Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-08-30
INDUSTRIAL NOTEs.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
The Hamilton, Montana, grist mills
will resume operations September 1st
Lane county Oregon warehouses have
received $4,000 bushels of this years.
wheat.
The Capital Box Factory of Tacoma,
will establish factory at New West
minister, B. c.
Fred Ruht, of Elgin, Oregon, will
take a carload of fat Wallowa county
hogs to Dawson.
The Yakima Indians recently deliv.
cred BIG horses at the Dalles for ship
ment to the Linnton cannery.
The men desiring to earn a few dol
lars in the harvest fields have no troub-
lie securing employment in the Big
Bend district, Washington.
Eleven hundred thousand feet daily
is conservative estimate of the am
cunt of logs being put in the Sound now
from Thurston and Mason counties.
Millmen of Washington report the
single market very firm at present;
in fact, prices have had an upward ten
tency during the past week.
The Griffin Lumber and Single Co.,
of Deming, Washington, has purchased
Phillips and Holmes Bros.'s mill and
will probably continue to operate it.
The Pacific American Fisheries Co.,
of Fairhaven, has been running nights
the past two weeks in order to keep
pace with the large run of salmon.
Aaron Kuhn, the Colfax merchant
and grain dealer, has bought the grain
warehouse of Denham and Kaufman
at Moscow, and will buy grain there
this fall.
The Okanogan Flour Mills Company,
limited, of Armstrong, B. c., has again
declared a dividend of per cent on it's
paid-up capital as result of it's past
years operation.
1t is quite scene about the grounds
of the Washington Agricultural Col
lege, at Pullman, where fully so men
are employed in Transforming the
grounds and erecting new buildings.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
has addressed letter to the chairman
of the lighthouse board at Washington
d. c., urging the construction of at
least six lighthouses and tog signals
in southeastern Alaska.
Orders have been received by mana
ger Merriam, of the American Steel Co.,
to pack the company's nail machines
now in Everett, Wn., for shipment to
San Francisco, where they are to be
used in charging the nail mill opera
ted by the trust in that city.
This year Horst Brothers, the hop
men of New York and London, have
bought nearly 700 acres of land in the
vicinity of Doves landing, and now
they are figuring on buying the Rach-
ael Dove place, containing about 800
acres more, says the Portland Telegram
AS compensation for the poor crop
of calves this spring, the cattlemen of
Montana are likely to have both fat
steers and a good market this fall. The
grasses on the ranges was slow in grow
ing, but it is now both thick and nu-
tritious, and the effect on the stock is
very appreciable.
One boat alone has brought to the
canneries at Fairhaven this year 1,760,-
900 salmon. These salmon will ever
age about six pounds each. That
means 100000 pounds of fish han
died by one boat this season. This
will give you some idea of the salmon
industry Of Bellingham Bay.
The action of the Moscow, Idaho, au.
thorities in driving so-called tramps out
of town, or rather in not allowing them
to enter the town, has resulted in boy
colt on Moscow by harvest hands, and
signs are numerously distributed over
the country along railroads and wagon
roads warning workingmen to keep a.
way from Moscow.
The Hale and Alexander peaches are
varieties of the past for this year, says
the Ashland Oregon, Tidings. Early
Crawfords are in the market this week.
The Ashland fruit association expects
to start them off at so cents box, f. o.
b. Ashland. Parties are now here ne
gotiating for carload lots for Eastern
shipment.
The 10000 subsidy for the big saw
mill plant of the artiss Lumber Com
pany. at Albany, "A egon. has been fully
raised, and the REQUIRED water privil-
eyes secured. Thif will assure the es-
tablishment of thi big numbering con-
Germ in Albany. Fhe sawmill plant
planning pills, dry ykilns, artificial lake
for hol~ 'ogs WIN occupy about IS
""res mt Will cost $250,00Q.