The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-19
LEAvENwoRTH WASH FRIDAY, APRIL 49, 1918
MARKED INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
IN EASTERN WASHINGTON
General Revival Indicated-Confl-
dence in the Future FOrcasted
By Unusual Activity.

this activity has to do with construc-
ton of plants which will aid directly
in the conservation of food so strong
ly urged by the government. Build
ing of canneries, driers and plants
for the manufacture of potato flour
is being rushed to cars for the un-
usual production expected in all lines
this year.
The capacity of the Libby, McNeill
and Libby cannery at Yakima will
be doubled this season, so that it
will be equipped to handle 100000
cases of fruit. The company will
expend $150,00O for machinery and
additional equipment, and in addition
will build 20 modern bungalows for
the use of its employees.
The Lewiston Milling company,
which is reported to have secured
large government contract, is now
turning out over 25 carloads of pota
to flour at is plant at Yakima.
Frank Petrie of the cannery at
Charleston, Wash, has contracted for
machinery for 5-ton drier to care
for the surplus crops of that section.
He will pay SIS to $50 per ton for
tomatoes, and proportionate prices
for other crops.
The Utah-Idaho Beet Sugar COM
pany has just laid the cornerstone
of a new beet sugar factory at Sun
nyside, Wash. The plant will be
completed in time to care for this
seasons crop.
Walla Walla valley growers have
agreed to plant 400 acres of beets
for the Utah-Idaho company.
The Cottonwood Milling & Eleva
tor company of Cottonwood, Idaho,
has just let contract for the erec-
ton of a reinforced concrete grain
elevator and mill to cost $4,000.
The elevator will have storage ca
pacity of 10000 bushels.
The Moscow, Idaho, Farmers Union
has just let contract for $4,000
elevator which will have storage
capacity of $4,000 bushels. Work
on the new structure has been start
ed.
A plant designed to have maxi
mum output of 100000 apple boxes
annually is now being erected on
Beaver Creek IL miles northwest of
Deer Park, Wash. The plant will
cost $4,000.
The Walla Walla Warehouse and
Elevator company has let a contract
for the erection of a $4,000 con-
crete elevator with capacity of
100000 bushels.
The Waterville Union Grain COM
pany is planning the construction of
four. elevators, one with a capacity
of $4,000 bushels to be located at
Waterville, Wash, one with the same
capacity to be built at Withrow and
two of 10000 bushels capacity to be
built at Alstown.
The Farmers Elevator and Produce
company at Valleyford, Wash, has
been organized with a capital of $15,-
900 to erect grain elevator at that
place.
The new S00-barrel flour mill of
the F. M. Martin Grain and Milling
company of Cheney, now under con-
struction, will be ready in time to
grind the new wheat crop this year.
The S150,000 mill is of concrete and
heavy timebr and is of the latest
type In addition to the mill there
is an elevator of 115,000 bushels
capacity.
The plant of Grangeville Electric
Light and Power company is being
doubled at an expense of S125,000
The company's dam is in the Clear
water river eight miles southeast of
Grangeville, Idaho, and develops
power for nine towns on Camas
Prairie.
The Diamond Match company and
the Ohio Match company have each
purchased sites east of Spokane and
will begin the erection of big fac
tories at an early date.
Warren Arlington of Idaho Falls
has leased a site in Spokane for
the erection of flour mill of SIS
barrels daily capacity. Machinery
for the plant has been ordered.
The plant of the Washington Brick,
Lime and Sewer Pipe company at
Dishman which was destroyed by fire
last fall has been rebuilt and re-
sumed operations.
Construction of a $4,000 foundry
has been started east of Spokane
by the Rhodes Harvester company.