The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-02

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WHITMAN COUNTY DIVISION.
Aeveeatss - he srAsuas wul RIA. q
ress Wheat Crsp Comine.
ne delegation of Palouse citixens whc
nave been at Olympia vorfirr Sor ths
passage OF the bill for the division Of Whit
uan county came to the CITY and were A.
sue RAINIER yesterday and leave Tor their
nome TINS morning They are D. r. BuI-
,0ck, A. A. Kincaid, William Goodvear.
~. n Lechty, I. L. Naeee: e. R. PICK.
ereu' who was representative of the
county IN the last legislature. and n. Bas-
sett' AL OF Palouse City. Though the bill
vas defeated in the House on Saturday.
,ney intend to continue the fight and viii
BRING up the same or some similar bill be-
.oie sne next legislature. In speaking of
sne nGns before the Legislature, Nj. Bassett
SAID 20 PosT-INrELLIGExcxH reporter:
we are thankful to the King county
delegation for their constant assistance.
!ney nave stood by rs and whatever they
TOTO ~ We could rely on. II others had
done a. they did, we should have been all
Isnt, IN the House at any rate. It seems
70 % the intention Of the majority of the
members this year to kill all county di-
vision schemes. Many voted against our
Dill because they are opposed to other di-
VISIONS. The members from Pierce said
tney had an understanding that they
would oppose any divisions unless they
could get general county division Law
passed. 1t was more on account of this
combination than on ito merits that the
Dill WAS defeated. Mr.. Adams OF King
TOTO me that it was the only county d.
vision bill in which he saw any merit.
~, nat We propose il to cut of from
nitman county a strip on the eastern
SIDE fifteen miles wide and tifty-six miles
long. This includes about 10000 popula-
ton. an assessed valuation of about $lO,-
UOO,0O0 and about one-third of the area.
Our reason for desiring the division is the
dlmculty OF reaching Colfax. the county
seat Palouse City is almost the center Of
the proposed new county and is only
twenty miles from Colfax in . straight
line. The Spokane q Palouse railroad
runs from northwest to southeast through
the proposed county and Palouse City is
on this road. A branch of the Oregon
Railway q Navigation runs north of
Palouse City through Garfield, where il
connects with the Spokane q Palouse TO
Colfax and another Oregon Railway &
Navigation branch connects with the Spo-
kane & Palouse at Pullman. south of
Palouse City and runs west to COlfax. The
only way for rs TO reachEolfax is to either
drive twenty miles across country or to
ride forty miles by rail and as the trains do
not connect at the junction points, 1t takes
three days to make the journey.
Another difficulty is in regard TO the
courthouse. Three years ago the commits
sioners tried to bond the county for the
erection Of . courthouse at Colfax, but
failed. They then began 70 erect q court
house anyway and pledged themselves that
IL should not cost over 1900. We got
out injunctions against them, but they
stumped the county and got the best law
yers and so they beat us. The courthouse
is just finished and has cost $l75,0O0 in
stead Of 5000 The commissioners now
want the state board Of equalization to
raise the valuation of the county in order
to have enough money to pay for the
building. The county Is about q year be-
hind in the payment of its warrants and
We proposed to divide this debt If the
county had been divided"
out Z"
at is holding together well, and is
likely to do the farmers some good in Sc
curing some state legislation which they
ought to have, but it will not do them any
good as political body. The Alliance is
building wheat warehouses at the princi-
pal points in the Palouse country, but
there will still not be sufficient to store the
crop unless the railroads ship it faster
than they did last year. They ought to
have sent out six or seven trains day as
soon as the thrashing began, but many
days they did not send out any, and four
of every i've cars brought in were for the
Northern Pacific Elevator Company. At
Palouse City We had four large warehouses
tilled, and three platforms stacked up to a
height Of twenty feet. However, the
wheat is going out rapidly now, the price
rs going up, and the farmers are in good
circumstances. The outlook for this wear
is that there will be larger crop than last
year, thanks to the heavy snowfall we
have had recently. A large additional
acreage Is being broken up, and we expect
Immigration continues pretty steadily,
although the land is about all taken up.
The population of our town has increased
about 400 since the census, when it had
1,600. What we want is practical Eastern
farmers for wheat raising. The old West
ern men could raise stock and what grain
they needed, but they do not understand
farming as business, as the Eastern farm
ers do.
1.-THE lumber interest in orr town is only
second to wheat raising. We have two
sawmills, which cut about 140 900 feet per
day, and two sash and door factories, of
which run one. But We can't make the
prices your Sound mills do, though they
have heavy freight rates to pay. The rea-
son Is that we can't get more than one
fourth clear lumber out of our logs, while
your Sound mills cut about nine-tenths
clear. The result is greater difference in
price, for we sell rough lumber at IS and
clear at SIS. We have an inexhaustible
supply of timber on our hills, though il is
smaller than yours, and we are expecting
. million feet Of white pine logs down this
spring"
NO PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT..
The University Deprived OF It's Source
Of supply.
The action of the board Of regents of the
State University, at its annual meeting
last June, in abolishing the preparatory
department, to take effect at the beginning
of the next school year, is regarded with
apprehension by some of the friends of
that institution. "The opinion prevails
among the teachers," said Prof. ]. NJ. Tay-
lor, of the faculty, yesterday. shat this
action Of the board will have to be modi-
fed az to the time it is to take effect The
faculty is unanimously in favor Of having
the preparatory department discontinued,
h,,t II is feared that its discontinuance so