Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-03-30

The King County Commissioners
have awarded a contract to the Cali
fornia Bridge company for building a
bridge across Green river, about half a
mile above Franklin, for the sum of
$500, provided that the Columbia and
Puget Sound Railroad company will
build roads on either side OF the bridge
Yakima Republic: Paul Schultz is
said to be negotiating in the East for a
syndicate to dig a canal from the
Yakima to the Columbia through Sun
ny Side There are 100000 acres of
magnificent land there easily irrigated
which would net corporation $1.5O
rental an acre per year. The cost of
the canal would be about 100000.
The enrolling strength of the several
companies forming the Second Regi-
ment, National Guard of Washington,
as reported to regimental headquarters
at Walla Walla, March 10, is as follows :
Commissioned officers, Is; non-com-
missioned officers and privates, 213 i;
grand total, 231. Since the above was
in type, Is additional recruits are re-
ported from various portions of the
Territory.
The three military companies at
Seattle have organized corpo-
ration to build an armory, leased
a lot for ten years on the Uni
versity grounds, and made a con-
tract for the erection of $4,000
building, $50 feet deep, so feet wide
and two stories high, with all con-
veniences required for their uses. The
second story will be devoted to large
public hall.
Pacific county presents every ap-
pearance of entering upon most
prosperous season. There will be in
the neighborhood of twenty-five log
ging camps in operation giving employ
ment to fully 400 hands, besides seven
canneries will put up fish this season
in the county. A great many in
quiries are received from the East
about business chances and the coun-
ty generally.
Judge Burke, of Seattle, tells the
Rereile that he verify believes that the
West Coast road will be consolidated
with the Lake Shore & Eastern, and
that the cars will run to Snohomish by
April 10Th. Judge Burke, in answer
to the question whether the West
Coast Railroad would go to Bel
lingham Bay, said that the report of
the civil engineers would determine
that question.
1t is reported that the Puget Sound
and Gray's Harbor Railroad Mt that
point is rapidly being pushed to deep
water at the mouth OF Little Skookum
Bay. The distance from the present
terminus OF the road is about two
miles. 1t is expected the extension
will be completed and ready for use in
sixty days. This extension will allow
the company to take their logs directly
to deep water.
Echo valley, according to o Colville
paper, has population of about Sc
people. 1t is about ten miles north
from Colville, and possesses the
natural facilities for making a pop
ulous and prosperous agricultural Sec
ton of country, susceptible of sup
porting population of several hun
dred people. Already the settlers are
clamoring for postoffice, sawmill and
other means of public accommoda-
ton.
The construction of 118 miles of
railroad by the Central Washington
railroad company from Cheney to and
through Big Bend country will open
up to settlement and improvement a
large area of splendid agricultural
land. This road is but one of a sys-
tenn Cf feeders to be built by the
Northern Pacific people which will
finally penetrate every part of the
Territory and greatly facilitate its de-
velopment.
The noted evangelist, Mrs. Malloy,
who formerly conducted revival meet
mgs, and who received euch wide
spread notoriety from her connection
with the Graham-Lee murder and big
amy trials, will return to Port Town
send next week, and take charge of
the seaman's Bethel. In the meantime,
judging from newspaper statements,
she has secured reputation which
will certainly not gain her the respect
that religious teacher should enjoy.
A former resident of Portland, who
has been settled for some time near
Colfax, is loud in his praises of that
section and the enterprise and energy
of its residents. He says there is a
great deal of capital withdrawn from
Oregon invested there. People there
pay l per cent. for money to be used
in grain-raising, and contract to sell
their wheat for five years at SO cents
per bushel, and SO fertile is the sol
that wheat-growing pays at this rate
1t has long been known that the
mill-men of the Sound were forming a
"lumber trust" to control the price Of
lumber and logs. Its effect has beer
to cut the price of logs down to Sc
and now the loggers have formed q
trust, and will close down the most o.
their camps and not open again unit
the mill-men come to terms. This
means idle men and high priced lum
ber. But to counteract this effect 6
prominent logger tells the Post-InteHi
gencer that part of the scheme is tC
build three large mills on the Sount
at which the loggers will cut their owl
logs into lumber, thus putting them
selves in u position to not only dictat,
prices, but to manufacture lumbel
from their own logs.
The Yakima Farmer says that Mr.
Birmingham, of the firm of Birming
ham & Hogue, of Tacoma, desires t.
locate creamery at that place. Mr.
Birmingham is an expert creamer.
and cheese factory man himself, ant
owns at Freeport, Cowlitz county, /;
cheese factory the product of which i
eagerly sought after. Ii parties at Yak
ina wish to establish a creamery an,
cheese factory. Mr.. Birmingham viii
come over personally and set up tn
whole outfit, secure an expert man t
run it, pay cash for the milk the frs
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