Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-05-03
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.

A SHIPMENT OF thirty-nine tons of
frozen Chinook salmon has just been
made from Portland, Ore, to supply
Chicago's big hotels during the opening
week of the Worlds Fair. The fish are
all selected and average in weight thir-
tyfiye pounds each.
JOHN NJ. MAJORS, representing the
General Land Office, has been engaged
at Roswell, n. NJ, investigating the ac-
counts of the missing receiver, Frank
Lesnet. He employed an expert to open
the safe and found the shortage to be
between $4,000 and 81 900.
MAN PRACHT, special agent of the
Treasury Department, and also of the
Department of the Interior, for the
protection of the salmon fisheries of
Alaska, is preparing to forward speci-
men oysters from Killisnoo to the
United States fish commission at Wash
ingtOn, and if the reports of the ichthy-
olOgist are favorable, steps will be taken
to secure spawn and young oysters for
transplanting into the waters of Chesa-
peake Bay.
NEAR Orc, Wash, are several bands
of wild horses. Most of them are small
but some are good horses The horses,
when caught, are hard to break, and
when turned loose Immediately reioin
the band, taking few tame horses
along for company. All the stockmen
in the county, on both sides of the line,
have contributed to the band, which
will eventually have to be shot.
THE orange crop in Southern Califor-
MIA never went East SO fast as it is doing
this month. Since April | over ninety
corloads day have been sent out of
Southern California and up to date
about 3 400 carloads have been shipped.
Thus far naval oranges have comprised
three-fOTths of all shipments, because
growers are holding back seedlings and
Mediterranean sweets until later in the
season, when the Worlds Fair is eN-
pected to create an unusual market for
California oranges.
THERE are various cranberry marshes
along the coast districts between the
southern line of Oregon and the gulf of
st. George. The Nehalem section of
the TillamoOk coast has long been noted
among local residents for its cranber-
ries; and from Just north of the Column
bia River, in the ShOalwater Bay cOun-
try, barrels and barrels of the favOrite
fruit find their way into the markets of
the world every season. The cultiva-
ton of cranberries has been entered
upon IN the 1aquina country, Oregon.
CIVIL engineers near Umatilla. Ore,
have been running lines from the rap
ids of Umatilla River to the gold fields
along the shore of the Columbia, three
miles west. This has been done, it is
said, in the interest of a company lately
formed at Pendleton for the purpose of
making a thorough investigation into
the condition of the old placer digging,
and if possible, devising some means of
procuring the fine gold. The rapids of
Umtilla will afford them excellent
water power for hydraulic mining.
THE Snake River, Wash, Fruit Grow
ers' Association has become near a
81 100000 company. By vote of the
directors the stock was increased to
$950,000. Over 900 acres of additional
fruit lands lying on both sides of Snake
River near WaWaWai have been bond
ed. The association now controls in the
aggregate 2,073 acres of the finest fruit
ground in the state and cOntemplates
still further additions to it's possessions
Four hundred acres of this large tract
are now in orchard.