Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-08-11

their success this year IL the business, as
shipments OF oysters have been heavier
this summer than ever before, and the
oysters were lat and spawning freely.
The managers OF the industrial fair at
Olympia have issued circular inviting
the farmers, mechanics and business men
of Washington and Oregon to cooperate
with them in an industrial aad mechani-
Cal tslr to he held at that place, beginning
Monday, October 6.h.
Details are now in progress for convert
ing the banking house of Hoyt, Phillips &
Co. into the First National Bank of Olym
pia. The new order of things will go into
active business operation in the early all.
tumn, with John p. Heyt as president,
and a. A. Phillips, cashier.
Marshall Fi,ld, of Chicago and Baker
& Boyer, of Walla Walla, are the propri-
etors of new town II Eastern Washing
ton, which they have named Waverly. 1t
is surrounded for twenty miles by fine
agricultural country. A Touring mill will
be one Of the first enterprises.
The Columbia valley elevator company
have made arrangements for three car
loads of the best Minnesota wheat to be
brought to Walla Walla county from Min
neapolis next fall and distributed there
and in the Palouse country for seed, in
order to .cat the capacity of the country
for the hard wheats of Minnesota.
A circular has been issued by parties IN
San Francisco, calling attention to certain
properties in Washington Territory, de-
scribed by metes and bounds. and said to
lie 90 miles east of Seattle, which contain
va7deblc coal deposits. 1t ia proposed to
organize a company to develop these
fields, with view OF shipping &c the San
Francisco market Should company be
organized, and the locations claimed by
the company turn out as expected, capital
will be invested and the MINES worked for
al they are worth
San Francisco Chronicle: George B.
Mallory, a civil engineer from New York,
in the employ of President Willard of the
Northern Pacific railroad, is in the city.
He will go to Portland next week, there
to superiptsnd the construction of grain
elevator for the Northern Pacific. 1t will
be built upon The plan of the elevators
now in use at New York. 1t will cost
about $1,000 and will have capaci ty
of storing 5000 tons OF grain. The con-
struction of similar elevators is also con-
tcmpIa.ed at later date at Puget Sound
and at Walla Walla.
J. w. Walterhouse, representative of an
extensive mill furnishing establishment at
Minneapolis end Chicago, has made con
tract with Messrs. Havermale g. DAVIS to
place the gradual reduction process ma
ch!nery in their new mill at Spokane
Falls. The mill is to have a capacity OF
500 barrels per day, and is now nearly
compl ted and ready for the reception OF
the me chinery. 1t Is to he in running
order by Feb. 1, and will coss $4,000
Mr.. Walterhouse is very favorably i'm
pressed with the country around Spokane
and says the water power there far sur
passes that at Minneapolis.
n, g. Booth, OF Seattle, has returned
from an examination of copper mine To-
Gated in Union c5unty, Oregon, about
forty miles northeast of Baker City. The
indications are that the mine 10 one OF
great richness, specimens sssaying so per
cent. of copper and $75 per ton of gold
and silver. A company has been organ.
lied under the laws of Washington Terri
tory for the purposes of working this
mine, shf men have already commenced
work. This company has eighteen claims
on the lode, 600 feet wide by 1890 feet In
length. Mr.. Booth reports that he meas
ured the groupings on one of the claims,
100 feet wide by 800 long, and believes it
is the largest and richest body of copper
ore that has ever been discovered in the
United States.
Spokane Chronicle: Mr.. Sayre. of Or
chard 6 Sayre, returned Saturday from
Colville valley, where he has been looking
over the country and enjoying life for a
few days. He brought back some fine
specimens of silver bearing rock ard says
there are acres of it 10 that valley There
will be developments in the Colvile which
will start boom before we are hardly
aware of it. Mr.. Smith brought couple
of sons' Of ore to the Falls and sert it to
San Francisco to have it reduced, and
should it prove as remunerative as it APP
pears, we look for fortunes to be made
in the Colville in short time. Many
people are going into the valley, too, to
take up lands, aud the surveyors are there
and about to begin work, when immi-
grants will flock in from all quarters
A correspondent thus writes of Stevens:
A station hitherto unknown has more
grain to ship this season than any station
along the line OF the Northt ru Pacific rail
road. Independent OF this. large coal
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