley is now estimated
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.
pany's 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 4,500,-
900 pounds of dry granulated sugar.
The exports from Gray's harbor for
the year ending June 80 were valued at
$826,346 and juding from present in
dications the coming year will pass the
$1,O00,000 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 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
for each of the three breeds of cattle
the beef cattle, dairy cattle, and general
purpose breeds.
John Calvin passed through Che
halls, Wash, short time ago with a
herd of 725 sheep, which he had pur-
chased in Oregon. This is the largest
herd that has passed through Chehalis
in the memory Of man. Sheep raising
is becoming a lucrative industry in
Lewis county.
Harvest hands are in demand in
Sherman county, Ore. Many men who
usually go to the county for work at
this time of the year have kept away
this season on account of reports that
the grain crop would be short. 1t is
now said that the wheat crop will aver.
age from l 5to 20 bushels an acre.
1t is currently reported that John
Edwards of Wyoming has bought the
Breyman & Summerville interests in
the Baldwin Sheep G Land Company,
whose store, ranches and sheep are sit
uated at Hay creek, Cook county, Ore.
Mr.. Edwards is the largest and best
known sheep raiser in Wyoming.
1t has been reported from time to
time that the grain crop in the Big
Bend section would be almost an en-
tire failure. This statement is denied
by farmers. While the yield will not
be as great as 1t has been formerly, 1t
will average well, and farmers gener-
ally are feeling good over the pros
poets.
When the Cowlltz river creamery at
Winlock, Wash, started up few
months ago the daily receipt of milk
was 400 pounds. Now 1t Is receiving
5000 pounds per day. When it started
up it could only churn once every three
days. Now IL churns every day and
turns out 100 pounds of butter at each
churning.
According to H. Erwin, cattle deal
er OF Payette, Idaho, sheep are crowd
ing the cattle crisers out of business
Mr.. Erwin has had to reduce his herds
from 10000 to about 700 on account of
this difficulty. He says as a conse-
quence of this condition beef will be
higher and mutton cheaper before long
A shipment of more than the usual
interest to farmers and dairymen has
been received by pilworth Bros. of Spo-
kane. 1t consists of a car of register.
ed Jersey stock purchased in New York
and Connecticut The purchases were
made by v. T. Iller. the gentleman
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