The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-16

There are fifty new houses in process Of
erection in Portland.
Salem is soon to have national bank,
nth capital of $4,000.
Sixty-four arrests were made in Salem
during September, of which whskey caused
forty eight
A squash vine in full bloom may be seen
growing amid the ruins of the Clarendon
hotel Portland.
North Yakima is now the distributing
point for all the upper Yakima, the Wenat-
chic aud Big Bend county.
The Roseburg city election was held last
Monday and lS9 votes poled. Fl. c. Stan,
ton is president of the board OF trustees.
Land sales of the Northern Pacific rail
road during September amounted to %, 49O
acres, as against 1876 acres for the same
month last year.
Judge Denny, who was formerly in Ore,
gon, has been appointed adviser at court for
Corea, says the Shanghai Mail, at a salary
of 81 900 month.
The secretary of state has placed some
very complete and reliable time locks on
the vaults in the Capitol building, that are
we'll worth examination.
R. S. Wallis has bought the whole of w.
F. Boothby rs stock in the Salem water COM
pany, also that of E. p Mccormack. Mr..
Boothby owned $50 shares and Mr.. McCor-
mack 50 shares.
The Skookum lode in the Ceur d'Alene
mines was recently sold for $4,000, and ne
gutiatinns are now pen ling for Il sale of the
Mother for $780, Colfax parties are in
terested in both.
Beef cattle in the willamette Valley are
scarce, and meat will probably be high the
coming winter. But there is abundance
of hogs and p,'rk will be cheap.
Negotiations are now pending for the sale
of the Oregon and California Railroad to
the Central Pacific. If the sale is made the
gap between Ashland and Delta will be COM
pleted in three and one-half years.
The Oregon City Woolen Mills employ
$50 persons, fifty of whom are the heads of
families, fifty more families derive partial
support from the same source. The month
| ly pay roll is over SC, 600. over three-fourths
OF which is paid to white labor.
| A thorough canvass of the wheat belt
of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories,
and the north tier of Dakota counties, shows
cunclusively that the cereal in this belt is
injured beyond repair by killing frosts in
August last. The wheat was frozen in the
milk.
Over l 900 workingmen and business men
of Portland, says the News, were in the
public plaza bounded by Main, Salmon,
Third md Fourth street last week, to form
an anti Coolie league in Third ward. The
meeting was addressed by several speakers.
! A rich find was discovered three miles
north of Sparta, few days ago, by Mrs.
Ainsworth, the wife of u well known mine
there. The pay strip has been uncovered
| for 200 feet and is fifteen inches wide. Be-
yond stripping no development has been
made.
The Coquille Herald says: The run of
stlmon into this river is unparalleled. At
the mouth of the river they so thick
that a person can kill them with an oar as
he pulls his boat along A drift-net was
put out at Machado's the other day, and at
the end of half an hour it was so full that it
was with difficulty got ashore. 1t was
found to contain 1877 salmon.
Polk county assessment: 1888 cattle, rs
mules, 4763 horses, 4763 hogs, 26, 336 sheep.
90, ,4S9 acres under cultivation, wheat crop
l.O42, 9lO bushels, oats 492, $50 bushels,
barley and rye, 81, 303 bushels, butter and
cheese l52, ,O65 pounds, hops IL $50 pounds,
hay ,245 tons; potatoes so,225 bushels
apples ls2, $50 bushels, prunes and plums
,475 bushels, lumber, sawed, 1850, 00(
feet, population 63l6.
The Coquille Herald reports that six
black sand claims, including the Joshus
Wright claim, back of Randolph, has re
Gently been sold for $40, 200. Great ex
icitement exists. from the fact that COM
pany has bought the Eagle mine in addition
to the above and intend to start mp will
100 men. Several other rich companies
have their agents securing that part of tn
country, and locations are being made.
A fire was discovered Thursday morning
of last week in the basement of H. S. Croc
ker & Co.'s widely known sta tionary ant
printing warehouse of San Francisco. Th
great establishment was completely de
troyed. Not vistage CT the Immense
Istock was saved. The loss is estimated a
nearly 81, 900, 900. There is no insurance
ON the building. The Crocker building wa
J valued at $4,000. The total loss on stool
and building is 100000; insurance on th'
stock, S225, ZOO. A large amount of. Christ
mas and other goods were in the Easements
of the block, which were flooded
Shreeves & Co., manufacturers of jewlery
) who occupied the upper floor OF Croker
buiidino Thair loco ia S20 000 insured