Good Old Days

8 years ago

The Commoner

Sept. 27, 1889

F.M. Stason, proprietor of the Colfax foundry, destroyed by fire a week ago, has set a force of laborers to work rebuilding a larger and more substantial structure than the one destroyed on the same grounds. The enterprising proprietor proposed to let but a short time elapse before the foundry will be busy at work again.

Train loads of wheat pass through Colfax daily over the Moscow and Farmington branches of the O. R. & N. To look at these one would not suppose that there had been a "failure of crops" in the Palouse country, as has been reported.

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