Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-05-13

permits that are issued, on request, by
the county superintendent
-Messrs. Hutton and Negley have dug
into the ground, for VIM. Munks, at
Fidalgo bay, tank or cistern on the side
hill 6Ox17 feet and feet deep, to gather
water from a spring, for the wharf. The
V fuming on treste which first disfisured
the place, is now substituted by line of
underground pipe. Altogether the in>
genuity of these water works is creditable
to the designer, MIR. Munks, who has
succeeded in making the draft on the
cistern self. acting, without any wastage
by overflow at the beach. A float in the
tank at the lattar place opens anil closes
the mouth of the feed pipe entering the
tank near the bottom. This is equiva
lent to putting in stopper at the cistern
quarter of mile off, where the water
whe2 not drawn overfows into the barn
yards.
The framing of the timbers for the
Mcpherson or Washington colony mill,
was to have been completed to day. Lat
terly dozen hands were engaged at the
job, who were paid SO o day, i'll colony
scrip, equivalent to stock. AS the mill
is to be run by water power, nothing re-
mains to be done after preparing the
foundations and raising and roofing the
mill, than procuring and placing the
turbiD, and other machinery into posts
ton. The joint stock company operat-
ing under the title OF the Washington
colony, has capital stock of $4,000, OF
which about $4,000 has been put into
circulation. The latter has been partly
paid for, and partly expended in getting
in motion, moving and otherwise. 1t any
one doubts the ability of the company to
procure this machinery, and get the mil.
running, he will only have look at the
water power, which is theirs by title, and
then at the men, and the character Of
their work, to be convinced.
Mr.. VIM. Deans wharf, at Samish
post office, on Samish island, the steamer
landing for Samish river district, has
been built twice, at a total cost of $4,000,
according to the proprietors statement. AT
the present time there is not a vestage of
it remaining. A good sized saloon
building. once the scene of spirituality and
vocal utterance, upon the shore end is also
entirely gone, and the very thought there-
OF is wiped quite out of existance by
the smashing sea. The wharf lasted the
first time tour years, and the last time
but three. No warfage was ever paid
upon it for keeping it in repair. 1t never
repaid Mr. Dean for his enterprise; and
possibly it might not pay to rebuild it
now. The vestiges of the Sehome wharf,
or wharvos. stand, speaking in silent
eloGuence the truth important for all
grubbing settlers to take in hand, viz:
That wharves facilitate business 10y wip-
ing out many of its uncertainties; that
they neither build nor keep themselves in
repair, and do not pay any one so we'll as
the general public for whose accommodate
ton they are occasionally built or sus-
tanned 10y public spirited men.
Special treasury agent j. Z. Herr, of
San Francisco, who looks after the GUS
tom houses the same who, by way OF
compromise with the coterie at Laconner
proposed that their editorial custom
house Inspector should be set to watch,
from his little office on the rocks when
the tide came in, that strategic commercial
highway known to nautical people as
Swinomish slough, while Mr.. Beriah
Brown should be set to watch Deception
Pass for smugglers, all on tie occasion of
the little dinner gwen to Horn at Nc,
Glynn's short time before the late in
spector OF the Whatcom coast lost his
office-is visiting the Sound once more,
having registered himself and his family
ut the Carlton House, Olympia, under
date of April 9th, and returned to Town,
send April 18th. Special agents Horr
and Evans, and the collector of customs
favorably known to the readers of the
Mail as the "Honorably Bosh," were all
pronounced in favor OF letting the What
com coast official attend to the interests