The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-12
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


5000 to 10000 bushels of prunes.
A Lorstine, Wallowa county, Or, cit
izen has sold his new hay crop of 100
tons for s4.25 per ton.
A patent for a combined cane and
umbrella has been issued to John X.
Nagel. of Everett, Wash.
The manager of the Everett paper
mill says that the reported strike at
that institution is not imminent.
Thus far the salmon catch at all
points above the Cascades has been
much lighter than it was last year.
r. T. Murdoch of Chelan Falls has
completed arrangements for putting in
a Touring mill at Wenatchee, Wash.
This is the first season in the history
has been no fiuctuation in prices of
shingles.
During the month of July 144 cars of
grain were inspected by Deputy State
Grain Inspector S. ]. Goodsell, station
ed at Spokane.
About 2400 of the Josph Hirschberg
wethers, at Box Elder, Mont, 2 to
years old, were purchased at $2.75 for
rs and SO. 25 for IS and As.
The Independent, the largest tugboat
ever built on the Snohomish river, was
recently launched from the yards of
the Rice Lumber Company.
A gang of fifty Japanese are at work
on the Colfax-Moscow branch of the o.
R. & N, replacing the old iron rails
with fifty-six pound steel rails.
A Frenchman named Rancourt has
discovered on his ranch, about four
miles below Toledo, Or, what he pro-
nounces to be crude petroleum.
Ed Holloway, Morrow county far
mer, has 105 acres sown in flax, and
thinks the culture of that fibre is the
coming industry of eastern Oregon.
Over 1000 sheep were shipped from
Wenatchee, Wash, recently by Edward
Swift to Chicago. Another band of
1000 will be shipped next week by Mr..
Swift to the same Chicago firm.
The Apex roller mills at Garfield,
Wash, are closed while number of
repairs are being made and improve
ments added. A warehouse with ca
pacity of As, 900 bushels is being erected
besides internal improvements.
1t is the judgment of men who have
seen the growing fields in Washington
Oregon and California that this yeaI
the Pacific coast will produce heav
Ter crop of hops than last year. will
6 Washington in the lead in yield pei
acre
, Edwin Weaver, of Myrtle Creek, Ore.
t sold 100000 pounds of dried prunes t.
Mr.. Segur, of Eugene, at "a cents ne
per pound cash, to be packed in gu
pound boxes, delivered at the railroad
station. This is the first sale of thi
years crop.
, Work on the new farmers ware
house at Oakesdale, Wash, has com
menced and the cleaning machiner.
and chop mill will soon be here, hay
r, ing been ordered several weeks age
. The new warehouse will be 70x1OO fee
v and is being built at the end of anothe
. house of the same dimensions, ais
owned by the company.
Manager Bolster has received assul
s ance from the railroads that the pa:
n senger rates to the Spokane Industria
Exposition this year will be PRACTICAL
t the same as they were last year. Tn
= rate will be cents a mile each wa!
f. or a single fare for the round trip. Tn
l. same reduction will apply also to chi
dren.
p There is little activity in hops
lie Yakima valley, though the prices al
n firm and strengthening steadily. I'll
warm weather now experienced
bringing the hops out in good shat
and the average yield is expected
- probably about the same as last yea
= AS to prices, they are an indefnit
, quantity.
IS Ilwaco, Wash, fishermen are organi
= ing company to operate co-operati'
!, cannery. The capital stock is to
4 $4,000, with shares at $50 each, ar
n. no one person to hold more than
,t shares. Three thousand dollars is &
" ready subscribed, and the old Elmo
or cannery building at Ilwaco is said
have been purchased. Since the Abe
deem Packing Company's cannery bur
ed down, over a year ago, most of Il
ia Bakers Day fish have gone to Astoria