Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-11-26
BUSINESS NEWS
Industry and Improvement

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Ephrata, Wash.
Brogden & Bonney are starting a
creamery at Puyallup, with caf1fcitY,
of 500 pounds a day.
The OF. Leavitt farm in Clackamas
county, Oregon, was sold last week
for $10,700 1t comprises 100 acres
near Molalla.
Palouse, Wash, will ship 20 car
loads of apples the present season.
The crop is not large, but the quality
is above the average
The Hoquiam salmon cannery
states that it is receiving 5000 fish
a day. The cannery and warehouses
are filled to overlooking.
Fall fishing at Astoria is about
over, but tn operating canneries will
probably continue to receive fish up
ill the close of November.
j. J. Williams, who lives near Mil
ton, Ore, harvested 1900 sacks of
onions from three acres. The yield
this year was a record breaker.
The county road building between
Seaside and Elk Creek, Ore, is well
covered with rock and screenings and
S approaching completion rapidly.
Etna, Wash, reports a second crop
of Strawberries last week Land there
is well adapted for growing apples
and sells at from $35 to $40 an acre.
The new Pythian building at Hills
boro, Ore, has been completed 1t
is of brick and has a pressed tile
front 1t is the largest hall in the
city.
plant for the manufacture of
worn-out land, will be constructed
at Candy by the Candy Canal Com
pany.
Fall crop planting is proceeding
rapidly in the vicinity of Harrisburg,
Ore, and there is a larger acreage
than usual, in spit of the unusual dry
ness.
1t is reported that the president
has approved the heavy fertilization
of Pearl Harbar, in Hawaii, and the
chief Notifications in the Philippines
will be reduced.
An acre of hill-grown grapes not
far from Eugene brought the grower
1925 last fall Last year the grapes
were nipped by frost, but were un-
touched this season.
F. w. Wallace, an apple grower
near McMinnville, Ore, has sold his
apples from half acre of land at
net profit of $3.50. He has about
fifteen acres in apples.
The Centralia cannery is making
a successful season. Its product
sold to the West & Slade grocery
company, has been contracted for by
he same house next season.
The Northwest Bridge Works, of
Portland, has been awarded the con-
tract for the building of the receiv-
ing ward at the Salem hospital for
the insane. The bid was $77,800.
Great Northern Engineers have
commenced work in the Lake Chelan
district for the development of So,
600 horsepower electrical energy
to be used ultimately in operation.
Property owners of Alfalfa, Wash,
are considering plans for securing
artesian water to irrigate the uplands
east of that city. A stock company
will be formed to put down a test
we'll 1000 feet deep.
The government reclamation serv-
Ice contemplates draining the tule
lakes in the vicinity of Klamath
Fails, retaining from water $4,000
acres. These lands would be of won
derful fertility, and the engineers be-
leve the plan is feasible.
The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk
Company has purchased the conden-
sery at Eyerson, Wash, from local
stockholders, for a consideration of
$4,000, and it is stated that i'm
HAC' @iiNAtS llhOlN ING an outlay Vi
: 10000 will be undertaken.
The Mosier Horticultural Society,
of Mosier, Ore, has passed strong
resolutions against the Lafean bill
which would change the size of APP
pie boxes. This change, it argues,
would demoralize the trade and
could do no good, as the present size
has come to be a standard.
A twenty-foot channel is now be-
ing dredged in the Columbia by the
government engineers from a short
distance below the railroad bridge
to the mouth of the Willamette. and
$4,000 appropriated by congress
will be used in further improving
the Columbia just below Vancouver.
The cannery at Sunnyside, Wash,
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