The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-03-27

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH p, 1885.
The pay-rolls on the Comstock for Febru-
ary foot up saee,ooe.
One hundred converts to Mormonism re-
Gently left Tennessee for Utah.
A hill was introduced at the last Montana
legislature prohibiting prize fighting.
Chinese wash.houses pay license of 500
inside the fre-limits at Olympia, w. L.
Six hydraulics will be turned loose in less
than one week GA East Eagle in the Ceur
d'Alenes.
Placer miners in Southern Oregon are
making their spring cleanup, which will be
quite large.
Judge Deadly has rendered a decision
against the O. r. i N. Co., and judgement
ior S6s,l3i.
Portland men are preparing to erect re-
duction works on the north fork of the
Coeur d'Alene.
St. Pau1 papers say that trains 90 West
loaded with immigrants for Dakota, WASH
ington and Oregon.
In some portions of California the weather
is so dry that grain is suffering and poor
crops are predicted,
The total value of mill property on Puget
Sound is Sc, 800, 600; the daily cut Of these
mills is 100000 feet.
Jacksonville people talk'of building mar
row gauge line to MeLford to connect with
the Oregon and California.
Portland is honored with the presence of
a great pugilist, Mike Cleary, of Philadel-
phia, and is becomingly proud.
Ex-senator Nesmith has so far recovered
his sanity as to leave the asylum and return
to his home in Polk county,
Dakota has appropriated $500, 900 for pub
lie school purposes, thus demonstrating its
fitness for elevation to statehood.
Stock raisers near Walla Walla have club
bed together and will send ten car loads OF
horses and cattle to Chicago this week.
The Queen of the Pacific brought 120 in
tending settlers on it's last trip from San
Francisco. immigration has commenced to
pour in.
Owing to the favorable spring and good
grass, beef WHOLESALERS at 81 cts. live weight,
but retails as high as ever in most places,
says Portland exchange.
An Alabama boy has sent o buckeye to
president Cleveland, with instructions to
keep it in his pocket if he wishes to have his
good luck stay by him.
The present estimate of the wool clip of
Eastern Oregon for this spring is 5000, 600
pounds, larger amount than ever produced
in one year before by the same section
- Some promising quartz discoveries are re-
ported from Niger Prairie, which is stu
ated on the MuIlan road. near the boundary
line between Montana and Idaho.
The new quartz mill at Kinkead, New, is
running steadily ore from the Moss mine
in which it is said there is plenty of ore in
sight to keep the mill runnirg solid year.
Little Rex Hume, youngest child of Peter
Hume, of Brownsville, was drowned last
week in the race of the sash and door fac
tory, which runs through his fathers yard.
The California legislature passed a law at
its recent session giving to every young man
under 81 years of age, who would learn a
trade by serving three years apprentice
ship.
A Georgia man is trying to devise a
method of saving wood by electricity.
Electricity is an old and experienced wood
splitter, and may be able to learn to saw it
with some degree of skill.
An order has been received by Portland
firm from a wealthy Milwaukee brewer for
800 tons of barley. Heretofore, the brewer
writes, he has purchased his barley at
Ogden, but desires to give Oregon farmers
his patronage.
DIR. Sharples had 1000 youns fruit trees
growing on his farm near Eugene last fall,
and; about {, 900 of them were killed by the
hard winter. He expects to replace those
that died in short tim. anil increase the
number to?perhaps S,0Go.
- E .,
A Georgia editor states the natural and
unnatural resources of his State as follows:
Gold is found in :thirty-six counties in the
State, silver in three, diamonds in twenty
six, and whisky in all of them, AMI the last
gets away with all the rest.
The furnace of the Oregon Iron and Steel
Company at Oswego has been closed down
for few days until the mine can be opened,
and more ore secured. When work is re :
sumed again, no stoppage is expected until
the pressnt.orders are filed.
The hop yards all over the country are
looking well. but are said to be in rather a
backward condition at present. An unusa-
ally large acreage will he set out and culti-
waited this spring. Fifty cent wheat may
bring our agriculturalists to their senses after