The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-03-13
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with their agricultural WORKS. IL Will TURN
-out Sc, 600 year.
The school clerk in his annual report gave
the number of school children in Ashland
district as 6l3, showing material increase
in population within the year.
1t is generally expected that the Oregon
Southern Improvement company will run a
railroad to the Coquille river this season to
secure timber for their mill at Empire.
A reduction was made in the employees
at the railroad shops at The Dalles, on the
first of the month by which about sixty
men are thrown out of employment. This
change will be noticed both in society and
business.
The site for the new light house at the
entrance of the harbor will be ON the south
side of the channel, ON What is known as
Point Robinson, and will consist of three or
four acres, to be purchased of Glen Peterson.
The light will be fourth class one, and Is
to cost SIS, 500.
Beallview, the new town near Central
Point, jackson county, now promises to
loom up and soon put on city airs. The
new warehouse will be commenced at once
and several other Improvements are i'll con-
temptation, all occasioned by the side track
authorized by the legislature.
Some time ago word came that rich silver
mines had been found ON the Trask river,
in Tillamook county. Now it is reported
by private letter that rich gold diggings
have been found. Good placer mines would
start an old fashioned stampede down that
way.
The following is the business of the U. s.
land Office, at Roseburg, transacted during
the month of February: 65l acres sold for
cash; % homestead entries embracing 27SS
acres; final homestead entries covering 372
acres; % presumption filings and l timber
application.
Linkwlle and vicinity claims to have
made Improvements during the year 1884 to
to the amount of $4,000, and still,
although the county seat of klamath county,
and not behind her sister towns in many en-
terprises, she cannot boast of single side
walk wide enough to accommodate two per-
sons.
Mr.. A.hby Pearce, ;ferryman at Albany,
and NJ. Rauey, in attempting to board the
steamer Occident, at Albany, from a skiff
last Friday, were thrown into the water by
the capsizing of The sklf. A rope was
thrown from the wharf by which Mr..
Pearce was enabled to reach the shore in an
exhausted condition. Mr.. Raney clung to
the skiff and was picked up several hundred
yards below.
The people of Washington county in gen.
eral and Forest Grove in particular are DIS
pleased over the order for the removal of
the Indian school to Salem. In fact. they
claim that as Salem has the Capitol and
Legislature, the insane asylum, the peni-
tentiary an | the State Fair, it is hoggsh-
ness to gobhle the Indian school too. OF
course, Salem is serene under the growing;
for has she not captured the prizes?
The recent Legislature declares that the
following shall be legal holidays: Every
Sunday, the first day of January, 22ad OF
+,
December, every day on which an election
is held throughout the State, and every day
appointed by the President or Governor as a
day of public thanksgiving, fast or holiday.
Negotiable instruments payable ON hoi..
day, become due the next business day.
There arrived over the Northern Pacific
in-Jannary at points west of Spokane Falls
36l immigrants, and January is the dullest
month of the year. The Northern Pacific
bureau of immig ration have received since
January first an average of 200 letters of in
quiry per week, almost every one from per-
sons who intend to go to Oregon or Wash
,ngton before May lst. 1t is not unlikely
that the immigration in March and April
will be heavier by far than any two other
months on record.-Ex.
Lieut.. Schwatka thinks the day is not
far distant when man may take ride from
Minneapolis to the mouth of the Yukon
river in Pullman sleeper If it should be
in the winter season he may pass over Bsh-
rings straits OH the ice in the same sleeper,
and thence extend his excursion to st. Pet |
ersburg. The track across the straits will
connect with line of railroad now in pro-
cess of construction by fhe Russians to tie
mouth of the Amoor river, whence it might |
easily be extended to the straits to connect |
with the American system at that point |
In the classic language of the street, this
will be "big thing on ice"
A French fnancier of some renown pre-
diets that a few years hence the European
continent will be nothing but casino for the |
white races of America, Africa and Aus
,tralia Agriculture in Europe is played out,
he says, aud her factory and mining in
.dustry will be similarly supplanted by the
vast coal fields and infinite petroleum of
Russia in Asia, and by the mineral wealth |
of America, China, Australia, and the still I
.unexplored mountains of New Zealand