Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-10
E8GEF NENTIGN.

q II. W. Beecher will visit US next sum
81 mer.
The Fanny Lake is now doing the
enagct trade.
Mr.. E. Sibley of Auacortes has two
3 fine steers for sale.
The Skagit, Fraser and Columbia Rivers
8 are all frozen over.
Il Mr.. w. Dcutsch went ia Seattle on the
Welcome last Tuesday.
i A blacksmith shop will shortly be es>
4 tablished in Coupeville.
i Mr. o. Graham went to Seattle on the
1 Quincy last Tuesday night.
Mcnamara, the popular hotel keeper
Of Mt. Vernon, is doing large business.
Mr.. Amos Bowman has gone East on
business, and will be absent about two
\ months.
The foundation for a new, large and
first class hotel has just been laid at Mt.
Vernon.
There is an extensive traffic on steamers
going to Whatcom County. Laconner
has improved considerably this year.
Another vein OF best bituminous coal
Is feet thick. has been fodnd a: the Pa
cifc Cumberland Coal Nine on the Skagit
n River
Collector Bash has bought the Phillips
farm on Wildly Island. The Crockett
farm (Highwarden) refused an offer OF
$4,000.
Some miscreant, evidettly not not be-
longing to the neighborhood, bro%e the
oars of Mr.. Nelson's boat last Tuesday
night
Joseph Spratt of Victoria is fitting up
a steamboat cannery with which to follow
I'D schools of marketable fish wherever
they may go.
Mr.. John p Reed visited Guemes ISL
and last week. Mr.. Reed lives at the
southwest of Guen.es Island and reports
fiourishing condition for that section.
Mr.. ]. H. Swerdfger, late of Seattle
has accepted position on the NORTH
WEST ENTERPRIsE. He is authorized t.
receive and receipt for moneys due thu
ENTERPRISE.
Since the blowing up Of the Josephine
the Mcknight has gone buck into the
Skngpt. from the Stilaguamish River
where she vas engaged in towing auc
jobbing all last summer.
Mr.. McAuley, of Semiahmoo. who wen
across the Cascades after o span OF horses
few months ago, has Just returned. HI
went over the Snoqualmie Pass and re-
turned by way of the Natchez Pass.
Coal has been found in the mountains
three miles south of the Pacific Cum
berland Coal Company's property or
skaget River. Mr.. Virgins, an old Goa
miner residing near Balls camp, has found
new locality on the Nookachamps.
Mr. Ball. the enterpr!sing logger of the
Skaget, is now running, eight miles abov.
Mount Vernon, first class store, doing
probably the largest business on tn,
river, and has four logging camps, three o
them on the Nookachamps tributary.
B. N. L. DAVIS, the hop grower resd
ing two miles above Mt. Vernon on thu
Skaget River, leased the Williamson hop
ranch, above WIburton and the Goa
mines last season, for . sm all sum, and
cleared off the seven or eight acres on the
two places $4,000.
One day last week while Mr.. Al. Gra-
ham was engaged In cutting shakes OF
rdalgo Bay, limb from a fallen fir
which had lodged in tree near where hi
stood fell upon his back and shoulders
inflcting severe though not dangerous
bruises. Mr.. Graham was compelled Il
abstain from work for several days, but
we are glad to state that he has recov'
cred from the shock.
Gary Postoflice, sometimes called Cary
Vile, is a new settlement started by Free
man OCary & Bro, few miles allow
Wilburton and the coal mines on Skage
River. Quite clearing has been made
here on what may be pronounced thu
finest bottom land on Puget Sound.
is situated so far up that the river has Gu
for itself bed to run in without over
flowing at high water. Including boil
sides OF the river the valley here is tire
or four miles wide.
RAILWAY Il NAVIGATION NEWS.