Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-13
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.

\ "WHITMAN County on wheels car
is proposed to make an eastern tour,
advertising the resources of the Palouse
country, Wash.
WAsHINGToN is becoming g fruit-grow-
inc state. This season the Snake River
crop will amount to 5000 boxes of late
peaches, 5000 gallons of blacllberries,
5000 boxes of peach plums, l 500 boxes
of pears, 1000 boxes of grapes, 5000
boxes Of winter apples, The apricot
crop is short.
PRANK WILLIAMSON and [. H. Phipps,
of Olympia, have a cranberry marsh at
Oyster Bay, and from a space of fifty
feet square they, last season, took seven
barrels, their total crop reaching ! 900
bushels. This year the estimated pro-
duction is nearly 5000 bushels.
FIVE BIodgett Valley boys had an ex-
citing meeting with an old bear and her
two cubs near Mary 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 a charge of appropriating $4,000
worth Of government timber. 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.
LEE HERKLE, of Corvallis, Ore, is ex-
hibiting oats, the stocks OF which av-
erage tiftv-One inches in length. The
field will average fifty bushels per acre.
They were not soWn 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 ,l20
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 S
Fair committee has prepared a 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 90
7S5.
TACOMA fruit and vegetable peddlers
are not allowed to begin business before
IL A. NJ.
WORK on the Coos Bay raft is making
good Roadway. 1t will be 612 feet long
and draw Is feet of water.
SMUGGLING Of horses, cattle and mer-
chandise into this country from Lower
California is being carried on more eN-
tensively than ever before.
II. c. WALTERS passed through Ellens-
burgh, Wash, with a carload of 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 $50, 900
cases, and will be the largest by 10000
cases ever put up on the Fraser.
A WHITE RIVER farmer brought into
Seattle 400-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.