The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-02
general NEWS.


Six new business houses are now rndel
way in Puyaliup.
Brick are selling for 81 to SIT along tn,
Sound, and scarce at that.
All the frame work on the north Goa
bunker at Tacoma is finished, and the plank
ing of the shutes will begin at an early date
Five hundred tons of gravel brought tt
Seattle as ballast by the ship Daniel Rarnes
is being utilized on the streets of that city
The increase OF population and business
in the city OF Seattle has compelled the en-
Iargement of the postoffice building at thai
place.
On account of the steady demand for lum
Der and the introduction Of new mills On tn,
Sound, the timber claims are attaining Z
greater value.
A correspondent of the Albany Democra.
writing from Union under date Of February
Is, says:
Sheep and cattle are dying in this valley
very fast, where feed is tolerably plenty
but very high, some stock men paying as
high as 81 per ton. If the weather contin-
ues cold much longer the loss OF sheep. cat
tie and horses will run into the thousands.
Men who were lieh last fall will be pool
men in the spring. A snow slide in Ante
lope valley, 10 miles from here, buried
four of Mr. Cyrus Freccott's children. The
parents being near by, dug the little fellows
out, but not until they were nearly sufoca
ted by snow.
The farmers at CASTOR say that the great.
er portion of the fall grain was killed by the
recent freeze, and letters from YanhiI and
Polk counties report grain IL a similar con-
dition there, says the daily Neacs.
A steamer burned two miles from shore
on Puget Sound on the 9th, says tho Prime
vile Ne,os. Three OF the crew and two PAS
sengers were drowned while attempting to
escape. Those who stayed with the beat
and fought the flames were recaed by boats
from the shore. - .-.- .-......
The Dash:ng Wave, on the way to Taco
ma has over $40. coo worth If groceries and
hardware on board for the Tacoma Mill
store.
The Goldendaie GaxeHs W. T., says: The
past three weeks have been unusually severe
for this country, but stock are mostly doing
well. A few pigs have died By snsothering,
trying to get into the ran,e bed. We be
Eeve all in this locality are well supplied
with feed for another month or two, but as
the weather has changed so much, we don't
expect to use it all this winter.
The Tacoma Ledger says: The question
of how to obtain brick in sufficient
numbers to enable men to build suitable
business houses is still agitating ths minds
of leading citizens 1t is stated on good
ground that the market win afford at New
Tacoma this year for upward of million
and half OF brick All these, and prebs.b-
ly many thousand mere, could be used here.
1t is asserted that if they could be obtained
at least half dozen firms here would con-
struct business houses, each from two to
three stories high, and of other proportion
ately large dimensions
A correspondent writing from Palouse
City, w T., to the Roseburg PlaindcaJer,
says: But with all this cold weather and
hard winter, we have grand country, as
during the summer any man who viii wo-k
has ample time to prepare for winter as we
have the finest soil in the world for raising
grain and hay. After one gets the sod sub
dnced, which takes but ore year, the soil
become mellow and is easily cuitivate1, it
being rich black loan and very proauc-
tive. During the next six months the N.
P. r. r. will have been finished, thus Civ
ing Us an opportunity of sending our surplus
produce either east or west, as the demand
may be. Then, of course, capital will come
into the country, and those desiring TO sell
out will be enabled to do SO. Land at pres
ent is held pretty nigh; of course there are
some who are dissatisfied on account Of tie
hard winter and say they are going to South
but mcst OF the people of this
country have come to stay.
A letter has been received at Eugene City
from Washington which expresses belief
that an appropriation would be made, to inl-
prove the Sinslaw river. -
J. FL. Dickson has the contract to furnish
the new insane asylum with $50 cords of
oak wood at g. 95 per cord.
A petition is being circulated at Salem
praying the city council to remove the Chi
nese wash houses to certain prescribed
limits in the city.
The Roseburg Independent did not appear
last week owing to the illness of Mr.. C.
Bull, the editor. It will appear next week
as usual.
Farmers in Douglas have commenced re-
sowing in places where the Fall grain was
frozen out.
A young child of Hank Edwards died
in Baker City last week.
Notwithstanding the game law several
people are said to be killing the deer quite
reely selling the carcasses to the railroad
graders in Baker county.