Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22


is completed, and belief Is professed That
trains will be running by October.
A movement has been started in Port
Townsend having for its object the reor-
ganization Of the city government under
the general law.
The Whatcom Bbard Of Trade has
committee at WORK trying to secure the
removal of one Of the Oregon City -four
ing mills to thaHplace.
Petitions are being signed at Hoquiam
protesting against the sale of water
bonds noW/being advertised and pledging
money t0fght the sale in the courts.
Twenty-one out OF Whatcom county's
seventy-one school districts have an ag-
gregate bonded Indebtedness OF $3.50, 800.
OF this $8S, 900 is Whatcom's and SAC, 900
Blaine's.
Wslla Walla county has paid out $12,-
900 annually for some years for the Grad
ication of squirrel and gopher pests, and
now it is rather discouraging, but appar-
emily true, that these animals are more
numerous than ever.
Walla Walla county's assessment roll
is made up. 1t shows for 1894: Real
estate, 81 ,437 ,740; personal property, 81
81, 1897 1878. This is an aggregate decrease
from 1898 valuations of 1896, O67.
Receiver Flournoy of the Spokane
land Office in his report for May says the
total receipts of the Office were 81, 728,
the largest reported for more than as.year.
The biggest item was $3.50 for thirty-nine
homesteads, embracing 5,725 acres.
Wilbur has a gold excitement of her
own, and is fast being depopulated by q
rush to Hellgate Canyon on the Column
bia, twelve miles away, where the pre-
cious mineral is reported to be hidden
in the sands in large quantities. Nobody
has seen any gold yet, but the report Of
a syndicate's extensive filings has pre-
cipitated an excitement.
A. company has just been organized in
Spokane that has for its object the pur-
chase of the extensive property of the
Spokane Water Company and the max
ing of vast improvements in the shape
of Touring mills, saw mills, linseed-oil
mills, the development of water power
and electric-lighting plants. The cor
poration is capitalized at $750,0OO.
Already over 100 homesteads have been
taken in Klickitat by the Indians, and
forty patents have been issued to them
by the government. The law does not
permit them to sell or deed land until
after the lapse of twenty-five years from
the date of the patent issued. The In
dams are permitted to homestead eighty
acres for farming or 100 acres for grazing
purposes, while squaw at the head OF
a family can enter eighty or 100 acres of
land for each one of her minor children.
There were made in the jute mills Of
the Washington State penitentiary dur
ing the month of May 1S0, 003 grain bags,
1891 wool bags and 2, 239 oat bags. Dur
ing the month the price of grain bags
has been reduced from 7 cents to 81
cents EACH, The penitentiary now has
on hand subject to sale: 1854, 1856 grain
bags at 61 cents each, 625 wool bags at
cents, 2,100 cat bags at 8 cents, 10, 763
yards hop cloth at 90 cents per yard
and 5,161 pounds fleece Irvine, five-ply,
at cents per pound.
In different localities in Eastern Wash
ington threshing is again in operation.
1t is found that by exercising q little
care in trimming off all the damaged
grain from the tops and sides of the
stacks a pretty fair grade of wheat is OBJ
tanned where the stacks have been well
built. The grain is still little soft, but
by scattering the sacks about on boards
or rails for few days the sun will har-
den it. Oakesdale millmen, who have
been buying some of this grain, recon-
mend this treatment, and say a few days
hot sun will make it worth at least
cents more per bushel.