Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-27
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Seattle by steamer, cents paid on the
wharf there.
Capitalists are looking for locations
at Spokane for wooden mill and a
mining drin factory.
At least 20 per cent of the farming
land in the Palouse country will be
summer fallowed this year.
Much of the alfalfa in Yakima coun-
ty, Wash, which was reported winter
killed, is showing up all right.
Trout and salmon are being caught
in large numbers in the irrigating
bitches of Kittitas county, Wash
The Northern Pacific corps of engin-
GERS have reached a point III their sur
vey within five miles of Starbuck
George Halves and other Astoria
men will operate the Chucanut cannery
at Fairhaven this year, under a lease.
Fred Lee, CT Mohler, Wash, says that
all the winter wheat in his part of the
county was killed and had to be re-
planted
There is a good outlook for fruit in
Hood river valley, Oregon, this spring.
There never was a finer prospect for
strawberries.
j. G. Lyons, of Cosmopolis, Wash,
has invented a machine to take the
gold out of placer deposits without the
use of water.
G. F. Klenstra, of Seattle, has leased
the creamery plant of the Montesano
Creamery Company for one year, with
the privilege of purchase.
Reports from all over the Yakima
valley agree that the strawberry plants
are badly frozen out, and in many
cases they are almost entirely killed
Joe Turner, of Dayton, has bought q
combined thresher and harvester tC
take care of his crop this year. This
makes the fourth machine of the kline
in this county, says the Chronicle.
The Skykomish river hatchery, or
Puget Sound, and the Willapa river
hatchery, on Willapa harbor, are ex
pected to be completed in time to catcI
part of this seasons run of fish.
The Puget Sound Saw and Shingl'
Mill Company, of Fairhaven, manufac
tured 100000 feet of clear siding anC
II, 100000 shingles during the month O
April. The plant is considered one O
the best on Puget Sound.
The Fairfield cheese factory resumed
operations Monday for the season. E
Robbins, the manager, anticipates tina
the factory will be well patronized b,
the farmers this year, as they are be
ginning TO realize the profits in tn
industry.
The Walla Walla penitentiary ha
manufactured 100000 grain sacks thi
year, but is unable to supply the de
mand. The price of sacks mas been re
duced from $54 to $3.50 per thousand
Charles Trask South Dakota cat
tie dealer, has decided not to buy cat
tie for eastern shipment at present
claiming thai the prices at which cat
tie are selling in eastern markets vii
not warrant his paying prevailing
eastern Oregon prices.
The Wire Nail & Steel Company, a
Everett, has placed orders for the i'm
mediate delivery of 5000 tons of wire
to arrive before the stock on hand ha.
been consumed. The mill has beer
running day and night for som,
months. Last month wages were in
creased 10 per cent.
superintendent Hubbard, of the
Clackamas hatchery, and Fish Cultur
lists Greenman, Berriam and Weissner
of Oregon, have been busy for the pas
eight weeks getting steelhead salmon
eggs at the temporary hatchery at the
falls of the Willamette. The season is
nearly closed. About 100000 eggs
have been secured. A shipment will
soon be made to the hatchery at Fort
Duluth, Mimi, which will hatch Ore
gon steelhead salmon this year.
At the N. H. Cottrell ranch, near
Pendleton, Oregon, there are in opera
ton 20 strengthening machines, pro
PEELED by six-horse power engine, and
the sheep are being turned out at the
rate of 1000 per day, or at the rate OF
100 to the machine. This is an in.
crease over the number a man could
turn out by the hand shearing method
but the gain is not so much in the
greater number-it is in the better
manner in which the fieeces come from
the sleeps back.