The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-22

ton | propose to bring the park up
near the State Capitol; | will have
brass band in attendance and will
furnish your train load of civilizers
with whipped cream soda and choc-
oIate cake. I can have 1900 bach
elors here and bidding will run high.
Every bachelor who makes bid for
wife will have to plank down $40
as earnest money and give his newly
selected bride a mortgage on his
homestead for the balance. By this
method we will protect the women
and make grand success of the
auction, don't you see 1t will be
kind of hard on the bachelors, but
they will do it, don't you forget, they
will do it I" And then the Puget
Sound Spectator hoped around on
one leg, tumbled over cuspadole
and ran into tenderfoot just down
from Tacoma.
Good cooks get from $40 to 500
per month; men who work in saw
mills from SIS to $50; men who are
good drivers and who can manage
/ six or seven yoke of oxen in one
team get SIS, and in rare instances
from SIoo to $I25 per month. Lum
bering is the principal industry on
the Sound. Logging is carried on
the year round, but the principal cut
of logs is made in the summer
months. Lumbermen who come
from the East have many things to
learn here, as the methods employed
are different from those in the mills
and lumber camps in the East.
Game in the season is very abund-
ant. Ducks Of all kinds, including
the canvas back and sprig tail, NAL
lard and widgeon. The big game is
represented by the black tail deer,
bear and elk. Occasionally cougar
is killed and wild cats prowl unmo-
Tested through the dense forests. |
The sweet notes Of our red breasted
robin and the carol of the meadow
lark are often heard in this grand |
country of magnificent mountains
and mighty forests. The principal
forest trees are the fir, spruce and
cedar. This country will furnish
billions of feet of lumber for the use
of future generations. | have feast
ed on salmon ever since | left Green
River Junction, and am still calling
for more.
There are four banks and six no
tells, including the "Olympia," which |
is very large five story hosiery,
said to have cost $4,000, and | am
informed, is losing speculation, as
it is altogether too extensive for the
size of the town. The Capitol build
ing of the State is about as large as
the KenoshA ed ward grammar
school, and the post office is tum-
Die down relic Of 1855. The city has
excellent water, supplied by one of
the mountain streams near by. TIE
city has seven churches and one
high school. \ small branch Of the
Salvation Army paraded through the
streets last night, and certainly if
their spiritual endeavors to do good
is equal to the physical strength ex-
hibited in banging their old bass
drum and otherwise making night
hideous, they might be called a grand
success. The city is lighted by cleo
tricity and has one mile of street car
track. Olympia has offered $4,000
each to the Union Pacific and the
Oregon Short Line, providing they
will make terminal points here. It's
reported that the railroads have &C
copied the proposition. The North
ern Pacific also proposes to run a
line, along the west side Of the city.
Real estate spectators are prowling
around and sticking wedge here
and there in preparation for the
great boom in real. estate. The sale
of much of the lands around Gray
Harbor during the last three months
is based on fictitious figures for the
purpose of creating favorable inn
preston and catching eastern CAPT
talists or unwary tenderfeet and in
ducing them to purchase. Small
towns like Tenino and Centralia have
caught the fever, and lots that three
months ago could be purchased for
$50, are now calling for $3.50 and
5000. Financially this is an un-
healthy state of affairs for the reason
that many men of small means who
would otherwise place their earnings
back into their business, now invest
in corner lots and their creditors Of
ten go unpaid.
| have met a number of Wisconsin
people here. and among them was
Mr.. F. E. McGill, of Kenosha
ED. &. HUGUNIN.
Richard Mansfield will contribute
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