The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-07-08

Observation-Disclosures &4kANs
Wool receipts At Ontario. Ore, 90 far
this season have been $4,000 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
l50. 900 baskets.
Last week sales OF wool at Hunting.
ton. Ore, amounted to $4,000 pounds.
The price ranged from 10 to IsM cents.
Already the hop buyers OF Oregon are
becoming active. Big contract orders
are being placed with the growers, and
Notwithstanding the crop outlook IL
good. the price paid on such orders Ia
good.
The hFiekyard has resumed opera.
tons In Fairfield. Wash. after q two
weeks shut down for repairs TO the
machinery. They are now turning out
10000 bricks per day. and the first kiln
has been burned.
During the latter part OF last week
considerable wheat changed hands at
Waila Walia on the bulge in the mar
kst Buyers estimate that 0,e0O
bushels were sold at so cents for club
and 80 cents for bluestem.
HoqnIam. Wash. shipped seven car.
goes. containing a.3i7,0 feet OF lnm-
Der. In May; Aberdeen. twelve cargoea.
containing 3.es2.O00 feet: Cosmopoiis
two eargoes. containing EOS, 900 fest,
making 9 total Of twenty-one eargoes,
containing 6.633.O00 feet
L. A. Conn. Of Vancouver. wn., has
been awarded the contract for the erec.
ton OF tho government buildings a
Fort Stevens. Ore. at a contract price
OF about $4,000. Albany. Ore. has do
mated . site and gets q $4,000 saw
mill. employing 800 men.
During the oyster planting season
just closed on Willapa harbor. Wash.
ingion. over 200 men we're engaged in
longing in the various channels for
young growth for transferring 10 the
artificial beds. About 10000 baskets
were taken. and twenty-five sloops and
forty batteAns were employed.
The last weekly crop bulletin Of the
Northern Pacific contained the follow.
Ing relative 10 Idaho. Washington and
Oregon; West Of PAseo. weather cool
and prospects good: east Of Pasoo,
crops looking we'll. Along the Spokane
and Pal0nse branch crops are looking
me. With good growing weather"
Eighteen OF the leading cargo mills
OF Washington shipped. during May
zs.0st.stt feet Of lumber by water, OF
which . surprising preponderance. or
l9.2ss.sss feet, went 10 foreign portA.
and II may be added. the record Of for.
eiEn elsarances for June promise 20
hold up to equally large figures.
Articles Incorporating the North Am.
eriean Fish q fertiliKing Company
are aled In Seattle. The capital stock
Ia ti.sOo. 600. The company has secur-
I'd the Robinson a Colt fertillEinK plant
At AnAoortes. which viii be ultimately
enlarged 20 an annual capacity Of 500.
600 gallons OF nah oil and three hun
dred thousand tons OF fertilizer.
The receIpta Of wheat Al Tacoma for
the month Of June arc the largest in
several years. June IL always a very
light month. An average OF over TWEEN.
~ cars = day has been received, the
total 10 date being $50 cars. which the
grain Inspector predicts viii reach ESQ
or 200 by the end Of the month. Farm.
ers are shipping 70 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 10 an enormous quantity OF
wool 20 Be shipped from those regions.
The quantity il not any larger. prob
ably. than Il vaa last year. he says.
but the quality 10 much better. All
has been sold. and II brought top prices
There will be about 200 carloads OF
wool from Idaho alone this season"
John Watts. who lives eight milea
southwest Of McMinnville, Ore. has
had an unusual experience with bees.
One year ago he hivod q swarm in q
coal oil box. within q period OF nine
days recently i've living swarma have
come out OF that boz. The average in.
crease in bees IL about two swarma q
season. Mr.. watts has never known
40 great an increase in his experience
with bees, and can ind no one who has