The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-02-23

jsome government land near Summer, writes
to the Tacoma Ledger to correct prevailing
impression about there being no lands there
|open to settlement. He says there is yet
choice government land to be had there
I Certificates of stock for the Goldsberough
Creek Railroad Company, says the Intesli-
gencer, are now being printed. The capitol
stock is $50, G00 divided into 500 shares of
500 each. The road will penetrate a rich
timber district in Mason county, and will
be used in transporting logs from the in
terror to the salt water. The first section,
two and one-half miles in length, will be
built and stocked during the present season.
At Happy valley, Grant county, at a
dance, man named George Miller kicked
up row, resulting in Miller cutting anoth-
er man and Miller being shot in the cheek,
iso that it is thought he will die.
The Union Post says the cold was SO
severe in Antelope valley Saturday and
Sunday, Sd and 4th inst, that the horns Oh
the cattle froze and bursted from their
lheads. Mich cows were found frozen to
death, standing erect.
j Parties largely interested in our proposed
woolen mills, says the Salem Talk, are now
on the way to Salem from Scotland.
The road from Roseburg to Coos bay is in
a bad condition.
The row of Chinese shanties on the pr:n-
cipal streets in Salem, are being torn down.
The Weston Leader says that few places
present more evidence of permanent pros
perity than Weston and has everything to
make her prosper.
| The U 8. land Office at Colfax is to be
removed to Sprague.
An effort is being made at Walla Walla
to organize humane society.
Louis Dotty, an old pioneer of Walla
Walla, died at the hospital at that place
last week.
Asher Sargent, one of the oldest pioneers
of Thurston county, died at Olympia last
week, aged so years.
The chief of the o. s. L. road has arrived
at Lewiston and reports fine pass down
the Snake.
| An effort is being made to defeat the con-
frmation of Judge Wingard in the senate,
says the W. W. Democrat.
A $3.50, GOO to $500, Oo0 elevator is to be
erected at Walla Walla before next harvest
by parties connected with the N. P. r. r.
Mr.. John Mcclure has been appointed
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Seattle, to succeed j. M. Colman, resigned.
J. H. Upton, the famous newspaper star
ter OF Oregon, has been appointed deputy
clerk Of Curry county.
Mrs. Garter, who with her husband and
children, were immigrants here late last
fail, says the Baker City Tribune, gave birth
to twins On Saturday last. On Sunday the
lady and one of the twins were buried
Careful examination of the Santiam river,
says the Tux, and the lay of the land over
| which the present canal reaches Salem. con
vinces the interested parties of the feasibil-
| ity of constructing a canal large enongh to
run saw timber to Salem at all seasons of
the year.
Last spring Mr.. James Wheelan and
others, says the East Oregonian, took up a
tract of about 1000 acres OF land near Butte
creek, eight miles from Echo, and last fall
planted several hundred acres Of it in wheat.
He recently sold the claims to the land to
Mr.. William Rector for $4,000.
Manfred, writing from Walla Walla to
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changing hands at unusual high rates in
and about Wal,a Walla. Lots are at least
80 per cent higher than year ago, and
land even a mile out is selling at $3.50 and
$500 an acre. So You see people have con-
fidence in Walla Walla. There is little
doubt in the mind of the writer but that if
it continues Walla Walla will be the me-
tropolis of the great inland empire of the
Northwest.
The w. w. Democrat says: In interview
ing prominent real estate agents we learn
that property in the lower end Of the city
in the vicinity of the old depot, has been
withdrawn altogether from the market.
After some inquiry our reporter found that
the cause of this withdrawal was the rumors
that Massachusetts, and New York capit-
alists had formed stock company, with
capital of $500, 900, for building an i'm
mense elevator, and the handling of the
grain for this section of the country. Said
elevator is to be in readiness for the COM
ing seasons crop. 1he Touring mills are
now paying 80 cents per bushel for wheat
in this city.
are pending for the sale of the Walla Walla
Water Works company's property to for
eign capitalists for a consideration of $685.
900. The property consists of the Grove
addition to the city of Walla Walla, for
merly the Chris. Maier property, which
cost the company $4,000, nine miles of
main and all distributing pipe, together,
with the franchise, etc. The rentals for
water pay an interest of one and halt per
cent on the money invested.
The Salem Tak says: boarded the cars
yesterday morning at Salem, with my mind
made up to observe, as best could, the
effects of the recent cold snap on the grain
fields. In the upper part of Linn county
the crops do not seem to be much hurt, in
stead of the brown cast that characterized
the wheat fields near Salem There is a
bright hue over many of the large fields;
which indicate that there is life left in the
wheat. The farmers of Lane county do not