The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-22
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The corn crop promises we'll In
Rogue river and Umpqua valleys.
A band Of cattle, 1000 head, was re.
Gently driven through spokan Falls for
Montana.
The assessable property OF Eugene
City is estimated by the city recorder
at valuation of $4,000.
The Presbyterians have their new
church building and parsonage at Col.
dendale nearly completed.
Mr.. Richardson's sorghum crop on
Wagner creek Is turning out l'ettor
than he expected In the summer.
The present liabilities of Clackamas
county over available funds, M sh.wn
by the annual exhibit ara $l34:.07.
Several carloads OF lumber were or
dered last week for building purposes
in and about the village Of Puyallup.
An immense water tank Is being
built by the q. X. d N. Go. q short dis.
tance above the new depot Mt Walls
Walla.
McIIaley's band of sheep on Long
Creek, Grant Co., numbering 400,
yielded ! 900 pounds Of wool, an ay.
erago Of & pounds per head.
q. w. Houck, of Monroe, recently
sheared from one Of his three-yeAr-old
merino rams an eleven months fleece
that weighed seventeen pounds.
Two thousand hop pickers will be
needed 10 secure the incoming hop crop
of the Puysllnp valley. Picking will
begin about the first Of September.
II. A. Morgan, who was so severely
injured at Hillsboro last week while
coupling cars, is slowly recovering from
the effects Of the nearly fatal disaster.
The Columbia Chronicis says Kill
every water snake found along the
streams, for they are Said 10 destroy
more trout than all the rest Of the many
enemies of this tinny favorite.
Hundreds Of cords of wood are be.
ing stored in Walla Walla for nse the
coming winter. The supply was short
last year. very indifferent wood selling
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for weeks at so per cord
A bunch Of pie plant raised on the
farm of Eugene White on Fourth Plain,
was lately shown in Vancouver. the
stalks of which measure ON an average
2S inches in length. The largest meas
ured 81 inches.
The berry Of this years crop Of wheat
in Jackson county Is much larger and
more plump and smooth than last year's $
wheat. Ripening slowly has been Ad-
vantageous for it.
Alta, daughter Of Chris. Farlow Of
Ashland, died on the lltb inst. after q
long and painful illness, aged 10 years.
She had suffered for some years with
hip disease and latterly consumption su.
pervened.
The death of Milan Burl,ridge, step
son Of ]. II. Whitmore, of Mohawk,
took place on the llth Inst, caused by
the immoderate eating Of candy while
at Eugene on the stL. The lal was
l6 year1 old.
Mr.. Putnam, who lives eight miles
southeast of Lewiston, reports that the
grasshoppers are very thick about bis
place, and that he has deemed il pru.
dent to cut bis wheat for hay, fearing
their ravages before the grain would
ripen.
Competent judges estimate that the
grain crop Of Eislern Oregon and
Washington this year will amount to
nearly 10000 tons. 0f this rmount
II. 900 tons will be exported. the re-
mainder being ample for seed and homo
consumption.
The municipal election took place in
ColfAx on the 18th inst, resulting 90
follows: Mayor, Z. n. Sweet, reelected;
Councilmsn, G. H. Warner, J. A. Per
kins, G. ID. Porter, j. g. Buys, ]. Lip
pitt, reelected; Marshal, J. NJ. ], shy
der, reelected.
Gold has been discovered recently by
Andy Wyland, John Officer and Others
on the Mollala. The supposition 10
that the bars will be worked during
the coming summer. They are esti-
mated to pay from four to FIVE dollars
per man per day.
Capt. A. n. Simpson arrived in As
toria on the 18th in one Of his tugs
from San Francisco, the Fearless, on
general tour Of inspection. lie put
into nearly all of the leading ports from
San Francisco to the Columbia river,
and will continue north at once.
Rice is declining in price in Astoria.
owing to the large amount received Of
late. Within O short time 250, 900
mats have been landed from various
ships from Hongkong. Thursday the
price dropped five cents per sack, with
a prospect of further decline.
Thomas Reeves, of Alsea Bay, claims
that the lower Alsea Valley is one of
the most fertile sections on the Pacific
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