Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-31
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Some wheat on Umatilla reservation is
over three feet high.
Wallowa county farmers are feeding
their surplus grain to hogs.
The Tekoa, Washington, flour mill is
supplying foreign markets with its pro-
duct.
During the past two weeks 1000 cattle
have been shipped from near Pomeroy,
Wash.
Three wool clips have just been sold at
North Yakima at 7@S l-2c, aggregating
$50, 900.
Farmers in the upper Willamette valley
are worried over the wholesale appearance
OF California cookie in their grain fields.
The first shipment of Texas cattle
for Montana RACES has arrived in Bill
ings, consisting Of two special trains.
All Of the grain sacks made in the Wash
ington penitentiary, 100000 in number,
have been sold, and applications are on file
for far more than can be manufactured
before harvest.
Colonel Wagner of the Fourth cavalry
is in North Yakima buying horses for the
Philippine campaign. He has only bought
five thus far, paying from $40 to SIS for
each gelding He wants 200 in all.
Thirteen of the leading cargo export
mills of Washington shipped 29,S9l JOY
feet of lumber during April, of which A.
100000 went foreign, Or nearly 100000
feet more than coastwise. The previous
months shipments from IA mills amount
ed to 30,026,036, showing slight increase
for the number of mills reporting.
After negotiations lasting for about four
months the Ellsbury logging railroad, COM
monty known as the Nickelplate, has been
transferred and sold to a firm of eastern
capitalists, and the road will now be ex-
tended and improved in order to reach a
large body of excellent timber lying about
20 miles east of Centralia.
Total receipts of wool at Pendleton, Ore.
from the 1899 clip have been to date $780,
600 pounds. From this time on the wool
will come in steadily and month later
the bulk will have arrived. The wool al
ready here has come from the country
south by team, with a portion received
from Huntington by rail. Some wool is
selling, and the prices range two cents I'M
der the figures of last year. Specific quo
tations in the wool market, especially here.
where the wools are of all chs:es, can hal d.
ly be given.
The fact that many large cattle ship
ments are being made from Washington
to the east and also the severe weather
of last winter having killed large num-
Der, has led stock men here to believe that
cattle famine will be had this year. Such
a scarcity at this time has not been known
here for years. While there are good
many yearlings in the valleys, the number
of good beef cattle is remarkably low,
and it is only by hard rustling that deal
ers are able to purchase enough to supply
the demand.
Professor Spillman has new gangplow
at work on the farm of the agricultural
college in Washington. This is new pat
ent, which, instead Of using the plowshare
and mouldboard, has four discs each of
which turns a furrow eight inches wide.
Professor Spillman is much pleased with
the new invention, which does excellent
work on the ground, and is better than a
pillow where the ground is hard. 1t is
feared that the pillow will not be a success
for general use in this country, for it will
not throw dirt up hill, and it is almost i'm
possible to find land where the dirt can
be thrown down hill in all places. The
disc pillow is said to be great success in
California, where it has been used for sew
eral years. When the regents were in ses-
sion they were shown the pillow at work,
and were delighted with it.