Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

outfits in shape for the near approach.
ing harvest.
Seven ship spars, 100 feet long, have
just been loaded on three fiat cars at
Elma, Wash, and started for Balti.
more, Md.
Orlando Beck, fruit inspector of
Yakima county, Wash, is of the opin-
ion that the crop will fall below the
average this year.
Tacoma has set aprt a tract of
waterfront land for factories, and
sends a representative east to interest
enterprises in locating there.
A crew of men near the summit of
the mountains of Rock creek, Polk
county, Oregon, are peeling about 100
cords of hemlock bark for the tannery
at Dallas.
1t is said work is being pushed on
the shaft of the coal mine being sunk
at Chehalis, Wash. Some IA men are
employed and night and day shifts are
kept at work.
Baker lake hatchery is the only blue
back salmon hatchery in the United
out 100000 young each season, COM
mencing August 1.
A fertilizing factory is to be estab-
lished on Dakota creek, near Blaine,
Wash. The gentleman in charge al
ready has an extensive plant in opera
tion at Los Angeles.
The machinery in the new -four mill
of the Washington Grain and Milling
Co., at Reardan, Wash, was set in Cd.
GRAFTON for the first time last week,
everything starting off nicely.
The salmon pack of the Columbia
is likely to be at least $4,000 cases short
this season, and unless the run of fish
greatly improves, it may be 100000
cases short, says the Portland Tele-
gram.
The largest cargo of lumber ever
taken from Puget sound on a single
vessel will leave this port tomorrow on
the steamship Elm Branch. The cargo
consists of 100000 feet and is des-
tined for Taku and Woosing.
The potato crop of the Potlatch coun-
try, Idaho, was saved by the recent
rain, which insures this country
against any lack of spuds this fall.
Last year the potato patches were neg
lected, and for the first time potatoes
were shipped into the local market
Work at the Leno Lopez shearing
corrals, at Chinook, Mont, has been
finished. A total of $1,000 head of
sheep were shorn. The work of har-
vesting the annual crop of hay is Just
starting. The crop will be fully as
large as last years, despite the fact
that very little irrigation has been
done.
A corporation known as the Central
Navigation Company, was recently or
ganiZed at Spokane for the purpose of
constructing a railroad from the city
of Spokane to Vancouver by way of
Yakima, Cispus pass and Lewis river
Senator Turner, F. H. Graves. l. N
Peyton and several other Spokane capt.
talists are the incorporators.
During the month of June 10000
tons of coal and 1000 tons of coke were
shipped from Fernie by the Crows
Nest Pass Coal Company. Two mines
on Coal creek near Fernie are being
worked and 400 men employed. This
company expects to ship 1000 tons a
day by December. Another mine is
being opened at Michel In three
months 400 coke ovens will be in opera
ton.
H. Williams, of Chelan, Wash, resi-
dent agent for James Mcmillan of Min
neapolis, and other owners of water
power in the Chelan river, says that a
joint stock company is to be organized
shortly to build flour mill on the
north bank of the Chelan river, at the
month, and to operate ferry over the
Columbia river in connection with it..
The capital stock of the company will
be $1O,500.
Surveyor M. S. Darling, who has
charge of the work on the big irrigat.
ing canal under construction by Con-
rad brothers near Dupuyer, Mont, re-
ports satisfactory progress on that I'M
dertaking. When completed it will be
one of the biggest plants of the kind
in the west. About five and one-half
miles of the canal have been finished,
leaving some II miles to be finished.
The canal is % feet wide at the bottom,
will carry four feet of water, and will
irrigate about 100000 acres of land.
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