The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-20
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

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sidy for a flour mill.
Considerable corn is being planted
this year in the Palouse country.
Orchardists near Centralia say there
will be an immense crop of fruit thls
year.
A new warehouse 65x140 feet is to be
built by the Pacific Sheet Metal Works
at Fairhaven.
Farmers in the western part of
Whitman county are now through with
their spring seeding.
The 1899 sugar-beet crop in the
Grand Ronde valley, Oregon, has been
about two-thirds planted.
Superintendent Crawford, of the Ka-
lama fish hatchery, marked 5000 young
chinooks at the hatchery recently.
lone, Oregon, woolgrowers who are
willing to contract this years clip are
allowed an advance of 6 cents pound.
1t is generally believed that the en-
tire crop of sweet cherries in the Pa
louise country, Wash, has been lined.
Quite a large number of bluebacks
are in the Columbia, which is some
thing unusual so early in the season.
State Coal Mine Inspector G. f. Owen
says there is a great scarcity of miners
in Washington, and in fact all over
the coast
The Canadian Pacific railroad is
showing great enterprise in improving
the tourist attractions of the Rocky
mountains.
The Crows Nest Coal Company has
secured another important customer,
and is now shipping coke to the North
port smelter.
Farmers in Oregon say grain is in
poor shape, owing to continued cold
rains. Wheat is yellow, with a small,
unhealthy stalk.
Coral Novello Westwood, of Comox
road, B. c., has secured an American
patent for an improved means of col
umn spacing, line spacing and back
spacing on typewriter machines.
Grading is reported to be nearly COM
pleted on the extension of the Oregon
Rrailroad & Navigation from Dayton
to COvello, distance of thirteen miles.
Ellensburg, Wash, is quite a cream
cry center, there being no less than six
creameries in operation in that vicin-
ity. They buy $4,000 gallons of milk
daily.
Aberdeen sawmill owners are COM
planning that vessels are not plenty for
lumber shipments, and that the stuff
is piling up at the mills, awaiting ship
ment.
The Columbia river packing season
opened without fight over the price
of fish. the first time for years. The
union price of cents pound is paid
without murmur.
The president of the Oregon Rail.
road & Navigation Company has asked
for permission to extend the surveyed
line from Mount Idaho to Buffalo
Hump, in Idaho.
The season in Choteau county, Mont,
is the most backward known by old
timers. The stock men are disposing
of their calves at almost any price,
and there is great loss in lambs. The
grass is not far enough ahead to fur
nish feed, and the prospects are blue
for cattle and sheep.
Jensen, the Astoria inventor of the
can-flling machine, the can-soldering
machine and the fish-net knitting ma
chine, has sold all his interest in his
patents. He will soon start on trip
around the world. He has no imme-
date family or near relatives, and
probably has about 100000 cash.
d. c. Corbin is making a most lib
eral proposition to the farmers along
the Oregon Railway & Navigation rail-
way who raise beets this year. They
are not only that he will furnish seed
and implements at offered factory
prices, but cost, and will take pay in
beets next fall for the seed with which
he supplies them, or to all parties fur
nishing a team he will furnish the
seed and put it in the ground for them
and take his pay in beets when the
crop is raised. His object in making
the proposition is because he is desir-
GUS that the seed is properly put in
the ground. Farmers should take adj
vantage of this offer and either write
or confer with him Immediately, as the
season is advancing rapidly.
The Pacific-American Fisheries Com
pany, of New Whatcom, has placed an
order for 100000 cans with the Pa
cific sheet metal works. They will also
soon be manufacturing 10000 per day
at the Franco-American canneIy and
$4,000 per day at the Friday Harbor
plant. The Puget Sound Saw Mill G.
Shingle Company will manufacture
10000 boxes for the fish company, and