Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-09-03

care of $4,000 feet of lumber. The
size of the present mill will be more
than doubled, and the new plant will
have capacity of at least $4,000
feet of lumber per day.
A 40-room addition to the Wau-
coma hotel at Hood River has been
planned by the management In
CT eased business has made the build
ing imperative.
Good road districts are to be es-
tablished soon in the country about
| Weiser, Idaho, and on August 30 an
election will be held to select COM
lnissioners who are to act as super
yisors as well.
The North western Lumber Com
paDy is erecting a $4,000 concrete
Office building at Hoaquiam. The new
structure was necessitated because of
the Northern Pacific pre-empting the
lind of the present Office site.
| 1t is expected that work will be
Icommenced at Tillamook to straight
en- Hoquarton slough and deepen it
from the city to the bay, giving nine
! feet of water at lowest tide. This
would enable any vessel crossing the
bar to reach the city.
The newest town in Oregon is
ra 4 ic Ci n
tie eastern part of Linn county. 1t
| is fourteen miles northeast of Gates
The principle industry will probably
be mining, as gold discoveries there
are particularly promising.
Several thousand acres of land are
being reclaimed by drainage near
Marshfield on Coos Bay. Coquille
will also have extensive drainage
operations, which will bring into
market some rich farming soil, which
will sell for at least 500 an acre.
Fire at Bridewell station nine
miles from McMinnville, Ore, de-
stroyed a large barn, % head of
horses, a binder, several wagons and
| 100 tons of hay last week. The barn
was owned by R. w. Lancefeld. The
fire was apparently Of incendiary orr
gin
Portland men have recently pur-
chased $500 acres of timber land
near Brownsville, Ore, paying there
for $4,000.
The Puget Sound Products Com
pany has completed a new shingle
mill at Anacortes, with a capacity of
100000 shingles per day.
The Hartford Manufacturing Com
pany has purchased $4,000 worth OF
new machinery and equipment, which
will be installed in it's mill at Lake
Stevens, increasing the capacity by
40 per cent.
w. ]. Hightower & Son will erect
shingle mill three miles east OF
Sedro Woolley on the Puget Sound
& Mt. Baker Railway for the purpose
of cutting up tract of timber re-
Gently purchased.
The Monroe, Wash, comm ercial
club has rendered a site for a fur
njture factiry to j. c. Brundles, OF
Fairbault, Mimi, who contemplates
putting up a $4,000 plant on the
coast, to employ 25 people.
A. Mcclure has acquired the site
of the Bay shingle mill, recently
burned at Anacortes, and has COM
menced the erection of a combina-
ton mill capable of cutting 10000
feet of lumber and $4,000 shingles
daily.
With a total of 100000 feet
all previous records for cargo lum-
Der shipment from Grays Harbol
were broken last July by the local
mills. This advances the record by
a great jump of 100000 feet, says
the Montesano Vidette.
The extension of the Sumpter Val
ley Railroad is making rapid progress
and the citizens of Prairie City, Ore.
expect the road to reach them by
January 1. Next summer 1t is
thought the road will be built on tc
Susanville.