Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-06-03
Y NORTHWEST FNTERPRlsE
ANACORTES, JUNE 3, 1882.
20 MARKET NORTBWARD.

one and two years earlier on the
Frazer river than in Whatcom coun-
ty. The good times were extended
and shared in to limited degree by
Vhatcom and San Juan counties
adjoining the Canadian territory;
but the tidal wave Of prosperity did
not reach us through the channel of
the up Sound market until everys
thing had been booming along the
great Fraser and Columbia rivers
for months, SO many-our readers
will bear with us-that up to Mo-
vember 1881, we almost doubted
whether the tide could ever affect
US. Now we witness an army of
from 5000 to 5000 men working at
the highest wages in an adjoining
country, physically and geographic
cally continuous and identical with
our own, though separated by the
national boundary line. We have
no regular communication with
them, and consequently no market
proper in that direction.
On the Canadian Pacific Railway
last summer, there were employed
1850 men on an average the sum-
mer through. This year the num-
Der will be doubled. There are now
at work 5000 men; by juno there
will be 5000. Eleven canneries-4
at New Westminster, 8 on the south
arm, 2 on the north arm, and 4
hew ones-will in June, July, August
and September of this year be en-
ploying on an average each IS men,
or a total of S25. Sixteen or twenty
logging camps-four of them large
concerns on the lower Fraser, and
three more such on Burrard Inlet,
besides smaller ones, without men,
tioning hand-logging camps-repre-
sent temporary population of from
500 to 1000 men. All these people
draw the most liberal wages. In
the fisheries the smallest pay is $50
per month. Indians make from
SO so to SO per day.
We will not attempt to make any
comparative statement of the num-
Der engaged in Whatcom or San
Juan counties in the business Of
numbering, or raising oats, apples,
potatoes, pears and bacon. For the
information of the latter we will
here, on what we belieye to be good
authority, state the prices paid last
season by the consumer of these
articles beyond the boundary line.
Oats last year ranged from 500 so
to S34 80 per ton; barley from $50
to $40. In the preceding season,
when oat farming here WIS consid-
Grad disastrous, the price paid for
oats and barley on the Fraser was
$50 with ready sale. Eggs last year
were for two months worth 80 cts.
q dozen, for three weeks Is and for
the greater part of the season Is
cents. For three months no butter
sold tor less than so cents a pound; ,
chickens never sold below SO per
dozen; apples from 81 so up; peas
$3.50. All the early apples before
September 1st to goth are American.
Plums are from z to IL cents per
pound. The arrival of four sloops
ut one time loaded with perishable
fruit, brought the price at New
Westminster down to 5 cents. At
the same time plums sold at Yale at
20 cents per pound. Onions are re-
ceived largely from San Francisco;
they average about 4 cents pound.
Cleaned or hulled Strawberries are
commonly worth so cents quart.
For a shake box, containing gal
lon not hulled, or three quarts
hulled, the price is SO so to S.. On
eggs, chickens and fruit, there ap>