Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-04-15
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

NoAhS.
Potatoes are now selling at $1.05 a
bushel in Chehalis.
Potatoes are selling for $1.05 per
bushel at Chehalis, Wash
A large sample of Yakima hops has
been sent to China.
The big mill at Port Ludlow has
shut down for two weeks for repairs
The Northern Pacific has paid
$554,94, being its 1898 personal taxes
in Lincoln county.
G. r. Norris of Judith, Montana, re-
ports live stock in fairly good condi.
ton in that section.
Dillon, Montana, reports the sale of
144 head of steers in Beaverhead coun-
ty at $50 per head.
Stock of every kind is in good con-
dition around Dallas, with no loss
from starvation or bad weather.
There is much inquiry for heavy,
well bred draft horses, and prices have
an upward tendency at Stayton, Ore.
A Skagit fir scaled 32,444 feet--43
feet long and nine in diameter. An
other scaled 10000 feet, and weighed
$4,000 pounds.
A clam-canning establishment has
opened up at Warrenton, Wash, with
employment for 40 men and 10 teams
throughout the season.
Washington prunes are being ship
| ped to California, where they are sold
under the name OF imported goods, on
| account of their superior quality.
The canneries at Blaine, Wash, are
taking on new employees to work DUR
! ing the salmon season, and there will
be work for good, competent men for
| the next six months.
John +. Patterson, sheep inspector
for Choteau county, Montana, says
there are not more than two cases of
"scab' WITHIN his jurisdiction and that
the quarantine will soon be raised.
There is at present some 100000
pounds of wool stored in the ware
houses at The Dalles Ore. and in
short time the new crop, which will
probably amount to 100000 pounds,
will begin arriving.
There are three camps on the Upper
Chehalis shipping logs to Gray's har-
Dor, Wash. Another camp will start
up shortly, which will put 12,000,000
feet ON the Gray's harbor market this
year.
Doust & Dam, of North Yakima,
have received an order from Shang-
hal, China, to ship five bales OF hops
as samples If the sample bales are
all right. large and increasing orders
may be expected from China.
A sale was made of 5000 bushels of
wheat at Blue Mountain station near
Weston, by G. w. Stages, to II. jamie
son. The price paid was AZ cents.
This has been the only sale Tor three
months, and many heavy growers still
hold for so cents. About 100000 worth
of wheat is still unmarketed in that
vicinity.
The coal bunkers at Douty, Ore, will
soon be finished, with a much larger
capacity than the old ones The coal
company is adopting a new rotary
washer which promises to revolution
lie coal washing.
The sound of the hammer and saw
is heard throughout the length and
breadth of the Chehalis valley. That
drained by the Chehalis river is exhib
iting an agricultural, commercial and
manufacturing activity which argues
well for the Evergreen" state.
The Weston brickyard in Oregon be-
gan work last week with three yard
crews, numbering about rs men. On
account of prospective building at Pen
dleton and Walla Walla, and the brick
famine at Walla Walla, the Weston
yard Will be kept busy throughout the
season. From three to four millions
of brick will be manufactured.
The fish canning companies OF the
Sound are having their nets mended
and scows repaired, as it viii be but
three months before the run OF salmon
commences. The companies down the
Sound are employing many new men,
as the run of the sockeye salmon COM
mences about June 18th and lasts to
August 1st The sockeye salmon Is
caught and trapped in the Sound near
Blaine and Point Roberts.