Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-07-20
Oregon.
About 200, 900 dozen OF eggs are shipped
from Albany each year.

About ZOU, OUU dozen OF eggs are SLI ppeu
from Albany each year.
Yamhill county's Sheriff will turn
over to his successor 81, 1S9. Some $780,
600 taxes are yet unpaid.
There is talk OF forming a company
and starting pulp mill on the upper
Necannicum. There is plenty of suitable
timber and an abundance OF water.
There are 367 persons in the peniten-
tiary now, 100 being employed in the
stove foundry. There is only one wom-
an, Emma Rice from Multnomah county.
The reform school agitation is still
live topic in the Salem papers. Some
members of the grand jury are out in
severe criticisms, to which Superintend-
ent Hendricks replies with some spirit.
The whistling buoy off the Coos Bay
bar is water-logged, having been run into
by some vessel. The Manzanita exam
ined the buoy, and will bring appliances
from Portland to raise it and make the
necessary repairs.
Some unknown individual has been
circulating counterfeit fve-dollar pieces
throughout Southern Oregon during the
past few weeks. They are very poor i'm
itations, being much lighter in weight,
and would deceive no person should
their attention be drawn to the matter.
The date on them is 1881.
A contract has been made for 5000
tons of the Yaquina stone to be used IN
another San Francisco building. The
steam schooner Scotia is at Yaquina
after load of stone, and will be kept
busy in this trade the greater part of the
summer, A steam derrick is to be
erected at Yaquina to expedite the
transfer of the stone from the cars to the
vessel. The new channel machine for
use at the quarry and the first to be used
in the State has arrived and is now in
operation, and will vastly increase the
rapidity with which stone can be turned
out. One of the contracts for supplying
a San Francisco firm calls for $50 Gu
bic feet OF the stone.
Reports from the hop yards IN Oregon
indicate bright prospects of large yield.
Lice are appearing in few yards, and are
not SO numerous in those as to cause APP
prehenson for the safety OF the crop:
| But another formidable and unexpected
pest has begun operations, the tent cat
erpillar, which has been so numerous
and destructive in the orchards. In some
parts these have attacked the hop yards,
making rapid havoc among the plants.
Owners of yards are making every effort
to exterminate the pests by making a
good strong spray solution. Only few
small wards have as yet been attacked,
and if successfully resisted in those, the
Oregon output will not be materially al
fected.
Major Post, United States engineers,
is preparing to have complete survey
of the mouth of the Columbia and its
channel made as soon as practicable, to
ascertain what effect has been produced
by the flood. He has already had the
iettv examined, and finds that it has
sustained no damage except the loss OF
one pile, carried away by the drift; 1t
1t is expected that the channel will be
widened and deepened by the vast
volume of water passing out OF the
river. The dikes put in by the Port OF
Portland Commission have had chance
to exert their utmost influence, and
probably the current has made various
changes in the channel, but on the whole
the navigation Of the river is likely to be
much improved.