Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-07-28
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Yakima City wants city government.
The revenue of the Seattle postoflice
last quarter exceeded $4,000.
Arrangements are being made to illumi>
nate Seattle with the electric light.
Frsm piece of ground 4SxS0 feet, Jo-
seph Bowser, of Yakima, has gathered III
gallons of Strawberries.
The Stetson & Post saw mill at Seattle
is so driven with orders that it is cons
PEELED to run all night to fill them.
Handsome subscriptions are being re-
ceived in Seattle In aid of the Seattle and
Wulla Walla wagon road company.
At Pert Townsend 1t is proposed to fill
in sea front enough to erect half dozen
Business blocks, but the proposition is
opposed by real estate men.
Owing to the long dry period in some
localities OF Yakima county wheat is cut
tor hay. hence the wheat crop will be less
than was anticipated in carly spring.
EIlensburg wants to be county seat
Kittitas VALLEY has not less than 1000 in
habitants, and as a matter of convenience
aud economy the new county is asked for.
The Spring Hill water works at Seattle
are employing 104 white men in ditching,
laying mains, etc. The works will he of
sufficient capacity to supply population
OF $4,000.
Frank Head exhibited a specimen of
timothy with heads eleven inches long,
anil gooseberry bush with berries the
size of pigeons eggs, raised on the Spo-
kane desert, six miles west of the Falls
The board of regents of the Territorial
University have decides to appeal to the
generosity of Seattle people for present
aid. Twelve or fifteen hundred dollars
arc required to meet the necessities OF the
institution,
The officers of the revenue department
at Olympia have recently sent off the
claims for rebate on tobacco and cigars,
made by dealers in this territory. They
numbered 255, ranging in amount from
$40 to $3.50, and aggregating $l5,O93.4s.
The United States land office has been
removed from Colfax to Spokane Falls
The Review says on good authority that
an influential gentleman was offered $780,.
600 to favor certain city in the southern
part of the territory, but he refused the
tempting bride.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
scientific party exploring the johnson
canyon, bout ten miles east of Elensburg,
consisting of six men under the charge of
Prof. r. N. Goode, topographer. They
will extend their observations to the head
of the Wenachie, to the Chelan mine.
The Port Blakely mill company have
now bought steel rails, SO lbs, sufficient to
lay down eight miles of road, and work
on it will begin early next year. As fast
as business will warrant, the road will be
extended, and doubtless in two or three
years will reach the Chehalis valley at or
near Elma.
The difference between white and Chi
nese labor is recognized even by China
men. Wa Chong, the Seattle contractor,
employs both classes of labor. To the
Chinese he gives $1.10 day, aud to the
white men, doing the same sort of work,
$3.50. This is an acknowledgment that,
from such source, will be received with
surprise. --Post Intelligencer.
Ellensburg Locallzei: We saw a nice
sample OF what is said to be genuine an
thracite coal. Upon inquiry we learned
that the discovery was made by VIM.
lakewood; that it is located on the west
slope of the Cascade mountains, in the
Packwood pass, and that it is 1s to "a
feet wide and many acres in extent. W.
believe this is the frst discovery of tina!
particular kind OF coal in the territory.
Between Kittitas valley and the Cascade
mountains are a number of little valleys
traversed by streams Of mountain watel
from the melting snow, tributary to the
Yakima river, OF high altitude, but pos.
sessing ali conveniences of timber, excel
lent grass for hay, and water. They are
well suited to grazing and agriculture. and
SO tar as get settled, prove successful il
fruit culture. Many claims are being To-
Gated there this summer.
The East Portland Vindicator of a re
cent date is authority for the following
Two prospcctors from Vancouver wen
CUT On Gunner creek, somewhere close t