Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-11-11
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Ground Broken for an Immense
Irrigation Ditch.
SNOW PLoWS USEFUL IN IDAHO.
Reduction In the Price of Raisins Does
Not Increase the Sales-The
Condition Of Market.
SNOW PLows USEFUL IN IDAHO.

erect $4,000 building.
Work has commenced at Salt Lake to
lay the mains through which natural
gas will be supplied to the city.
Snow plows have already been found
necessary to keep the railroad from Mis-
soula into the Ceur d'Alenes open.
A decision in the Oregon Supreme
Court, just rendered upholds the anti
quackery act, and physicians must OBJ
tain license before they can practice.
The belief is general in Fresno that
that city has an organized band OF MUIR
derers in it's midst. An effort is being
made to ferret them out.
G. E. Thurmond, County Superintend-
ent OF Schools at Santa Barbara, has been
held for trial on charge of altering the
records OF the County Board of Educa-
ton.
Excellent fruit has been produced in
Murray, Idaho, this season. The success
which has attended this initial venture
has ENCOURAGED many, who will plant
orchards in those high attitudes this fall.
According to recent estimates the de-
ciduous fruit crop Of Southern California
for this year will reach 10000 carloads,
valued at So, ,000, 600, and that the citrus
fruit will reach 5000 carloads, valued at
So, 500, 900.
The Secretary of the Seaers' Associa-
ton OF British Columbia estimates th 1t
the total seal catch of the British Co
| lumbia sealers will be about 45, 900 skins,
which, compared with the catch of last
year, shows a falling off of Is per cent.
Referring to the finds of remains OF
extinct animals, none is more curious
than that of finding the antlers and
bones of an elk los feet below the sur
face in shaft that was being sunk on a
ledge near Newbridee, Or. this season.
They were found imbedded in stratum
of gravel.
The census bureau has MADE public
the statistics of the manufacturing and
mechanical industries of Los Angeles,
which for 1890 are as follows: Number
of industries, So; number of establish
ments, TAI; capital invested, Sc, ,S07, ,088
hands employed, 1850; wages paid, $3,-
474, ,6l8; cost of materials used. So ,008,-
1862; value of product, $9,S77. .905.
Work has commenced on another big
irrigating ditch in Ada county. The
ditch starts ten miles above Boise, and
will irrigate land on Willow creek, Dry
creek and near Middleton, on the north
side of Boise river. The ditch will have
capacity of $4,000 miners inches, will
irrigate the 100000 acres OF land and
will be 60 miles long. 1t will cost about
$400, 900, and will be built mostly by
Eastern capital.
James Campbell, the protector of the
,, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad, has
returned to Los Angeles from San Fran.
cisco, where he had a conference with
President S. HI. II. Clark of the Unior
Pacific, and an agreement was arrived al
regarding traffic arrangements. Mr.
Campbell states that he has almost com
pleted his arrangements, and that in 8
years time Union Pacific trains will bt
running into Los Angeles.
At meeting of the California RaisiI
, Growers Association at Fresno recently
! it was stated that the opinion both il
: California and throughout the Eastern
! markets is that reduction in the price o
: raisins will not increase sales. The con
dition of the market is good. All effort
: to break the market have been headet
off for the present and perhaps for thi
, year. The price of raisins will be he'll
. up to the schedule price indefinitely.
: Some interesting Indian mummie
e are in the possession of DR.. Morrow o
e Pendleton, Or. They were discover,
J, one year ago on Long Island in the Col
: umbia river, buried in a mound OF sand
v One of them is figure of full-growl
n adult, evidently OF great age. The othe
! is of young child. Both are perfectl
e preserved, having hair and teeth intact
a The skull of the younger one has beel
q removed, showing the covering of tn
brain. The moccasins are yet on them
and are hardly changed.
The Delamar Mining Company
threatened with an apex suit that ma
become historical in the history of mir
ing litigation in Idaho. Tim Regar
owner of two-fifths of the Stoddard proI
erty, claims that it holds the apex of th
Delamar Company's ore bodies. He ha
recently been doing some work to prov
his theory, and expects soon to con
mence suit for an accounting. A yer
large amount of money will be involved
The Delamar Company recently pul
chased the other three-tifths.
Ground has been broken for the in
mense ditch to be constructed throug
the Columbia delta by the Walla Wal
and Columbia Irrigation Company, an
by March l, 1898, the proposed reclaim
ing of 10000 acres Of as fine land as ca
be found in the Pacific Northwest wi
have been made possible by securing Il
that land supply Of water more ths
sufficient for all purposes OF agricultur
The water viii be taken from the Wal
Walla river at a point about nine mill
above Wallula, and at this point Il
work was begun.