, 1876-10-06
PACIFIC SLOPE NEWS.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

The SnOhomish Fair was a success
in every particular.
Block 6 in Robinson's addition to
Seattle was sold last week for 800.
The fishery at Port Madison put
up 5000 boxes of smoked herring
last year.
Semiahmoo shipped 5000 bushels
of potatoes into British Columbia
last year.
The Panama on her last trip down
took $4,000 pounds of hops from New
Tacoma.
Hon. ]. P. Judson is canvassing
east of the mountains.
The farmers up-Sound are bring
ing new wheat into market.
Cation, of Walla Walla, and White,
of Seattle, have been stumping King
county for Judson.
We clip the following from an
exchange: Seabeck is situated on
the border of Seabeck bay. The
population of the place is about 400.
1t boasts of one store, two hotels and
four saloons, and is the liveliest place
of its size on the Sound. A 400
ton ship is building there-the larg-
est vessel ever constructed on the
coast. The Seabeck mill employs
from 80 to 100 men, and is doing
good business. Logging camps are
all busy. There is not a great deal
of farming land on Hoods canal, but
the world cannot beat it for timber.
The President Of the Centennial
announced awards on the 9th ult.,
among which were the following for
Washington Territory: VIM. Hume,
Eagle Cliff, canned salmon; w. U.
Bush, Olympia, cereals.
The farmers of Lewis and Cheha-
lis counties have sustained consid-
erable loss by the recent damp wealth
er, their wheat being mostly out in
the fields and spoiled by sprouting.
While in Portland recently Mr..
William Munks, of Fidalgo Island,
had some silver ore assayed that was
declared to be worth $2429 to the
ton.
A recent number OF the Bay City
(Michigan) Lumberman's Gazette
contained the following: "The emf
grafton of mill operatives and ma
chinists to the Pacific Slope still con
tinues, more particularly to Puget
Sound and Washington Territory;
both of which are rapidly coming
into prominence as mber-producing
regions"
We note among the delegates to
the Oregon State Grange from the
counties bordering on the Sound the
following: Island, Jerome Ely; King,
J. Horton and wife; Thurston, E.
Longmire.
The Salt Lake Herald thus speaks
of Puget Sound: "This great inland
sea extends from the center of West
ern Washington Territory far north
into the coal and lumber fields of
British Columbia, and opening into
the Pacific ocean by the broad and
grand Straits of Juan de Fuca, natu-
rally connects Washington Territory
and British Columbia and makes
their interests identical. Both coun.
tries are rich in coal; and the manu-
tacture and expectation of lumber,
aggregating about 600,000,O0O feet
annually, and worth at least $6,000,-
200. Puget Sound, or the southern
portion of this great inland sea, with
Its numerous bays, has about $500
Wlles of shore line, while the north
ern portion, or that bordering on
British Columbia, will not fall below
1,5O0 miles of shore line, the lands
along which are covered with dense
forests of the finest timber in the
world. No pen can begin to de-
scribe the wonderful harbor, which is
large enough to contain the combin-
ed fieets of every nation. =
OREGON.
The Daily Oregonian of the 29th
nit. contained the following: The
new government cutter is rapidly ap-
preaching the finishing touches.
From present indications the vessel
will be ready to make the trial trip
within two weeks.
The Oregon Steam Navigation
Co.'S new steamboat Almota, built at
Cello for the navigation of Snake
nver, was successfully launched on
the 9th ult. Her draft of water is
IA inches aft aud 10 inches forward,
and she will trim on about IA inches.