The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-12-01
News Of all Sorts.

The Hoquiam and Cosmopolis saw
mills are reported to have orders from
Kansas City for 100000 feet 0
spruce, and they are buying all the
logs they can sec ure.
]. N. Master, of Skamokawa, is i'm
porting 4O-horse power engine fo
logging on big scale next year. H,
has contracted for some 10000 ,OO(
feet OF standing fir and spruce
The Roslyn mines are turning ou
l,7OO tons of coal daily, operating bu
two of the mines. The large sha
being sunk is down $50 feet, and vii
go to depth of 800 feet before striking
the coal veins.
The other day carload of salmon
passed through Fairhaven from Liver
pool, B. c., consigned to Liverpool
England. A long journey and Z.
similarity of names between the poin
of shipment and the destination O.
the fish are noticeable.
The Standard shingle mill, at Sno.
homlsn, claims to have beaten the
coast record for saving cedar shingles
on double block machine, Saturday.
In run OF ten hours they turned out
and packed 10000, the largest
amount in the history of the shingle
business on the coast.
1 A NEW paper, The Laboring World,
has made its appearance in Astoria.
1t is a neat looking little paper, con-
tanning the usual TRADE against the
millionaire. If these so-called 'labOr
journals" would seek to instill in the
labor thrift and frugality instead of
hatred against men who succeeded fl
nancially they would accomplish a
great deal more for the laboring peo-
ple.-Kalama Bulletin.
Applications for ground space at
the midwinter fair have been received
In such large numbers that it was nee
essary for the fair management to
make application to the park COM
missioners. COR sixty additional acres
of ground, which was granted them.
The expo sition grounds now cover a
space of $50 acres. 1t has also been
decided to build an annex to the man
ufactures and liberal arts building
This annex will be in the rear of the
building and will be seventy-five feet
in depth, and will run the entire
leugth of the building, 462 feet.
Charles A. Burr return ed, Tuesday,
from his cranberry marsh, near KAN
ilche, where he has been for the last
month experimenting the picking, and
will 60 back again to furnish to crop.
Two thousand gallons he has stored
now, and five hundred yet to pick.
This season he had an average force of
forty pickers. Samples now on exhi-
bition at his cigar store, and measure
ments taken by Olympian reporter on
a half dozen berries give an average of
3-l6 inches in circumference. This
is about the general average, but goes
to prove that the berries are excep-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Several ships have been chartered re-
Gently to load at Tacoma, Pacific
coast, with Washington fir for Ger
many, consigned to the German gov
ernment to be used for building, says
correspondent of Fairplay. The
cargoes have been ordered, it said, by
| Geo. F. Neame & Co., of London, who
have contract with the German and
French governments to supply them
with lumber used for national pur-
poses. The same firm have been
ordering on an average ten shiploads
per year of Washington fir Besides
these cargoes the growing port of
Tacoma will export this year seventy
cargoes of wheat, equal to seven mil
lion bushels.-'Frisco Commercial News.
HAWAIIAN Commissioner Blount
has submitted very lengthy report
regarding the recent revolution in
that country, and in justification of
his cause and that of the present ad-
ministration in its attempt to restore
the monarchial government, scores
President Harrison and Minister Ste
vens without stint. Mr. Blount's
course in tt: s matter is evidently par
tisan and highly prejudiced, but if he
imagines that he has struck a popular
chord, he is greatly mistaken, and
the party that lends itself to the effort
to re-enthrone Liliuokalani will find
that it has committed great mistake.
Neither the people of this country nor
those of Hawaii are favorable to such
course as shown by the emphatic
protests now being made-W. c.
| Trade.
The first canal boat in the world to
be propelled by electricity ploughed
through the waters of Erie canal,
Friday, Nov. II, If power can be OBJ
tanned from Niagara, as it is suggested
it can be, so cents per day will fur
nish power for canal boat that il
takes four mules and two men to give
it now. The test of the new methot
of propulsion was made on the Pitts
ford level, and was witnessed by
large party of notable persons. The
principal is the same as in the street
car system, except that the return
current is carried overhead the same
as the supply current. The lateral
mo. ement of the boat which allows
it to pass another is provided for by
using pliable wire for the trolley The
boat made from four to seven miles
an hour. 1t is said is is capable OF
towing six other boats at a good rate
of speed.