Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-05-26
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

An Everett paper mill has receives
an order from Manila for paper.
East Clallam is shipping salmon t
Seattle by steamer, 8 cents paid on tn
wharf there.
Capitalists are looking for locations
at Spokane for wooden mill and ;
mining drill factory.
| At least 20 per cent of the farmin,
land in the Palouse country will b.
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 irrigatine
bitches of Kittitas county, Wash.
The Northern Pacific corps of engin
GERS have reached point in 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, of 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.
q. 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 a
combined thresher and harvester to
take care of his crop this year. This
makes the fourth machine of the kind
in this county, says the Chronicle.
The Skykomish river hatchery. on
Puget Sound, and the Willapa river
hatchery, on Willapa harbor, are ex-
pected to be completed in time to catch
part of this seasons run of fish.
The Puget Sound Saw and Single
Mill Company, of Fairhaven, manufac-
tured 100000 feet of clear siding and
shingles during the month of
April. The plant is considered one of
the best on Puget Sound.
The Fairfield cheese factory resumed
operations Monday for the season. E.
the manager, anticipates that
the factory will be well patronized by
the farmers this year, as they are be-
TO realize the profits in the
industry.
Charles Trask, a South Dakota cat
tie dealer, has decided not to buy cat |
tie for eastern shipment at present.
claiming that the prices at which cat |
tie are selling in eastern markets Will |
not warrant his paying prevailing
eastern Oregon prices.
The Walla Walla penitentiary has
100000 grain sacks this
year, but is unable to supply the de-
nand. The price of sacks has been re-
iuced from $54 to $3.50 per thousand,
}. G. Lyons, of Cosmopolis. Wash.
has invented a machine to take the
sold out of placer deposits without the
Use of water.
The Wire Nail & Steel Company. at
everett, has placed orders for the i'm
Mediate delivery of 5000 tons of wire,
0 arrive before the stock On hand has
'een consumed. The mill has been
unning day and night for some
months. Last month wages were in
reased 10 per cent.
superintendent Hubbard, of the
'iackamas hatchery, and Fish Cultur-
Jus FREEMAN, Berriam and Weissner,
oregon, have been busy for the past
light weeks getting steelhead salmon
ggs at the temporary hatchery at the !
Ais OF the Willamette. The season is
early closed. About $780, 900 eggs
ave been secured. A shipment will ,
BON be made to the hatchery at Fort
'uiuth, Mimi, which will hatch Ore ,
on Steelhead salmon thic vaor