, 1866-08-17
WaIIuIa Correspondence.


Ed. SrATEsXAN We have had quite busy
time during the past week. As for steamers,
we have had the Yakima, Owyhss and Spray.
wallula and Lewiston are hurrying up their
freights. Lewiston Merchants are laying in
large stocks of goods. Snake river is getting
quite low, which causes great activity in steam
boating to that point. Two weeks more will
about let the present class Of boats out Of that
trade. After that goods will be hauled from
Wallula to Lewiston. Learned from Lewiston
merchant that trade has been quite brisk at
that place during the latter part of July and
fore part of August.
Rich discoveries at Warre1's, Florence and
Elk City have caused brisk trade in that di-
rection, and the Lolo Fork Trail being open
has enabled the Lewiston merchants to supply
Montana with large amount of goods. Lewis
ton now has bright future before her.
Wallula is full of goods for Blackfoot, which
are being rapidly hurried away on pack trains.
Qnite a number of pack trains have left, and a
large number are now "puttIng up cargo"
among which are the trains of Messrs. VIM.
Ford, Perry Kent Frank Johnson, Pat Mahoney
and John Hern, besides others do not know
the owners Of.
A large majority of the goods for BlackfOOt
now at WAllhla come direct from San Francisco,
and notice some new merchants among tie
shippers. This shows an improvement in caps
tai, permanent population, and an increase in
trade.
Added to all this activity, six hundred and
fifty head of cattle passed through Wallula last
Saturday, for Csrriboo, British Columbia, hsV-
ing been driven all the way from NarJsville,
California. They swan Snake river, at the
mouth, on Saturday afternoon, without lOosing
a hOOf The cattle belong to Jerome Harper and
]. H. Parsons. They are heavy cattle dealers
and have been engaged in driving cattle through
to British Columbia since 1860. They usually
pass through here about the last of July or lst
of August. They drive from six hundred to
q thousand head every year.
Since the passage through our section Of
country of the Military "tyees" notice Gov.
eminent has been very active pushing forward
supplies to the outposts. The Government
warehouse at this point is unable to hold all the
goods for Boise. Notwithstanding a constant
stream of goods is going out, the large (upper)
warehouse of the o. S. N. Co. has been rented
by Government. noticed yesterday that the
Government Agent was slowing away goods in
the Quartermaster's stable.
personal inspection Of the different routes
BY Generals Halleck, Steel and Ingalls, is the
cause of this activity and the concentration o
the Government goOdsto this point as the near.
est and best Government has fine, large
warehouse at this point forty feet by seventy.
FIVE, but its capacity is not enough to hold the
goods. When transportation inland is scarce
as it is now, from this point, quite a number o.
teams belonging to Grand R0nde valley are eu
gagged in the freighting business from this point
All 60 over the Blue mountains via the RuckIs
b Thomas Road.
The o. S. N. Cos arrangement Of steamers il
bringing large amount of freight to this pOin
the Yakima and OtOghss to and from Cello
and the Spray from here to Lewiston.
One of our "unta1ed citizens" took his life il
his own hands day before yesterday and passed
to "that bourne whence no traveller e'er re
turns" He had been nearly blind for som,
time, and becoming disgusted with eating sal
mon he could not see, he rushed from his coucl
of skins to the "chuck" and stabbed himsel
with knife several times, and, for the time
iouno Watery grave. CUhTUx.