The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-08
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NOIES.
Wool receipts at Ontario, Ore, so far
this season have been 637 900 pounds.
Malheur county, Ore, has a cattle
company which has 10000 cattle on the
ranges.
The Puget Sound oyster season, just
closed, resulted in the marketing of
10000 baskets.
Last week sales of wool at Hunting
ton, Ore, amounted to 125,000 pounds.
The price ranged from II to 1872 cents.
Already the hop buyers of Oregon are
becoming active. Big contract orders
are being placed with the growers, and
notwithstanding the crop outlook is
good, the price paid on such orders is
good.
The brickyard has resumed opera
tons in Fairfield, Wash. after a two
weeks shut down for repairs to the
machinery. They are now turning out
10000 bricks per day, and the first kiln
has been burned.
During the latter part of last week
considerable wheat changed hands at
Walla Walla on the bulge in the mar
ket Buyers estimate that 10000
bushels were sold at so cents for club
and SO cents for bluestem.
Hoquiam, Wash, shipped seven car
goes, containing 2,317 900 feet of lum-
Der, in May; Aberdeen, twelve cargoes,
containing 3,652,000 feet Cosmopolis
two cargoes, containing $4,000 feet,
making a total of twenty-one cargoes,
containing 6,533,000 feet.
L. A. Conn, of Vancouver Wn., has
been awarded the contract for the cree.
ton of the government buildings at
Fort Stevens, Ore, at a contract price
of about $4,000. Albany, Ore, has do
mated a site and gets a s250,000 saw
mill, employing 500 men.
During the oyster planting season
just closed on Willapa harbor Wash
ington, over 200 men were engaged in
longing in the various channels fol-
young growth for transferring to the
artificial beds. About 10000 baskets
were taken, and twenty-five sloops and
forty batteaus were employed.
The last weekly crop bulletin of the
Northern Pacific contained the follow
ing relative to Idaho, Washington anC
and prospects good; east of Pasco
crops looking well. Along the Spokan,
and Palouse branch crops are looking
fine, with good growing weather"
Eighteen of the leading cargo mills
of Washington shipped during Ma,
2S,094, 644 feet of lumber by water o
which a surprising preponderance, O.
, 19,225,8S9 feet, went to foreign ports
and it may be added, the record of for
eign clearances for June promise t.
, hold up to equally large figures.
Articles Incorporating the North Am
erican Fish G Fertilizing Compan,
are filed in Seattle. The capital stocl
is $4,000 The company has secuI
l. ed the Robinson & Colt fertilizing plan
t at Anacortes, which will be ultimatel
enlarged to an annual capacity of 300
5 900 gallons of fish oil and three hun
4 dred thousand tons of fertilizer
5 The receipts of wheat at Tacoma TO
; the month of June are the largest il
t several years. June is always a YER
: light month. An average of over twer
Il ty cars a day has been received, tn
> total to date being $50 cars, which tn
n grain inspector predicts will reach IS
or 700 by the end of the month. Farm
I ers are shipping to save storage, TO
[ which contracts expire July LIST.
An agent who has been investiga
ing the wool outlook in Utah, Idaho
and Eastern Washington and Oregon
says there is an enormous quantity c
o wool to be shipped from those regions
/ 'The quantity is not any larger, prol
ably, than it was last year." he say
= but the quality is much better. A
has been sold. and it brought top prices
IS There will be about 200 carloads {
l, wool from Idaho alone this season."
t John Watts, who lives eight mile
IS southwest of McMinnville, Ore, ha
e had an unusual experience with bee
IS One year ago he hived a swarm in
= coal oil box. Within a period of min
IS days recently five living swarms hay
n come out of that box. The average II
crease in bees is about two swarms
season. Mr.. Watts has never know
so great an increase in his experienC
with bees, and can find no one who ha