The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-20
Correspondence and County Notes
HOODS CANAL. ADri1 II 1904

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HOODS CANAL, April IL, 1894.
The steamer Anna M. Pence has
been carrying the mail the past ten
days for the Rainer. She went to
Clifton last Wednesday for thirty ton.
of potatoes. The Rainier is expected
to beHn the route this week with the
cabin much enlarged and otherwise in
good trim for the summer business.
Gen. c. W. Thompson, with his son
and daughter-in-1aw, of Tacoma,
came up the. Canal last Wednesday,
simply to view its beauties. He was
Inspector General of the Department
of Missouri during the war, and is
now eighty years old, but look younger.
Henry c. Hale of Seattle, brother
in-law of Thos. Webb, came up Wed
nesday. He, with two friends. are
out in order to 60 into the fishing
business, if practicable, with a view
to SEND the fish east in the refrigera-
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growing and cannot be overdone.
Logging is about at its lowest ebb
on the Canal. About year ago there
were seventeen camps in operation,
now there are only four or FIVE, two
near Hoodsport. one at Brinnon, one
at Seabeck, and perhaps one further
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are putting in saw logs, while the
others are getting out telegraph poles
and piles. The six or seven million
feet which were lying near Union City
last fall are still there. It is really no
| wonder, as a gentleman came there
last week to look at some logs, but he
only wanted to give three dollars a
thousand, saying he had bought some
at that price near Olympia. He says
the reason people do not sell logs. is
that they ask so much for them. Of
the two camps mentioned, which are
putting in logs, one has only four
men at work, and the other is giving
men chance to pay their debts, and
at the same time is turning the logs
over at three dollars thousand to pay
an old debt. 1t is. said that near a
million feet which are lying in the
mouth of the Skokon1ish river were
offered to the Puget Mill Company at
three dollars, but they declined to buy.
Mr.. j. Hauptley went up the Skoko-
n1ish river last Saturday to move Mrs.
Johnson, mother John D. johnson and
daughter to Shelton.
We are glad to state that Mr. V.
Finch of Hoodsport, whose leg was
broken about two months ago, has so
far recovered as to be out, and take
charge of the men of his road district
who began working the road last Mon
day. The advertisement for bids to
complete the James McReavy road
in that district and the acton of the
County Commissioners looking toward
bridging the Skokonlish gives great
satisfaction in this region to those who
On the former route have pulled boat
often against the wind or rode the
beach when the tide was OUT or jump
ed logs on blind trail ever since
Hoodsport was place, and have swim
horses across the Skokomish or fer
ried them in scow and sometimes
brought wagons across in two canoes
or boats for twenty years or more.
Mrs. r. D, Shut of the reservation,
started for Michigan last Thursday,
haying that day received the sad news
Of the dangerous and probably fatal
sickness of her mother.
A Sabbath School was organic ed at
the Webb and Happily school house
last Sabbath with M. Ee11s as Snpt.,
L Parkhurst, Assistant Supt. S.
HOLLY, APRIL II, 1894.
Clarence Fisk, of Shelton, has COM