Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-11-19
BUSINESS NEWS
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENTS

mas spent 100000 on
improvements during the past wear
over $4,000 has baen inra...
IN new buildings in Cottage cro,.
mis- summer. Wv
J. II. Hamilton reports ba,iro
ssto"n 700 bushels of potatoes ~,
thfee-lourths of an acre near anna
idaho. '"'''p"'
sNtefh capitalists are negotiatin
lor the establishment of . loroo 49,,
ehsed milk factory at BeIlipgbam
A hospital will be erected at Wal.
: IOWA. Oregon, and a stock companv
Is being organized. The hosnitaI
will cost $4,000.
al meeting of the Klamath Wat
cruisers Association this week tbe
capital stock of the association wo,
increased from 100000 to Sc
100000.
The trustees of the state normal
school at Lewiston, Idaho, have de-
clded to call for bids for the con
struction of the new S25. OOO donas-
~tlc science and normal training build
ing.
The new wooden mill at PendIe-
ton, Oregon, will have its formal
opening as soon as the preparations
are complete When the plant gets
into full operation employment will
be furnished for so to 70 people.
The centenary of the first Ameri-
can settlement on the Pacific Coast
VIII be held at Astoria, in 1911, ami
plans are being discussed. The des-
cendants of John Jacob Astor will
be asked to participate
The Toppenish, Wash, city coun-
Gil has sold $4,000 worth of bonds
to the state at per cent. The pro-
ceeds will be used to install a water
system, the contract for which has
been let to the Northwest Bridge &
Power Company.
The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit
Growers Union has undertaken a
new departure at it's cannery at Puy-
allup and is putting up a quantity
of sauer kraut, with weineryursts,
as starter for engaging more extern
sively in the canning of vegetables.
Bellingham tideland owners are
considering a proposition for the or
ganization of an incorporation, to
which one-third of their holdings
will be turned over, to be used as an
inducement for the location of man
ufacturing industries upon the prop
critics.
The Linhaye Orchard Company, OF
Albany, Oregon, which plans to set
out 3,000-acre orchard in the nor
thern part of Linn county, will es-
tabish new townsite. 1t will prob
ably be called LinhaYen and be locat-
ed in the center of the colossal or
chard.
1ne Bonneville fish hatchery, the
largest salmon hatchery in the world
will be dedicated by Governor Ben
son Monday, November Is, State
Fish Warden McAllister and other
leading men of Oregon and Wash
ingtOn will take part in the cere-
monies incident to the opening.
Douglas county, Oregon, has pur-
chased new rock crusher and a
carload of corrugated iron culyert
pipe. This county is spending thou
sands of dollars this year in road i'm
provements, the most notable OF
which is the Myrtle Point stage road
Autos now make the trip from Rose
burg to Myrtle Point in eight hours
where formerly it took from II to
Is.
Tracklaying in the North Coast
wards at Alfalfa, Wash, has com
menced, this being the selected sup
nIy station for construction work east
and west. Nine cars of rails, several
cars of lumber and other material
with an Atlantic steam shovel OF
two and one-half yards per minute
capacity are already on the ground
Additional material is expected daily
At public auction of school lands
held in Vancouver, Wash, recently
s33.OOO worth of lands and improve
ments were sold The improvements
were paid for in cash, but the land'
were sold for 10 per cent down. th'
remainder to be paid in nine equa
navments at intervals of one year
One tract of land appraised at S9S
per acre before the electric line was
built to Orchards sold for more thal
500 per acre. Another tract ap
praised at $1,000 sold for s275o.
- The Mason County Fruitgrowers
Association has put up a pack valued
at about $4,000 at its cannery at ohei
ton. Wash, doubling the output OF