The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-20
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


Dayton, Ore, has raised a $500 sub
sidy for -four mill.
Considerable corn is being planted
this year in the Palouse country.
Orchardists near Centralia say there
will be an immense crop of fruit this
year.
A new warehouse 65x140 feet is to be
built by the Pacific Sheet Metal Works
at Fairhaven.
Farmers in the western part of
Whitman county are now through with
their spring seeding.
The 1899 sugar-beet crop in the
Grand Ronde valley, Oregon, has been
about two-thirds planted.
Superintendent Crawford, of the Ka-
lama fish hatchery, marked 5000 young
chinooks at the hatchery recently.
lone, Oregon, woolgrowers who are
willing to contract this years clip are
allowed an advance of 6 cents pound.
1t is generally believed that the en-
tire crop of sweet cherries in TIE Pa
louise country, Wash, has been -ined.
Quite large number Of bluebacks
are in the Columbia. which is some
thing unusual so early in the season.
State Coal Mine Inspector G. f. Owen
says there is great scarcity of miners
in Washington. and in fact all over
the coast.
The Canadian Pacific railroad is
showing great enterprise in improving
the tourist attractions of the Rocky
mountains.
The Crows Nest Coal Company has
secured another important customer,
and is now shipping coke to the North
port smelter.
Farmers in Oregon say grain is in
poor shape, owing to continued cold
rains. Wheat is yellow, with small,
unhealthy stalk.
The Crows Nest Coal Company has
secured the contract to supply the
British fleet at Esquimalt with coal
for the present year.
Coral Novello Westwood, of Comox
road, B. c., has secured an American
patent for an improved means of col
umn spacing, line spacing and back
spacing on typewriter machines.
Grading is reported to be nearly com.
pleted on the extension of the Oregon
Rrailroad & Navigation from Dayton
to Covello, distance of thirteen miles
Ellensburg, Wash, is quite cream.
cry center, there being no less than six
creameries in operation in that vicin'
ity. They buy $4,000 gallons Of milk
daily.
Aberdeen sawmill owners are com
planning that vessels are not plenty for
lumber shipments, and that the stuff
ment.
The Columbia river packing season
opened without fight over the price
of fish. the first time for years. The
union price of cents a pound is paid
without murmur.
The president of the Oregon Rail
road & Navigation Company has asked
for permission to extend the surveyed
line from Mount Idaho to Buffalo
Hump, in Idaho.
The season in Choteau county, Mont.
is the most backward known by old
timers. The stock men are disposine
of their calves at almost any, price
and there is great loss in lambs. The
grass is not far enough ahead to fur
nish feed, and the prospects are blue
for cattle and sheep.
Jensen, the Astoria inventor of the
can-filling machine, the can-solderine
machine and the fish-net knitting ma
chine. has sold all his interest in his
patents. He will soon start ON a triI
around the world. He has no imme
diate family or near relatives, ant
probably has about 100000 cash.
d. C. COrbin is making a most lib
eral proposition to the farmers along
the Oregon Railway & Navigation rail
way who raise beets this year. They
are not only that he will furnish seet
and implements at offered factory
prices, but cost, and will take pay il
beets next fall for the seed with which
he supplies them, or to all parties fur
nishing a team he will furnish tn,
seed and put it in the ground for then
and take his pay in beets when tn,
crop is raised. His object in makini
the proposition is because he is desir
GUS that the seed is properly put il
the ground. Farmers should take ad
vantage of this offer and either writ,
or confer with him Immediately, as tn,
season is advancing rapidly.
The Pacific-American Fisheries Com
pany, of New Whatcom, has placed al
order for 100000 cans with the Pa
cific sheet metal works. They will ais,
soon be manufacturing 10000 per da!
at the Franco-American canne,y ant
$4,000 per day at the Friday Harbo
plant. The Puget Sound Saw Mill
Shingle Company will manufacture
Isl, 900 boxes for the fish company, an,
, Morrison Bros, of Ferndale, will maxi
$4,000. Manager Shubbe says the All
, erdeen Packing Company will begi,
making cans within a few days.
Destroyed by Tornado.
Manchester, Iowa, May l8.-Three pei
sons were killed and four are known t
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