Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-11

TERRITORIAL NEWS.

TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Tacoma claims 5000 population.
Spokane Falls claims 5000 inhabi
tants.
The population of Walla Walla i
5000.
Yakima hotels are overrun will
guests.
Snohomish city is petitioning fol
daily mail.
Puyallup expects to realize q boom
this summer.
j Yakima wants some one to start a
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Dayton is wide-awake and has
about 1000 people.
Sprague claims 1,SO0 inhabitants
and is prosperous.
Prosser, at the falls of Yakima, is to
have boom soon.
North Yakima wants q cheap sys-
tenn of water works.
Yakima is waking up again, and
now has 100 inhabitants.
Oysterville will soon havea new
railroad, and is advancing.
The Capital says Ellensburg is grow
ing as 1t never grew before.
Whatcom anticipates making one
OF the largest cities on the Sound.
Puyallup Valley expects a most
bountiful yield of hops this season.
Vancouver has taken new lease of
life, and now has 1900 inhabitants.
Yakima papers urge real estate
agents to advertise little more liber-
ally.
1t is claimed that Kitsap is one of
the best counties for fruits on the
Sound.
The Yakima river is running full
and the snow is melting rapidly in the
mountains.
Mt. Vernon wants a bank. 1t is
claimed to be the best banking point
in Skagit county.
More capitalists, travellers and i'm
migrants are going to Yakima county
than ever before.
Ellensburg isn't as large as Walla
Walla by several thousand, but ranks
next to it in business.
Colfax claims 1900 and has news
pOpers which would be a credit to a
city of 10000 inhabitants.
1t is reported that nine conductors
were discharged from the Northern
Pacific railroad in one day recently.
The rush of immigrants to Washing
ton Territory is unprecedented and
filings on public lands are unusually
large.
Port Townsend has thrown off its
moss and is now in the procession
travelling to greatness. 1t has a
bright future and $500 inhabitants.
The Dayton people are conferring
with G. w. Hunt with view towards
having him extend his Wallula- -Walla
Walla road on to Dayton.
Charles Baldwin, who lives near Or
ting, raised crop of tobacco last year
that yielded at the rate of l 500 pounds
to the acre, on new ground.
Nelson Bennett has bonded several
copper claims on. the upper Cle-elum
belt, and will put men on them soon
with the purpose of developing them.
Regular daily shipments of from
four hundred to six hundred tons of
coal per day will hereafter be made
from the Gilman mines at Squak val
ley.
Ruby City, Conconully, Garfield,
Roslyn, Cle-elum, Waterville, Daven-
port. Pasco, Colville and Goldendale,
are all flourishing. and arc places of
promise.
Parties have purchased the right of
way for railroad from a point above
Rockland, w. IT,, to a point above the
Dalles, and parties are now surveying
the route.
A letter from Connecticut, to a
friend in Yakima, states that. spring
has not begun there yet. 1t COM
menced in Washington Territory in
February.
The region of country between
Hoods Canal and the Olympic range.
is receiving settlers daily. This part
of the country is well adapted for ag-
ricultural and grazing purposes.
In weight, per bushel, wheat grown
on the Pacific coast is heaviest in
America. That of Oregon is 59.7
pounds, that of Washington the same,
and that of California trifle less.
Vagabonds became too numerous
in Seattle last week. They went to
Tacoma, and were promptly notified
by the police to leave town. A few
remained, and were promptly jailed.
Brick and pottery clay have been
discovered in unlimited quantities at
Port Angeles. Both resources are be-
ing developed, with satisfactory results
to parties interested in the enterprise.
The crops in Kittitas look very
promising, and as the acreage is about
one-third more than last year, the
farmers will have a large surplus to
dispose of to their neighbors on the
Sound.
The plans for the Medical lake hos
pital for the insane are now completed,
and within the next four weeks the
contract will be let for one of the finest
and most extensive building in the
Territory.
The city OF Gig Harbor has been
plated and the plat filed in the Audi
tors office. The city consists of forty
lots and four streets named respective
ly Front, Burnham, Tacoma and For
rest streets.
party OF engineers are said to be
at work in the neighborhood of Stella
COON. AS yet no plans of operation
have been revealed, but it is safe to
say the party is not composed of ex-
cursiOnists.
About one thousand acres of the oat
lands near Edison, on the Skagit river,
have been seeded with timothy this
spring. There is no new acreage for
oats. This will cut the oat-yield down
about 25,O00 sacks.
Palouse city claims the man who
will knock the persimons. He stands