The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-07
News Summary.

forbidding the importation OF any con
vict-made goods.
A German has engaged eight Bells
Coola Indians at $40 a month to &C
with him for exhibition in a Berlin mu
scum. They left Tuesday for New
York. He has collected several cases
of Indian curiosities.
The Columbia pilots urge the neces
sity of dredging and sluicing the bars
between Portland and Astoria, now
that the Summer freshet is receding
The channel is being filled with sedi
enent, and the work should be done
promptly.
We. are informed that worm SIM
ilar to the cut worm has been work
ing on the green corn. Mr.. Lander's
patch, from which he expected to de-
rive quite a revenue, IS nearly de-
stroyed and it is probable TINT nearly
all the corn in the county is affected by
it.-West Side.
State Treasurer Hirsch has appor-
toned to the different counties the in
terest arising from the common school
fund. 1t is s59,o4o IS, and there are
1850 school children in the state.
Mu'tnomah, the most ropulous
county, has r1.41e children ef school
a.se,and receives the largest sum
$S5o425. Curry county is at the
other extreme, having but 467 children
and receiving $35o.55. =.
The steamer A. A McCully, which
has been on the ways in South Port
land for the past three weeks, was relau-
nched last week. The ropes were cut
promptly at that time, and the steamer
glided into the water without jas.
The McCully has been Thoroughly
ovevhauled and repainted and the ma
chinery repaired, at a cost of $4,000.
A new steam capstan has also been
pla6ed in the bow. The steamer will
be placed on the Upper Willamette
route and viii be commanded by Cap
tain S. V.Short
The Whatcom Reveille says: Gap
tain Roeder brought reports from Cou-
peville last Friday of 4 very rich find
on the Ruby creek, near the Twin SIS
ter peaks, in Whatcom comfy. The
Robinson claim, upoa which the strike
was made, was worked in 1859,
and pro pecting has been done on the
upper Skagit and surrounding territory
ever 81 &C with varying success until
the recent find. According to report
the three men at work on the Robin
son claim took out $1,000 in dust in
two days on the Robinson placer
claim The Ruby creek country may
be reached via Skagit river or over
land by trail from Fort Hope, B. c.
Speaking of the business outlook in
Southern Oregon, the Jacksonville
Sentinel says: "while there has been no
perceptible impetus to trade in the
last month, the business out Look is de-
cidedly more favorable The crop
prospects which looked doubtful in the
beginning of the season, is now SO fav-
orable that an average yield of grain is
fully assured, and the late rains have
made a good yield of corn a certainty.
The general business depression that
has prevailed everywhere, has affected
our country to some extent, but not as
it has in other localities where they de-
pended altogether on their export and
import trade. Our mines when we
have water, yield handsomely, and no
season has ever been SO dry but that
the revenue from this source has met
the moderate demands of the trad c
A Marion county exchange says
1.-The wheat crop is not likelyto turn
out as large yield as was expected by
the majority of farmers. In some loc
alities the yield will be over average
while in other pats of the county
even where the grain looked to be
above the average-it falls short. The
late warm weather has ripened grair
much faster than it has ever been
known to ripen in this. country before
and it has perhaps had tendency to
shrivel the grain, as it has roasted OF
blighted some of the fruit-apples
plums, etc. We have heard of severa