, 1888-12-06
TERRITORIAL.

at 30 ana SzO tOn-
Mr.. Moody is planning to be i
Portland next week.
There is great deal of pneumo
MIA in Spokane Falls.
Several women are reported t
have voted at Gig Harbor-
| Snohomish shingles are shippe
as far east as Columbus, Ohio
1t is said that the Disciple chur G.
will establish a college at Yakima.
PuyaIlup has shipped 132 ca
loads of hops this season, worth
1851 ,12O.
Excellent clay for brick has beer
| discovered on the banks of the Co.
lumbia at Pasco.
The greatest average yield of wheat
per acre in this county is in Washing
ton Territory-16.5.
Along the Weshingal therei are
logs available for 100000 feet of lum>
ber day for 80 years.
Hon. c. S. Voorhees, will settle at
Colfax in the law business, SO says
an Indianapolis dispatch.
There is talk of the consolidation
of Sehome, Whatcom and Belling-
ham under the latter name.
The Port Blakeiy mill company
received recently "a tons of picked
pork and beef from the East.
Sydney in Kitsap county is a
promising little town, and is attra CT
ing the attention of capitalists.
Business is business. Practice is
more to be relied upon than theory.
We have had an abundance of the
latter, now let us have work and lots
of it.-Port Angeles Commonwealth.
Cleveland Leader: In the last ten
years the taxable property of WASH
ington territory has increased &c.,
100000. Washington will make a
fine Republican state some of these
days.
Hon. W. P. Hackney, of Winfield,
Kansas, the former mayor of that
city, capitalist and prominent pol
itician, arrived here on Saturday
with view to locating. It is said
by several of Mayor Hackney's
friends here that he is very promi-
nent among the republican candi-
dates for governor of Washington
Territory.-Tacoma Ne,Us-
While boring a well a Yakima
man struck gold at depth of 80
feet. The place is on the Wenas
eleven miles from North Yakima.
The drill has passed through "a stra-
tum of crystalized granite and en-
tered ledge of calico quartz. The
borings brought up as the core, were
found to contain as high as 500 COLI
ors of pure gold. The finder has
filed on the claim as quartz at the U.
S. Land Office.
At the present writing, says the
Skagit NelCS, the country is cut up
in all directions by railroad surveys,
and should one-half of the proposed
roads be utilized, the development of
our wonderful resources will soon
follow. The building of road from
Ship Harbar across the mountains
via the Sauk, would cause great
boom on the Skagit. Skagit county
is on the eve of great events, and
next season will see some wonderful
changes.
Mr.. Burches, assayer for the Ryan
smelter, says: l have been in every
mining region in the United States,
L,,k II of, OF
sh owing better indications than the
Conconully. may say that I know
every existing mine in the state of
Nevada. and with the exception of
the famed COmstock lode, the show
ing of precious metals is not so great
as in eastern Washington. l firm
ly believe that ere long there will be
great excitement here, and Wash.
ington territory will rank among the
richest mineral regions of the world.
Eastern people have suddenly
awakened to the startling fact that |
Washington territory, though sit
uated in the very northwestern ex-
tremity of the United States, in the
same latitude with Northern Da- |
kota and Maine, has a climate al |
most as mild as that of Sunny Italy; |
that instead of being peopled by |
rough, wild, backwoodsmep, the pop
ulation consists mostly OF refined, |
well educated, we'll bred citizens,
whose intelligence will equal, If not |
exceed, that of any other state or
territory in the Union; and that the
vast and hidden wealth of this terri
tory-the immense timber, agricul-
tural and mineral resources, when
once fully developed. will place the
state of Washington at the head of
the list of the prosperous states of
ou, Union.-La Conner Mail.
A saw mill on Fidalgo island is
boring timber for water pipes. Fir
logs are used. The logs are six to
eight inches in diameter and eight
feet long. One end is bound with an
iron band; this end is reamed oLt SO
as to admit the smaller end Of the
next length. and in this way very
cheap pipe is made for conveying
water through the streets of villages.
The logs are left their natural size
and are not tarred or pitched. The
manufacturers charge at the factory
II cents per foot for II inch, 15
cents for two inch, Is cents for three
inch and twenty five cents for four
inch bore In the last four months
at least 10000 feet have been turned
out; and there has in the last two
years been laid at La Conner four
miles; at Stanwood 81 miles: Coupe
vile 2 miles and considerably more
at other villages; in all amounting to
over $4,000 feet.