The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-10-19

tnat city. A grain drier to cost $4,000
was ordered installed at the public
grain elevator and a $4,000 baling
plant at Hanford street pier.
Wenatchee is in the midst of har
yesting the largest and finest crop
OF apples it has ever grown. Although
the peak has not been reached more
than 125 cars are moving out daily
The total shipments from the district
this season are $500 cars, of which
| 600, estimated. were soft fruit
company is being organized in
| Vancouver to take over and erect a
mill on the Walberg group Of mining
claims. located on Canyon creek, in
the northern part of Clarke county.
There is at present a large body of
ore in sight of free milling quality
and running in gold and copper.
| A big two days sale is to be con-
| Quoted by Aberdeen merchants soon
and the days will be known as Expo
sition days. Big bargains will be Of
fered on both OF these days in the
hope that large numbers of people
will be drawn from the outlying dis
tricts and from neighboring towns.
Sale of two more Seattle-built lum-
Der schooners was announced by the
Washington Shipping corporation at
Seattle, making four vessels sold by
this company to Norwegian interests
in two weeks. All four of the vessels
are on the ways at Seattle and the
first of them will be launched next
| month.
With the object in view OF securing
| deeper harbor. joint committee
OF the commercial organizations of
Aberdeen and Hoquiam are working
to provide data for congress to sub
stantiate the recommendation of the
United States engineers that congress
appropriate S450,000 to build dredge
for Grays Harbor.
The railroad recently built by the
Hercules Sandstone company to a new
quarry up the Skookumchuck river
from Tenino taps a rich bed of Ignite
coal. William Macarthur, of the stone
company, has discovered a method of
extracting dyes from the coal direc,
and is planning the organization of
company to develop the scheme.
The work of caring for the biggest
crop of prunes on record in the Zelda
and Lake Shore prune sections, in
Clarke county, is about completed. In
| the Lake Shore section the output
will be about 240O tons of dried
prunes. The prunes vary in size from
so to As to the pound and net the
grower from ca to rs cents pound.
Agitation to have the North Yakima
high school close that the students
may help relieve the labor shortage
and save the apple crop is on but
does not gain much ground with the
school board. Such action has been
taken by the Wenatchee school board
and many high school students at
Walla Walla are out to help with the
harvest.
Ten large wooden cases labeled
glass" containing 1000 quarts OF
bonded whisky and five barrels con.
tanning 500 quarts, valued at $4,000,
were confiscated. and Sam Cassimir,
said by the officers to have supplied
retail bootleggers in Tacoma since the
first of the year, was arrested in a
raid at Tacoma by Sheriff Robert
Longmire
In spite of the lack of precipitation
Walla Walla farmers are going ahead
with their fall seeding and some of
them have completed work. They
know the disadvantage of sowing grain
| in dust, but say it is better than to wait
till after a rain and then have cold
weather stop seeding altogether.
There have been few drier falls than
the present There has been but .002
| of an inch of rain since September 9.
The revival of shipbuilding on Grays
Harbor has been of immense value to
| the cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam
and has added many thousands of
dollars monthly to its payroll and the
| expenditures of many thousands more
| in the purchase of material. There
are building at the present time six
| steam and auxiliary schooners in
Aberdeen and three in Hoquiam. The
average cost of each vessel is about
$4,000. making a grand total of
nearly s1.35O000.
Organization of the Douglas Fir Ex-
ploitation & Export company was com
pleted at Seattle last week. 1t is the
biggest scheme for foreign market
development ever attempted by a
group of independent American manu-
/ facturers. the first export selling
agency to contemplate operating I'M
der government regulation, and is said
to follow out the government recon-
mendations for extensively placing
American-made goods abroad in COM
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