Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-12-03
BUSINESS NEWS
Industry and Improvement

The controlling interest in the
Pioneer Iron Works of Mason County
has been taken over by w. II. Knee
land.
The Northwest Conserving Com
pany of Tacoma are contemplating
the erection of $4,000 kraut plant
at Puyallup.
A man from Dallas, Texas, has
bought a four-acre peach orchard.
called the Albert Johnson, at Ash
land, Oregon, for $4,000 spot cash.
c. A. Mosely, an Iowa man. has
paid $4,000 for ten-acre apple or
chard at Hood River 1t Is about
three and one-half miles from town.
The total valuation of the property
in Yamhill county, Oregon, has been
placed at $14,527,513, nearly So
100000 more than the valuation of
1908.
The Sea Beach Packing Company,
| q Aberdeen, during the season Just
y closed, has put up 5000 cases of
/ clans, the most successful season in
he history of this organization
The state treasurer of Idaho, re
ports that the support of the Univer-
sity Of Idaho, the Blackfoot Insane
/ Asylum and the state penitentiary
since their establishment has cost 3d.
7O7,424.
An important strike in gold min
/ ing property has been made at
Grangeyille, Idaho, where a vein has
been uncovered which assays from
! $25 to $4,000 a ton. The syndicate
owing the mine will install a large
stamp mill at once,
The Klickitat & Simcoe Irrigation
Company, with a capital of $3.50, 1000,
! has filed articles of incorporation
for the purpose of irrigating 10000
J acres of high bench land on the Yak
ina Indian Reservation The life of
the company is placed at so years.
A new company will soon be in
Incorporated at Spokane for the manu-
facture of a reversible disk harrow,
The incorporation papers will call
for a cash capital of $4,000 Me-
Ianckton Mather, of the Northwest
ern Harvester Company, will be gen
eral manager
with the Panama canal half fin
| ished new estimate of the cost has
been figured. The original price of
the big ditch was fixed at $144,233,
35S, but the new figures put the
total cost at $375,201 900, about
double the first estimate Nearly
"a 900 men are at work on the canal.
The Big Kllckitat Development
Company has been organized, and Is
row at work over on Camas Prairie
liverting water from the Klickitat
river for irrigating purposes 1t is
| estimated that the total average of
! me Camas prairie covers approx
mately IS square miles, all of which
can be brought under cultivation.
The finest display of apples at the
National Apple Show, recently held at
Spokane, were grown by Thomson &
! Guthrie at Eagle Point, Oregon.
/ They were Of the Spitzenberg variety
aud took two prizes aggregating ST.
| 200. 1t Is reported that offers of
four and five dollars a box have
been received for the lot, but they
will probably be sent east
Local men of Spokane have incor-
porated the Peoples Portland Ce-
ment Company with a capitalization
Of 100000. The purposes of the
organization Is to develop lands, re-
move ores and manufacture cement.
I The incorporators are f. r. Clarke,
p. y. Clarke, II. A. Brossart, A. S.
Ford, Jno Vanderberger, Jno. d.
Trelease and Samuel |. Babcock.
4 party of engineers has arrived
in Madras, Oregon, from the upper
Deschutes and Crescent Lake region.
They found that the plan of securing
sufficient storage reservoir to fur
nlsh water for irrigating all the land
north of the Crooked river to Trout
creek IN COOK county, is entirely fea-
Isible Work viii be begun as soon
as the necessary preliminaries have
been gone through and permission
from the government obtained.