The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-08-12
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The NOOkSack nSn hatchery is dDout
completed.
Corvallis, Or, and vicinity expects
5000 to 10000 bushels Of prunes.
A Lorstine, Wallowa county, Or, cit
izen has sold his new hay crop of 100
tons for $4.25 per ton.
The manager of the Everett paper
mill says that the reported strike at
that institution is not imminent.
Thus far the salmon catch at all
points above the Cascades has been
much lighter than it was last year.
r. T. Murdoch of Chelan Falls has
completed arrangements for putting in
Touring mill at Wenatchee, Wash.
This is the first season in the history
of Whatcom county, Wash, that there
has been no fuctuation in prices of
shingles.
During the month of July LA cars of
grain were inspected by Deputy State
Grain Inspector S. J. Goodsell station
ed at Spokane.
About 2400 of the Josph Hirschberg
wethers, at Box Elder, Mont, 2 to 4
years old, were purchased at $2.75 for
rs and ST. for IS and As.
The Independent, the largest tugboat
ever built on the Snohomish river, was
recently launched from the yards OF
the Rice Lumber Company.
A gang of fifty Japanese are at work
on the Colfax-Moscow branch of the O.
R. & N, replacing the old iron rails
with fifty-six pound steel rails.
A Frenchman named Rancourt has
discovered on his ranch, about foul
miles below Toledo, Or, what he pro
nounces to be crude petroleum..
Ed Holloway, Morrow county far
mer, has los acres sown in flax, anl
thinks the culture of that fibre is thu
coming industry of eastern Oregon.
The Apex roller mills at Garfield
Wash, are closed while number o
repairs are being made and improve
ments added. A warehouse with a ca
pacity of $4,000 bushels is being erecte
besides internal improvements.
Over 1000 sheep were shipped fron
Wenatchee, Wash, recently by Edwar
swift to Chicago. Another band O
OOO will be shipped next week by MI
Swift to the same Chicago firm.
1t is the judgment of men who hav
seen the growing fields in Washington
oregon and California that this yea
the Pacific coast will produce a hea,
Ter crop OF hops than last year, wit
washington in the lead in yield ne
acre.
Edwin Weaver, of Myrtle Creek. Ore
sold 100000 pounds of dried prunes
Mr.. Segur, Of Eugene. at Az cents ne
per pound cash, to be packed in 3,
pound boxes, delivered at the railroa
station. This is the first sale of thj
years crop.
A patent for combined cane an
umbrella has been issued to John I
Nagel, of Everett, Wash.
Work on the new farmers war
mouse at Oakesdale, Wash, has cor
menced and the cleaning machiner
and chop mill will soon be here. ha
ing been ordered several weeks az
the new warehouse will be 7Ox1OO fe,
and is being built at the end of anoth,
, mouse OF the same dimensions. al.
owned by the company.
Manager Bolster has received assn
ance from the railroads that the pa
senger rates to the Spokane Industri
Exposition this year will be practical
; the same as they were last year. TT
rate will be 2 cents a mile each wa
or single fare for the round trim. III
same reduction will apply also to CHI
. dren.
llWaco, Wash, fishermen are ORGAN
ing company to operate a COOPERATE
cannery. The capital stock is to
S2o'ooo. with shares at $50 each a,
no one person to hold more than
: SHARES. Three thousand dollars ia
ready subscribed, and the old Elmo
cannery building at Ilwaco is said