Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-08-04
1NDusrRaAL ndrnr.


INDUSTRIAL MGTMD.
The outlook for good salmon pac
on the Skeena this year is excellent
say the Vancoaver. B. @, World.
4 The 0akesdale machine shops ar
working fun force putting threshin
outfits in shape for the near approach
ing harvest.
Seven ship spars. 100 feet long, hay
just been loaded on three fiat cars a
Elma. Wash, and started for Bait
more, Md.
Orlando Beck, fruit inspector o
Yakima county, Wash, is Of the opin
ion that the crop will fall below tn,
average this year.
Tacoma has set aprt a tract O
water-front land for factories, ant
sends a representative east to interes
enterprises in locating there.
A crew of men near the summit o.
the mountains Of Rock creek, Poll
county, Oregon, are peeling about 10(
cords Of hemloek bark for the tanner,
at Dallas.
1t is said work is being pushed or
the shaft of the coal mine being sunk
at Chehalis. Wash. Some IA men are
employed and night and day shifts are
kept at work.
Baker lake hatchery is the only blue
back salmon hatchery in the United
States and has capacity for turning
out 100000 young each season, com,
mencing August 1.
A fertilizing factory is to be estab.
lished on Dakota creek, near Blaine,
Wash. The gentleman in charge al.
ready has an extensive plant in opera
ton at Los Angeles.
The machinery in the new flour mill
of the Washington Grain and Milling
Co., at Reardan. Wash, was set in OBJ
Grafton for the first time last week.
everything starting off nicely.
The salmon pack of the Columbia
is likely to be at least SO, 900 cases short
this season, and unless the run of fish
greatly improves. it may be 100000
cases short says the Portland Tele-
gram.
The largest cargo of lumber ever
taken from Puget sound on a single
vessel will leave this port tomorrow on
the steamship Elm Branch. The cargo
consists of 100000 feet and is des-
tined for Taku and Woosing.
The potato crop of the Potlatch coun-
try, Idaho. was saved by the recent
rain, which insures this country
against any lack of spuds this fall.
Last year the potato patches were neg
lected, and for the first time potatoes
were shipped into the local market.
J. r. Mckay of Miles City, Mont, has
shipped three carloads of horses east.
One car was composed Of yearlings.
The shipping of yearlings and even
colts is growing more in favor yearly.
The returns are quicker, risk is less
and range is preserved. There is less
.rouble in marketing, also.
Work at the Leno Lopez shearing
;orrals, at Chinook, Mont, has been
finished. A total of $1,000 head of
sheep were shorn. The work of har-
resting the annual crop of hay is Just
starting. The crop will be fully as
arge as last years, despite the fact
hat very little irrigation has been
lone.
A corporation known as the Central
Navigation Company, was recently or
'anized at Spokane for the purpose of
constructing railroad from the city
4 Spokane to Vancouver by way of
,akima, Cispus pass and Lewis river.
senator Turner, F. H. Graves, 1. N.
'eyton and several other Spokane CAPT.
alists are the incorporators.
During the month of June 10000
ons of coal and 1000 tons of coke were
hipped from Fernie by the Crows
lest Pass Coal Company. Two mines
n Coal creek near Fernie are being
'orked and 400 men employed. This
ompany expects to ship 1000 tons a
ay by December. Another mine is
eing opened at Michel. In three
lonths 400 coke ovens will be in opera
on.
H. Williams, of Chelan, Wash. resi-
emit agent for James Mcmillan Of Min.
eapolis, and other owners of water
over in the Chelan river, says that
lint stock company is to be organized
hortly to build a -four mill on the
orth bank Of the Chelan. river, at the
lonth, and to operate a ferry over the
river in connection with it.
he capital stock of the company will
, $10,5OO.
Surveyor M. s. Darling, who has
large of the work on the big irrigat,
g canal under construction by Con- I
I'd brothers near Dupuyer, Mont. re-
'rts satisfactory progress on that un.
'rtaking. When completed it will be
le OF the biggest plants of the kind '
the west. About five and one-half
Hes of the canal have been finished. 7
aving some IL miles to be finished. T
ne canal is 20 feet wide at the bottom. c
Ill carry four feet of water, and will r
rigate about 100000 acres of land. a