Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-11-05
BUSINESS NEWS
industry and Improvement

rs now engaged in erectin
grist mill at Hoaquiam. The min
VIII start with force of ten men
A tale plant is assured at sedro
w aiiey by the Washington Tale
Z" pany. Many articles will no
manufactured. A large force will no
required.
: work has begun on. the 600 600
gallon reinforced concrete reservoir
one and one-half miles west Of Forest
Grove, Ore. When completed it will
cost $4,000.
Inc King Hill extension Irriga-
uon Company, in the Snake river.
idaho, district, will expend $3.50, 900
10 get water on their land by the
summer of 1910.
A $4,000 courthouse is under con-
struction at St. Anthony. The citv
pledged $4,000 of this sum pro-
vided the county seat was voted to
st. Anthony.
N. W. Halsey & Co, of Chicago,
have bought 100000 worth of Ste
Vens County, Wash, refunding bonds
at $3.50 premium at 1-2 per cent
interest on 10 and 20 years.
The Wenatchee Canal Company,
Wenatchee, Wash, which owns the
high line ditch that runs for 40 miles
through the Wenatchee valley, pro-
poses to spend $500 for improve
ments this spring.
The Bitter Root Valley Irrigation
Company, Stevensville, Mont, has
awarded a contract to T. ]. White
for rs miles of ditch at a cost of
$250,000. The ditch will irrigate
$4,000 of the finest land in the val
ley.
The Calapooia Oil Company has
incorporated ]. c. Porter, w. L.
Rouse and E. NJ. Davis, incorpora-
tors. The capital stock is $4,000.
They propose to bore for oil near
Holly, Ore. Their principal office will
be at Brownsville.
Negotiations have been closed be-
tween the Pacific Coast Condensed
Milk Company and John Slater, of
Ferndale, for the purchase of a
seven-acre tract for a huge conden-
sery. to cost $125,000. The con-
struction of the plant will commence
soon.
Six fish hatcheries will be estab-
lished on Puget Sound, according to
the decision of the bureau of fish
cries of the departm ent of agricul-
ture. All of the sites have not been
fully decided upon yet. The last
congress set aside money for this
work.
The government has decided to
stock the Columbia river with sock
eye salmon; 100000 sockeye sal
mon eggs will be delivered at the
Bonneville hatchery, on the south
bank of the Columbia, from the
Alaska hatchery, within the next
thirty days
George A. Pidduck and d. Yule
have decided to secure site in Che
halls for a fax factory. They will
bring machinery and ample capital
to handle the business of the Che
halls people will give a bonus of
$4,000 for locating and putting it
In operation.
The Roman Stone & Manufacture
ing Company, of Colville, Wash, has
taken out a permit to build a three
story concrete brick hotel in the
county seat town, costing $4,000.
The enterprise is being promoted by
local men and the hotel will be COM
pleted by July l.
The Medford Brick Company has
secured the contract for the con-
struction of the Garnett-Corey Hard
ware Company's new wholesale bouse
and retail building, to be erected
on Main and Grape streets. Their
hid was the lowest, being s27,747
for building and $1,125.17 for base
ment.
Reductions in grain rates of about
I2 IL per cent from the interior to
tidewater went into effect on the
railroads of the Northwest on NO
vember l and will effect very large
saving to the wheat growers OF the
Inland Empire. The reduction was
.dered on the o. r. n. lines by
the Oregon Railroad Commission
and on the Washington railroads py
the commission of that state. on
the present years crop it is believed
/. saving of about 100000 will be
realized to growers by the lessened
freight rate.