The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-22
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Track-laying on the three-mile ex-
tension of the P. V. &Y. R. r. will be-
gin this week, with a crew of twenty
men.
Messrs. Savage and Schofeld of Oh
ympia were awarded the contract to
build a new bridge across the Yakima
river; contract price, $3,7S3.
Twenty tons of machinery to COM
plete the stamp mill in the Peshastin
has arrived and will be taken in as
soon as the road is completed. Pros
pectors are coming in every day.
M. r. Staight was in from Summit
camp (near Republic) recently and
stated that the first kiln of lime burn
ed by his company, which amounted to
500 barrels, had all been disposed of
and that he was having the kiln re-
filled.
Sam Hull sold bunch of horses at
auction in Pomeroy, Wash, the other
day, receiving about SIS per head for
unbroken g. and 4-year-old colts. Old
Atwood, whose history and pedigree
are familiar to every horseman in tho
Pacific northwest, was knocked down
to Frank Morrison for $31.
Fish Commissioner Little of Wash
ington has arranged to start small
factory in Tacoma for the manufac-
ture of wire baskets to be used in the
state fish hatcheries. About LOO will
be required, and three men will be re-
quired to work about three months in
making a sufficient supply to last sew
eral years.
One agricultural implement firm at
Colfax, Wash, sold six headers, one
binder and sower recently, and it is
stated that sales of agricultural ma
chinery generally throughout the
grain belt are very heavy, approaching
very close to the phenomenal record of
last year, when dealers could not pro-
cure appliances fast enough to supply
the trade.
County Commissioner Strong re-
ports the grain crop in the Wenatchee
country to be a good average; alfalfa
about a third of a crop below the Mis-
sion, owing to the freeze-out last win
i ter; above that place the alfalfa was
not injured. Peaches and apricots
will be short, but better quality.
During the oyster planting season
Just closed at Willapa, Wash, 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 out.
and twenty-five sloops and forty bat
teaus were employed.
Potatoes are only eight cents a
pound in the Republic market Near
ly all kinds of new vegetables have
found their way into market but they
are far from cheap. Eggs are scarce
and fresh ones sell at so cents a dozen.
The British ship MacDuff, for Port
land, Ore, is now several days overdue
having ben out 155 days from Calcut-
ia. She has a cargo of 100000 grain
bags, and unless she arrives soon, the
price of grain bags in the northwest
will probably take big jump upward,
= as harvesting has already commenced.
In Clarke county, Wash. prunes are
going to be scarce. There are few
small orchards which promise almost
full crop, and there are larger or
chards which show from one-fourth to
one-half crop, while the bulk of the or.
} chards are either without fruit or
show only few prunes on the trees.
! This is probably true in a general way
of all western Washington.
Everywhere in the Palouse is motto.
2 ed active preparations for harvest
The farmers are getting their machin
| cry ready, and the annual exodus OF
3 harvest hands to the counties south OF
} Snake river has begun. There is a no
ticeable dropping off in the number OF
5 men and teams that are going south t.
1 work in harvest fields. compared with
former years. which presages a short
i age of harvest help In this country
: should there be as large yield az
many expect