, 1886-02-11

| There are several more in Port Townsend
whC cxIcct to go th"re III the course OF
the next month or two, and it may trans
pire that n general rush will ensue. Ii
ali reports are true the mines are
unusually productive FOR placer diggings,
and show good signs OF rich quartz
The CaH is exhibiting its sweet,
angelic nature splendidly. 1t now calls
the editor OF this paper ''cnr," and also
wants the public to crush the ARGUS,
OF course Its highly patriotic ard dis
interested wish will be promptly complied
with. In fact, We are crushed already
| We merely rise at this time to ask how
| long our neighbnr wants us to stay
crushed. It's merely matter OF taste,
you know We are willing to do any
thing to accommodate so kind a friend.
FIRE-Port Townsend narrowly es-
capped what could net have proved any
thing less than serious coIhagEatIon
this afternoon. The roof of the
Foundry caught fire from the tiue while
blast was in, and in a few moments all
the surrounding wood work was ablaze.
By prompt action it was extinguished
before any serious damage was done.
If it had got under headway with the
gale that was blowing at the time the
fire would have spread rapidly to the
other buildings This only shows that
we should not trust to luck altogether
as protection from fire.
Elk SHooTING.-The Seattle P.-I. has
the following: IN. Z. D." correspon-
dent at Forks, Clallam county, wrote Us
as follows last week: The crack shot
OF Forks-Merrill Whittier hunt
ing a few days ago, killed two elk with
one shot, the ball after passing through
one entering the side of another. Mr..
Whittier also killed six elk yesterday,
and today the people of Forks are busily
engaged supplying themselves with elk
steak. Weather cold, wind blowing
steadily from the northeast. We have
just SNOW enough to gray the ground" L"
Mr.. Whittier is brother-in-law Of the
editor of this paper, and is woodsmau,
hunter and lumberman, formerly from
Nova Scotia
BUILDING OUTLOOK For 1SS6.-Withal
that everything seems unusually quiet
in town, yet it is said that there is a
better building outlook for the coming
season than for two or three years past.
Carpenters claim that Port Townsend
will show up plenty OF new roofs by fall.
Among those who are said to have plans
in view are Mrs A. A. Piummer, who is
| TO build new house near where Enoch
Plummer now lives; Henry Landes,
who contemplates building some small
tenament houses to rent, and also in
connection with Mr.. r. C.. Hill expects
to replace the ARGUS building with a
spacious solid brick building. In all
probability Mr.. J. F. Sheehan and
James Seavy will fill in the remaining
space between the ARGUS building and
Eisenbeis' stone building with q two
story brick building. Capt. Dalgardno
has said that he will build brick hotel
front where the Occidental now stands
to compare with the Clapp building. 1t
ia we'll known that A. I. Smith contem-
plates building q fine brick building on
the corner opposite the Central hotel.
| which will run up to the new Terry
| building. On the same block Mr.. c. NJ.
Bradshaw intends to replace his burned
| building with solid brick, and has
announced his willingness to contract
now for 100000 brick at certain figures.
Joe Kuhn Is only waiting for the rick
| to be made where he will adorn Ii lot
on block fl with handsome building,
at least two stories high. Add to this
list half dozen more buildings which
the various lot owners on the fiat are
strongly inclined to build and the pros
pect certainly can be said to be good for
banner year in Port Townsend. The
crowning glory of the year will be the
new custom house, wEi;h 7doubtedly
will be we'll under way before 1886 is
over, and which will do more to encour-
age others to build than anything in
sight now. Can any other town on
Puget Sound truthfully say they expect
| TO beat this?