The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04

societies Of this State have issued a re
commentator for the appropriate OBJ
servation of centennial temperance
week, which comes the third week in
September.
About twenty-five miles from Eaker
City, the discovery las been made OF
running coal oil spring, by A A.
Miller, who has been for some time
prospecting the mountains in search OF
precious metals.
The government has begun suit
against P. R. Sinnott, agent of the
Grand Ronde Indian reservation, in
this State, to recover Several thousand
dollars, claimed to have been illegally
paid out by him.
A gentleman who is extensively en-
gagged in the grain trade, informs a
News reporte: that the wheat crop
from Portland to Eugene is twenty-five
per cent short. Between Eugene and
Ashland it is fifty per cent less than
last year.
The quartz mines in Southern Ore
gon are now looking up. J.W. Walsh,
former Washington Territory news
paper man, and H. F. Bragdon, a mer-
chant of Ashland, are developing
ledges on Wagner Creek, and expect
to get down to profitable work in a
short time.
1t is rumored that the Oregon and
California Company, through an agent,
is securing the right of way in Linn
county side of the North Santiam to-
ward Mimic Pass. 1t would appear
from this that the Oregon and Califor-
mia is about to connect Itself with the
Oregon Short Line.
Times are extremely dull i'll Canada,
according to the Toronto Globe, which
SAYS: "Froln Montreal to the sea
there is not a city, town or village in
which real estate would bring as good
prices to-day as it would have brought
in 1S74-S. There is scarcely one in
which building Operations have not
come almost to standstill. In none
of the provinces would a farm. sell as
well to-day as it would have sold ten
years ago."
The new mines on Blue River dis
trict in Lane cohnty are proving to be
good. Mr.. Gilbert, one of the original
has just returned from
San Francisco, having correct assay
from the government assay office.
The assay proves this quartz to con-
tain $27.6o gold and s1.1o silver to
the ton, These groupings are from
two to five feet deep. Mr. Gilbert
says it is much richer as they dig down
deeper. Several parties are going up
in few days from this county.
Standard: For the last sixty days
the land department of the Northern
Pacific has been making at the rate of
thirty deeds a day, and their return
from New York, executed by the pres
dent of the company, just begun.
Yesterday a batch of five hundred
we're received and are now ready for
delivery to the purchasers. They are
all clean-cut warantee deeds, excepting
where the line passes through the land
purchased. In such a case a reserva-
ion is made for the right of way.
The delivery of wheat to the mills
n Salem continues very large. At the
5. F. M. Cos mill the average receipts
ire from five to seven thousand bush
lis per day. Sales are very free at 81
cents. The market is in very peculiar
condition just now. The "bears" have
control of the market, and it will proba-
oly SO remain for some time. For this
'eason there is nothing to be seen in
he near future of the market to war
ant a prophecy as to its rise or fall
Statesman.
News: Hog cholera has again made
its appearance in many portions of IL
inois, and fears are entertained of its !
becoming general in the great pork
packing States. This being the case,
would it not be well for the Oregon
armers to turn their attention to pork
aising and ortlandcapitalists to pork
packing? The hogs of this country