Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-03-10
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

The Port Gamble and Port Blakely
mills raised the price of logs on the 18th
inst from SC. so to 81 per thousand.
The Port Discovery sawmill cut, during
the year 1882, $50 OOO,0 900 feet of lumber,
100000 laths and $4,000 pickets.
Mr.. Charles Miller, of the Natchcz, says
that very little stock was lost IN the va
kima valley, by reason of the recent severe
cold.
The Vidette learns that the Puget Mill
Company will begin the erection Of a
large sawmill on the Chehalis river near
Coslnopolis.
Work is progressing very rapidly on the
logging railway to Black Lake. The
roadbed is ready for the two miles Of iron
just received.
Five cases of varioloid were reported
at Sprague, but the premises where they
were was quarsntined, and the disease
did not spread.
Port Townsend is to have National
bank. The capital will be $4,000, di-
vided into 100 shares Of $500 each.
Henry Landss will be President, and X.
G. Hill, Cashier.
Mr.. J. P. Nation has . band Of about
G 800 sheep on the Sulphur creek range,
Yakima County, and by giving them close
attention has passed them through the
winter without much loss.
At Walla Walla prime steaks are now
selling at 20 cents per pound, and the
commoncst cuts at 10 cents. This is on
account of the difficulty of the butchers
in obtaining fat cattle, and also by the
general scarcity.
John Brown, a skagit river logger, WAS
impruGent enough to fasten . hesvy boom
chain around his neck, and when be
slipped off log into the water, he could
not free himself from tho burden, and was
drowned.
Several orchards on Snake river have
suffered from the late cold spell. The
warm fall caused the buds to swell, and
in that condition they were frozen. The
blackoned buds are sure sign Of scare
ity of fruit next summer.
weanes valley, Yakima County, pro-
duced, last year, 1000 tons of hay. 10000
bushels of grain and a.. kinds Of vege>
tables IN superabundsnce; also 10 babies.
It can boast of fair school and church
building 24x4O feet, we'll seated and well
patronized.
Snohomish City has a little boom in
real estate. Seventeen lots were sold
there recently, and the town grows un-
ceasingly. Two new additions are con-
templatsd by E. c. Ferguson, one Of forty
acres and one of sixty. The plated part
Of the town will then consist OF $50 acres.
Under the direction Of Mr.. Moore, the
proprietor of the work, from twelve to
fifteen men are now engaged in working
the black sand, for gold, at Peterson's
point, Gray's harbor, and although the
results are kept very close, the fact that
conside rable money is being made is sp.
parent.
Courier: The o. g. G. v. Railroad com.
psny refused to pay the municipal tax
levied upon their property in Olympia, on
the ground, as they claimed, of its ills>
gality; so last week the marshal sold
enough personal property t" satisfy the
claim Of the city against the company,
which was bought by 7. N. Ford.
The total rainfall for January, at Cape
Flattery, was S.34 inches The coolest
day was Jan. 18th, "a degrees above zero.
enough to whitsn the ground. There
were 10 DAYS cloudy; clear, z; fair, 9.
Rain fell on eight days and snow on one
day. The weather for February has been
very pleasant.
Pref Cox. the Superintendent of In
struction at Fort Simcoe, has somewhat
OF busy time. At in the morning he
must hurry out some Indian boys to milk
the cows, and half an hour later must see
that the so boys wash their faces, comb
their hair and have their clothing on
properly, ready for breakfast at z am.
And at the breakfast table he must see
that 100 Slwash girls and boys use knives
and forks, instead of the more primitive
mode OF handling food. At $50 pm.
school closes and the boys who are APP
prenticed to carpenter, blacksmith, saddle
and wagon making trades are sent to the
shops and the others to the wood pile
uItil supper time. At bed time there is
prayer and singing and then the boys are
sent to their bedrooms to 60 to sleep.
ALDEN ACADEMY ExAMINArIoN.-Ths