, 1876-12-02

Lummi Island they campcd there for the
night This island is opposite from the
Lummi Reservation, about one half mile
distant from its nearest boundary The
island is some five or six miles long 10y
three miles wide. Three settlers live on
the island, and quite a number ot Others
own land there. The island is very
rocky, with little good soil, and this in
small patches, say twenty or thirty acres
in each patch. Some two or three thou.
sand sheep are running on the island.
the men there being employed in tending
them. No women live there.
On Wednesday forenoon they left tins
island, going to Orcas Island, distant
about seven miles Passing around the
upper end OF Orcas Island, they travelled
some twenty miles that day, rowing all
the way, and stopped with an old triGnd
OF theirs, Mr.. Joseph Sweeney. who keeps
n store there. There are about thirty five
settlers on Orcas Island, and some very
nice ranches. The island contains about
eight thousand acres of land. There is
room for about fifty more settlers to OBJ
tain good agricultural land on the island
by going little 1ack from the shore
all the present settlers living near or on
the beach.
They stopped Wednesday night at the
house of Mr.. Sweeney, the only night
they stopped indoors on the trip. They
visited the lime kiln on the island, about
eight miles from the store, AT Bucks Bay;
this bay is some seven miles long, and
the kiln is near its head Robert Kanes
beng one of the owners They are run
ming eight men, have cooper's shop,
and make their own barrels out OF fir and
cedar bolts. The kiln is capable If turn
ing out about five hundred barrels OF
lime per week. They prepare about one
hundred per week. They also visited
Colonel Mays place, across the bay from
the kiln. 1t contains about ore hundred
and sixty acres of very fine bottom land,
nearly all under cultivation. He raises
hay, grain, vegetables, and has very
fine orchard, containing some two hun,
dred bearing fruit trees, with as fine ap-
Piles as they have ever ate in the country.
Left 0rcas Island Thursday afternoon,
travelling about twelve miles to Lopez
Island, where they visited u man by the
name OF Berry, who lately moved down
from Seattle. He had previously lived
on the island. He, with two of his
neighbors, have very fine places, formed
by draining a lake that covered some
four hundred or more acres of land. The
lake was about a mile and half from
the salt water. To drain it they cut |
ditch about a quarter of mile long, to
get the proper level; they then cut down
so the water from the lake would run
through the ditch, then ground.sluiced
the remainder down low enough to drain
all the water from the lake, leaving all
the ground fit for cultivation. The ditch
for some fifteen or twenty rods is about
sixteen feet deep, the rest of it aver
aging from two to five feet in depth. The
soil is black, sandy loan, very fertile
full of decayed shells, broken up fine like
those on a surf washed beach. There are
about twenty white families on the ISL
and. There is a school-house, with
school Of some thirty-tive scholars, kept
there some six months in the year. This
island is as large, or larger, than Orcas
Island, is only twenty-four miles from
Port Townsend, and some twenty-five
miles, or upwards from Sehome.
A Steamer runs regularly each week to
Sehome from Seattle, via Port Townsend,
stopping at these islands, as we'll as at
some of the mill ports on the west side
of the Sound. Mr.. Charles Wagner
there informed them that there was room
for good many settlers on Lopez Island
by going short distance back from the
beach, where they can obtain first. class
land, not very hard to clear; the soil
appearing to be the best on this of any
of the islands visited, and improving in
quality the farther it is situated from the
beach, the soil being most all alder bot
tom.
Camping on Lopez Island Thursday
night, they left Friday morning, Novem-
hap OAtb as, shair raturn t-;r, ,,noo;uS. l. o.