Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-06-17
General y oNVSo

Walla Walla. costs - b0.
Blackman Bros have workmcn engaged
in constructing another OF their logging
cars for Richard Delanty OF Port Blakely.
The total export of coal from Seattle
from January 1st to June 1st, 1882, was
6j,S47 tons.
The Walla Walla police are fighting
the opium fends, and are doing their ut
most to stop it.
The sale Of the Chicago, Texas &
Mexican railroad to the Gull of Colorado
81 Santa Fe railroad, has been confined
The price is said to be $4,000 per mile.
The Chehalis valley camp meeting VIII
be held at Montesano, Chehalis county,
commencing on Friday, June ed, and
continuing over two Sundays.
1t required two special elections re-
Gently to elect justice Of the peace in
Snohomish City. At the first no one
came out to vote; at the second nineteen
persons voted.
A list giving the tonnage movement on
Puget Sound for April shows that there
were seven arrivals at Port Townsend
foreign ports with lumber valued at
about $4,000.
Tile following is list of graduates of
the territorial university: L. F. Ander-
son, G. A. Colman. G.. III. Judson, Ii. o.
Chapman, and Misses Leila A. Shorey,
Lizzie Sander son and Addie J. Plummer.
A force of men came up from San Fran
cisco recently to begin work at Irondale.
It is reported that they will repair the old
furnace and prepare ground for the cree.
ion of new furnace of larger capacity.
Yesler's new saw mill cut its first log
last week. 1t wasn't much OF log to be
sure, but 1t was cut more for trial
than anything else. and the trial proved
eminertly satisfactory.
Forest fires are raging between Warsaw
and Ellen Junction, Wisconsin. The
smoke is covering wide tract OF territo>
~. Forests are dry from droutb, and the
country is greatly alarmed.
The annual June freshet has been
higher this season than ever known be-
fore. The wharves on the Snohomish
have all been uncer W tier for q week, but
the water is now falling slowly.
Capt. Low, of the steamer Nellie, re-
ports that on Thursday of last week Pat
Lannon's main boom, containing 100000
feet of logs. broke three mies above Sno-
homlsh City, and the logs were scattered
all along the river. Men at once went to
work securing them, and a great portion
OF the logs were recovered.
1t is believed tnat there are 5000 elk
ranging on the headwaters of the streams
and tributaries heading up in the Olym-
pic range and putting into Grays Har>
Dor. Fish, both salt and fresh water, are
abundant. 1t is simply paradise for
sportsmen.
Blackman Bros. have been putting into
the water at their Pillchuck camp some
unusually large logs of late. Last week
three fir trees were cut which, after beng
sawed into logs and scaled. were found to
contain $4,000 feet of lumber. One tree
scaled $4,000 and the other two $4,000
each.
The thirty-sixth ocean-going sail yes.
sci built by Hall Bros. on Puget Sound,
was launched at Port Blakely this evening
and named the John Smith. She is a
barkentine, III feet long, and will be
owned in San Francisco and commanded
by Capt. Kustel.
Seven hundred acres of land on Salmon
bay, known as the Crooks farm was sold
recently 70 Messrs. James Crawford and
John Leary for $4,000. This farm COM
prises some very fine land. 1t will prob
ably be divided into small tracts and
rented or sold to thrifty farmers who wish
25 or 30 acres of choice land near the
city,sall cleared aud ready for cultivation.
At Mas rIyer, on the north coast of
British Columbia, the Douglas Packing
Co. have began packing salmon. At
Port Simpson. the Hudson Bay Co.'s
fine new wharf and store house are COM