The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-10-06
C1atsop County.

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Clatsop County. -. r
Astorian.
| The Shubrick goes to Tillamook this
morning
The Astoria went up stream yerterday
morning. = -+
The Oregon will take 900 cases of salmon
this morning -. 49,.
! The Whistler and Trustee went out yes
| terday, loaded with lumber for San Fran
| cisco.
Good logs now bring 81 per Thousand
| feet easily enough, while common or infer
ior logs bring $3.50.
The steam tug Pioneer, en- route to the
| Columbia river, arrived at San Francisco
yesterday afternoon.
Up to date there has been shipped to
California from this port, since the. COM
mencement of the season, l62. 496 cases
! salmon.
The 81. S. Gregory and Iroquois have
| sailed for Cork from Puget Sound, the for
mer with 81, ,636 centals of wheat, and the
latter with 10000 centals.
The British ship Cross Hill, now on her
way to San Francisco, in ballast from Quay
mas, will be ordered to the Columbia as
soon as she comes in sight.
Capt. Ferchen brought the Banffshire
down yesterday. She will take ON $50 tons
of salmon. The Mandalay took on two
| hundred tons of wheat yesterday.
The Gen Miles unloaded 53l sacks of the
famous Shoalwater Bay oysters at the up
per dock yesterday for the Oregon to take
to San Francisco gourmands this morning
The steamer Yaquina arrived in yester-
day at five o'clock with 400 tons of coal
from the Sound. She left for Portland
last evening. Her next trip will be to San
Francisco.
A small detachment of United States
troops are in the vicinity of Williamsport,
driving stakes and surveying for the line
of telegraph that will run from here to
Cape Hancock via Fort Stevens.
The Queen of the Pacific went to sea
yesterday morning; the Oregon came in
and went to Portland; the steamer Wash
ington crossed out on her way to Puget
sound; the Gen. Miles went to Gray's
Harbor.
The ship Young America, which sailed
from New York for the Columbia river, on
the Sd inst. has on board $3.50 cases oil,
500 packages starch, 10 barrels whisky,
1,525 kegs nails, AL tons coal and lot of
agricultural goods, hardware, etc.
- Jackson County.
Exchanges -+ -
The Ashland wooden mills keep constant
ly crowded with orders for their goods. and
can hardly supply the demand.
The Jacksonville steam Touring mills are
again running on full time having received
a large supply of sacks. -s.-- =.
The Centennial Co., who are engaged in
mining the bed of the Klamath river Siski-
you county, took out 40 ounces of gold one
day recently. ...
Yves. Ingram of Willow Springs found
1926 nugget in his mines this week and is
now engaged in looking for more.
S. Colver and son of Phoenix have sold
about S., 600 worth of horses to parties from
California and have gone to Lake county
to deliver them. -.f. ... ....
Robt. Smith of Chimney Rock precinct
informs US that the German colony which
purchased lands of Binger Herman in that
section have arrived.
Specifications for the baick and carpenter
work on the new court house will be made
out by the County Court next week and
bids for the same will be received till the
November term. -- .-,-e-..-
Engineers Dolson and Hurlburt have gone
to Portland to report to headquarters. 1t
is likely that Hurlburt will be ordered to
locate the route from Ashland south and
Dolson's party will work through the valley
N. o. Mitchell has returned to Portland
and Mr., Welch has come to put up the
quartz mill at Blackwell, the huge engine
of which arrived this week, as also most of
the paraphernalia. It is expected that the
mill will be in running order before rainy
weather sets in. .-
Mrs. Wagner, wife of Son of Isaac
Wagner, who formerly resided in this valley,
was accidently shot and killed by stepson
few days ago. Mr.. Wagner and family
recently came up from the Willamette val
ley, on visit to some relatives residing in
Deer creek valley, Josephine county, where
the sad affair took place. 1t seems that the
boy was in the act of taking down the gun
from the wall, when it went off, the charge
hitting his mother in the head and causing
instant death.
N. K. Lytle has arrangements nearly
complete for establishing distillery at this
place. He commences by issuing stock to
the amount of 81, 800 in shares of 500 each,
which he agrees to redeem in eight months
from the time work begins. The stock
holders are to elect treasurer who is to
have full financial control of everything,
and in consideration of this Mr. Lytle
agrees to erect buildings and run the Eusi-
ness for one-half of the profits. Tnis looks
like very fair proposition, ard cannot well
result in any loss to the stockholders, and
as the stock is nearly all taken we expect
soon to zee this work under way. Our far