, 1883-09-20
Clippings.

The precise spot where the last spike
in the n. 2. r. r. was driven is in Dee
Lodge county, Montana. 1t is 1,19:
miles from Lake Superior, and 347 from
Puget Sound.
The most elaborate and costly car ye
built is said to be one just finished il
the Barney & Smith factory at Dayton
| Ohio, for President Willard, of the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company.
The chief products of Washington
Territory in 1888 will be approximately
Five hundred million feet of lumber
100000 tons of coal. 25O,0O0 cases OF
salmon, 2,500,000 pounds of hops, 1885,,
| 900 pounds of wool, 1,200 tons of iron
Sl5O,OO0 in gold and silver, 25,0OO tons
of oats, 2500O0 tons of wheat, 100000
barrels of -four, 10000 sacks of oysters,
10000 barrels of lime.
The schedules of freight tariffs on the
n. p r. r. and o. r. 4 Co.'S lines have
been issued. Through freights from
from New York to Portland range from
Sc per 100 on first-cIass to S150 for
class ID, or the eighth classification.
From Chicago from So down to S1.5O,
and from st. Paul from S4.35 to SI.4O.
trelghts, east or west bound, are practi-
cally the same. When rail communion
ton is made with Astoria, New Tacoma,
Seattle and Olympia the same rates will
also apply.
The company organized in Seattle to
build railroad extending from near the
head of Big Skookum Bay westward into
the dense body of timber lying between
that bay and Chehalis river, have about
215 miles graded and will begin laying
the iron in October, when it will be turn
ed over to them by the Seattle R. r. Co.
who will then have substituted the broad
track for the present narrow guage. The
Mason county road will also be narrow
guage and will use steam engines for
motive power.
Queensland, thriving Australian col
nese coolies. Some enterprising dealer
in cheap labor is bringing the Celes-
tials over by the ship-load with the evil
dent intention Of flooding the colony
with the heathen before restriction Act
can be passed. AS the Colonial Parlia-
ment does not meet for several months,
the chances are that he will be success
full. 1t will probably be news to the
ro-Chinese advocates that the Austria
lian colonies have the same complaint
against eoolie labor as the Pacific States
and Territories. 1t seems that the only
people who favor the pig-tailed pagan
are those who never came in actual con-
tact with him, but who depend, like the
Brooklyn preacher, ON theory" to prove
that he is valuable acquisition to a
State.
A remarkable artesian well is being
bored in New York city under the new
building of Cyrus w. Field, at the juno
ton of Broadway and the Battery. 1t is
to be 1900 feet deep and the bore, eight
inches in diameter, is through solid rock.
About one-half the well has been dug,
being made at the rate of 100
feet q week. 1t is singular fact that,
although the we'll is only $50 feet from
the bay, not drop of salt water has
been encountered, the flow being pure
and cold as from a mountain spring. 1t
is estimated that the we'll will cost S15,-
900, but this expense Will soon be saved,
as, in addition to the water rates in all
the New York buildings n huge tank
must be constructed to supply sufficient
pressure. New York has failed to get an
ample water supply, although it has an
Acqueduct Commission, the members Of
which draw $4,000 salaries.