Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-15
MIR. Jack Sharp. of Fidaloo Island,

board the welcome going south tuesday,
en- route for Pen d'Oreille, on the line of
the N. P. r. r.. They will remain till
fall when they will return to Fidalgo.
-Messrs. Albert and Frank Graham
have got out up to the present time about
10000 shingles, which will be ready for
market in two or three weeks. Single
making seems to be quite an industry on
this island, some half dozen different
parties being engaged in the business.
"A gold beach fifteen miles in length
between Oahut and the Anderson House,
near Grays Harbor, yielding from streak
five to twenty inches thick, found be-
tween high and low tide, it is thought
$40 per ton, has attracted attention down
the Chehalis.
--Messrs. A. Bowman s. Co. have
thoroughly overhauled their schooner
Traveller and are now prepared to call
for freight in out of the way places.
Particular attention is paid to wool, upon
which they make liberal advances. See
advertisement.
The people on Orcas Island have all
quit mining and gone to farming. The
last work done, that by Mckay and War
bass, consisted in sinking, on wide and
very we'll defined quartz ledge, carrying
8 per cent. copper pyrites with So in
gold, to depth of forty feet.
Judge Bowman's mill at East Sound,
Orcas Island, has gone to wreck. An
other stream entering the East Sound just
north of the Langdon limekiln, reported
to contain forty inches of water in sum
mer time, has been looked at by some
eastern people with view to mill pur-
poses.
The town of Whstcom now contains
three stores, two hotels, two saloons, a
school house, court house and several
dozen dwelling houses occupied by as
many families, with population including
children of about $50 souls. Laconner is
still ahead, but the city of the slough
must look to its laurels.
Mr.. Noah Nelson, from Howard,
Mimi, is on his way to this place. He
has lately sold his farm in Minnesota for
$4,000, and is intending to invest the
same on Fidalgo Island. Some half
dozen others from the same locality will,
in the course of the summer, move to this
section.
Two large British steamships, loaded
with Chinese passengers, have sailed fern
Hongkong fer Victoria. About 1000
more Cinnamon are coming this season,
all of whom are wanted on railway work.
Labor of all kinds continues high and is
steadily advancing. Men are scarce and
workshops are declining orders.-Chron>
icle.
MFR. Shattucl the postmaster and
merchant at East Sound, Orcas Island,
proposes to build a wharf this summer,
in which enterprise he deserves and
should have the assistance of al the set.
tiers around, for several days. A good
wharf insures certainty of the mails and
facilitates business in every way. The
location proposed is at the end of Miner-
al Point, to which Shattuck will lay
track.
Mr.. Mike Adams, the nurseryman at
East Sound, Orcas Island, is closing out
in that line this spring, but will have a
small lot of fruit trees left over for
growth and sale next season. He has
still on sale the choicest specimens of
apples, plums and prunes, which have
been found suitable to the country; apples
at $50 per hundred and plums at $50 to
$50. Tree planting Is in good time to
the end Of April.
The New York Evening Mail of
March 18th says: "Mr. Henry Hart has
lately offered to join number of capital
lists connected with the Oregon interests
in securing control of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co." There is no doubt that
the Oregon interest here referred to is the
o. R. & N. company and the Northern
Pacific railroad company. From time to
time it has been given on: that Willard
desired to obtain control of the Pacific
Mail. and the above dispatch is strongly