The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-01-20
GENERAL NEWS.

new thresher and cleaner.
The town of Independence is out of debt
and money left in the Treasury.
Heppner is out of quarantine and the
mail stages run through tine place now.
The revenue raised from the single article
of tobacco this year is estimated at S45, ,OO0-
900.
Sheriff Hall, of Polk county, was thrown
from his buggy near Dallas last week and
considerably injured.
The total value OF exports of domestic
breadstuffs for the twelve months ended
Dec. 81, 1851, were 1924, lis, $50.
The Pendleton people are building a
dam 545 feet long to protect the town from
the ravages of the Umatilla river.
The Pacific Coast company's new steam
ship Queen of the Pacific, was launched
Saturday at Philadelphia.
Fitzgerald won the six days walking
match in New York, making $50 miles and
55 yards, thus beating the best record.
The county seat of Garfield county, w.
T., has been located at Pomeroy by popu-
lar vote of the citizens of the county.
F The last legislature of Washington ter
ritory passed q Sunday law, forlidding the
opening of places OF business on that day.
reward of @25 for the arrest and convic-
ton of any violator of the game laws in
Lane county.
The O. R. & n Co., last Monday estab-
lished schedule of reduced freights from
Portland to all points on Puget Sound and
Victoria.
An exchange says: a correspondent from
Klamath Indian reservation says the pro-
gress Of the Klamatiis, and even of the
Snakes On Sprague river is very marked.
They are becoming property owners. and
some are excellent farmers
At Palouse Ferry, an old Indian died on
Jan. LIST, who according to all accounts, was
ITO years old. In the memory of the oldest
settlers this old man has not been able to
walk. He was blind and almost deaf, and
Lewis and Clark on their re-
marka5le tour through the country.
Coos Bay News: The Southport coal
company now have about 40 men on their
pay roll, miners and surface men. and con-
tinue to ship by each trip of the Arcata from
500 to 600 tons of coal.
The value of live stock and fresh meats
shipped from New York to Europe during
last year was $40, 553, 800. The number of
horned cattle exported was 39,96S; the
number of sheep, 26,44l; and the number
of hogs. 1872.
At Dean & Co.'S mill, Coos Bay. there are
now 100000 Geo feet Of logs on hand, sand at
no time within the last three years has there
been less than 5000, 600 feet on hand This
mill cnts annually II. 00O,O0 feet of lumber,
and the company's store sells from $75, 600
to 800, coo worth of goods, which is the larg-
est mercantile trade transacted on the bay.
In addition to this, the mill furnishes tim
Der for vessels and deals in all lines of lum-
ber, laths, etc.
Jacksonville Times, Jan. IA: There was
a heavy frost Wednesday night, which
froze the water that was becoming abun-
dant, and mining is almost suspended again.
Should the weather moderate soon, miners
can resume operations generally as there is
considerable snow and the ground is full of
water.
Mr. Briggs has completed the survey of
water ditch on Wolf creek, which extends
from Henry Smiths down Wolf and Grave
creeks for some eight or ten miles and will
supply water for large amount of good
paying ground. Mr.. Morse, the agent of
the company, hopes to have the ditch fin
shed at an early day, when that place will
greatly increase its mining population.
John Lewman and VIM. Farris are work
ing their quartz ledge on Brushy gulch, i'll
the vicinity of Applegate, with promising
results. They have sunk down over 20
feet, and their ledge is about foot wide,
with an abundance of good quartz in sight.
God can easily be seen in the ore with the
in grinding some in an arastra
Tombstone, Jan. l6.-George Hearst has
bought the Contact mine, for which it is
reported he pays $4,000. 1t is a most
property. He goes to Winchester
district this week to examine the new strike
that has caused so much excitement here
the last two weeks P. w. Smith mas
bonded five locations in that district with
out any work on them for $4,000. The
lodges are said to be large and the ore assays
from $1,000 to $4,000 per ton from surface
mining. The pospect was never so bright
for Tombstone as now, and it is likewise
good for the whole territory.