The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-05
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

outfits in shape for the near approach
ing harvest.
Seven ship spars, 100 feet long, have
just been loaded on three fiat cars at
Elma, Wash, and started for Balti-
more, Md.
Orlando Beck, fruit inspector of
Yakima county, Wash, is of the opin-
ion that the crop will fall below the
average this year.
Tacoma has set aprt tract of
waterfront land for factories, and
sends a representative east to interest
enterprises in locating there.
A crew of men near the summit of
the mountains of Rock creek, Polk
county, Oregon, are peeling about 100
cords of hemlock bark for the tannery
at Dallas.
1t is said work is being pushed on
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 a 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 -four mill
of the Washington Grain and Milling
Co., at Reardan, Wash, was set in OPP
GRAFTON for the first time last week,
everything starting off nicely.
The salmon pack of the Columbia
is likely to be at least $4,000 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
5 tined for Taku and Woosing.
e The potato crop of the Potlatch coun
try, Idaho, was saved by the recen
+ rain, which insures this country
! against any lack of spuds this fall
5 Last year the potato patches were neg
r lected, and for the first time potatoes
+. were shipped into the local market
n ]. r. Mckay of Miles City, Mont ha
;. shipped three carloads of horses east
y One car was composed of yearlings
d The shipping of yearlings and ever
e colts is growing more in favor yearly
Il The returns are quicker, risk is les
IS and range is preserved. There is les
trouble in marketing, also.
II Work at the Leno Lopez shearin
n corrals, at Chinook, Mont, has bee
y finished A total of S2,064 head G
lie sheep were shorn. The work of hal
g vesting the annual crop of hay is jus
Is starting. The crop will be fully a
large as last years, despite the fac
that very little irrigation has bee
J, done.
- A corporation known as the Centrs
Navigation Company, was recently o
=. ganized at Spokane for the purpose {
- constructing a railroad from the cit
= of Spokane to Vancouver by way {
l., Yakima, Cispus pass and Lewis rive
10 Senator Turner, F. H. Graves. l.
~ Peyton and several other Spokane cap
Ne talists are the incorporators.
\ During the month of June 1000
tons of coal and 1000 tons of coke wei
shipped from Fernie by the Crow
Nest Pass Coal Company. Two min'
is on Coal creek near Fernie are beir
OF worked and 400 men employed. TIL
d. company expects to ship 1000 tons
day by December. Another mine
Il being opened at Michel. In thr'
"a months 400 coke ovens will be in oper
III ton.
re H. Williams, of Chelan, Wash, res
dent agent for James Mcmillan of Mi
ry neapolis, and other owners of wat
IN power in the Chelan river, says that
joint stock company is to be organic
shortly to build -four mill on Il
,rs north bank of the Chelan river, at Il
ba month, and to operate ferry over Il
al Columbia river in connection with
h. The capital stock of the company w
nj be $10,500.
Surveyor M. S. Darling, who b
charge of the work on the big irrig;
ing canal under construction by CO
no rad brothers near Dupuyer, Mont,
ie- ports satisfactory progress on that u
10 dertaking. When completed it will
one of the biggest plants of the xii
in the west. About five and one-hi
miles of the canal have been fnisht
ay leaving some II miles to be finisht
ior The canal is % feet wide at the botto
ga will carry four feet of water, and W
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