Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-29

--Messrs. Wells s. Dewey passed sorth
Tuesday from Seattle to Whatcom or the
Welcome. Mr.. Mann, of West Virginia,
temporarily resident in Seattle went
through OH the Nellie to Samish and re-
turned Wednesday to this place.
The entire country covered by woods
between Skaget river and Swinomish to
Padilla bay is rapidly settling up. Every
half mile this spring exhibits new
shanty, made homellke by the presence
of from three or four to half y dozen
children. The SOL is rich and warm.
George Barkhousen who was taken
i'll on the flats" week ago with measles,
was brought home last Saturday by
johnny Williams. Since then he has lain
in precarous state. On Wednesday it
was doubted wheter he would recover.
AT the head of the bay Judge White
and his boys are building a boat. VIM.
Griffin is making shingles. The How
ards and Griffins having just sent off
boom of logs, and one of piles, are hur~
rying in their crops in order to get ready
to commence logging on the Wooten and
Allard places, adjacent to the .Anacortes
farm.
The Welcome was q day late, and
knocked out of time as well as connec-
tions, this week, in consequence of having
gone to Tacoma on Monday to bring
down the inspector of boilers. So I'M
usual circumstance IN the record of that
boat gave currency to rumors Oh accident
and sundry iorebodings, all happily un>
founded.
Samuel T. Valentine, of Shenandoah
valley, Virginia, arrived by the Welcome
Tuesday with his family at Laconner,
where he intends to make his future
home. Mr.. Valentine is good mechanic
and for several years he has been en-
ployed in the railroad shops at Peru, In
diana: Mrs. Valentines grandfather,
Rev. VIM. johnson, accompanied the
family in their journey west.
In place OF the Chehalis, the Nellie,
from the wilds of Snohomish river,
walked up the echoes of the Whatcom
coast this week with her demonlac yell.
The Nellie has been smart and pretty
boat in her DAY; but the familiar spirits
Of Stretch & Lowe were invisible. Having
been resurrected and patched up while
the Snohomish mail is being carried 10y
Capt. Hill for month, the Nellie offers
the Chehalis this opportunity to undergo
a weeks necessary repairs.
The steamers on Skaget river ac-
comodatingly land freight anywhere
along the bank; so that the farmers can
trade either with Utsalady or Seattle.
The north fork of the Skaget is the
present mail route for Skaget river, but
it is navigable only TOR canoes. 1t should
be opened 10y clearing away its jam for
steamers from Laconner, md the nearest
deep water shipping point in Whatcom
county, Ship Harbor. If not attended to
by the people of Laconner and Skaget
City soon, this mail route may be super
seeded by steamer service diverting the
trade from Whatcom county for years,
and permanently from Laconner.
The canneries along the Fraser are
making great preparations for a large
run of salmon to commence about Jnly
LIST. Usually they have good run for
two seasons in succession. Last years
run having been good, this one is likely
to he SO too; but very little is expected of
the next. The latest improved machinery
for manufacturing cans, and filling them,
Is now being procured and put in place
Two new canneries are building, the one
on the north side OF the river at Canoe
Pass, to be run by Lord & Yonng Of
Columbia river, the other lower down, on
the main river near it's mouth. West
minister is quiet and will continue to be
so until the fishing season.
of Fidalgo bay the editor of the
Laconner Mail, who recently made us q
visit, very handsomely observes: 1T Is
probably no exaggeration to say that
what is known as Fidalgo proper is the