, 1877-09-08

be started by tn. fl;m.rS themselves US
! Joint stock institution, or elsA s)m e rn
tcrprising man, acquainted with the bus
mess could put up the necessary build
ings, and procure tn" proper materials
SO rs to he ready for business next
spring. Many there desire to 90 into
the dairy business, and enough cows
would be procured so that onc could buy
all the milk for sale and make it II great
success. i market exists for Il great
many such factories Of cheese ut very re-
muneratiye rates on the Sound. At
present no effort is made even to supp y
the home demand.
Mr.. Oliver is now keeping quite Il
dairy of some sixteen COWS, ChurIng the
cream into butter, which he is packing
in brine, selling but little now; rcserv-
ing most Of it until winter. Has some
eight or ten casks ot butter already
packed away, each cask having some
two hundred or more pounds of butter
in it
Up the river the settlers are in prc'-
porous condition.
Gardner Goodrich IS getting ready to
put up new barn, by far the largest yet
erected on the river, His place is the
neatest and best conducted farm up the
river. When We were there, he was
digging potatoes, the yield was excel
lent. His garden, orchard and fields all
indicated careful farming.
Mr.. J. II. Perkins, living some five
mile above CentreviIIe has a fine loca-
ton: which in time will make good
business centre for the upper river, as
well as the country on Hatts Slough.
This is the natural point where the boom
should he constructed to catch and boom
out logs, when this business is eXten~
sively carried ON above here. Then by
running logging ditch back of marsh,
along the edge Of the high land, from Il
slough that empties into the river just
above his place; some fine hundred
acres of excellent open marsh is made
nearly ready for cultivation.
From this ditch something like lO0,-
0OO, 900 feet of lumber will have to come
out. 1t is expected this lumber will be
opened up, and hauling begin there next
year.
Between two and three miles above
this place the jam loggers are at work
cutting out the jam we regret not hay
ing time to visit them.
The road leaves the river bank for the
HIATT Slough settlement at Mr.. p, house.
The distance to the slough is only about
one half mile. The bridge across the
slough will be covered, it is expected,
this season. Thence there is wagon
road to the different points in the set
tlement.
MI. Long is very successfully carrying
on his logging camp, and having con-
tract for cutting dimension stuff, and
raising his own hay, is doing well.
Mr.. T. s. Adams, is gradually improv-
ing his place, besides attending to the
duties of telegraph operator OF the Port
Susan telegraph office. His location is
all that can be desired, part upland, the
rest bench land and tide marsh lie has
also a beautiful mill site, plenty Of water
and sufficient tall without dam; with
q dam a mill could bc constructed OF
power sufficient to do drge business
Plenty Of suitable timber is at hand and
it is only mile or less, down logging
slough to where the steamer coud take
the sawed lumber to market There IS
an excellent home market near ut hand.
Besides the lumber, this mill could grind
: the grain from the adjacent flats. Mr.
Adams is now getting ready to dam this
stream, so that by another year mill
may be started there sufficient to supply
the home demand tor lumber, sc.
, We understand there are other excel.
lent locations for water mills; one on
, Mr.. Finlason's place, where Munson s.
Finllson are logging, and another on
Mr. Maryn's place on tbs main river.
Mr.. Pearson has done large business
, at his Centreyillo store, and will always
find it an excellent stand for business.
} So far it has proved better than antici-