The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-07-21
Pacific SIopers.


Adams, of Clarida, Page county, Iowa
His family is destitute.
Henry Rosenbrook, who las been in
Jail for the murder of McMellen, in
Curry county, was released last week on
So 900 bail. His bondsmen reside in
Roseburg where Rosenbrook is well ac-
acquainted
The Owyhee 10dka'acIe says: Great
hopes are entertained from the crushing
of the Mahogany rock, now i'll progress
at the Leonard MILL There are over
$50 tons, and it is believed that the
yield will proportiouately show up better
in bullion than any previous crushing.
At the celebration held at HilIsboro
on the 4th day OF July, 1876, a resolu-
ton was passed directing II. 3. Morgan,
chairman, to appoint committee of two
from each precinct III Washington
county, Oregon, to make arrangements
for a celebration to be held at Hillsboro
OH the Fourth of July, a. ID. 1877
The one hundredtn anniversary of
our American Independence was duly
and appropriately celebrated OH the
Siletz reservation. The Indians, as
we'll as the whites, seemed to be full of
the spirit of '76, and all appeared to
enjoy the OCCASION hugely.
The Forest Grove people are excited
about petition for road to the station.
\ petition AMI rcmonstrance have been
numerously signed and filed. Some
want straight road through the new
ground and others want it to follow the
old county road where it is solid and
hard.
In accordance with resolution passed
at meeting held Oh the Iillsboro
park, July 4th, Hon. T. r. Cornelius,
Hon. t. d. Humphreys, Rev. J. S.
Griffin, DR.. VIM. Geiger and Ira F..
Purdin. Jr., have been appointed COM
mittee to prepare history of Washing
ton county, Oregon, for publication.
To pick the hops of the Puyallup
valley this season, not less than one
Thousand hands will be required and
that is the great difficulty to be expert
eneed in the production Picking be-
gins about the middle OF September,
lasts two weeks, and cannot be post
poned any more than the cutting of hay
or grain, when ripe.
The Christian churches of Washing
ton county have made arrangements to
have county cooperation campmeet-
ing on.the Hillsbcro park grounds,
commencing on Friday and continuing
over the fifth Sabbath of July, 1876.
Rev. &. W. Richardson and Prot. T.
f. Campbell will be on land to minister
TO the OCCASION, besides other good
speakers.
The Yamhill Reporte, says: ssThere
is move on foot in this part of the
county to create joint stock company
for the purpose of putting steamboat
on the Yamhill river. The company is
to be composed OF all classes of men,
who find 1t necessary to provide some
means of protection against the oppres-
sions of our transportation monopoIies.
Freight to McMinville is Sc per ton now,
instead of So, the former price. Time
something was done.p
A gentleman who has just returned
from a two or three days trip through
portions of Marion and Claekamas
counties, reports to the Mercury that
crops are generally looking well. He
thinks The yield this season will be fully
up to the average if not above it judg-
ing from present indications. Some tall
grain and meadows had been tangled by
the late rains, but none so seriously
fallen but that it will come on all right
with a few days sunshine
The Washington Independent says:
Gaston's big ditch on Wapato lake is
now SO far completed as to take the
raging Tualatin in straight lire across
the bottoms on its new route, and thus
the lake of the back water
at it's outlet. Tie lake is now fast |
emptying itself, III fact the bottom is |
literally knocked ont of it. The ditch
is one mile and half i'll length, forty
feet wlde, ten feet deep in some places,
and being cut through heavy ash timber
nearly all the way, expense has been
large, and the outlay of coast has been
quite help TO the circulating medium
Of TIE neighburhood. The ditch is con-
sidered success.
The Aoalanche has still great hope
for the future OF War Eagle mountain.
It says: Her mines to-day, if honestly
worked, will be found to be rs product
i've as the richest of any section of the
Pacific coast. Let the gentlemen who
invest capital in their development see
10 it. and it is certainly for their interest
10 do SO, that their mines are controlled
BY competent superintendents and work.
ID economically, and faithfully in adj
1ition, and they viii find that their m
will be more than certain TO
De attended with the most profitable
.esults.
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