The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-29
INDUSTRIAL NOTEs.

far behind on their orders for butter
and cheese.
From present prospects the price of
cattle will be good in Wallowa county,
Or, this year.
Andrew Olson, of Ellensburg has re-
ceived a large order for flour to be
shipped to Japan.
The Marshfield, o., shipyard will
build a barkentine that will carry l.
100000 feet of lumber.
Several square miles of land in AS
otin county, Wash, have just been
thrown open to settlement.
All employees of the nail works
whose wages are based on Is cents per
hour or less have been advanced 10 per
cent.
Cook county, Or, sheepmen are short
of help. AS high as two dollars per
day has been offered at Pineville since
the lambing season began.
carload of concentrates from the
Bonanza mine in Oregon delivered and
sold to the Baker City sampling works
last week, brought $4,000.
The new Snohomish creamery at Ev-
erette, has begun taking milk from the
farmers. The new creamery will turn
out 500 pounds of butter per day.
In experiments carried on at the
Oregon experimenting station, butter
was produced from a common grade
cows at cost of from to II cents.
Log buyers are at Bay View, Wash,
nearly every day offering Sc for cedar.
At present it seems that the demand
for logs is greater than the supply.
One hundred and fifty construction
hands have been discharged from the
Northern California & Oregon railroad
on account of a scarcity of materials.
Fully one-half of the fall wheat in
the Okanogan valley in British Column
bia has been winter killed, and a great
many fields will have to be reseeded
this spring
In the town of Dalles, in Polk coun-
ty, there are five modern manufact-
uring Establishments sawmill, wool
en- mill, foundry, tannery and sash and
door factory.
At a meeting of the chamber of COM
merce at Tacoma, proposition or sug-
gestion was taken under consideration
to arouse interest in the beet sugar
industry in this vicinity.
Log buyers in Skagit county are Of
fering Sc per thousand for cedar logs.
The Martin & Hubbard creamery at
Cheney, has been sold to the Hazel
wood Dairy Co. of Spokane.
The Salem Canning Co.'S canning
and evaporating plants at Salem, Or,
berg, for $4,000, by the R. S. Wallace
estate, to which they belonged.
During the month of March the New
Whatcom creamery turned out /, 481 10
pounds of butter, bought $3.50 pounds
of cream, and 1000 pounds of milk,
distributing to its patrons $335.S2.
f. M. Alexander, of Waterville, re-
ports that winter wheat in the Big
Bend section has been nearly all killed.
AS rapidly as possible 10000 bar
rels of Washington flour are to be ship
ped to Hongkong
The Corbin Beet sugar factory at
Waverly, located few miles south of
Spokane, has received sufficient seed
to plant 5000 acres in sugar beets. The
seed is of the best quality and was i'm
ported from Germany and France.
M. Arthur, of Absarokee, who is
wintering his sheep on Butcher creek,
Montana, says sheep and cattle are in
splendid condition on the Butcher
creek range, and that thus far the los
ses over there were not worth mention
ing.
A pool of over $500 f1eeces of mo-
hair was sold at auction in Corvallis,
Ore, the other day. The pool was
made up by "a Benton county farmers
and amounted to between 5000 and TO-
600 pounds. The lot was sold to l..
Wilhelm & Sons, of Monroe, for S11b
cents a pound.
1t is stated on good authority that
there is still in warehouses in Umatil-
la county, Or, more that one million
bushels of wheat. In three stations a.
lone there are the following amounts:
Helix. 100000 bushels; Warren 200
600 bushels; Fulton $4,000 bushels
or total of $4,000 bushels.
Nearly all OF the saw mills on the
Snake branch near Missoula are now
in operation, and the demand for
their product is good. The mills at
Banner are running half capacity with
plenty of orders ahead. The Russell
mill at Eddy, is running full force and
shipping as fast as possible. The
Hamilton mill will start shortly, and
there will be big product of lumber
going out from this section.
To BE General smith.