The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-08

The hop fields in the vicinity OF Long
Station look splendid.
The fruit crop of Grant County promises
to be good, except peaches.
Grasshoppers are getting to be numerous
| on Fifteen Mile Greek, in Wasco County.
Large additions to the hop fields of Linn
| and Lane Counties are being made this
spring.
Quite an immigration is going into the
vicinity of Palouse City. It is a good coun-
try to settle in. -.r p. .--s...
Grain in the southern part of Yamhlll
and the northern part of Polk Counties
looks exceedingly well.
strengthening is in full blast in Eastern
Oregon, and the clip is reported to be un-
usually good.
The prices of all kinds of real estate in
Eugene City have advanced 20 per cent.
within the last six months,
Snoqualmie Hop Association have 300
acres of hop vines growing. The prospect
is good for large crop.
The Silver Greek mine, twenty miles from
Dallas, is soon to be worked, a party leav.
ing Dallas Monday for that purpose.
The discovery of large beds of lime rock
near Lake Pen d'Orsille will be of vast bene-
fit to the building and brick industry in
that region.
The Aurora literary society will give
picnic at Aurora June Sth.
There will be trot for three year olds at
Walla Walla, June Is.
Millers offering 70 cents per bushel
for wheat at Walla Walla and are not eager
buyers at that figure. 1t is thought there
Is SO, coo bushels in the hands of the farm
erS.
Astorian: Work on the Odd Fellows
building is about completed. Filling in
from the foundation to within seven feet
of the basement ceiling goes on, and when
a few minor details have been finished, the
first brick structure and the finest building
in Astoria will be ready for occupancy.
Walla Walla Statesman: The grain
throughout the country never looked better
than at present, nor the prospects of our
farmers brighter. We have received some
samples of white wheat well headed and
nearly five feet in height. Some bald bar
ley from the ranch of FL. P. Isaacs will be
ready for the reaper in about two weeks.
1t is now over three feet high.
On Monday, May %, near Winlock, at
the camp of j. NJ. Clark & Co., a man by
the name of John Tranberg was instantly
killed by falling tree. He was off some
200 yards from the other men, and had just
felled tree, which, in falling, struck
dead tree standing close by and broke off
the top, which fell upon him unawares and
broke his neck, death ensuing Immediately.
his friends reside in Chicago, and were no.
titled at once of the sad accident. He was
buried in the graveyard at Winlock.
A band of 420 yearling calves passed
through lebanon recently on their way
east of the mountains.
w. Haskell has opened a logging camp
on the west fork of the north fork of Coos
river. He claims to have about 800, 900
feet of lumber on his land, and has already
got about 90 M ready for hauling.
The News says: The vessel building at
Parkersburg is nearly completed. The
calkers finished their work last week, and
she is being painted. .-...
Mr. George Deford of Dayton, while
working on the Dayton Mill Company
warehouse last week fell distance of
eighteen feet, and was SO severely injured
that he died the next morning at 5 o'clock.
The News says: We understand that
Mr.. Wells of the Umpqua valley, is making
preparations to establish fishery near
Jarvis landing, opposite Empire City.
George Warren got seriously hurt at Sum-
ner, last Saturday. He was working at
Levers camp, and in company with another
man, was saving a tree into logs, on side
hill, when the log he was saving, sprung,
and before he could get out of the way was
knocked down, the log rolling over him. 1t
is thought that no bones Were broken, but
that he is hurt internally.
On Sunday last the steamer Wasp ran Oh
a snag in the north fork of Coos river, which
made a hole in the hull three inches in di-
ameter.
For some time past the stock men IN
Sprague river valley have suffered from the
depredatiens of brown bears that were kill
ing their stock.
The Douglas county bank has opened for
business at Roseburg.s
A card from the front from J. E. Gedds
informs us that the Chinese on the strike
continue to hold out. The work south of
the big tunnel is virtually suspended for
the present. 1t is thought that they will
again resume work when the rice and hogs
get scarce. independent.
James L. Mccormick, special agent of
the general land Office, is in Roseburg look
ing after the interests Of the Government.
He was fourteen days making the trip from
Washington to Oregon, over the Northern
Pacific. He expresses himself well pleased
with this section, and states that between
Portland and Roseburg is the best looking
country that he has seen on the entire trip |
There seems to be some Inconvenience |
at the front, caused by the double name
given the thriving village on Cow Creek, |
the present terminus of the o. & G. R. r. |
The town has been laid out, plotted and |