The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-12
Ground Broken for an Immense
Irrigation Ditch.
SNOW PLoWS USEFUL IN IDAHO
Reduction In the Price Of Raisins Does
Not Increase the SaleS-lhe
Condition Of Mlfkct

The Phoenix "A. T. W. G. T. U. will
erect Il $4,000 building.
Work has commenced At Salt Lake to
lay the mains through which natural
gas will be supp led TO the city
Snow plows have already been found
necessary to keep the railroad rom Mis-
soula into the Crur d'Alen,s open.
A decision in the Oregon Supreme
Court, just rendered upholds the anti
quackery act, and phyeicane must OBJ
tain license before they can practice.
The belief is general in Fresno that
that city has al organized band OF mur-
derers In ts midst. An effort IL being
made TO ferret them out.
@. Il. Thurmond, County Superntend-
ent OF Schools Mt Santa Barbara, has been
held for trial on a charge OF altering the
records of the County Board OF Educa-
ti1l.
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-
clduous fruit crop OF Southern California
for this year will reach 10000 carloads,
valued at $3, ,0OO, 900, aud that the citrus
fruit will reach 5000 carloads, valued ut
$3,500,00O.
r...e Secretary of the sealers' Associa-
tion OF British Columbia estimates tn 1t
the total seal catch of the British Co
lumbis seaers will be about 4o, ,OOl skins,
which, compared with the catch OF last
wear, shows a falling off OF 10 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 l08 feet below the sur
face in shaft that was being sunk on a
ledge near New bridge, Or, this season,
They we're found imbedded in a 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, 80; number OF estabIish'
ments, TAI; capital invested, ~, SO7 ,OSS
hands employed, 1850; wages paid, 49,,
474,6lS; cost of materials used, $5,0OS,
1862 value of product, $9,S77 0O5.
Some interesting Indian mummie:
are in the possession of Dr. Morrow o
Pendleton, Or. They were discovered
one wear ago on Long Island in the Col
umbia river, buried in mound OF sand
One of them is figure of a full-growr
adult. evidently of great age. The Other
ia of a young child. Both are perfectly
preserved, having hair and teeth intact
The skull of the younger one has beer
removed, showing the covering OF the
brain. The moccasins are yet on them
and are hardly changed.
The Delamar Mining Company II
threatened with an apex suit that may
become historical in the history of min
inc litigation in Idaho. Tim Regan
owner of two-ffths of the Stodlard prop
erty. claims that it holds the apex OF thu
Deiamar Company's ore bodies. He ha
recently been doing eome work to prov
his theory, and expec,s soon to com
mence suit for an accounting. A yer,
large amount of money will be involved
The Delamar Company recently pur
chased the other three tiithe.
Ground has been broken for the i'm
mense ditch to be constructed through
the Columbia delta by the Walla Wall
and Columbia Irrigation Company, ant
bv March l, 1893, the proposed reclaim
inc OF 10000 acres of as fine land as cal
he found in the Pacific Northwest viii
have been made possible by securing 10
that land supply OF water more thai
sufficient for all purposes of agriculture
The water will be taken from the Wall
Walla river at point about nine mile
above Wallula, and at this point tn
work was begun.