The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-04-22
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stayton has broom factory, Six
persons are employed.
About forty men are now employed
at the Blue Canyon coal mine. on Lake
Whateoni.
There is considerable prospecting for
coal going on ineths hills surrounding
Deming. Wash. .
Andrew H. Smith. Of Van Wyek. has
been appointed manager of the What
com creamery
The repairs to the bridge across the
Nooksack at Everson will be completed
about the first OF May.
1t is said that there are 200 Portland
hoboes making their way to Astoria.
They expect to live easy during the
fishing season.
+. C, Damn. Seattle linotype oper-
ator. has invented a typesetting ma
chine which he has sold to the Mergen-
thaler Company.
At a meeting Of the Columbia River
Fishermen's Protective Union the
price Of salmon for the ensuing season
was set at cents q pound.
The Chinese In Portland are fighting
the poll tax Law for the reason that In
the past they have been imposed upon
BY unauthorized parties who collected
the tax.
The Rossland Miner states that II
will not be long before 1,000 tons Of ore
per day are being shipped from the diff.
ferent mines In and around Rossland
to the smelter there.
There is complaint from all parts Of
Kittitas valley, Wash, in regard to
the freezing Of clover and alfalfa. The
loss win be heavier than was at first
supposed. and much replanting will be
necessary.
Rabers mill at Stanwood, Wash,
made cut during March that comes
pretty near being q record. turning out
2.O46,000 shingles in the twenty-five
working days. an average OF over So.
600 per day for the month.
The state board OF audit and control
OF Washington, at their last meeting
reduced the price Of penltentiary made
grain sacks to $5.25 per 100. This
will make saving to the farmers Of
Eastern Washington VI $4,000 a year.
Six hundred men are employed In
the construction work of the Seven
Devils railroad. Work has been be-
gun on the first tunnel near Hunting.
ton. This tunnel will be ESQ feet in
length. Men are in demand for this
work
The indications for a large grain
crop in Klamath county. Oregon, were
never more favorable than at the pres
emit time. 1t is claimed that nearly q
half more acreage will be put in this
spring, and the abundance OF moisture
which has fallen this spring win bring
Klamath to the front as one Of the best
farming counties in Oregon.
c. E. Whitney & Co.. OF San Fran
cisco. have contracted for the entire
output OF the Coos Bay Creamery
Company. of Oregon. the output OF
butter from now to August LIST will be
canned for the Alaska trade, and II Ia
estimated that the amount manufae-
tured up to August LIST will exceed
100000 pounds. The number. of cheese
contracted for is 1900, and the net
weight will be about 5000 pounds.
All the logging camps on Gray's har-
Dor are running full crews. save q few
on fresh water streams. The purchase
OF new engines still goes on, and one
can see new one being sledded almost
all the time. The camp of Paulson
Bros. on the HOQuiam river. will cut
100000 feet of FIR during the next
year. having cut 100000 feet last
year. A great many think that the mr.
logging will be oVerdone and that the
prices win fall
1t Is doubtful II the farmers Of Wash.
ington are aware Of the amount Of
money sent out Of the state for the
purchase Of the small white navy bean.
The farmers. Of California supply the
people Of this state with about $50, 900
worth Of them annually. In that state
theytnet the grower $50 a ton. Now,
there is no doubt the farmers Of Wash
ingeon can grow cleaner and better
beans than can be raised anywhere on
the coast. and there IL no reason why
they should not supply the home de-
mand.