Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-08-18


l9,iloahan by nas been orj,ryd 10y th'
snserrm ut and is now in progr $.
tn" corn growing on The bench hnd'
il the yi,,ni'y Of Yakima i, surprise IL
m ny. SON pieces whjrl. have had rex
To no irrigation are holding ont VII
The July sales "l -fsrmjoe lands 10y H.,
Northern Pacific r.dlroat company, whil,
in excess of those recorded for July, lsS?
show . decided tallioG of from the uum
Der OF acres disposed of daring May and
. June of this year. During July the bulk
/ OF farming lands sold were IN the Big
/ Bend country, north of Sprague AMI west
of Spokane Falls. The objective point
for those who purchase town property is
/ Spokane Falls.
The Willamette valley is yielding much
hett crops than there WAS any reason
| for expecting, and while its crop will not
! be full one, the surplus for export will
very closely approach the figures of Other
! years. The yield east of tie mountains
will be enormous. late estimate puts
! the export surplus of that section at $50,
geo tons, or nearly double the surplus OF
last wear.
There are two small settlements in the
Quileute valley, an the prairies, ahou: 40
miles south of Cape Flattcry. Two and
one half townships have been surveyeA.
The prarics are all taken up ly actual
settlers. There are large tracts of good
bottom lands yet untaken.
A contract has been let yesterday for
grading and preparing a site tor an Eps-
copal collegiate institute for girls at New
Tacoma, II be built 10y gifts Of friends
and endowed l,y Mr. G. b. Wright, press
dent of the Tacoma Land company. The
institute will G called the Anna Wright
institute, in honor of Mr.. Wiight's or V
a giiter. The building viii cost $780,
90
a gentleman has returned from trip
20 Moses reservation, where he went for
his health, and reports mining boo uing
IN that Pat of the ontry. lie says the
reservation has b,en thrown open and
that there are scarcely any Indians leII
there, most OF them having gone to the
Colville reservation. lie also says there
are men respecting there for the San
Francisco bonal n kings, Flood and Mae
kay, and others. One mine was sold to
Olympia capitalists for $4,000 A youu2
man who went there knowing nothing
about INNING stumbled across ~ mine
which made his fortune. Morgan thinks
there are good prospects in that part of
9ho country.
The niains on the north side of the
upper Yakima are !ull OF pro pcc,or :.
Some are prospecting for valuable mi"-
erals while some parties, composed large
ly of females, are seeking health anI pleas
uie, and are bent on having good time.
Owing to continued drouth the hop
crop in the PuyalIup valley will fall below
he estimate ot two or three weeks ago
In many PLACES the hop vines have Il yell
low appearance, and the blossoms blow
away Without maturing into hops.
The present output of the Carbonate
c,a! mines is about $4,000 tons per month.
tar short of what it would be but for the
lossot the i'll iatcd new steam collier TIA
coma. When the new collier arrives.
which is of the same pattern of vessel rs
the Tacoma and San Pedro, The output
will be increased to 1900 tons per
month. The mine is opened to such an
extent that its output could on short no-
tice he doubled, and would be if much
needed tonnage were available to trans.
port its product to San Francisco.
Mcssrs. Miller & Bryerly, together with
a gentleman from the east, will soon erect
a sawnnll at NV Tacoma, with capacity
of 10000 feet per day.
A company of San Francisco capitalists
have been in Port Townsend the past
month negotiating for land and making
arrangements for building a sawmill and
ship yard at that place. Contracts for
grading and building are called for, and
the works. which are to he finished inside
OF six months, will cost 100000.
Senator Edmunds is home from the Pa
cilic coast and is very enthusiastic about
the Puget Sound scenery. He says the
glaciers at Mount Rainier are grander than
anything he ever saw IN Switzerland. His
trip has done him world of good
The Snohomish river is now abou. ms
low as ever known. Even canoe navign-
ton is attended with some difficulty above
Snohomish City, where the influence of the
tides is not felt. Eye.
The west half of township 81. range
cast, has been surveyed and accepted, and
is now ready for entry under the prs
emption. homestead or timber acts This
fractional township lies back and south
of the coal and iron discoveries on the
Skagit river.