Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-29

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hight Commencing at the lower
end, which Is about SIX males above
Centerville, these men have worked
up, till now they are about half
done, and the hardest half done at
that. They saw off the logs, SO
break them loose, and with cant
hooks and pike poles start them
down the river, the banks Of which
are said to he strewed with them clear
to the mouth. As they cut loose
and disengsgs the top logs, the bot
tom ones come up, only in turn to
share the fate of those that were so
long above them These men have
done this work entirely unaided, and
propose to continue it unaided until
they finish it. Others have offered
help, but as it was not then required, :,
it has been hitherto rejected. The
country above this jam has been 90 far
an almost unknown land, there being
no way of getting into it. It is estab-
ished, however, that the river is navi-
gable for boats like the sternwheelers
running in an out Of this port twenty
five miles above the jam, or tuiirsy-
five miles from its mouth, and that
the country II flows through, as far
as known, has no superior for fer
tility under the sun. As timber
region it is thought by its settlers to
be unequalled, hundreds of trees
having six, eight and thousand feet
of beautiful lumber in them, and the
quantity uncut along the river banks
are not to be expressed short of thous-
ands of millions of feet. New set
tiers are constantly going in, part
icularly Norwegiaus eleven Of whom
have settled together on an island
above the jam. The barley, veget-
ables and fruit the valley is capable of
producing cannot be estimated, but
it may truly be stated that the largest
yield of any land under the sun can
be equalled, if Lot surpassed, in the
valley of the Stilliguamish. The
crops of this year have been grand,
and q score of steamers and schooners
will find their cargoes in its transpor-
tation before the present year is gone.
These men-Ledger, Jones and
Matthews-deserve full credit for
their public spirited effort for the re-
moval of this jam. The tools, provis-
ions, their time and labor are all free
ly given, without even expectation of
and not only this but they
have been unable to do anything on
their farms while working on the jam,
and have so lost a year than which
better one they may never have.
Three or four months more and the
work will be accomplished.