Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25
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ancc in 294 page publication, from the
press of c. B. Bagley, public printer,
copy of which is on our table. They are
not the codificd laws, which will require
three months more time for publication.
Among the enactmtnts of special interest
are a new general road law; new school
law; the publication and distribution OF
code, or summary OF all the laws OF the
territory to date; dyking law; law
creating lumber districts and providing
Tor the scaling of logs, and sundry altera>
tions of the civil and criminal practice
act, and laws relating to district courts,
county commissioners, sheriffs, etc.
To purser White, of the steamer
Welcome, the late inanimate chunks of
iron freight, now put together IN our
handsome press, take the liberty of talk
ing back. No longer heavy, nor speeoh-
lees, nor soulless, our press now stands
erect and contesses to a feeling of gratis
tude to the Aforesaid purser, for the
efficient and business like manner in
which it has seen itself transferred from
the Elders dock, advance freight, receipts
and papers seen to and brought forward
o. x. to its new and pheasant standing
ground at Anacortes. White is like our
self--in the right place.
Twenty-Five hundred men are at work
on Clark's Fork Division, N. P. r. r., be-
tween Lake Pend d'Oreille and Pack river
thiIteen miles cast of the head OF the lake.
The two mile bridge across the lake is
about finished. At Pack river there will
be another bridge $500 feet long, which is
now in process OF construction, and the
foundations will be ready for the super
structure by the time the grade reaches
that point. Thirty miles beyond this
point have been permanently located.
The sum OF $4,000 has been SUBJ
ecribed by Portland capitalists for the
purchase of two powerful iron tugs for
service OH the bar, at tho mouth of the
Columbia river. Many ships loaded with
railroad iron have had much difficulty in
entering the river on account of their
deep draft, and grain laden ships have
lately been detained at Astoria as long as
forty days, waiting for chance to 60 to
sea. 1t has proven extremely difficult
and dangeroua to take a ship drawing
20 feet over the bar during rough weather;
as there is only from 81 to 90 feet of
water on the bar.
From James OLaughlin, sheriff of
Whatcom county, we learn that the real
and personal property of the county,
which he Is at present engaged in assess
ing, aggregates 80 much more than here
tofore, as to promise reduction of the
tax rate for the current year; county war
rants being at par, and the Indebtedness
OF the county practically nothing. 1t is
observed that certain kinds of property
have notably Increased in quantity and IN
value. Large numbers of horses have
been brought into this county from east
of the mountains and the upper Sound.
In the matter OF logging camp outfits
good deel OF taxable property ihas been
added. kAnother noteworthy item of
revenue is the property now held in the
form of timber claims, the occupation OF
these is chiefly on the Skagit and Samish
rivers. Sheriff O'Laughlin, in his ca
pacity Of assessor, has completed the as
sessment of the southern portion of the
county, and has nearly completed the
central portion, including Fidalgo and
Guemes, and will this week proceed, via
Cottonwood leland to Whatcom to can
vass in the the north.
The mill at Whatcom, undertaken by
NJ. A. Mcpherson and his associates, on
the ROeder mill site, is grinding slowly,
yet We believe surely, under the energetic
hands and busy brains of the community
with whom they arc identified, the ma
tcrlal of the woods into forms of reality.
Timbers brought upon the ground at tie
mouth of Whatcom creek some weeks
ago, are at this time in tolerably adj.
vanced progress of framing, for q build
ing 4Ox2OO feet, to be three stories in
height. 1t is the intention of the aasoc.
iatcs, who are neither more nor less than
ajoint stock company, formed by colon>