The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-01-14
TRADE MOVIES,

The Gray's Harbor fish output for the
year was valued at $88,04l.
Whatcom county farmers will meet In
convention at Sumas, WASH, Jan. l4th.
Sixty thousand head Of sheep were
shipped from Kittitas, WASH, during che
past year.
Kauspisch Bros, Of Chehalis, are max.
ing arrangements to build creamery at
Toledo, Wash.
The sheet metal works located at Fair.
haven, Wash, will resume operations in
about thirty days.
Whitman county won a premium for
the best exhibition of grasses at the re.
cent Oregon exposition in Portland.
The Puyallup Fruit Growers Associa.
tion shipped during the past season to
Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas fruit
valued at over $1,000.
Wheat men of Weston, Oregon, have
formed a pool with 10000 bushels as the
stake. They have refused an offer Of 5l1
cents q bushel.
Now that there is only one steamer
plying between San Francisco and Gray'a
Harbor, freight rates on merchandise
have nearly doubled.
j. Hinson, manager of the Puyallup
Fruit Growers Association, is authority
for the statement that the fruit business
of that city will exceed $4,000 in 1893.
The sixth annual convention of the
Northwest Fruit Growers Association
will be held at Spokane Jan. oath to 2Sth
inclusive. A poultry and pet stock show
will be held during the session.
A box Of Seeding Strawberries was
picked in an open field near Milton,
WASH, on Christmas day. It contained
blooms, green berries in all stages, and
plump ripe ones of goodly size.
The growth of the fruit industry Of
Yakima county, WASH, is well illustrated
by the fact that the sales of one lumber
company Of fruit boxes for the year 1893
aggregate $4,000, against $1,000 for the
previous year.
The total imports and exports of the
SUPPORT Of New Whatcom the past II
months were: Imports, $l8,6S0; export,
$257 ,lS9. Blaine-Imports, $7,l26; ex.
ports, $2l2,97l. Sumas-Imports, $751;
1872; exports, $7l8,423.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Alliance warehouse at Ritzville, WASH,
was held recently when a dividend OF
$1,000 was declared for the year 1897
which amounted to $3.50 per share and
one half cent bushel for wheat hauled
to the warehouse. Directors elected
7 A 4
Olson.
A party of prominent state officials
and citizens of Oregon have visited the
Kalama fish hatcheries to investigate the
conduct of the institution and gather In
formation which may lead to the estab
lishment of several hatcheries in Oregon
From Dallas, Or, has been shipped this
season IA car loads of prunes, or 22C
tons, and 81 car loads, or 1922 bales, Of
hops. AS result, large amount OF
outside money has been brought in and
distributed among several thousand peo.
pie.
1t is claimed by the statistician Of the
state of Washington that between $40,.
100000 and $45,OOOOO0 worth of com.
modities and products have been market
ed during the year just closed in the
state. From the standpoint Of popula.
tion,-assuming that Washington has a
population of 450,000,-this showing is
very encouraging. Any state in the
Union might well be proud Of such a
record.
The improvement in the wheat market
lately has had tendency to bring the
farmers who are holding wheat to Ken.
drick. Some, who are able to hold on to
their wheat, say that as long as Iced is
selling for one cent per pound they in
tend to hold their wheat for 10 cents OF
hold it for feed. Hogs are selling in the
Kendrick market at six cents per pound
dressed, and this price has had tendency
to direct the farmers attention in this di'
rection, while the price of wheat remain,
low.
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