Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-07-05
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Wool receipts at Ontario, Ore, so far
this season have been 637, 900 pounds.
Malheur county, Ore, has cattle
company which has 10000 cattle on the
ranges.
The Puget Sound oyster season, just
closed, resulted in the marketing Of
100000 baskets.
Last week sales of wool at Hunting
ton, Ore, amounted to 125,000 pounds
The price ranged from ~ to 1871 cents
Already the hop buyers of Oregon are
becoming active. Big contract orders
are being placed with the growers, and
notwithstanding the crop outlook Is
good, the price paid on such orders is
good
The brickyard has resumed opera
tions in Fairfield, Wash, after a two
weeks shut down for repairs to the
machinery. They are now turning out
100000 bricks per day, and the first kiln
has been burned.
During the latter part of last week
considerable wheat changed hands at
Walla Walla on the bulge in the mar
ket. Buyers estimate that 10000
bushels were sold at SO cents for club
and So cents for bluestem.
Hoquiam, Wash, shipped seven car
goes, containing 2,317,000 feet of lum
Der, in May; Aberdeen, twelve cargoes,
containing 3,652,OOO feet; Cosmopolis
two cargoes, containing $4,000 feet,
making a total of twenty-one cargoes,
containing 6,533,00O feet.
L. A. Conn, of Vancouver, Wn., has
been awarded the contract for the cree
ton of the government buildings at
Fort Stevens, Ore, at a contract price
of about $4,000. Albany, Ore, has do
mated a site and gets $250000 saw
mill, employing 500 men.
During the oyster planting season
just closed on Willapa harbor, Wash
ington, over 200 men were engaged in
longing in the various channels for
young growth for transferring to the
artificial beds. About 10000 baskets
were taken, and twenty-five sloops and
forty batteaus were employed.
The last weekly crop bulletin of the
Northern Pacific contained the follow
ing relative to Idaho, Washington and
Oregon: "West of Pasco, weather cool
and prospects good; east of Pasco,
crops looking well. Along the Spokane
and Palouse branch crops are looking
fine, with good growing weather."
Eighteen of the leading cargo mills
of Washington shipped during MAY
2S,094,644 feet Of lumber by water, of
which a surprising preponderance, or
19,225,S89 feet, went to foreign ports,
and 1t may be added, the record Of for
eign clearances for June promise to
hold up to equally large figures.
Articles incorporating the North Am.
erican Fish & Fertilizing Company
are filed in Seattle. The capital stock
is $1,500,000. The company has secur-
ed the Robinson G Colt fertilizing plant
at Anacortes, which will be ultimately
enlarged to an annual capacity of 300,-
600 gallons of fish oil and three hun
dred thousand tons of fertilizer.
The receipts of wheat at Tacoma for
the month Of June are the largest in
several years. June is always a very
light month. An average of over twen-
~ cars day has been received, the |
total to date being 500 cars. which the !
grain inspector predicts will reach $50
or 700 by the end of the month. Farm
ers are shipping. to save storage. for !!
which contracts expire July LIST.
An agent who has been investigat-
ing the wool outlook in Utah. Idaho,
and Eastern Washington and Oregon,
says there is an enormous quantity, Of !
wool to be shipped from those regions.
1.-THE quantity Ii not any larger, prob
ably, than 1t was last year." he says,
but the quality is much better. All
has been sold. and it brought top prices.
There will be about 200 carloads of
wool from Idaho alone this season." J
John Watts, who lives eight miles
southwest of McMinnvinii, Ore. has
an unusual experifA with bees.
ago.he it. -~see$ "a