Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-12-17
BUSINESS NEWS
Industry and Improvement

built at Ferndale near Freewater.
Ore.
Toledo is to have big fruit and
vegetable cannery in the near future
if rumors to that effect materialize.
Moclips is to have a $4,000 ma
tatorium the money having been sub
scribed by capitalists of Hoquiam
and Moclips.
A deal has just been closed where
by mining company of Baker City,
Ore, will erect a smelter in the
Snake river canyon.
The light and power plant at Mil
ton, Ore, is again in running order,
after being closed for nearly two
months for the purpose of installing
new machinery.
The new plant of the Idaho Har-
vester Company at Moscow, Idaho,
has been completed, and the COM
pany expects to turn out 800 com
bined harvesters annually.
The school census at Bandon. Ore,
shows an estimated population of
5000. Annexation of some plated
districts is being considered, and this
will add 1000 more to the popula-
ton.
| Over a score of oil companies are
incorporated and searching for oil
| in Malheur county, Ore, at present,
and the people there believe that it
will become the center of the great
est oil field in the west.
The industry of the Puyallup Val
Hey is marked by a large increase in
the number of fruit crates over last
year. Crates to the number of 49,
124 were received at headquarters
of the Fruit Growers Association.
Announcement has been made that
local and eastern capitalists have
completed arrangements for the con-
struction of the steel bridge across
the Chehalis river at Aberdeen. 1t
is estimated that the bridge will cost
$125,O00.
The -.oseburg citizens are going to
petition the city council for another
bond issue for more paving. Forty
thousand dollars being asked for
against $4,000 spent this year,
meaning more than twice the amount
of paving next year.
Independent interests have acquir-
ed large number of telephone com
continuous line from St. Paul to
Puget Sound with headquarters at
Tacoma as the western terminal is
soon to be established.
Secretary Ballinger, at Washing
ton, ID. c., has designated 140,830
acres of Wyoming as subject for dis
position under the enlarged home
stead law. This land is suitable only
for dry farming. Including this, the
total of acres in Wyoming open to
homesteaders is 12,286,000.
Maps of the reservoir site and
plans for the dam for the proposed
| Weston irrigation project of Weston
Ore, have been filed with the score
tary of state. The dam will be 100
feet long, 1000 feet wide at the
base and 210 feet high. 1t will cost
1000 and will irrigate $4,000
acres.
T. L. Crum, of Cliffs, has disposed
of five acre tract half mile from
the town, to Fred Tucker, former
resident of California, for ,,-..
Cliffs has been quiet for some time,
but of late has made many realty
deals of Importance and bids fair to
have several hundred inhabitants
! soon.
Eastern capitalists have bought all
the property of the Vulcan Iron
Works at Aberdeen, Wash, with the
exception of the water front property.
The new company intends to branch
out extensively in the jobbing bust
ness and will probably invest fully
half million in that city. The Vul-
can Iron Works will build a new fac
tory on lines of the one operated in
Seattle.
The Oregon State Threshermens'
Association, after two days session
at The Dalles last week, have ed
journed to meet at Albany, Oregon,
June 2 and 8, 1910. Several inter
esting and instructive talks were
given by prominent men, and on the
second evening the Threshermen
were guests of the Business Mems
Association at a banquet. Covers
were laid for 1926, Philip S. Bates
of Portland, being the POSTMASTER.
Transportation Notes
Reports are that the proposed As