Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-04-14
BRIEF MENTION.

WliNtm NlalicV saw gray "oli OH
Guemes Island last week.
lanes 4. Green sold so acres on Ten
Mile Creek to f. Collins, for 81 100.
A new organ for the Alden Academy
WAS landed on the wharf last Monday.
Sew machinery for the Colony's mill
at Wha,co u arrived on both steamers last
Tuesday.
Milton p. Cook. of Samsh, on the Ben
Welcher place, has 4 / acres of hops in
this season.
Jacob Chapman sold 100 acres of land,
ten miles from Whatcom on Ten Mile
Creek, for 5000.
A California merchant with a $4,000
stock of goods will soon open out in
business at Whatcom.
Judge J. F. Galley, of Douglas Co.,
Oregon, bought at Fairhaven one block
and two lots, tor $1,100.
Three gentlemen bought 90 lots from
Dan Harris last week for $3,000-S125
for corner and 800 for inside.
An immigrant AMI inform alton bureau
has been Incorporated at Seattle to induce
immigration t. Washi ngton Territory.
At a meeting of the Board of the Wash
ineton Colony at Whatcom last week, a
dividend of 1870 per cent. was declared.
Mr.. f. s. Whittier sold hls homestead
on Ten Mile Creek, about ten miles from
Nhatcom, to John McCloud, for $1,10O.
Youeg Lynch, of this island. distin-
guished himself last week 10y killing four
cougars, female and three young ones a
year old. o
During the past season the 26 logging
camps of Whatcom County employed 2i5
hands and cut 80, OO0, 900 feet OF logs, val>
ucd at 100000
Snohomish City is keeping up with the
march of improvement all over the Sound.
WITH two new additions the town site
covers 900 acres.
A new lime kiln has been built on San
Juan Island by the owner of the Eureka.
The coubiprd capacity of both kilns Is
100 barrels daily.
We ale informed that the contract has
been let for binding wharf from the
Colony's mill 10 deep water in Belingham
Bay, and that work on it win soon begin.
The steamer Welcome passed through
the harbor Monday and followed the FL
dalgo shore line its entire length. Those
Interested in such mysterious movements
may solve the purport OF them.
Mr. EIdridge, of Belingham, has on
hand about two thirds of the required
amount OF timber for the building OF a
wharf which will be soon commenced
and finished He says there is no doubt
as to the early completion OF saw mill at
BeIlingham.
Newton Hartman's new steamer Planter
is now nearly completed, and he expects
to have her running in two weeks. Her
hull was formerly the schooner Planter
but was thoroughly overhauled and re :
built. The Planter is designed for the
upper Skagit trade. f
BY agreement of all tho mill men on
tue Sound uniform schedule of retail
rates for lumber has been adopted, the
charge per thousand feet being the same
at Tacoma, Seattle, Port Townsend, LISA
lady or wherever else the buyer gives his
order. Prices range from $3.50 to SIS,
SIG. $lS and $50, according to quality.
The three lime kilns Oh San Juan Island
have, during the past winter, doubled
their facilities, and this season will turn
out 5000 barrels per week. In order to
accommodate this growing traffic the o.
X. g. n. Co. has chartered the coasting
steamship Gypsy, now lying in San Fran
cisco harbor, and will put her on the route
between New Tacoma and San Juan
Island, specially for the lime trade.