Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-07-16
BUSINESS NEWS
Industry and Improvement in
the Northwest.

upon the construction of a new grain
warehouse at Mohler, Wash.
Grain dealers at Harrington,
Wash, estimate the wheat crop of
Lincoln county this year at 5000 600
bushels.
Tho census for Albany, Ore. Sc
cured by the directory company Is
hgured at 5,636.
Clackamas county, Oregon,
farm recently sold for $13.50O. II
comprised so acres.
Plans are being prepared for the
erection of a modern 6O-room brick
hotel, costing $4,000, at st. Maries
Idaho.
The contract for new brick
school building at Wapato, Wash.
has been let to F. S. Hutchins of
North Yakima for $4,000.
The new $4,000 water system at
Wenatchee, Wash, is nearing com
pletion. The pumping plant has
capacity of 100000 gallons a dav.
Brownsville, Ore, school board is
planning the erection of a new school
building to cost $4,000 to replace
that which was destroyed by fire last
week.
The first American congress of
good road builders convened in
Seattle this week and filled in the
entire week with discussions and or
ganization.
G. n. Hinchliff is removing mis-
flour mill at Elberton to a new loca-
ton adjoining the railroad tracks
BY the move he will increase his
available power from so to 1926
horsepower.
The Harvey Valley improvement
Company has cancelled it's Carey
lands near Burns, Ore, and about
$4,000 acres of land will be opened
for settlement at once.
The $4,000 bond issue of We
natchee, Wash, for municipal i'm
provements has been awarded to the
Harris Trust & Savings Bank of
Chicago, on a bid of $1,000.
A special election at Odessa,
Wash, to validate an Indebtedness
of $4,000 and to issue bonds to
cover improvements to the city water
system, carried unanimously.
Lincoln, a new county in Western
Montana, began it's official existence
July /, with Libby as county seat
The new county has a tax roll of
over $4,20O,0O0 and practically no
Indebtedness.
The Ferndale Creamery Company
of Astoria, has filed articles of IN
corporation. Capital stock is $15.-
600, and incorporators are w. S.
Carpenter, C. w. Barr and G. c. Full
ton
The ranchmen near Forest Grove,
Ore, are planning to drain Lousignot
Lake, and drain several hundred
acres of valuable swamp land. A
often has been dug already and will
soon b&completed'
Building permits at Eugene. Ore,
for the month of June were $114,-
$50, $4,000 more than that for the
month of May, and May surpassed
r April by $4,000. Since January
permits have been taken out aggre-
eating in value S3S6,000.
Il. Arrangements have been made for
the establishment of an experiment
station at Clagstone Junction, Idaho,
in Kootcnai county. Paul Clagstone
has presented the agricultural col
lege of the state with 200 acres of
land there for this purpose
Professor Anderson, acting presi-
dent of Whitman college, at Walla
Walla, has purchased large por-
ton of the townsite of Two Rivers,
and has an option on the rest. He
secured seven acres at $3.50 an acre,
and the option calls for 500 an acre
for the remaining III acres.
Bids for regarding and sidewalk
ing e main business street of We
natchee, Wash, were opened last
week and the contract will probably
be let to Allen & McKivor of Seattle
for $59,379. Bids for $4,000
worth of municipal bonds were open
4 ed July /, but no award has yet
been made.
The arrival of water in the irriga-
II tinn e,cta.., ;,,o4 of Granite