Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-08-12

&c at present.
Wheat is sixty cents bushcl in Wala
Walla.
The hop crop has started at thirty cents
in San Francisco.
The hay crop of the stillaguamish is
said to be double what it was last year.
Business at the new town Of Sprague is
said to be entirely overdone.
The tug BlakelY broke her propeller,
and is land up for repairs.
The Western Washington Teachers In
stitute meets at Seattle August 29;h.
Protests arc entered againsts leasing the
government reservation at Point Roberts
for fishing purposes.
In an ARRAY at Seattle last week caused
10y the election OF tenant, Charley keil
shot at VIM. II. White, the lawyer.
The Seattle Herald denounces the City
Council for letting street contract 10
Cinnamon.
A couple of immigran. teams are fore
ing their way over the mountains to Sc
attic through the Snoqualmic pass.
During the recent storm on the Conm-
bia river bar four boats were swamped,
and two fishermen were lost.
A force of 100 men are slashing for the
railroad extension to the Wbitworth coal
mine, on the Puyal!up branch. It will
take six weeks to complete the work.
Recently sailor pamed George Moore
stole $500 from a man named Erickson,
who runs Dr.. Hills farm on WILDLY Is
land. He has not yet been captured.
A man named DAVIS, on the Snohom-
ish, had q desperate encounter with a
cougar the other day, which he finally
succeeded in killing. The animal meas
ured about eleven feet.
Washington Territory furs are in high
favor in the Eastern markets, on account
Of their general excellence. They are val
ued more highly than the furs of lower
ATTITUDES along the coast.
The track on the extension of the o. 81
G. Railroad has been laid to point II
miles south Of Roseburg. and depot has
been established three miles south of Rob-
ert's hill.
A correspondent at Yakima City says
that coal mines have been discovered 20
miles from that place. The vein, where
it crops out, is about two feet thick, and
wagons'can now drive within quarter OF
a mile of it.
Owing to the fact that the apprepria
ton bills now pending in Congress may
not pass for several weeks yet, il is hardly
probable that any surveys of the govern
nent land in this territory will be ordered
before the middle Of September next
1t is still claimed that the fire at Col
fax was incendiary. The owners of the
property where it first started claim that
no fire had been in the building to their
knowledge for forty-eight hours previous
to the outbreak.
From the Ledger Seattle men have re-
Gently purchased $4,000 worth of prop
erty in Tacoma The railroad company
is building 100 flat cars !. A large wheat
warehouse will soon be commenced.
Hatch & Co.'s mill has capacity of 25,-
600 feet per day, which will soon be in
creased to 10000 feet per day.
Tilt. Sheets railroad survey party were
recently located on Black river. and are
working south to meet Clark's party, now
in camp on Stuck river. near Puyallup.
THIS shows that the company is in haste
to complete final surveys. The locating
of the line will be SO far completed that
grading can be commenced within one
week OF the present time.
A syndicate of English and Canadian
capitalists are negotiating with the Cans
ada Pacific Railroad syndicate for the
transfer of the rights OF the railway cons
pany to some millions of acres of land in
the Canadian northwest. The Duke OF
Manchester, now in Winnipeg. is said to
he at the head OF the gigantic speculation.
To encourage immigration the land com