The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-05

pressed with orders that it is impossible to
load all the vessels.
About 80 men are employed at the Taco
| ma lime kiln and about 100 barrels of lime
are being turned out daily. A new kiln is
about to be built.
Between 90 and 100 men are employed at
Listers iron works in Tacoma The pro-
| prietor is negotiating with Salt Lake parties
| with view of developing the iron mines in
that section and producing pig iron for home
use.
White Salmon valley, 20 miles below the
Dalles, in Klickitat county, is growing rap
idly. Husum Is the commercial center,
| about five miles from the Columbia river
| contains grist mill and several business
houses, with a fine water power. A saw
mill is needed. Plenty of timber in the vi
cinIty, principally black and yellow pine
and fir.
At distance of about three miles from
Whatcom, near Harris bay, and plainly to
| be seen form the deck of passing steamboats,
is an old dilapidated building standing upon
the high open ground, with no other build
ings in sight, looking as deserted and cheer
less as one could well imagine. This house
was built eight or ten years ago, intended
for hotel, as it was thought the railroad
would make its terminus at that point.
The building is said to have cost $4,000.
About six weeks ago Levi Buckner, left
his ranch in Unatilla county, near Wild
Horse creek, for PendIeton with a load OF
wheat. When last seen he was within five
miles of Pendleton on the western stage
road. All inquiries so far have failed tt
find him. Buckner is a discharged soldier
a sober, industrious man, about 35 years o.
age, medium hight, wears dark mustache
is supposed that he has been foully dealt
with. It is not known that he had any
great amount of money on his person.
The government work at Cascade lock.
now furnishes work for It's hands.
A short time ago Hon. James Chencwetf
of Douglas county sold his place near Oak
land to James z. Dodge for $4,000. MIR
Dodge has since rented him the same place
together with his Green valley farm, for the
term of five years, for the sum of $35, 600
T. j. Dunton, of Lane county, purchased
5000 cranberry cuttings while in the easI
some time ago, and will plant them on some
marshy land in his possession. He believes
Oregon can raise as good cranberries as New
Jersey.
James Dixon, superintendent of the saw.
mill at Port Oxford, was drowned there or
the 18th ult. No one witnessed the drown
ing, but it is supposed Dixon slipped from
a log, and in falling struck other timbers,
and went into the water o. the dam in an
unconscious condition unable to help him
self. The body was discovered soon
after the accident, when the face was found
to be badly cut and bruised.
| A gentleman in UmatiIla county recently
found that he was unable to buy cattle to
stock his ranch in Colorado as cheeply in
Oregon as he could in Iowa and Missouri
Cattle are scarce in this state, and it was
almost impossible to procure the supplp he
wanted.
| The Evening Telegram complains of the
gambling dens of Portland where the
youths and minors of the city are admitted
1t calls upon the city authorities to suppress
them.
A son of Chris Flinduer of Portland and
another young man broke through the ice OIL
Chouch lake last Tuesday while skating
1t was a cold reception. They got out with
much difficulty.