The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-06-17
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General Items.
A new irrigation ditch has been con-
tructed north Of Woodland, California.
The Fraser River is rising rapidly, and
salmon are taking only In small numbers.
The different mines located in the vicin-
ity of CaEstoga, shipped during last week
80 TASKS of quicksilver. ..-
On the lowest computation, $4,000 ton
Of fish are annually taken in British waters,
and Prof. Huxley estimates the take OF
herrings in the North Sea at 5000, 600, 600.
The Stricken River is open to naviga-
tion. The fisfrries on the Mas and Skeena
Rivers had commencex operations, and the
run of fish is fully up to the average for
this time of the year.
Ohio last year made about 5000 gallons
of maple sugar and 5000, 600 lbs. of sugar
and will have as much more this year-if
sap runs. It ranks third among the States
In maple sugar production.
A ranch of 5000 acres located near Bexar
county, Texas, is used for the breeding OF
saddle pennies. There are on the ranch 45
Shetland mares and 100 Zecatecas ponies,
all for breeding purposes. @-- RI
The State of Kentucky owns shares in
twenty-one turnpikes, which have an aggre-
gate length of 472 miles, and nearly all of
them pay fair dividends. A free road
crusade there would not be amiss.
Eleven thousand eight hundred dollars
pay the yearly salaries of the New England
Governors, and the Governor of Massachutts
gets 5000 of it. The Governor of New
Hampshire receives only $88U
Tie annual dairy product of the U. s. is
estimated at between $400, ,O00, 600 and
$500, ,0OO, 900, being greater than either that
of the wheat or corn crop and exceeding
shat of cotton and wool combined.
Our inportations of iron and steel. sss-
fiery, machinery, firearms. tSsrs'. saws hard
and other manufacturers OF these
materials amounted last year to SAG, 66S, III,
against s65, s63, ,252 for the previous year.
Recently, while six Indians were convey
ing across Fraser River some things ID the
Mcbride camp at .Kanaka Bar the canoe
upset and five of them found a watery
grave. The Indians were recently from
Eillooet.
The bush fires ut New Westminster have
proved more disasterous than at first suppos-
ed. Over 600 cords of wood and several
small buildings have been destroyed, and
fears are entertained Of the fire spreading
still further.
In two hours last Thursday, says the
Shasta Democrat, with a hand mortar,
Dent Young and Bill Murray pounded out
thirteen ounces of gold efrom the rock taken
out of their claim on Flat Creek, that sells
for $lS.75 per ounce.
The Excelsior has sesn towed up to Bur-
rard Inlet to load l6ssfiS,r for melbourne,
and the ship Blue Jacket ora the way
down with Wellington coal fS'sSan Fran
cisco. Ti1eIaiip Ssr;onix. iust< ottS iron
England, sails to-day on her voyage north
A correspondent at Lake La Hache, B. G..
writing under date of May 18th says
'Farmers in this section have all been busy
lately putting in their crops. Flowing wa.
begun about the first of April. The ares
seeded is somewhat greater than last year.
A rancher m the Pacheco Mountains
San Benito county, who had recently lost
several hogs in mysterious way, took his
gun thesother day and went in search of the
! marander. Before returning home he had
encountered and shot three large Califor.
mia Hons.
The people of Kansas, under the forestry
laws of the State, have planted 93, 600 acres
In trees. The cottonwood is the most
abundant, as it grows the most rapidly.
About 5000 have been planted in black
walnut, and will make handsome return
In eight or nine years.
In.the Connellsville region of Penn, the
coke industry is growing with marvellous
rapidity. In 1876 there were $3.50 ovens;
three years later there were AHA; to-day
there are SlOl in active operation, and con-
tracts have been signed calling for the COM
pletion of 800 more before the last of June.
Considering that all the sulphur used in
this country is imported. the N. Y.
Naming Record says that it is strange SO
little or nothing. has been done to develope
our sulpher deposits, such, for. instance, as
the rich sulphuret ores in copper regions
of East Tennessee, which contain forty to
fifty per cent. of sulphur.
As pistol producing town, Norwich,
Conn, leads all places of its size in this
country. There are five manufactures of
weapons there. One turns out $4,000 pis.
tolls a month, Their combined productions
must be over 1000 pistols per day on the
average Yet these establish ments cannot
keep up with their orders. Ths pistol
makers themselves wonder what become,
Of all these death instruments.