Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-07-08
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Wool receipts at Ontario, Ore, so far
this season have been 637, 900 pounds.
Malheur county, Ore, has a cattle
company which has 10000 cattle on the
ranges.
The Puget Sound oyster season, just
closed, resulted in the marketing OF
10000 baskets.
Last week sales of wool at Hunting
ton, Ore, amounted to $4,000 pounds
The price ranged from IL to 1917 cents
Already the hop buyers of Oregon are
becoming active. Big contract orders
are being placed with the growers, and
notwithstanding the crop outlook is
good, the price paid on such orders is
good.
The brickyard has resumed opera.
tons in Fairfield, Wash, after a two
weeks shut down for repairs to the
machinery. They are now turning out
10000 bricks per day, and the first kiln
has been burned.
During the latter part of last week
considerable wheat changed hands at
Walla Walla on the bulge in the mar.
ket. Buyers estimate that 10000
bushels were sold at SO cents for club
and SO cents for bluestem.
Hoquiam, Wash, shipped seven car.
goes, containing 2,317,000 feet of lum-
Der, in May; Aberdeen, twelve cargoes,
containing 3,652,OOO feet; Cosmopolis
two cargoes, containing $4,000 feet,
making total of twenty-one cargoes,
containing 6,533,OOO feet.
l.. A. Conn, of Vancouver, Wn., has
been awarded the contract for the cree
ton OF the government buildings at
Fort Stevens, Ore, at contract price
of about $4,000. Albany, Ore, has do
mated a site and gets $250,OO0 saw
mill, employing 500 men.
During the oyster planting season
just closed on Willapa harbor, Wash
ington, over 200 men were engaged in
longing in the various channels for
young growth for transferring to the
artificial beds. About 10000 baskets
were taken, and twenty-five sloops and
forty batteaus were employed.
The last weekly crop bulletin of the
Northern Pacific contained the follow
ing relative to Idaho, Washington and
Oregon: West of Pasco, weather cool
and prospects good; east of Pasco.
crops looking well. Along the Spokane
and Palouse branch crops are looking
fine, with good growing weather"
Eighteen of the leading cargo mills
of Washington shipped during May
| TX OQ1 Rdd foot ~ Nv
which surprising preponderance, or
l9,225,SS9 feet, went to foreign ports.
and it may be added, the record of for
eign clearances for June promise to
hold up to equally large figures
Articles Incorporating the North Am.
erican Fish & Fertilizing Company
are filed in Seattle. The capital stock
is $1,5OO,0OO. The company has secur-
ed the Robinson & Colt fertilizing plant
at Anacortes, which will be ultimately
enlarged to an annual capacity of 300,-
600 gallons Of fish oil and three hun
dred thousand tons of fertilizer.
The receipts of wheat at Tacoma for
the month of June are the largest in
! several years. June is always a very
light month. An average of over TWEEN
ty cars day has been received, the
total to date being $50 cars, which the
grain inspector predicts will reach $50
or 700 by the end of the month. Farm
ers are shipping to save storage, for
which contracts expire July 1st.
An agent who has been Investigate
ing the wool outlook in Utah, Idaho.
and Eastern Washington and Oregon,
says there is an enormous quantity of
wool to be shipped from those regions.
The quantity is not any larger, prob
ably, than it was last year." he says,
but the quality is much better. All
has been sold, and it brought top prices.
| There will be about 200 carloads of
wool from Idaho alone this season."
John Watts, who lives eight miles
southwest of McMinnyille, Ore, has
had an unusual experience with bees.
One year ago he hived a swarm in a
coal oil box. Within a period of nine
days recently five living swarms have
come out of that box. The average In
crease in bees is about two swarms a
season. Mr.. Watts has never known
so great an increase in his experience
with bees, and can find no one who has.
HOIdup Men in Tacoma.
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