The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-06-09
PACIFIC COASTERS.

sl CRAFTY by lats frosts.
Thu contact f,r the new court house
and all at The DAlles has beon let TO
N. I. Blsgen for $4,000.
The annual drive Of wood down Can
yoB creek has begun. About 800
cords will come down this year, rather
less than usual.
Jack McMullon is under bonds ut
The Dalles TO answer TO the charge of
a yillaiuous assault upon a little girl Of
Kingsley FIVE and half years oil.
A twelvO.year-old son of Jacob, Gootz,
While playing in tho car shop at Tho
Dallcs, suffered severe fracture Of the
thigh by car wheel falling on him.
The Dalles city council has passed
an ordinance requiring hotel runners to
pay quarterly license Of $40 and wear
u metallic badge inscribed with the
number Of his license and tho name Of
the hotel for which he solicits.
Nearly all tho fruit in John Day
valley has heen killed by frost. A few
late kinds may have escaped, but the
yiola will be small. Tho Fisk & Rine-
hart orchard, being about ton days
later than others, has escaped material
damage aad promises good yield.
Work upon the Quartz mines Of
Dixie creek, Grant county, is being
steadily pursued by the few men who
are determined TO develop them If rueh
labor can accomplish it. Tunnels are
being run to tap leises, rock is beirg
taken out Of some, and several ara1tras
are in full operation. We shall be
much disappointed if a favorable result
does not follow this work.
The potato crop in ClackamAs county
this fall promises TO be unusually large.
Ia the vicinity of C,nby $50 scres
have already been planted.
Tho Capital laundering Company
head tho Salem woolen Mills bonus
with subscription Of $1,000. The en-
tire amount, $4,000, was raised in
two and half days.
No part Of Clackamas is making
more progress than Beaver creek pre-
cinct ia Since che advent Of the Ger
mans aud Welch there, what was only
q short time ago forest and swamp
now is nicely fenced fields, cleaned OF
stumpS and logs, and either 6ns
meadow or fields Of good grain.
There were some pretty extensive
iires in the woods near oSwogo. burn
ing several hundred cords of wood for
the iron company, last week. The iron
order to get i. out Of tie coal dust, aud
besides putting their buildings all in a
line, it adds greatly TO tho appearance
Of the town
Oregon City EHterPriss John
Bitter, who has one Of the neatest aud
best cultivated blocks in town, has
gone into the silk culture business. lie
has nov more than a hundred silk
worms, which are strong and healthy,
and expects to make the experiment Of
silk culture n success in Oregon. lie
is the FIRST one to try il in the state.
A cord of wood, sawed aud housed
at walla Walla, costs $3.50.
Quite a colony has lately settled
about eight miles from Ainsworth.
The granite outcroppings on the land
of G. II. Whitney. near Vancouver.
have been examined by competent per
sons who say that therc is good ledge
Of excsllent quality for building pur-
poses. II In within mile and half
Of tho river and can bc easily develop
ed.
Rev. l.. Ii. Wsl!a has been in Pom.
croy the past week, with . view to
securing the erection Of an Episcopal
church. Bishop Paddock having
agreed to give $500 if $500 could be
raised in the city, committee visited
q large portion of the residents and soon
had Sll22.50 subscribed.