Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-19
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Stayton has broom factory. Six
persons are employed.
About forty men are now employed
at the Blue Canyon coal mine, on Lake
Whatcom.
There is considerable prospecting for
coal going on in the hills surrounding
Deming, Wash.
Andrew H. Smith, of Van Wyck, has
been appointed manager of the What
com creamery.
The repairs to the bridge across the
Nooksack at Everson will be completed
about the first of May.
1t is said that there are 200 Portland
hoboes making their way to Astoria.
They expect to live easy during the
fishing season.
F. G. Damn, Seattle linotype oper.
ator, has Invented a typesetting ma.
chine which he has sold to the Merger.
thaler Company.
At meeting of the Columbia River
Fishermen's Protective Union the
price of salmon for the ensuing season
was set at cents pound.
The Chinese in Portland are fighting
the poll tax law for the reason that in
the past they have been imposed upon
by unauthorized parties who collected
the tax.
The Rossldnd Miner states that 1t
will not be long before 1000 tons of ore
per day are being shipped from the diff.
ferent mines in and around Rossland
to the smelter there.
There Is complaint from all parts OF
Kittitas valley, Wash, In regard to
the freezing of clover and alfalfa. The
loss will be heavier than was. at first
supposed, and much replanting will be
necessary.
Rabels mill at Stanwood, Wash
made a cut during March that comes
pretty near being record, turning out
2,046,000 shingles in the twenty-five
working days, an average Of over 80,
600 per day for the month.
The state board of audit and control
of Washington, at their last meeting
reduced the price of penitentiary made
grain sacks to $5.25 per 100. This
will make a saving to the farmers Of
Eastern Washington Of $4,000 year
Six hundred men are employed in
the construction work of the Seven
Devils railroad. Work has been be
gun on the first tunnel near Hunting
ton. This tunnel will be $50 feet In
length. Men are in demand for this
work.
The indications for a large grain
crop in klamath county, Oregon, were
never more favorable than at the pres
emit time. 1t is claimed that nearly 6
half more acreage will be put in this
spring, and the abundance of moisture
which has fallen this spring will bring
klamath to the front as one of the best
farming counties in Oregon.
G. e. Whitney & Co., of San Fran
CISCO have contracted for the entire
output of the Coos Bay Creamery
Company, of Oregon. The output oil
butter from now to August LIST will be
canned for the Alaska trade, and it is
estimated that the amount manufac
tured up to August LIST will exceed
100000 pounds. The number of cheese
contracted for is 1900, and the net
weight will be about 5000 pounds.
All the logging camps on Gray's har.
Dor are running full crews, save few
on fresh water streams. The purchase
of new engines still goes on, and one
can see new one being sledded almost
all the time. The camp of Paulson
| Bros, on the Hoquiam river, will cut
| 100000 feet of fir during the next
year, having cut 100000 feet last
year. A great many think that the fir
logging will be overdone and that the
prices will fall.
1t is doubtful If the farmers of Wash.
ington are aware of the amount OF
| money sent out of the state for the
purchase of the small white navy bean.
The farmers of California supply the
people of this state with about 10000
worth of them annually. In that state
they net the grower $40 ton. Now
there is no doubt the farmers of Wash
| ing.on can grow cleaner and better
beans than can be raised anywhere on
the coast, and there Is no reason why
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