The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-08-23
WILD IVES WAITS.

Owing to the plentiful supply of sal.
mon in portions of Washington waters
the price has dropped from Is; cents to
3 cents apiece. s54ss 3 #s ss 5s = 4
* Eight million pounds 81 ice are re-
CURED every week to pack the refriger-.
atOr cars that leave Omaha and South
Omaha loaded with perishable< merchan.
disc. - # - te2S. tt. =,1< 80
Lincoln county, Wash, which was
the banner wheat county o. the North
west in 1900, raising G,500,0O0 bushels
will this year produce from all acreage
of 900 acres about 100000 bushels
Of wheat. = %z3lA ) =,
More grain will be exported from
Washington this year in steamers than
ever before. It is estimated that steam
ers will carry away at least 100000 tons
of wheat during the current crop year,
as against $4,000 tons carried last sea-
son. - j--'- g. r
Bears are causing great havoc in
some sections of the Idaho sheep ranges,
as their usua! ,erly crop was destroyed
by the late frosts. Coyotes are also much
holder and some sheepmen are adding An
CORA goats to the hocks in the ratio OF
one goat to 100 sheep, as a protection.
The coyotes are TOO willy for the dogs.
Martin Flaherty ana Ben Won Har-
den Of South San Francisco had an ex-
citing encounter with a large cinnamon
bear in the mountains between San Gre
gori0 and Belmont and it is due to Fla
herty's cool-headedness and good marks
manship that the bear, and not Won Har-
den, is dead.
There is project on foot for the con-
sohdation into one powerful concern Of
all the oil interests Of Kern county, with
q view Of controlling the output of the
fields and so regulating the price as to
bring the producer fair compensation
on his product. The capital stock will
not be d les st than HHa $75,0O0,OO0 nor more
A blackfish thirty feet long and
weighing about fifteen tons became en-
tangled in an S-4O-web salmon net be-
longing to one of the Wadhams cannery
boats at Astoria, Or, and was drowned
without braking a single mesh. The fish
ermen worked all night getting loose from
the monster, had the cannery steamer tow.
It ashore, and secured over six barrels Of
oil from its liver alone.
Horticultural Commissioner o. s. Ri
ley of California says that the pear Or
chards of the San Joaquin valley would
soon he things of the past unless some
means could be devised to check the
ravages of disease known as pear
orchards of Kings and Fresno counties
were, affected: The blight is spread
ing through the Tulare county orchards
at an alarming rate 1t attacks the buds
first and then works backward to the
branch and trunk.
In sinking an arteslan we'll at Union,
Dr., many strange things have been
brought to the surface. Benes of various
descriptions have come up including
those belonging to some species of mas
todon. Sea shells that were deposited
there when Grande Ronde valley was
neck Of the sea are also in evidence. At
dfph of forty d feet 9s one e., foot tin in
struck and the we'll has also penetrated
fine vein of coal, besides going through a
gravel bed rich in concentrates.
Arrangements are being perfected as
rapidly as possible for the use of Beau
mont oil for fuel in all the locomotives Of
the Southern Pacific railroad system. 1t
operating on the divisions between New
Orleans and Houston with the new fuel.
and when this has been done the loco
motives running between Houston and
San Antonio will be likewise equipped.
The company is boring its own oil wells
that these wells will furnish more than
enough oil for all the locomotives on the
whole Southern Pacific system.
Carl Stoddard, rancher at Month
cedo, CAL, had thrilling adventure with
q rattlesnake. Wishing to replenish a
fire at night, he reached for what ap-
peared to be q stick of wood and was
about to put it into the stove when it
commenced to wriggle, and worse. to rat
tie. 1t was deadly rattlesnake Of the
black and very poisonous kind. The
snake coilec at his feet and in an instant
was ready for striking. 1t almost touched
him. While intently watching the snake
he slowly and almost imperceptibly
reached for hammer near by and killed
it by blow upon the head. The follow
ing morning he also killed the mate Of
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