Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-03-02

ABOUT twenty-five men are now en-
ployed on the jetty at the mouth of
the Columbia. and by the middle of
March it Is the intention to have a
larger force at work. Brush mattresses
are now being dumped into the jetty.
The whole length of piling prepared for
the mattresses and stone is about half
a mile. Johnson and Wilberg, the
new contractors, will begin delivering
stone in few days, and advertise
ments are out for piles, poles and
sawed timber for the jetty.
The bottom of Commencement bay,
(Tacoma's harbor) is so deep that IA
large float has to be anchored a few
yards from shore by huge cable 60
fathoms i'll length, at the end of which
is a large anchor of enormous weight.
A line from shore is made fast to the
bouy so that it will not go adrift in
case the anchor slips off the shelving,
rocky, bank into deep water. A short
way from shore on this bay it is i'm
possible to find bottom, hence the
necessity OF preparing such expensive
methods of tying up vessels.
The Yakima Republic says that the
Mckee company, Il wealthy corporation
OF that vacinity, is backed by Prof.
Bell and Gardner Hubbard of the
great telephone syndicate. These gen.
tlemen have spent and contemplate
spending Il deal of money to put I'M
der cultivation about forty sections of
land adjoining the TOWNSHIP of North
Yakima. They already have an irri-
eating canal over miles in length,
with many miles Of lateral bitches. 1t
is the design of the company to extend
the irrigating canals so that water
can be turned on about forty sections
of land, or say $4,000 acres.
Articles were to day filed in the Of
flee OF County Auditor Higgins, incor-
porating the Central Washington Rail
road company. The IncOrporators
are James Il. Williams, of New York /;
Il. F. Cakes, of Minnesota; J. M. Buck
ley, Newman Kline, C. b. Cole and J.
IL. Mitchell, Jr., of Washington Ter
ritory. The object of the company is
the construction and equipment of Il
railroad from some point on the main
line of the N. p. r. r., in either Spokane
or Lincoln counties, in Il westerly or
northerly direction as may be desired
to a point not designated in what is
known as the Big Bend country.
From there they desire to build and
equip branches in all directions. The
capital stock is $1,000 shares of 800
each, and the duration of the corpora
ton fifty years.
The wheat on Union Flat. in the
Palouse country, aggregating many
thousands of acres, measured from so
to GO bushels, and the average in
district 80 by GO miles was As
bushels per acre. Carl Christensen,
near Genesee, measured ITO bushels
of six-rOwed white barley from one
acre. Mr.. Kline, near Uniontown,
measured 16l bushels of the same
kind of barley from one acre. Mr..
Smith, near Genesee, measured over
100 bushels OF wheat from Is acres
He had GO acre field from which he
expected to cut 800 bushels, and
when it was cut it measured 1000
bushels of wheat and 500 bushels of
barley. This is marvellous, when we
consider that the headers" used here
to harvest, waste seven bushels more
per acre than binders" do in other
places where binders are used Near
Colfax, Chas. A. Hubbard raised 49,
600 bushels of barley and 10000 bush
els of wheat. The barley was shipped
in bulk to Milwaukee. Wis.
The Port Townsend Gail says the
fishing company about to locate in this
city is composed of Captain Solomon
Jacobs of Gloucester, Mass, George
Richards of Boston, Capt. George f.
Marshal and Capt. II. o. Lavender of
Provincetown, Mass. Capt. Jacobs is
the owner of two fishing vessels on the
way to this port and both are now due
here. Mr.. Richards is wholesale fish
dealer OF Boston, and the last named
two gentlemen are masters and owners
of fishing schooners, also en- route for
Port Townsend. 1t is the intention of
the company to make Port Townsend
their headquarters. They will begin
with four schooners and employ them
in fishing in the waters of the Sound.
A great deal of this fish will be packed
in ice and shipped East via the Can
adam or Northern Pacific railway.
The company has now IA men en-
gagged in the business at Seattle but
they have been ordered to Port Town
send. The gentlemen forming the
company have come to stay. They
are pleased with Port Townsend and
its prospects and expect to do an ex-
tcnsive and profitable business in their
line.