The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Puget Lumber Mills Trying to
Form a Pool.
An Immense Dry Dock and Marine
Ways to be Constructed on
Port Townsend Bay.

Fresh eggs at Visala, CAL, are hard to
sell at 10 cents cozen.
The Puget lumber mills are endeavor-
ing to form a pool to keep prices up.
The material for the motor line at In
dependence, Or, will reach that town in
May.
There is good prospect of large de-
mand for railroad laborers at Portland in
a short time.
A scarcity of vessels for tie transpor-
tatiOn of lumber to California ports is
complained of at Port Townsend.
The Surveyor-General of Washington
estimates that a sale of the school | nds
would realize fund of $35.0OO,0 0.
c Unstable Johnson has sued the Fres. o
Republican for 81 1000 damages. John
son alleges defamation OF character.
Portland is agitating the question of
removing the Chinese from their present
quarters to the outskirts of the city.
There is not vacant dwelling in Val
leio, Cal and the outlook, owing to the
navy-yart work this summer, is promis-
ing.
The Walnut Grove dam, which recent
ly broke and caused such damage in Ari-
zona, will probably be rebuilt at an early
date.
John III. Powell, Mormon at Provo,
Utah, was found living in a one-room
house with two wives and fourteen chill
dren.
The President of the Lower California
Land Association, with three others, has
been arrested on a charge of stealing
cattle.
The Trauscontinental Association,
which has been in session at Co, onado
since March 10, has adjourned to San
Francisco.
The cost of repairing the Pacific Coast
steamer Al-ki will exceed $4,000. She
VIII oe ready for sea the latter part OF
this month.
The grand jury at Tucson has found
four indictments for embezzlement
against Fred w. Smith, late Receiver of
Public Moneys.
Aparty of thirty armed men has started
for the Navajo Indian reservation in
search of the rich quartz that reports
have located there.
A starch factory at Tacoma is making
a ton a day of starch from wheat, and
expects by summer to double the output,
making glucose as well.
The work of surveying ard locating
the otor line from Portland to Oregon
City by way of SellwOod and Milwaukee,
fifteen miles, has begun.
The Seattle Terminal Railway and Ell
evated Company, to build warehouses in
Western Seattle and connecting railways,
has been organized at Seattle.
The Stockton, Fresno and Southern
railroad project is being revived, and it
is thought at Stockton that work viii be-
gin on the road in ninety DAYS.
The Ore gon Democratic State Central
Committee has decided to hold the State
Convention in Portland April "a. The
convention will consist of 1872 delegates.
Mr.. Kerr of Yakima county, Wash
has sent to Japan for large quaint Y of
tea cuttings. He intends to what
can be done with that plant in his own
country.
1t is said that 200 men will be required
to get gravel at Independence, Or, Tor
the Corvallis exte nsion and the Astoria
railroad. The supply of grav at that
place is ineXhaustible.
The Reform Club of Oregon has been
Incorporated. The purity of the ballot
box and equitable legislation and taxa
ton are the objects sought to be accom-
plished.
The steamer Mary d. Hume, recently
purchased by the Pacific Steam Whaling
Company, will stay in the Arctic fer
three years, wintering at the mouth OF
the Mackenzie river.
When the Oregon Pacific is- completed
past Prinev'lle, Or, as near as it is in
tended to 60 to that place, the inhabitants
announce their intention of moving the
whole town to a location close to the
tracks.
The Crow Indian chiefs in Montana
recently held a meeting and decided TO
lease the grazing privileges of the r~ser-
vation only to certain stock owners, Sc
lecting about third of those heretofore
granted privileges. Bitter feeling conse-
quently has followed this action Of the
lndiars.
A party of engineers. working under
instructions from the Union Pacific, has
established headquarters at Vancouver
and started driving pipes into the Co
lumbia near the Lucia mills 10 ascertain
the strata below the river bed. in order
to make proper estimates for foundation
of piers for The bridge which is to cross
the rive there. giving the Union Pacific
an outlet from Portland to the Sound.
The Virginia City Enterprise says
The three locomotives that went over a
sixty-foot hank near Cape Horn mills on
the Central Pacific road some weeks ego
have not been recovered. Carloads OF
coal cinders are being brought up from
the shors at Sacramento to he used as a
bedding to support the necessary appa-
ratus for handling the engines, as the
ground is so full Of water that no other
material can be obtained that will serve
the purpose so well.
A drv dock and marine ways are to be
established on Port Townsend bay, which
will necessitate an expenditure OF SOL
900. Messrs. Atkins and Ramsey OF
London, England, two wealthy capital
lists, are negotiating for site near Had
lock. The dock is to he zoo feet IN length
and l25 feet in breadth, and will be ca
pable OF accommodating the large yes
sci afloat. Large steamers similar te
these that ply on the Atlantic and Pac fie
oceans can easily 90 en- the dry dock fol
/ thorough oyerhauliDg. r. w DeLion
one of the hest known sbipb-okers ano
/ canitalists of the Pacific Northwest, has
sign;fied his willingness to take one hal
/ Of TIE sto-k and active management q
the company. The gentlemen interested
mean business, and are as-tively pushing
the preliminary arrangements prepara
tory to incorporating.