The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

Guilty of access, which will be over
come in due time"
Quartz edges of vast extent have
been found in several portions of
the Sound country, easy of access,
which yield, according to assays,
all the way from $40 to $50 per
ton. Extensive discoveries have re-
Gently been made at the headwaters
of the tributaries of the Snohomish
and Skagit rivers, and ifthe report
ed assays may be accepted as true,
which we have no reason to doubt,
they are exceedingly rich, and of
easy access, being only about sixty
miles distant from Seattle, over a
route where trail can be cut with
little difficulty. That some ofthese
mines are not already actively
worked seems surprise when it is
known how small yield per ton
will give good profit.
Tie Statesman says Mr.. Condor
has lately procured two more fine
specimens of fossil heads, both of
them very complete-real treasures
to geologist. One of these is en-
tirely new, and according to the sto-
ry which it tells to Mr.. Condor,
must have belonged in its day to
singular animal indeed. There is
no such animal alive now, nor has
there been for many centuries.
\ letter to the Benton Demo-
c1'tH, from Summer Lake valley,
says: "There are about 5 900 head
OF sheep and 1000 head of cattle
III Summer Lake valley, which is
entirely too much for so small a val
ley as this. Cattle are selling very
cheap; large three and tour-year
old steers are selling at from $40
to s28 per head. Hardly day
passes but finds some weary travel
er journeying to this region.'
a man by the name of Downs,
teamster, III the employ of Mr.. Ad.
Edgar, at the Cascades, was taken
with fit on Wednesday, while dri-
wing his team from the lower to the
upper landing, and fell from the
wagon to the ground, expiring al
most instantly. He was stranger
and had only been at work few
weeks.
At a grocery store in the neigh
borhood ofTacoma, w. T., the fol-
lowing is conspicuously postel:
"Notice ANY hoodlums found
prowling around this store after 10
O'Clock at night will be shot down
like dogs"
arrangements have been perfected
to rocurc the iron for the Pueblo
and Salt / axe Road, ard Il g pay
ment therefor to be secured by first
mortgage bonds of the company.
The work of the whole line will be
completed by October next.
Judge Prim. of Jackson county,
will shortly move his family to Sa-
lem to enable his children to avail
themselves of the superior educa-
tional facilities to be found at the
Capitol City.
There is a gold mine near Dear
Lodge City Montana Territory, call
ed the Beecher-Tilton Ledge. It
is new diggings, and if it proves as
rich as the original, the stock wilr
be sought after.
y statement that the order ap-
pointing traders in the Indian Agen-
cies on tie upper Missouri has been
suspended is true, ard the traders
stores are all closed.
The church recently organized on
| Spring Greek in Klickitat county,
W. T., with fifteen members, is get
ting along finely. They have also
organized a Sunday School.
The roads are now so bad that
stages have been withdrawn be-
tween Roseburg and Coos City.
Travel will now be confined to
horseback.
The late rains will make the
ground just little too soft for the
farmers of this valley. Plowiny is
stopped on all except ..igh and roll
ing lands:
The Grangers of Howell Prairie,
Marion county, have a fine hall,
for their meetings, nearly ready for
occupancy.
Mr. Shortridge, of Lane county,
raised some oats last season which
weigh bushel and half, OF so
pounds, to the bushel.
Coquille City on the 5th inst,
writes correspondent, was out of
soap, not bar to be had i'll the
place for love or mouey.
A gold bar weighing 1929 ounces,
and valued at $4,000, was the re-
suit of sixteen days run of the Y ir-
tue Mill in Baker county.
Parties at Marshfield possessing
ample means, are taking the initia-
tory steps towards building a scow
steamer for freighting purposes ON
Coos Bay.
There, were sold on the streets of
the Dalles, one day last week, five
good cows, three calves and two
two-year old steers, for the sum o1
| SO.
Messrs. Boise, Stapleton and Kip
pei, Capitol Commissioners, have
filed their official bonds with the
Secretary of State.
The wife OF DIR. Waldref, of Sill
yer City, Idaho, has fallen heir tt