, 1889-01-17


fish will be packed in refrigerator
cars for shipment to the middle and
eastern states or they will be salted
or smoked or made boneless. This
part of the industry alone will give
employment to hundred or hun
dred and fifty persons.-Ne'rs.
The open season for the following
game closed in this territory on Dec
3lst: Quail, pheasant, partridge, sage
grouse, sharp-tail grouse, prairie
chicken, mountain sheep, deer, elk
and moose.
| Vancouver has a better harbor
than Portland, is nearer to first class
timber and coal, is nearer the sea,
and, in fact possesses all the require
ments for the location of the navy
yard. Vancouver will present her
claims, and it is safe to predict that
here it will be located.-RegeSter.
Mr.. j. NJ. Adams, formerly of the
Yakima Signal, has assumed the
managing editorship of the Spokane
Falls ReUiew. In his salutatory he
says he struggled hard to escape, but
the owners Of the paper pursued and
overlook him and placed the edito-
rial yoke on his neck, when he sub
mitted to his fate.
| Port Townsend erected 10 buildings
during the year, at Il cost OF sos 900.
| Electric light works We're put in at Il cost
OF $4,000, which light the streets both
on the hill and in the lower town. i
| sterct railway company is organizing,
with Il capital OF $50 900. The popula-
| ton of the town Is estimated at 1900, 4
gain cf 1000 during the year.-OregO-
niaH.
| Residents of Vancouver were at
loss to understand where the dust
came from, thin layer of which was
found upon porches and on the win,
dow silIs, following the heavy east
winds of week or so ago. The fol-
lowing dispatch from Astoria prob
ably explains it: The wind from
Eastern Oregon blows alkali dust on
tho glass of Fort Candy lighthouse"
Mr.. S. s. Cook, cf Fishers Land
ing, New Vancouver, has 100 prune
trees and TOO pear trees set out on
twenty acres of land. for which he
refused $4,000. says the Neus. The
trees will come into bearing the com.
ing season. He has, also, five acres
of black cap raspberries from which
he netted 500 per acre the past sea
son.
The company constructing the
great smelter now in course OF erec-
ton at Tacoma and to be in opera
ton by spring, intends to ship from
Alaska thousands of tons of ore to
be treated when the smelter starts
. operations. With such immense
bodies of rich mineral deposits such
as this territory is known to contain,
there should be no difficulty in fur
, nishing sufficient ore to keep the
smelter at work night and day
!; throughout tn year.-Alaskan.
Washington embraces all sorts of
; country-lofty mountains. crowned
with perpetual snow and more i'm
pressive than the Alps; enormous for
ests OF pine, tir and cedar; rich roll
ling prairies, where more wheat is
grown to the acre than anywhere else
in the United States; extensive plains,
too dry for farming, but good for
: pasturage; an ocean coast line of 800
miles and a much longer coast line,
on navigable bays, on that beautiful
inland sea called Puget Sound mines
of gold and silver and big navigable
rivers. The climate is as mild in the
eastern part as that of Virginia, and
in the western part it closely resem-
bles that of the south of Ireland
The grade and bridges of the Ma
son County Central railroad, extend
ing from Shelton on tue -Se"Rd IN a
southwesterly direction towards
Gray's Harbor, have been finished
for distance of about six miles.
This is broad gauge road. the prin-
; cipal traffic upon which will be the
hauling of logs, as the line passes
through very heavily timbered
country. The purpose of this CON-
papy is to take ont the saw timber to
the Sound. gather the logs into
the Sound. This road, when com
: pleted, will connect Gray's Harbor
l and Puget Sound by rail, and is des-
tined to be very profitable prop
erty, because it passes for its entire
I length through a fertile region of
q country, and is expected to divide
8 with the Olympia & Chehalis Valley
9 line the through business Of the fu.
3 ture between that harbor and the
: Sound.
Mr.. ". h Llewellyn the well
known real estate man of Seattle,
said yesterday that the tide of immI-
: grafton which will come from all
parts of the country to Washington
!, territory during the present year will
surprise even the most sanguine. "In
! the course of our business" said Mr.
,, Llewelyn. we have many opportu-
,, mites to collect data upon which to
base an opinion, and to determine
pretty accurately the proportion of
immigrants who will come to the Pa
citic northwest. Aside from the in
formation gathered in railroad chan
, nels, our agents in various parts of
the Union supply as with original
l data. After reviewing this data I
have come to the conclusion that, if
, no financial disturbance occurs in
} the east, Washington territory will
. advance in population more rapidly
than any state or territory in the
! west. l predict that in five years
J Seattle will have population of 100,
600 people and that west Seattle
25,000. In making this prediction l
feel that am giving conservative
expression to an opinion based upon
carefully collected information from
all over the country, and not to a
mere guess"
A Gloucester, Mass. >, special says:
Several vessels which left here on ex-
perimentai voyages after Pacific coast
halibut, have returned heavily laden
and report greater success than was
anticipated. Captain Solomon Jac-
obs, who took the fleet of vessels out