The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-16

New wheat is selling at Chelan ut
cent pound.
Linn county. Ore, is to the front
with a 30-pound cabbage.
The state Of Washington will operate
six new fish hatcheries this season.
1t is estimated that 1900 Indians Will
pick hops at Puyallup. WASH, this sea-
son.
The Coos bay, Ore, creamery Is turn
ing out about 500 pounds OF butter pcr
day.
The Loughmiller Touring mill at
Silverton, Or, has started up; capacity,
40 barrels.
The Northwestern Lumber Company
voluntarily raised the wages of its yard
employees last week from 81 so to $1.i5
per day.
The mushroom season in western
Washington has begun, rather earlier
this than in recent years on account Of
the profuse July rains.
Grain growers of the PalOuse coun-
try are talking about dispensing with
the use OF grain sacks, owing to the uu.
usually high price this season.
Nelson Moen, superintendent Of the
big lumber mill at Baker City. Or, Is
in La Grande for the purpose of super
vising the starting OF the sugar fac
tory.
S. S. Peterson is said to have COM
pleted arrangements for barrel and
save and shingle manufacturing plant
at Port Angeles, Wash, to cost entire
$4,000.
Complaint is made at North Yakima
that good fruit is not obtainable for
home consumption. Orchardists, it is
said, ship the best of their fruit to out
side markets.
State Hop Inspector Fernandez esti-
mates the states hop yield this year at
80, 900 bales, as against $4,000 last year.
The quality of the hops is said to be
better this year.
One of the best fruit and agricultural
exhibits at the Spokane Industrial Ex-
position this year is to come from
Peck, Idaho, the new town on the Nez
Perce Indian reservation.
A wealthy New York syndicate is
negotiating for the purchase Of every
salmon cannery on the Fraser river.
Their scheme is to get every establish.
ment, not missing single one.
A fisherman at Coos bay, Or, recent
ly caught five large salmon, ranging In
weight from forty to eighty pounds,
said to be identical with the chinook
variety taken from the Columbia river
in June and July"
The Marshfield and Empire City, Or,
cannieries have decided to pay for this
season 40 cents for chinook and Is
cents for silversides. The canneries
will pay the expense of picking up the
fish at the different places.
Threshing machines have been
crowded to their utmost capacity in the
Palouse country the past week and
some records have been made. Jake
Crawford's machine, working in bund
led grain, turned out 1,125 sacks ol
, wheat.
, H. j. Russell, proprietor of the Te
koa, WASH, -four mill, has purchased
land and will Immediately begin the
, erection of large warehouse. 54x3t
, feet. in dimensions, and having sutii
cient capacity for storing $4,000 bush
els of grain.
A sugar beet factory is proposed al
, North Yakima, WASH, by capitalists
acting through Edward Whitson. Be
fore proceeding with the factory, how
ever, assurances must be forthcoming
that 5000 acres in sugar beets will be
annually planted.
The harvesting season is in full blast
around Moscow, Idaho. The activity
displayed in getting the grain harvest
ed it is noted that Devine brothers are
running their machines "a hours day
only stopping to change teams and
crews. They use lanterns on their ma
chimes and run all night They have
900 acres of wheat, which is nearly al
harvested.