Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-24

with the French consul at st. Paul !
relative to lands and irrigation here
with reference to locating colony OF |
French farmers. The consul says he
has been led to think well of Yakima
from representations made to him by |
E. V. Smalley, editor of the Northwest
Magazine, and desires to locate q |
colony in n warmer climate than the |
last two colonies he located, the men,
bers being very much dissatisfied with
the cold weather. They will be well
coined to Yakima's sunny cline.
Democrat: Capt. Roeder is making
arrangements to send out an exploring
party to find a good route for cattle
trail across the mountains to Okano-
gan county. This is the county Or
ganized by the Legislature from the
Eastern portion of Stevens county.
The County Commissioners Of Okano-
gan county inform Capt. Roeder that
if good route can be found that they
will appropriate large sum OF money
with which to open trail from that
county to Bellingham bay in order
that the cattle for the Sound market,
now driven to Colville and from there
shipped by rail, may be driven direct
to salt water. A like exploring party
on the other side OF the mountains is
to start out and follow the route taken
by Major Rogers in the employ of the
St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba
railroad.
Mason county Journal: S. F.
Coombs of Seattle was a passenger on
the Clara Brocn one day last week,
looking over onr bays with a view to
select suitable location to plant
lobster shipment. He says the fish
commissioner is having the tempera-
ture of the water tested at different
points Oh the Sound to compare with
that of eastern waters. Several ship
ments have been made to California,
but the Holsters died en- route, because
of the heat. The conditions favorable
for their propagation are waters of
warm temperature, containing growths
Of kelp and sea grass for food and
shelter for the young until they are
large enough to sl:irmish for them
selves. He also says that the Goldfish
are returning to our waters. That
fish was plentiful in the Sound and
straits years ago, but were driven out
by the dogfish and other finny can
nibals.
Mr.. B. L. Sharpstein, in letter to
the Walla Walla Statesmen, says that
during the coming summer the
electors of Washington Territory will
have an opportunity of choosing dele
gates to a constitutional convention.
Woman suffrage will be one of the i'm
portant questions before the constitu-
ton, one that may probably be settled |
there, and in the constitution placed |
beyond legislative control, thereby re-
moving from future legislatures a |
vexed question, one that has con-
sumed much time in the past of both |
legislatures and courts and will con-
tinue to in the future if it remains an |
open question. 1t is an issue upon |
which the public mind is strongly di-
vided; the majority on this, and all |
other like questions, should rule AS
a means of settling the matter, he
suggests that candidates to the con-
stitutional convention be nominated
squarely upon that issue, with the un-
derstanding that the question shall be
disposed of in the constitution.
An idea Of the productiveness Of the
northwestern soil may be cleaned from
the following, found in the columns of
the Northwest Agriculturisf: A. ].
Burr, Of Olympia, raised five barrels
of cranberries on bed so feet square.
w. T. Wright of Milton, Oregon, sold
this season $4,000 pounds cf grapes
from one and one-half acres of land
One acre of strawberries produced |
5000 pounds; 1000 pounds of black
berries grew on one-third of an acre.
Robert Locke, of Hillhurst, raised over |
500 bushels of potatoes to the acre,
and 80 tons of cabbage to the acre.
A. w. Hidden, Vancouver. has three |
acre prune orchard that gave him q
net income of 81 800 in one season,
James Biles, of Olympia, has raised
the Royal Ann cherry that produced
from 400 to 500 pounds to each tree,
after they were IL years old, and
peaches that produced as high as
eighty pounds to each tree. Seth
Lewelling, of Milwaukee, Oregon, has
twenty-four cherry trees, from which
he gathered, in one season, IL 900 lbs. |
of cherries.
PORTLAND is to have coal storage
warehouse. The room will be fur
nished with "ingidity" by pipes
from the ice machines adjoining, and
will be SO arranged that they can be
kept at any desired temperature, ac-
cording to the class of goods stored
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