The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-10-04
News of all Sorts.

PAsTEUR, the father of bacteriology,
died in Paris last Sunday. Through
his study cholera, diptheria, hydropho-
bia and many other diseases are con-
trolled, by the discovery that disease
was caused by germs.
THE Aberdeen Herald reports that
efforts are being made to open up
communication between the upper
Wynoochie and Wishkah rivers and
that city, for which subscription is
being raised.-The Herald says
"Mason county has offered to put
road through to this settlement if they
will ask to be set off to Mason county.
This, of course, Aberdeen and Chehalis
county does not want, and they should
be aided, and set off as road district"
We can accommodate them, if Cheha-
lis won't
ABOUT twice a year the West Coast
Lumberman likes to make statement
about the timber of this coast which
makes eastern lumbermen marvel. In
a lawsuit recently decided between
logging company and mill company
the testimony showed that one quarter
section of timber in Snohomish county,
Washington. was logged off and the
timber sold when delivered at the mill
for $43, 900. A pretty good harvest for
l6O acres-pity it couldn't be cut an
nually instead of every $50 or 800
years.
| JUDGE IRWIN has rendered a deci-
sion in Chehalis county case. that
the Auditor has no right to issue
warrants for the claims approved by
the commissioners since the limit of
Indebtedness was reached, and that
the claims are illegal. This decision
was based on the strict construction
OF the law, but the reduction of the
assessed valuation of Chehalis county
from its last year figure is the cause
of bringing the claims below the limit
of Il per centum. Over $4,000 is
INVOLVED
WBIDBY Island devoted but little of
its land to the potato this season,
owing to the low prices for the past two
years. According to the Coupeville
Times, this will be benefit in one
way as it will force out the horde of
cinnamon who have infested the island
OF late years, to the detriment of the
white farmers. They were able to paw
more for the lease of small tracts of
land, on account of their methods of
farming, and many large owners give
them the preference in the lease of
their lands. They now find disadvan-
tage of that course. Many white
farmers have moved away, trade has
fallen away from the local merchants.
the farmers generally impoverished,
and the Island has developed good
trade for the china stores of Seattle.
We had supposed that the Pacific
Coast people had long ago learned that
the cinnamon was no good, any way
you're mind to take him.
"Ir may sound like the cry of
the wolf in the old school readers but
nevertheless cedar is already growing
scarce in the timber districts of Wash
lngton. Many shingle mills are now
looking around for locations to which
they can move In 1896. On Gravs
Harbor cedar logs have advanced ST
within the past sixty days and are
scarce at that. Cedar logs are being
hauled by railroad sixty and seventy
miles and then dumped into Puget
Sound. Practically the day has pass
ed Tor the jackscrew logger. Before
long single cedar trees will be in de-
mand and when cut into single bolts
Will be hauled by teams to the near
est railroad station or single MILL"
| The above is from the West Coast
Lumberman, but it's scare is needless.
IN our opinion, for some years to come.
In Mason county little attention is
paid to cedar timber, except for an
occasional special order, and it's splen-
did cedar belts are practically mtouch-
ed This County presents splendid
field for single mills and the supply
of cedar is nracticallv l1nlim;toa