The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-10
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

closed for the season.
Farmers living south of Pendleton,
Ore. complain that the Russian thistle
is gaining great Roadway.
Washington coal mines are expected
to break all previous records of pro- /
duction the present season.
Farmers in the vicinity of Monroe, |
Ore, are worried over the appearance
of California cookie in their grain
fields.
Hundreds of tons of oyster shells
have been taken from Coos Bay, Ore,
by the government dredger working
there.
The colony of Dunkards who have
purchased lands just east of Sunny
dale, in Yakima county, Wash, are
making many improvements.
At the Asotin creek roundup recent
ly over 1000 head of horses were cor
rallied by about twenty men. The
roundup this year was not as success
full as usual.
Twenty-Five men are shearing at
Sheep Springs, near Ritzville. Fleeces
are reported fine, averaging six pounds
and Adams county's probable output is
estimated at 25O,OOO pounds.
Preparations are making for the
starting of a ship-yard on the What
com water front. A four-mast schoon-
err, to carry $4,000 feet of lumber, will
be built, if present plans mature.
e. II. Brandt & Co., of Snohomish,
shipped a consignment of extra choice
shingles by the Riojun Maru to Kobe,
Japan. The consignment was small,
being more of an experiment than any
thing else.
The work of dredging the channel
across the Hogback bar off Tongue
Point, Ore, by the United States dredg
err w. S. Laid, is progressing in good
shape under the supervision of Captain
George A. Pease.
The Gray's Harbor Commercial Com
pany has three band saws in it's mill
one of which is claimed to be the larg
est in the Northwest, being sixty fee
in length. When the last one was put
in it cut $4,000 feet the first days run
Sheep shearing has commenced IL
the section about Elgin, Wash, but thu
work is considerably retarded by thu
: damp weather. Two bands of year
lings have been sold for delivery i'm
| mediately after shearing, at $3.50 pc
| head. There is still several hundred
thousand pounds of last seasons woo
stored in che warehouses, awaiting al
e advance in the price.
c Mack Porter, of Corvallis, Ore, ha
e sold eleven head of thoroughbred pol
j ed angus cattle for $3.50. OF the buncl
f nine head were yearling heifers whicI
:. brought $50 each, and two 2-year-ol
t bulls at $100 each. The sire of thes
y animals was bought at the worlds fai
by Mr.. Porter, and at that time was l
II months old. The animal weighed 9
that time 1850 pounds, and Mr.. Pc
ter paid $500 for him. The presen
weight is 2,150.
: Within a year Spokane and the SUI
i rounding country will be consumin
o sugar produced in the southern part {
IL the county. To that end d. G. Corbil
/ Colonel e. H. Morrison of Fairfield,
d, number of sugar-beet experts frol
II France, and a little army of field worl
q ers, mechanics and machinists al
y bending their energies. 1t is big el
~ terprise, and in every sense home il
De dustry The factory will cost $4,000
? and $4,000 more has been expended
10 planting beets. The location is at w
SC verify. five miles from Fairfield. M
IL Corbin has agreed to pay this year
minimum price of 81 for IL and IA p'
cent beets, and 33 1-3 cents for each d
gree above fourteen. This offer apple
O. to all points along the o. r. & N, M
ne Corbin paying the railroad charg
a. from the point of shipment to the ia
I'll tory. The bulk of the machinery
I'll being built in the United States-son
'e at Philadelphia, and other parts at Be
y ton and Chicago. Some special m
&c chinery had to be purchased in Fran
q. and Germany. The factory will ha
~ a capacity of $50 tons of beets a da
n or about 40 tons of refined sugar. II
usual Campaign" is from 100 to /
days, according to the supply of bee
Our seasons output this year will
q about 5000 tons, or about one-half t
e. quantity distributed annually fro
es Spokane. Mr.. Corbin has spared
nc pains to make this the most compile
~ up-to-date sugar factory in the Unit
States.