The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon.

Wheat at Oregon City is still selling at SIS
cents; potatoes, SO cents; shorts $27 5O@30
It is claimed that mail service in Polk
county is not certain or prompt.
Wheat is worth 72A cents at Smithfeld,
and about TIL at Dayton, not including the
sacks.
A saw mill is needed at Dallas There is
large and constantly growing demand for
| lumber.
Mr.. T. Fl. Todd, who lives near Forest
Grove, recently got 1875 bushels of wheat
| from IS acres.
MIR. J. B. V. Butler Of Monmouth, has
been dangerously sick for some time and
| his recovery is doubtful.
D. M. Guthrie of Polk county, raised this
year thirty-six bushels of wheat for every
pushel of seed sown.
A new church building at Phoenix, belong
| ing to the NJ. E. Church South, will be dedi-
Gated in October.
| Henry Eigenbrod, the cook of an Indepen-
dence hotel, has fallen heir to $40. 600 by the
death of an aunt at New York.
VIM. Phellphott, employed on Jacob Ish's
| farm near Jacksonville, had his right leg
broken below the knee ON the 18th inst.
The grain fields of Washington county are
| SO infested this year with yellow-jackets as
| to seriously distress horses and men.
| Mr.. Halstead of Turner, who mysterious
| ly disappeared some time ago, is at his old
home in the east. He says that he will re-
| turn soon.
Mr. Richard Koehler has recently survey
ed four plocks in Reedville, containing three
streets. named, Oak, Main and Pine, and
| lots will soon be put in the market.
Capt A. 2. Ankeny has purchased the in
terests of partners NJ. S. Burrel, d. P.
Thompson and Levi Ankeny in the Sterling
mine and is now chief owner in that valua-
BILE property.
III. W. Gillette, brother of A. V. Gill
ette of Ashland, died at that place of elsron-
ic rheumatism on the l4th inst. Deceased
had been an invalid since 1869, and was a
veteran of the Mexican war.
It is not certain that the Dayton narrow
gauge road will be completed to Dallas this
year. If the receiver can barrow the money,
it will be completed at once and will do an
immense business this fall.
Hillsboro Independent: Hallet's steam
thresher threshed 90 acres of fall wheat and
40 acres of oats in three days last week for
Mr.. Shipley on the A. T. Smith farm. The
wheat made an average yield Of 33d bushels
per acre.
Salem Statesman: There is very little
wheat being sold in this market as yet. The
farmers are, however, busy hauling it to the
warehouses and waiting for the prices to be-
come steady. Yesterday the price offered
was 82a cents per busheL
W. G. Myer, of Ashland, will make trip
to the Sound country early in September
with some fine Percheron colts and fiIlies.,
Bobby Burns, the little Shetland stallion.
will be with the outfit. On the way he will
stop several days in Portland. He will not
attend the state fair this year.
The Lane County Teachers Institute will
be held at Junction City, on the 9th, 10th,
IIth, and 18th of September, 1879. Judg.
ing from the programme it will be an inter
esting and profitable session.
Forest fires are raging in the rnountains
north of Calipooia settlement. and it is fear-
ed that they will spread and devastate the
valley.
Wheat in the neighborhood of Cottage
Grove is badly struck with the rust. Some
farmers will not harvest on account of the
rust. The oat crop is pretty good.
Cresswell ellcorrespondence: The wheat crop,
is, as a general thing a failure. Wild oats
and the oxyd of.wheat predominates. Sew
eral farmers are going to burn their wheat
fields in order to get a good start on a fall
sowing
Last Thursday Richard Savage, living a
few miles south of Salem, was thrown from q
horse and it was thought for while that he
was fatally injured. As he fell the horse
kicked min in the back, inficting painful
bruise.
A Dalles paper says: The marvellous sight
of snow falling in the most sultry month in
the year, was witnessed here last Thursday
evening at five minutes past six o'clock. 1t
lasted about five minutes, when it soon
changed to rain. Such thing might not
happen in fifty years.
While Mr.. w. NJ. Lyle was working about
threshing machine in Polk county on the
Goth INST, his clothing caught on the tumb-
ling rod, and before the horsepower could be
stopped. he was drawn down to the rod and
his clothing almost torn from his body He
was seriously cut on the front part of the
body, and one or two more revolutions of the
rod would have killed him.
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