The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-01-28
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An assay once has been opened in
Rosehurg.
The tax levy in Josephine county
this year is 24 Fsr cent.
More than the average depth Of Wa
ter is reported on Co Bay bar.
il cherry tree in the yard OF John
Long in Umpqua Valley waE IN frll
bloom on New Years day.
Money orders Co the arnonnt Of $6,-
s72t l7.wcre iseued and ss s06T 30 paid
at the Oakland post Office in 1879
Ths bell for ale new school hpnFs ln
Dayeon arrived aak- i1a -daesinfkiea. lasf I
week and was hung up directly.
There are 75:000 bushels Of wheat
still in store at Independence. About
an equal amount is stored nc BnenA
Vista
There are ,019 volumes in tho Odd
Fellows library at Salem; 10 monthly
magazines are received and ~ news
papers.
4 The work of laying The gaa and
water mains in the State Capitol build
ing has been completed.
The California g. Oregon Stage Co.
has raised the fare bctween Roseburg
aud Rcdding from 10 cenGs - 10 cents
per mile.
One good thing tho late rains a 4
was 20 drown large numbers OF gophera
in the farming sections of this valley
says an exchange.
' The iron works at Oswego turn out
!. about 1000 tons of pig iron year,
p nearly all of which ID exported to San
: Francisco.
The new coal mine in Coos county
i being developed by Mr.. G. B. Jones y
said to promise to be equal in value TO
T. any il that carboniferous section.
b Nothing had been heard Of the
steamer Corde1io on last Saturday At
er Mansfield, which place she lett on the
day before Christmas for the Coquille.
Z From parties who have recently arriv-,
e. ell from Rogue River, We learn that
as the owners of the Scott mine have sunk
shaft ON their ledge; to the depth Of
% ,iu twelve feet, and that tho ledge at thia
II. depth was about the same width as
when FIRST discovered; that the ore
, a taken out is very rich, and tho proprie-
'er tors are sanguille that it will yield large
IL returns, says the jacksonville Sentinel.
s The English Company at Galice
I've creek have commenced operations, snc
.er have been at work about three weeks
led in the claim formerly owned by Thoaa
81 Co., bur have not yet made clean.
~ ~ up. They have now about I25 meu
On. employed, and we expect shortly tc
lint hear very iattering returns from TIM
ass @ section, saye the Sentinel.
The miners near jacksonville owing
oue IN, to the recent cold weather, were c0m
nalf PEELED to suspend operations. bnt ne tbs
alt weather has moderated considerably
,ln =. they are again at work livelier thar
,m. ever. Sam. Bowden and Wiiter Pre-
ave tontain are running two claima witt
hse hydraniic apparatus on the right hant
fork of jackson creek, and will n
j doubt go over considerable grount
last while the supply Of watercontinness
ne The Oregon Quartz Mill and Mininl
lie Company have, we are informed, sun
aim pended work for the present. ON th
REM Althouse ledge, but we have not learr
nv NV ed the cause OF the suspension, whic
The we hope is only temporary.
here Everything augurs well for an abui
Ling. tiant yield of the precious ore IN Soutl
! ] sc - ern Oregon the present Winter, ard |
COPY i consequence during the coming Suu
By mer money viii be more abundant she
70 than for many years past. which HI
+ = = been owing to . lack of water wit
we'll which to work the placer mines.
liam The money order business Of q
snen a'.: Oregon City post Office for the VI
| n.,ss 49, 1875 was SIS follows: Number Of Ords
after Issued, s65; amount. elss797 81;
] and on the same, SIlo 10; amount paid
Amy . orders, SO. .2s6 %
NOT On the night of the 18th, two pl
,ools. oners confined in the Benton ooug
jail escaped! Ono Stewart. q hi
Ms returned after escaping, and il Ion
eeting now without his companion.
ken q The town Of Mansfield has been
5 'epois @ corpOratsd about year and u i
"a Ss on time . cemetery has been graded +.
cleared, and streets made. There
yet several hundred dollars ii
" st q Il 4 ~
seplied NiE Easnkg 'SoNis ] nosses asoes e
J some inilesfrcpa Oregon City. II w aeAins
toos county. was cernrletcly destsoyed
Gre last week.
.;no 3 DR. Magere "a fsdrvairs whose pb
ii u r oil xsf 1oSn - 63ss, H.