, 1874-05-14
SnLhomish Letter.
SNoHoMIsH RIVER, May

SNoHoM1sH RIVER, May 6.
ED. DISPATCH: Since my last, "Tim
on its ETHEREAL wing" flies as usual OF
Snohomish; save once in while som,
item may chance to come in the way.
FARMING,
as it is called, is progressing exceeding
ly well, and the small crops look wei
everywhere. AS have often written
farms here would be called patches o.
gardens elsewhere. With the exception
of Smiths. at Lowell, when finished
fencing, grubLing, ETC., contains ove1
one hundred acres, no other on the riv.
er or its tributaries contains over fifty
acres. The crop, as usual, is hay. OATS
potatoes, turnips, beets and cabbages.
LOGGING,
the principal thing so long carried on
on the river, without profit. continues,
and the following is as near correct as
to the number of men employed and the
amounts of logs put into the water, rea-
dy to be transported to the mills daily
Mills & Richardson, 18 men, 81 M. feet,
location Ebey Slough; G. Allen, 12 men,
Is M. it, Ebey Slough; Baker & White.
IA men, 20 NJ. Ebey Slough; Nj. T.
Wight, 10 men, 1s NJ, Ebey Slough
VIM. Meehan, 8 men, Is NJ, Ebey
Slough; McDougal Bros, men, Is NJ,
old river; Eugene d. Smith. Camp No.
l, Ia men, 20 NJ; Camp No. 2, IA men,
20 NJ. Smith works some or 8 men,
improving and cultivating his farm. He
is one of the proprietors of the town OF
Lowell, one of the firm of Jackson &
Co., merchants; owns the saloon and
hotel, and is the heaviest logger on the
river. The next logger above is old
Clark Ferguson, at Ca6yville, who
works men, puts in Is NJ, daily; and
above, near the mouth of the Skyko-
mish, is E. e. Ferguson; John and San.
dy Ross works are next, 8 men, Is NJ;
then Roberts, 12 men, 16 to 20 NJ; then
the Ellwells on the Snoqualmie, 10 men,
Is M, Job Field aid Buchanan, 10 men.
Is to 20 NJ, location Pill Chuck.
Now have given al 1.-The ogarithm
and the farming news that I know of,
I'll tell you other news:
The County Commissioners are in
session and road work will soon COM
mence; and it is to be hoped that more
important and useful expenditures for
the general good will be made of the tax
levied for that purpose than has been
heretofore, and that the labor will be
applied for the general benefit instead
of individual. This, however. will re-
main more or less with the road oversee
er. While am on this subject, will
say that the County Commissioners re
ceived the report of the viewers of the
proposed road from Cadyville to Seattle,
and laid the matter over until the next
session, believing that the King County
Commissioners would also act with ths m
and put the much needed road through
without delay.
OUR COUNTY
has some 81, 400 in the Treasury. The
County tax amounts to 1000, and only
one salaried officer in the County, that
being the Superintedant of Public
Schools, who gets 800 per annum. The
County can boast of having no public
improvements, no school houses, and
atpresent no school running, no church.
es, 2 paupers, have had but two deaths
that incurred public expense, and only
one culprit or murderer to arrest, and
the county scrip only brings so to 80
cents on the dollar. cash or coin. It al
so boasts of having more agricultural
lands. more accessible timber, better
fisheries, more town-sites, and more
candidates for Sheriff than any other
County in the Territory.
Mrs. Miller, the photographer, is fit
ting up gallery at Lowell.
We had two steamboat arrivals this
week-the Black Diamond on a special
trip and the ever welcomed Zephyr,
dressed in new apparal, entirely over
hauled, moving up the Snohomish like
thing of life.
was at Cadyville few days ago.
The town looks dull and resembles an
old deserted mining camp. In fact, bus
mess is dull at every point on the river
Several hodses are building at Lowell