Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-09-14
PACIFIC COAST NOTES


\ W WHITMAN County on wheels, GOV
IS proposed to make an eastern 60 s,i
advertising the resources Of the Palo,,so'
country, Wash. WV : '''o use
AsHINGToN is becoming a fruit-prow-
ing state. This season the snake P;yar
crop Will amount to 5000 boxes Of lata
pea acl, 5000 gallons Of blackberries
o,.too boxes Of peach plums. / 800 hoxes
OF pears, 1000 boxes of cranes. 2 000
boxes of winter apples. The apricot
crop is short. 'p' WV
f LA w nLLIAMsoN,and T. III. Phipns
OF olympia, have a cranberry marsh at
oyster Bay, and from a space Of fiffv
11eet square they, last season, took seven
paffels, their total crop reaching 900
bushels. This year the estimated BRO
ductlon is nearly 5000 bushels.
FIVE Blodgett Valley boys had an ex-
cltlng meeting with an old bear and her
two cubs near Mary's Peak, Ore. Their
only weapon was 22-calibre target
rifle. They finally killed the bear. and
astonished their parents by bringing
the hide home with them.
AT Montesano, Wash, James Stew
art, wealthy logger, has been arrested
on charge OF appropriating S35, 900
WI I'll VI SoNeIiIIleHI tilnDef. stewart
had been cutting this timber for six
years, logging it and selling it to mill
men and claims to have a title to the
land through the Northern Pacific Rail-
way Company.
hlbltlng oats, the stocks of which ay-
erage tifty-one inches in length. The
field will average fifty bushels per acre.
They were not Gown until the goth of
May, the speed With which they ma
tured being phenomenal.
IT is reported from the upper Satsop,
WASH, that the elk are beginning to
come down from the mountains. One
settler states that he saw a herd of no less
than thirty on one Of the west forks
of the river.
SEVEN placer mining claims notices
were filed at Walla Walla Saturday.
The land is situated on the sand bars of
the Columbia River and contains ,120
acres. LocatOrs are all capitalists from
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
REPORTS received from sections of the
Walla Walla Valley indicate that the
yield of wheat this season will be the
largest ever harvested in the history of
the country. The average yield for the
valley will be about thirty bushels.
SAN BERNARDINo, Cal, reports that
the secretary Of the County World IS
Fair committee has prepared carload
of fruit for shipment, SO as to be on
hand on California day, September 8.
The exhibit will consist Of oranges,
lemons, lines, pomegranites, pears,
peaches, plums, prunes and grapes.
ACCORDING to the new city directory
the population of Portland, Ore, is 3d.
7S5.
TACOMA fruit and vegetable peddlers
are not allowed to begin business before
IL 4. NJ.
WORK on the Coos Bay raft is making
good Roadway. 1t will be 612 feet long
and draw Ii feet Of water.
SMUGGLING of horses, cattle and mer-
chandise into this country from Lower
California is being carried on more eX-
tensively than ever before.
II. C. WALTERS passed through Ellens-
burgh, Wash, with carload or ore
from his mine in the SLOGAN country,
which ASSAYS 1925 in silver and $50 in
gold to the ton.
THE salmon packing season of 1898 is
about at an end on the Fraser River.
The pack will probably reach 100000
cases, and will be the largest by 10000
cases ever put up on the Fraser.
A WHITE RIVER farmer brought into
Seattle 4O0-pound sturgeon which he
killed with spear in that stream. The
fish was over seven feet long, and is the
largest ever caught in White River.