The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
TERRITORIAL.

A grst mill has been recently built on FL
dalgO Island.
Capt Charles Willoughby has been con-
firmed Indian agent at Neah Bay.
A salmon trout weighing 1S pounds was
caught in the bay at Seattle the other day.
The Victoria people want daily mail SER
vice between the Sound and their city.
Washington Territory is expecting large
increase of population in the spring from
Canada.
The Lewis county agricultural society has
finally located county fair grounds near Che
halls station.
A large saw MILL big warehouse and an
Alden fruit drying establishment will be
built this season al Hllsboro.
The value of the metals produced in Wash
ington Territory during 1877, was xgl, ,226, an
incsase of $4,000 over the product of the
previous year.
The affairs of the county treasurer of Pierce
county, W. T., are reported to be in very
bad condition, and deficiency of nearly S10,-
600 is reported.
Lodges of odd Fellows will shortly be in
stituted at Tacoma, Snohomish City and Port
Gamble. The order in Washington Territory
is in Il very tlourishing condition.
The prospects for the fishing business on
the Columbia river this season are not in the
least encouraging Contracts cannot be
made at present at more than 81 40 to 145
per dozen, even less; and thousands of cans
are held in the market now, for which not
more than Sl0O per dozen, S4.0O per case, is
offered.
According to the Port Townsend Press there
are now 20 families living on Fidalgo island,
which boasts some eXcellant agricultural
land. Forty more families are expected to
arrive from the East in the coming spring
grist-mll and furniture factory, run by
water power, have recently been established
there by one of the most enterprising citizens
The Transcript reports that negotiations
are now pending which encourage the friends
Of the Olympia railroad to consider success
almost certain The board of directors at Il
meeting last week adopted resolutions order
ing survey from Tenino or near there to the
Chchalis river and the preparation Of esti-
mates of cost Ties for the road from Olym-
pia to Tenino are strung along the line.
A party of seventeen men, in the employ Of
the North Pacific Trading and Packing Com
pany, were passengers on the steamship Cal
ifornia for Alaska. They are going to start
a salmon fishery and canning establishment
one hundred miles southeast of Sitka. The
necessary machinery and supplies including
n tons of tin. formed part of the ships
freight. The party was composed Of carpen-
tiers, timers, blacksmiths, machinsts, etc. A
reinforcement of fishermen will soon follow.
A bill is before Congress introduced into
the House of Representatives by j. p. Kidder,
delegate from Dakota, providing for the cleo
tion by the people of the Territories of the
following officers: One governor, one secre-
tary, one chief justice and two associate JUS
tices, one superintendent of public instruc-
tion, and one commissioner OF immigration.
section of the bill leaves the manner and
time of the election of these officers, and the
fixing of their term of service to be provided
for by the legislatures of the Territories.
Dr. Blalock has in Umatilla county, Oregon,
says the Walla Nalla Union, under fence, in
one field, and in wheat over 2,OOO acres of land
He was also 600 acres which will be sown
with oats this season. The land is all within
sight of Walla Walla city. With a favorable
season, and we have no others in this valley,
this field of wheat will yield an average of u
bushels to the acre, total crop Of 5000 bush
els. This wheat field of Dr. Blalock's is the
largest field east of the Cascades, If not the
largest on the Pacific Coast out of California.
Hon. VIM. b. Kelly, member Of the Wash
ington Territory legislature from Pierce
and was so well pleased with the prospects Of
the Peshastin quartz mines, that he has con-
cluded to invest in them. He will leave for
the mines about the middle of this month.
There are several ledges there, ON one OF
which miner obtained 5000 last season.
The one in which he Is Interested, the Bowie
n Goodwin, extends for two or three miles,
Is from - To Is inches in width, and essays
from 500 to $1,000 per ton, free gold. The
company will Immediately sink u shaft, and
during the coming summer expect to put in
five STAMP mill