, 1879-09-04
Oregon Items.

Three thousand bushels of wheat a day
coming into Salem.
A visit to the State Fair Grounds. sbows r.
to be iourishing burg just now.
The Tidings publishes an interesting article
on the growth and prosperity of Ashland
Some of the large southern Oregon mining
companies are beginning preparations for the
Winters work.
A fine lead of the finest lime stone we have
ever seen anywhere has been discovered with.
in one mile of Lake View.
The editor Of the Cornelius Courant is On.
ing to get rich as an auctioneer Meantime
lie Will run paper for amusement.
Over 81, 800 were taken out of the old Mar.
TIN claim on Jackass creek, owned by Sturges
Mexico Co., during the run that closed re-
Gently.
The Coos Mail says: 1t is a curious fact
that while throughout the interior the late
sown wheat has been badly damaged bv rust.
no rust has appeared in this county.
Mr.. NJ. H. Harlow of Eugene while driving
header wagon was thrown out by one of the
wheels running against q gate post, which he
was passing through, and thereby thrown to
the ground, dislocating his shoulder
The Ashland Woolen Manufacturing Co.
are receiving large orders for goods, and IN
some instances from places heretofore un
known in their trade, and the mill is kent
running up to its full capacity.
Ashland Tidings says; A Chinaman work
ing below where Sheriff Bybee's quartz crush
ing was done last year, has cleaned up over
s., 600 in gold amalgam, which was lost from
the Bybee mine by poor machinery.
ais and vegetables in Lake County have been
devastated by frosts and drought, is wholly
untounded. In some portions of the county,
earlier sown wheat has been injured consider
ably, but in no alarming degree.
The heavy forests in the mountains about
Goose Lake Valley are on fire and the smoke
casts gloom over the whole country. If
these fires. are started wantonly or through
carelessness, the though,less or wanton dep
redators should be roughly dealt with.
The Yamhill Reporter says Harvest is
progressing finely. The Fall and Winter
wheat is turning out very well--from 90 to 30
bushels per acre-but the Spring wheat is
nearly all affected by the rust, especially the
red Spring; club not so bad. In many places
there is much straw, headers on the high cut
and then barely able to pass the straw
through. Harvesters are making sheaves
from six to eight feet long, and even more
| than that.
Union county Fair commences Wednesday,
Sept. "a.
The streams leading into the Upper Colum.
bia are very low.
The Harvest Queen, besides other freight,
lately took 453 tons OF grain from Wallua.
The field inside of Collins race track at
Walla Walla yielded 90 tons Of wholt hay On
- acres,
Canyon City can give good employment, 81
they say, to matchmaker, tailor, mlGner,
gunsmith, etc.
The Statesman says chat fruit in the neigh
borhood of Walla WalIa has been literally
scorched by the sun.
The steam ferry across the Columbia, on
the road from Walla Walla to Yakima, is now
in good running order.
The weight of Walla Walla wheat is great
er this year, as sacks that have heretofore
weighed lis to l2j lbs, now go up to l3O lbs.
Capt Stump has sold his steamboat, the
Northwest, to the o. S. N. Co. 1t has been
running on the Upper Columbia and Snake
rivers.
Tho sand banks near Wallula have lately
shifted so much that the road is improved
and the features of the country radically i'm
proved.
Mr.. A. Il. Yaryaa, a farmer residing III
Boise Valley, about seven miles below Boise,
had the misfortune on Wednesday last to lose
his dwelling and nearly all his household ell
fects by fire.
A herder for Wolinger & Helmendach,
named Dick, became paralyzed while herdihg
sheep in Bear Valley last week. He crawled
about four miles TO the road, where he was
found and taken to the Warm Springs.
Walla Walla county has, cash in territorial
fund, S2,3l7 65; cash in county fund.-
81, ,4SS II; cash to the credit OF schools
81, 7O6 %; undstributed school funds,
"a, O96 72; cash in road fund, 81. 059 80. Inc
total delinquency is only $3.50 y out OF a TO-
tai levy of Si5, 34l 06.
John Caviness, president of the Union
county Agricultural Society, informs the va
zette that he is putting the finishing touches
to the track He says the track was never T,l IN
better condition than it will be this Fall. we
hope, and expect to see the finest stable VI
horses this Fall that ever came together III
Oregon.
The Walla Wala Statesman says Inc
sand banks near the WalIa Walla nver' an.
this side Of Walula, arc changing base a
few wears ago where there were small Hlouh
tains of sand, the solid ground IS bare; anu
right in the main wagon road, where the pun
ing was very difficult, teams walk now WIN
comparative case. In one place where tho
sand was deep and heavy, there IS now qulto
a hole. In short, the wagon road through
the sand, approaching Wallula, mas oe'H