The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-10-20
NEWS FROM THE STATE.

Brief Summary of the Happen
| ings in Our Sister Counties
of Oregon.
Lane county's indebtedness is $17-
600.
They have a bimetalist league al
| Dallas.
The Coquille academy is to oper
November 6.
Astoria IS organizing peacefully
against tie chinese.
Fifty cents a bushel has been paid
for wheat at The Dalles.
There are three thousand acres OF
grain yet uncut on the Umatilla reser
vation.
Two hundred men are at work in
the Bohemia mines, sixty miles south.
east of Eugene.
Allison Every, of Grants Pass, has
| shipped 1000 boxes Of peaches and
! has more coming.
The shipment of plums from Cove
| SO far this season has reached ll,47O
boxes. and still continues.
In two days at Athena recently six
| teen hundred bushels Of wheat were
sold at 361 and 81 cents cash.
J. Malcolm, of Topeka, Kansas, has
purchased for 5000 the c. o. Fan
ming place, below Pendleton for a
dairy ranch.
R. r. Hays and D. L.. Butler, of
Eugene, have purchased the farm
owned by John and Joseph stone near
Creswell 1t consists of $50 acres and
the price paid was $4,000. The pur-
chasers will plant at least fifty acres of
the land to hops in the spring.
The recent snow was quite heavy
and unexpected in the Greenhorn
mountains, consequently it caught
many sheepherders and camp-tenders
unprepared. In some instances while
moving the sheep the herders were for
two days without food or sleep.
1t is understood that the Crown
Paper Co., OF Oregon City, will soon
erect wood pulp mill on the VILLAIN
ette at the mouth of the Mololla river.
The company wishes to be able to
manufacture the pulp needed in its
own pulp mill. 1t now buys all the
wood pulp used.
Some two months ago the secretary
of the interior made an order that all
patents to land in quadrant that were
tied up when the suits affecting titles
IN that tract were commenced, may
now be signed and delivered. Some
OF these deeds are arriving at the Ore
gon City land Office.
Prlnevllle News: Grant white killed
a mule deer near the head of Vesey
creek few days ago that weighed
when dressed, $50 pounds. Hun
dreds of these noble animals have been
slain in this county, but this is by far
the largest one that ever fell before
the huntsman's rife.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Salem building and loan associa-
ton, two loans were made-one at
$500, one at 5000, both paying rs
months interest in advance. Last
month interest was bid ga months in
advance and two or three months be-
fore that l2S months in advance.
Albany Herald A committee rep
resenting the creditors of the Oregon
Pacific who recently held meeting at
Mill City met Judge Fullerton in this
city last week before the judge went to
Corvallis and laid their case before
him. They met him again Sunday,
and were informed that the road was
ordered sold without restriction on or
before December 10. The men are
now hopeful of obtaining their much
needed money soon.
Ashland Tidings: Two men went
into Grants Pass the other day with 56
ounces or $3.50 of gold dust which
they pounded out in a hand mortar
from quartz taken out of a new claim
located by them in the Williams creek
district. This came out of a twelve
foot shaft on an extension of the Bone
of Contention ledge, and besides this
they have three or four tons from the
shaft that will mill two or three hun
dred dollars per ton.