, 1878-06-12

tncy W0ulu u u s'eahlcl was Auh''"S
regularly once week or once month
even, up the river.
The estimated freight for this year is
as follows.
Upper, 1875
Linden, 175
Rogers Store, 500
Settlers in Fernrlalc. 400
Lummi Reservation, 800
Total, 1900 tons
This does not include the freight that
would be furnished by the new sawmill
of West & Pitchtord, which might be
over 500 tons more this year. E. A.
Roge,s received and cent from his store
800 tons of freight III the past Z months.
steamer direct to the river on through
freight, would save three dollars per ton
or more Sver present means of handling
it.
With the new mill and the clearing
out OF the river, number OF new camps
for logging would Immediately spring
up, which would furnish still more
freight and also create local market
TOR producers. Capt. j. S. Hill, of the
Fanny Lake has offered to run his steam
er there regularly once a month as s"on
as they would guarantee him enough
freight to pay him for each trip. From
the above showing, it seems there would
be no trouble in their furnishing such
guarantee, or OF his getting the freight;
nor does there appear to be any reason
why these jams will not be removed this
season, AMI the whole river open to nav
igatiOn. Below Linden are IL number of
settlers ON the river bank, along Clark's
crossing that were visited. Metz Bros
cultivate ten acres and have 2j acres Of
semi-prairie. They NOW over each year
ut their upper place. John Metz, at bis
lower place cultivates 6 acres and mows
u tract of marshy prairie. These broth :
ers keep some nine or ten stands OF bees
that'do well. Ii. McCue has given up
logging and has taken up valuable
ranch, puts in ten acres this year, and
has 100 acres that can be improved at a
trivial expense. Jas. Lynch has acres
in vegetables and A in grass.
The Ferndale settlement was made
many years before the upper settlements,
although the great growlh ia within the
past few years. 1t will require special
visit to see all the people between Rng-
er's store and tile Lummi, when n detail
ed account of that region will be fur
nished. At present the Nootsack settle
ment offers more inducement to settlers
than anywhere else on the Sound. There
is no railroad land there. All the land
is open to settlement at $l.25 per acre
| There is less waste land there than in
any other river valley. The river runs
on an elevated ridge rather than in q
| canyon between mountains with narrow
valleys like many other streams. Some
suppose that ages ago the Frazier river
must have entered Belllngham Buy and
that the coal deposit there was caused
by the immense jams at its mouth.
This theory would account for those
wide alluvial deposits extending north
ward from that Bay to the Fraser river.
Ii the theory were true, then that great
river must have been constantly shifting
its mouth toward the northwest. 1t
would need n very careful examination
OF the country to determine the TACT.
Should il be so, then the Nootsack is of
comparatively recent origin, river that
has created itself since that region was
abandoned by the Fmsier At any rate
the bed of the Noolsack in tho times Of
overflow is carried by numLerless small
streams to the FRASER. This will be the
cause Of the most Of the trou e in diking
the Sumas district on the Frnsier, as il
will be- necessary to pump the overflow
from the Nootsack out ot the dked land
on the Frasicr An endeavor will he
made at an early day to visit he Fraser
and examine the extensive dikng
operations being carried on there by the
government, and lay the result before
the readers of the STAR
Perhaps nothing has done more to
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