The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31
News Summary.

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count Of the extremely low prices pre-
vailing. 1t is thought Cinnamon can
be induced to pick at that price.
The hotel at Huntington is nearing
completion, the plasterers being now
at work on the structure. The north
ern Pacific Hotei company are ready
to take the building Immediately upon
ats finishing This company is said to
be running $50 hotels west of Omaha.
A Wralla Walla exchange says: AS
harvesting proceeds a better quality
than was even expected, was threshed
out. The Fife wheat, sewed for the
FIRST time, exceeds the most sanguine
expectations, and far surpasses that of
Minnesota and Dakota in size, quality
and appearance
1t is row announced that the Cana
dian Pacific will be completed in six
weeks. Thus another steel band links
the Atlantic to the Paci1c. When the
road is built and immigrants began to
pour in, we will, undoubtedly, see the
Indian forced into reservations only at
the point of the bayonet as On this
side of the line.
A magnificent s,ew railroad bridge
spanning the Ohio river between
Evansville, Indiana and Henderson
E>entucky, was completed and formally
opened oaa the lsth- By means of
ehis bridge, (which cost over S. 900, 900
the railroad time between Chicago
and Nashville and between St. Louis
and Nashville and the south is mate
rally reduced The bridge is $3.50
fcct loag, with trestle approach of
three and half miles on the Indiana
side
Salem Statesmen: Work ON the
Silverten FIGURING mills is being rap
adly pushed. and they will soon be
ready to receive the new machinery,
said a Slverton man yesterday, the
machinery is expected to arrive in al
few days from the East, and the mill
will be In running order in time to
handle this seasons crops The ware
house, which has capacity of LOG, 900
bushels is already completed.
Ex-Governor Chadwick was ia town
yesterday, having come up from Gal
icc creek, where he spends nauci, time
watching operations at the Big fank
mine, in which he has a large interest, !
Governor Chadwick thinks the valua-
ble mineral springs and the grand and
beautiful scenery of southern Oregon
should attract greater attention from
pleasure and health seekers than they
now receive Ashland Tidings.
On Wednesday thirteen car-l,ads of
cattle were shipped from Pendleton to
Chicago. They go via the Oregon
Short Line and Union Pacific. This
is the third shipment during the pres
eat season, and the cattle, owing to the
superior accommodation for feeding
and watering by this route, arrived at |
their destination in splendid condition. |
The two former shipments were made |
at profit, and the business promises
to grow to large proportions.
Independence "West Side" Ware
houses all over the country are being
repaired and reftted to receive this
years crop. Most of them have been
smptied of last years crop, although
there is still some wheat held in store
for an advance. The Independence
warehouses will probably all be run by
their former managers and will accom-
modate several hundred thousand
bushels of grain. 1t is thought that
larger amount of grain will be stored
in this city this year than ever before
Mr.. Shelly Of independence has a
very unfortunate nose, says the "West
Side" When boy he broke it while
playing ball. A few years later he was
thrown from a horse and broke it
again. On Tuesday evening his two
year old child, whom he was holding
on his lap, hit it a blow with his head |
breaking it the third time. Mr.. Shelly |
has concluded to give the unfortunate
nose another chance, and now he has
it ornamented with strips of court plas-
ter.
The work of building the Palouse
branch of the Oregon Railway and