The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-01
News Summary.

lax llSI III fdklIQd County,.
The grangers of Butte creek, Mar
on county, have organized cooper:
tive store.
The rain in Lane county has helpe
the growing crops but not enough fo
plowing.
A cavalry company has been mus
tered at Looking Glass, Douglas coun
ty, with forty men.
The body of Frank Rampy, wh'
was drowned at Harrisburg on Apr
Iath, has not been found.
Tacoma News: 1t is rumored thai
the contract for the Cascade tunne
will positively be let on the 18th o
May and the work pushed through.
The Union Pacific and Oregon
Short Line have reduced their freight
time twenty-seven hours, and will lane
carload freight into Portland from
Chicago, in eight DAYS, and merchan
disc in ten days.
The gold belt along Burnt river
Baker county, is attracting renewed In
terest. Railroad men and Eastern
capitalists are in the country prospect
ing. Some ore taken out averaged
$50 to the ton. 10.
The Oregon State Fair will be held
at Salem beginning on the end oi
September and last one week. The
premiums will amount to $4,000.
Of this $4,000 will be for racing and
$500 in other prizes.
The following is summary of the
wealth OF this State: Farm products,
SIC, 100000; farms, 100000
farming machinery and implements,
$s,e56,17S live stock, $I3. 900;
mines and implements unknown; other
personal property unknown. Total,
$12o,o56,l73. r
A hurried roundup of cattle, begin
ming at Bear Creek and sweeping the
desert by way of Powell Buttes to the
Deschuttes, and thence to Lower
Crooked river, was made last week.
The stock looked well considering the
ordeal through which they have passed.
Says the Prineville News: The
Smith Bros. sold their entire band of
cattle. numbering about GOO or 100,
this week to T. J. Logan of Camp
creek one of the heaviest stock growers
in the county. Mr.. Logan, we are
informed, paid ii. boys $2s a head,
this years calves not included.
Hon. E. B. McElroy, State Super
intendent of Plolic Instruction, is
making arrangni-nts to hold teachers
institutes during the coming summer
at Baker City for the 9th district, at
Grants Pass for the Ist district, at
Corvallis or Yaquina Bay for the end
district, and the teachers association
at Astoria.
Dwellers in the glorious State of
Colorado were treatei on the 74th
day of April to continuous snowfall
of nine hours, which left the whole
country under heecy mantle to the
depth Of about twenty inches. Ore
gonians feel privileged to growl be-
cause of light frost and cold winds.
The spring of 1885 will long be re-
membered by residents of this valley
for the absence OF sickness. Fevers
generally prevail at this season of the
year, but so far as we can learn peo-
pie are singularly free this spring from
the visitation of these maladles. The
beautiful weather must have something
to do with it.
The Jacksonville Sentinel says, that
an enterprising New Yorker has made
the o. & C.. r. R. Co. a proposition
to buy their tunnel on the Siskiyou to
be used as a cellar for large ale and
porter brewery which he proposes to
erect there. In all probabilities the
company would do well to sell it, as
it will hardly ever do them any good.
The land department connected
with the Northern Pacific railroad has
just received information that, by or
der of President Cleveland, the U. S.
land Office at old Yakima City has
been removed to North Yakima The