The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-02-13

| Arrangements are in progress for selling
the water power at Spokane Falls to Eastern
capitalists.
| There will he u large steam sawmill bull
in Duckworth, Lane county, next spring
by capitalists from the Umpqua.
The Los Angeles fruit growers are making
extraordinary efforts to beat the Florida
people in the fruit display at New Orleans
e pec:a!ly i'll the way of fine orange and cit
rus fruit.
At Seattle, on JAN l4th. William Lenard
died, aged lO6 years and three months
ct the time of his death he was, perhaps,
the Oldest man on the coast.
A rancher in Modoc county named Colin
Anderson, while going home through the
sage brush with lighted lantern, was fol
lowed by rabbits, attracted by the light.
The Modoc Independent asserts that the
rabbits were so fascinated by the light that
Mr.. Anderson was enabled to catch some OF
them by the ears and carry them home.
The Yakima country must be destitute of
fruit, Judging from the quotations. published
in the local papers. Dried apples are sell
ing at sixteen cents per pound, while
peaches and p;ums are quoted at from
twentythree to twenty-five cents. This is
fifty per cent. higher than Portland.
The dairy produce dealers in San Fran
cisco Claim to have the hest organized and
most systematic exchanges in the country.
This exchange has done much toward TIE
establishment Of large creameries and dairy
;;srins ill California, and has aided in pro-
curing IL ready and remunerative market for
5he prp,!u:t.
The stage running betwean Grants Pass
AMI Wildervile WAS capsizcd on Wednes-
lay of last week while crossing Applegate
creek, apl the driver, a Mr.. Jones, Mrs.
Mary Jillson with her two children and
Andrew McClung, who was on his way home
from the penitentiary, sent from Douglas
county last spring. were all drowned. Mr..
Jones WAS proprietor of the Wildervile
hotel.
There has been discovered near Yuba
Dam fugitive sheep, which, i'll swimming
through the muddy water, had become
thoroughly covered with ''slikens. in which
much grass seed hed been mixed. A thick
crop'of green grass is now growing upon the
Sleeps back. Both the sheep and grass are
being carefully guarded, ami when the lat
l. c,,1 -
harvested and converted into hay and pre-
served as one of the California curiosites.
There may he some truth III the story but
the average reader will denounce it i'll the
name of the town originating it.
The citizens of Vancouver hell meeting
a few evenings since for the purpose of tax
ing measures for building a narrow gauge
railroad or tramway from Vancouver to the
Cascade Mountains O. 4. Palmer offers
20 put i'll his tramway, which is already con-
structed for a distance of three miles.
Shou'i this track be extended to the river
front and for eighteen miles more it would
tap one Of the finest timber belts in the
country. a number of business men and
several capitalists are interested in the mat
ter and the road will doubtless be built.
Grain never looked better at this season
of the year than that now growing in the
northern portion of Yamhill and the south
ern part OF Polk, and the rank growth is
now furnishing the hest feed FOR stock on
many FARMS Judging from the looks of
plowed fields along the railroads the heavy
snow of month ago acted pulrerzrr
and benefited the land, the weight and
lampness of the snow having mashed the
clods, making the fields look as level as the
floor -Yamhill Reporter
IT. is stated that there are extensive de-
posits of coal at different points along the
western division of the Canadian Pacific
railway III Monitoba. While digging wells
instead of water, the drills penetrated sui
terranc IN gas tanks in several instances,
and operations were suspended. Lighted
were held at the surface of the
wells, aud the escaping gas ignited at once.
1t has heen burning ever since, without iu-
terruptiun or sign of cessation. L is the
general Impression that immense beds of
coal ant! deposits OF petroleum will ION be
developed in that region, especially in the
of the Sas lzatchewan river.
Says Salem exchange: The Narrow
Gauge f;ailroad in Linn county is ,loing
good business, and yet the citizens stand
back and say nothing while the company
have actually the aulacity to afford no bet
ter accommodation for passengers than a
poorly arranged box car. A few dollars
md little trouble at the companys ex-
pense would put a good passenger coach on
the road if only the people would ask.
Ask largely that ye may receive abundant
ly. TIE company has good coaches; all to
be done is to put them on the road. This
" ill increase the travel that way, and, of
course, will encourage the company to for