The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-11
THE PASSING THRONG.

g. W. Muckley. corresponding secretary OF the
board Of church extension of the Christian
church. was In the city yesterday. The board
which Mr. Muckley represents was organised
less than four aud a half years ago. with head
quarters at Kansas City. Its capital 10 acquired
from subscriptions from local self-supporting
churches of the denomination and from indi-
yiduals. These funds are loaned to struggling
churches In mission fields and elsewhere for the
purpose of bull ing houses OF worship The
board requires = clear title TO the lots on which
the church IL to be built and then takes arst
mortgage on the property, including the build
ing, charging 4 per cent interest on the loan;
or. If the church cannot get the lot, the board
will buy IL for the church, which IL then ex.
pected to erect the building and buy the lot -
soon - 1t 10 able, paying I par cent interest
npon the investment Everything 10 conducted
upon as sound business principles As those
governing any well organised loan and
trust company. 'Our plan Is one that ap-
peals to business men," said Mr.. Muckley
70 . PosT-lNrELLIGENCxR reporter: although
We have been organized but four years and four
months We have 100000 in our fund, and it IL
rapidly increasing. We have helped les
churches, and one-twelfth OF that number are
now self-sustaining, having paid back the loan
with interest OF our loans &l5,5oo and over
5000 interest have come back to the treasury
and gone out again to help other churchea
You see our fund 10 not only increasing rapidly
BY voluntary subscriptions collected in the
churches in September of each year and per-
sonal donations aud requests. but IL really COM
pounding itself. We have good places to put
all we can get, however. As we are extending
our work all the time. have just come from
California, where forty-ive churches gave
H4,42a At Portland last Sunday I secured
81. $50 in cash and pledgea From here I go to
Portland, aud thence East, stopping at Salt Lake.
Denver, Colorado Springs, Kansas City, WASH
ington City, Baltimore, New York and Boston.
My mission ON this Coast was not so much to
raise funds as to see where loans were needed"
F. E. Gilkey. . prominent hop grower living
near Edison. is stopping at the Diller "Since
spraying has been found to work successfully
the hop growers up our way are preparing to in
crease their acreage and new fields will be
started by other ranchers. In my neighbor-
hood, think. there will b about sixty acres
more OF hop fields this year than there was last
season. The quality of our hops is equal to II
not superior to any raised on the Coast a. We
have very little dew. Last year averaged one
and ons-Quarter tons per acre, and 1 sold my
crop early, getting Is cents per pound. With
means to destroy the lice. hops are good crop
to raise. Including spraying, it costs from 10 to
II cents per pound 70 prepare them for market,
which leaves . good margin for the producer.
sixteen hundred pounds per acre il considered
an average crop, and If the grower can net 5
cents per pound he will be doing much better
than the ordinary hay or produce farmer. We
are also getting most OF our pickers from our
own neighborhood, 80 that all the money for our
crop goes where it is most needed"
Mr.. and Mrs R p. Nelson, of Juneau, Alaska,
are stopping at the Rainier. Mr.. Nelson has
been in the mercantile business there for sew.
eral years and il also largely Interested in min.
Ing properties "The prospects for mining In
Alaska are very good" said he. 81 think great
many men will 60 over into the Yukon country
this year. Near juneau there are great many
fine prospects. but very few OF the mines are
being worked. The lodges are large, but the ore
is mostly low grade FREQ milling gold. Most of
them will pay for working from the surface. and
it il really surprisinR that more OF them have
not been developed. the cost OF labor 10 cheap,
the siwashes making good miners 1t 81 per day.
One reason for the failure of capital to take
hold OF mole propositions there IL that there
have been two or three failures of mining prop
critics due to Encouragement number of
fine properties In the Demands bay district,
fifty miles northeast of Juneau, have been sold
during the past year. and will Do developed this
season."
c. c. Thornton, Indian agent at the Tulalip
reservation, came over from Olympia yesterday,
and is stopping at the Occidental He is one OF
the few Republican Office holders who will serve
some time under the new administration, az his
commission docs not expire for two years to
come. 81 am getting ready to make the annual
distribution of tools ard supplies to the l,4OO
government wards under my CHARGE" said he.
81 expect to start on the tour OF the different
sub-agencies the latter part of the month, If the
funds arrive from Washington City by that time.
The distribution is made largely at the egent's
discretion, according to his estimate of their re.
spective needs and disposition. good indus.
T.~Ag
posed one. The tools distributed consist Of
plows, harrovs, hoes. rakes. axes, hammers,
hatchets. harness. scythes, saws, nails, ETC., and
the supplies OF an annually diminishing guam
nty OF -four, sugar. salt. tea coffee aud q few
yards OF flannel and gingham to the old women"
A. NJ. Knapp left on Thursday for his home in
Napa Cal lie has been visiting his son, At
torney b. T. Knapp, OF this city, and spent some
time in Portland and Tacoma He Is highly
pleased with the Sound country, and remarked
that he saw moro activity aud indications of
business and prosperity while walking up
Second street than he had seen altogether since
leaving Napa
Senator F. H. Richards of whatcom, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. A. E. Mead of Blaine. and
Representatives N. Anderson of Park and WILL
lam Payne of Port Townsend, are at the Occi-
dental on their way home from Olympia
sherih ana Mrs. W. j. Armstrong and Mrs.
Rand, OF New Westminster, are at the Grand.
They have been spending a ak weeks vacation
in California. and are on their way home.
senator W. H. Gilbert, of Custer. and Repre-.
sentative Waiter Crockett, of Coupsville, are
stopping at the Diler.
Personal Gossip From Tacoma.
TACOMA. March l1-tspecial l-Register John
ID. Geoghegan, OF the Vancouver land Office was
in the city today, in connection with Q meeting
OF the financial committee of the A. O. u. ".
owing TO the absence Of Judge Cans, of the
committee, who has been called to California