Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-30
WHOLE NUMBER 1892.

OF the military reservation of Vancou
yer barracks, under the act of Con
gress of 1S48, was not sustained. The
bill was dismissed.
Governor Semple has appointed the
following persons to be notaries pub
lie: J. F. Van Name, of Cowlitz
county; James Hart, L. T. Fhrrier
w. L. Gazzam and w. P. Treadwell
OF King; Eldridge Morse. of Snohom-
ish; c. c. Hixson, of Whatcom; Har-
ry Finely, of Pacific, and Frank ].
Parker, of Walla Walla.
Kahn Bros, of Portland, are exhibit
ing eleven sea otter skins, taken from
Gray's Harbor. Their fir is very
valuable, their skins being worth from
70 cents to 81 per pound each. These
animals used to be plentiful on the Pa.
cific Coast, from Alaska to California,
but the value of their skins has caused
them to be nearly exterminated.
One of the peculiarities of Semiah.
moo spit is strong stream of fresh
water flowing about five feet under the
surface of the ground clear out of its
point. This stream is one of the won
ders of that remarkable place. A
stream of fresh water flowing nearly a
mile out into the ocean under u spit
only quarter of mile wide.
1t is estimated that Washington
Territory has 100000 acres of land
peculiarly adapted to raising wheat
and which will produce from 20 to 40
bushels per acre, every season. Ore
gon also has millions of such acres,
and in few years many more thou
sands of these millions than are now
producing, in both State and Terri
tory, will be under cultivation.
Considerable is uttered regarding an
overproduction Of logs in the Puget
Sound region. There is said to be
enough timber now afoat to keep all
the mills on Puget Sound running till
next June, even though no more logs
were cut before that time. During
the reign of high prices, operators
both large and small, did their utmost
to get out logs, with the inevitable re.
sult-overdoing and lowering prices.
The mill men shut down their camps
first, since they held stumpage to be
worth more to hold than to cut, with
logs ut $6.
| The iron tugboat Sea Lion arrived
at Seattle last week. The tug is owned
by the Ship Owners and Merchants
Tow Boat Company of San Francisco
and was built at Camden, N. j., in
1884. Since that time she has been
employed in the towing service at San
Francisco, and, until the Spreckels
new boats were introduced, was looked
upon as the most powerful tug in San
Francisco harbor She has the ap
pearance of very fast boat, her stem
being knife-like and her lines very
sharp. Her length is 125 feet, beam
"a feet and depth Of hold 13 feet. She
is provided with compound con
densing engine, cylinder 224 inches in
diameter, and 24 feet stroke. Hel
boiler is of steel, 164 feet long and 12(
inches diameter. The vessel has two
water-tight bulkheads and competen,
Judges say she is by far the most at
tractive, as well as the most powerful
tug-boat on Puget Sound waters. Hel
headquarters will be at Port Townsend
G. c. Bartlett 4 Co. being her ap
pointed agents. The tug is command
ed by Capt. s. B. Randall, who hal
been master of the tug-boat Wisare
for the last 10 years, and who formerly
superintended the tugs Donald, Escor
and Wizard on the Columbia river
Capt. Randall is a hale man, in the
prime of life and has the reputation o
being one of the most energetic, al
well as one of the safest tug captains
on the coast. This addition to tn,
Puget Sound tug fleet is welcomed BY
the masters of all ships touching a
Sound ports, and this tug is likely t.
receive large patronage.