Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-05-24
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.

captured in Choteau County, Mont.
THE reports of the failure of the peach,
cherry and apricot crop of the Walla
Walla and Snake River valleys, Wash.
are confirmed by late Investigations,
The loss is estimated at S125,00O.
INQUIRIES are now being made into the
practicability of shipping frozen mutton
by the Australian steamers to Van
couver. A company will probably be
formed to build cold-storage ware
house and 90 into the business.
JUDGE RIDDLE is authority for the
statement that half pound of pure
nickel was taken from six pounds of ore
at the Riddle, Ore, nickel mines the
other day by Will @. Brown in the pres
ence of the English expert who is now
looking over the property.
In Southern California apricots are
already being shipped to market, figs
are beginning to ripen, the sweetwater
grapes will be ripe in from two to three
weeks. while the Lady de COvarley,
Muscats, Malagas and black grapes will
ripen in about a month.
A CITIZEN of San Diego writes from
Chicago, urging San Diego lemon-grow-
ers to have on hand good supply of
lemons for July and August. He says
about that time there Will be an enor-
nous demand for lemons, and prices
will be high. He thinks SO box will
be easily obtained
GOPHER trapping with the present
bounty of cents per scalp is not the
least profitable occupation for a wide
awake boy. John Rogers, of Dixie, was
in Walla Walla, Wash, recently with.5l9
scalps, a months catch by his boys, net
ting the snug little sum of 1858.
/ +rn ct
uated in q. w. Shorts stock range, in
Douglas County, Ore, which has the
popularity of shedding its leaves about
as the laurel does, the green ones COM
ing out as the old ones wither up and
fall off. In all other respects the tree
has every appearance of being a genu-
inc oak.
r. c. GEER, of Marion County, has
sent portion of cherry tree to Milwau
kie, Ore, to be nicely finished for eXhi-
bitlon at Chicago. The tree has quite d
history. 1t was brought across the
plains away back in the '40s and planted
on the Geer homestead, where it has
1Ourished for a period of fifty years and
borne fruit for the family.
IT is stated on reliable authority that
d. O. Mills and his associates in the
Bellingham Bay 4 British Columbia
Railway Company, have made arrange
ments for the sale of the road to the
Canadian Pacific. The deal is probably
the first step in the extension OF the
Canadian Pacific into the Puget Sound
country.
SToCKMEN in the Uni Mountains, New
Mexico, state that the renegade Navajo
Indians are causing considerable trOub
lie to stOckmen by driving off cattle
and sheep and threatening the owners
with bodily harm if they offer any OBJ
iectiOns. One sheep raiser alone has
had at least 1000 sheep stolen from him
in the past twelve months by these In
dams.
An Oregon man has invented de-
vice for saving logs. 1t consists of an
endless cross-cut saw attached to a
series of cogs to give it motion.
DowNIEvILLE, Cal, reports that the
Gold Bluff, quartz mill twenty stamps,
has begun crushing ore with profitable
results, and sufficient rich ore is in sight
to last for years.
Two brothers named Pagan recently
found large number of shell-fsh
pearls at the mouth of the Yachats
River, in the southwestern corner of
Lincoln County, Ore.
BETWEEN 800 and 400 acres have been
planted to deciduous fruit trees in and
near Ontario this season, the same terri
tory heretofore having been largely oc-
tupied by citrus fruit planting.
THE prospects all over Southern Cali
fornia favor large yield of prunes and
peaches this year. From every fruit
growing locality in the state there come
reports of a short crop OF apricots.
The owners Of the Blue Canyon coal
mine, which is located at the head of
Lake WhatcCm, twelve miles from New
Whitcom, Wash, are highly elated over
the discovery of a new vein of coal,
which is of excellent quality.
HERMAN METzGER, of Portland, is
opening up a galena ledge on Quartz
Creek, Ore, tributary Of Jump-off
joe The lode is twelve feet wide and
bounded on each side by slate forma-
ton. A concentration will be put in at
the mine.
THE bodies of two prospectors have
been found in the Castle Dome range,
north Of the ella River. They are sup
posed to be the remains of two French
men who carried gold nuggets into
Yuma some years ago and went out
again, since when they have never been
heard from.
THE Tacoma Ledger shows in detail
the progress made in irrigating the lands
of Eastern Washington. Eight large
companies are organized, with COM
bined capital of S., 100000. The amount
already expended in construction work
is 81 ,245, 900. The land that Will be irri-
gated when all the work is finished is
2S3, 900 acres.
TIE last consignment Of two car loads
of navel oranges reached Liverpool,
Eng, from Pomona, Cal, in prime con-
dition and were sold in London at $4.S0
per box. This is the best price had in
England this season for Southern Cali
fornia fruit. At that price the grower
here will get a clear profit Of about s.. 10
per box.
A FIFTH cigar-shaped raft, containing
/, 800 900 feet of redwood logs, has
reached San Francisco from Fort Bragg.
Lumber freights are $3.50 and S. per
900 feet. 1t is claimed that by the
cigar-shaped raft method logs can be
brought to San Francisco for 81 per
900 feet, and that the sawdust and
slabs, which are waste in a lumber dis
trict, can be made to pay the cost Of
raftiuO the lOoS