Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-06-03

NoOhsaCh iiNcis, purity AHoWH anu paItly
only vaguely limited at, and designedly
kept quiet. In only few instances has
the quantity or value been investigated
by making an opening. Northwest of the
Sumas road, running from Bellingham
bay to Sumas lake, in British Columbia,
there are no indications of it on the sur
face, while east of that line coal has been
found in many places. The Nooksack
plain is composed of drift and sediment,
supposed to have come from Fraser river;
yet lying deeper there may he coal, in the
Nooksack as we'll as in the Stillaguamish
and Skagit river Valleys s i is known
to extend under Bellingham bay, where 1t
has been mined. The valley containing
this coal extends across the Sound, and
shows coal again in the Olympic mounts
aims and Vancouver island sides. Coal
has been reported at Langley, Burrard In
let, Pitt river and other places in the
plains of the Fraser, underneath sedl-
ment like that of Bellingham bay. Chunks
of coal are also found in the drift of
Guemes. Samish and Fidalgo islands, adj
jacent to older rocks, the situation of
which clearly implies that it is in place
somewhere not very far away. The truth
is that while we are in coal country
from Waldron island to Sank river,
neither the rocks containing it, commonly
known as the coal measures, nor the coun-
try itself, nor even the scores of groupings
actually discovered and more or less
known, have received the attention which
they must, and undoubtedly will receive,
when our increased population and the
necessary capital shall make few impor-
tant coal developments practicable.
--Orcas island is the newest and least
settled of the islands of the Archipelago
de Haro. Most of the oldest inhabitants
OF the islands and mainland came to this
country in the Fraser river excitement
OF 1853. The oldest settler of Orcas that
we know of Is Mr.. Moore, at the mouth
OF East Sound, where he still resides, in
1864. After him, in 1865, came Mr.. Shat
tuck, the merchant and postmaster, at the
head OF East Sound. For two years he
engaged in hunting, then in farming, and
finally in trading. Orcas is an interesting
and In many portions of it beautiful
island. The Roll of Orcas, otherwise
known as Coal Point, facing the Gulf oil
Georgia, is delightful, open, grassy pro-
montory, covered with hardwood trees.
Mt. Constitution, 2,430 feet in height,
overlooks all the Kingdoms in this part
of the world. Between its waterfalls and
lakes, its mountain sheep pastures, seem
cry, bays, lodges of lime rock, felsile iron
and silver ore, its coons, deer and other
game, Orcas island is likely to become a
iavorite stopping place tor tourists. Its
government agricultural and timber lands
are not yet entirely taken, and some very
good improved farms in the valley at the
present time can be bought reasonably.
M. Choir, author and publisher of
the proposed Illustrated Year Book and
Almanac of Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
British Columbia and Alaska, price ST.,
has sent US a circular, from which we
learn that he will insert the name OF any
lerson in his Business Directory for ST.;
and good advertisement, with copy of
book, for SO. He inserts portraits for $25
and $50, according to size; maps at 55
cts. to So per square inch; advertisements
at 10 cents word; personal notices 8
cents word. AS an appendage to this
business he bas secured the cooperation
of J. Anton Muller and G. G, Steinweg of
Seattle to write and print separate circu-
lars in German, to be laid or pasted into
the book, tor immigration purposes.
There seems to be some feeling
Among loggers in regard to having their
logs scaled. The law as it now stands 10
of but little or no value to the lumber
man, as the mill companies refuse to &C.
cept the government scale, aud prefer to
rely upon their own pen in that line.
The law as it now stands should be made
to make the mills take the logs from the
government scalers, or else be abolished.
There Is some talk of contrasting the law
on that point at the June term OF court,