The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-12-12
NORTHWEST BREVlTIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.

Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Rejection of Bids for the Construction
of the State Capitol at Olympia
Oregon News.
The wool clip in Lake county this
year exceeded 1000, 900 pounds.
The water works at Klamath Falls
has at last been placed in operation.
The can factory, at Astoria, is receiv-
ing orders from all parts of the North
west, for cans for next season.
A large amount of building has been
done at The Dalles in the past summer.
Over twenty-five residences have been
lures, besides many additions and en-
largements.
A remarkable discovery was made
while digging a well near Eugene
junction recently. At the depth of
ITO feet cedar tree was found. The
grain of the wood and knots are still
plainly visible.
Lightning struck Tillamook Rock
telephone wire, during a recent storm;
running along the wire; it went into the
to the office at Fort Stevens, illuminat-
ing the place and soaring those who
were in the Office, but did no damage.
The price of cattle in Eastern Ore
gon is steadily going up, and those
stockmen who have sold will be more
than recompensed for the trouble they
have had in keeping them. Horses
are not SO numerous as they were a
few months ago. For a month or two
they were dying with a fever at an
alarming rate, in certain portions.
Three large ice storage houses are
being erected at Perry for the purpose
of storing ice with which to supply
the market along the o. R. &. N. Com
pany's line. The o. R. &. N. Company
have put in spur near Perry, and
these storage houses are being erected
SO that ice can be easily taken from the
river and then, during the warm season,
to the cars for shipment.
Washington.
A new tannery is to be erected at
Mckee, in Yakima county.
The name of the community of ''Hog
Heaven" has been chagned to Oakdale.
Walla Walla is agitated over ques-
ton whether it has legal right to Ii
cense gambling.
Camps of the new order, called the
Native Sons of Washington, are being
organized at Port Townsend.
The Oregon Improvement Company
handled during the year, ending De-
cember l., over $50, 900 tons of coal.
A new wooden cave factory has just
been started in Seattle, for the manu-
facture of cutters of all kinds, wooden
conductors, etc.
A number of farmers along the Co.
lumbia river in Yakima county are
building water wheels for the purpose
of irrigating their land.
A saw mill with capacity of 20O,-
600 feet day, is to be erected at Ever
ett or Seattle by the Weyer-Hauser
syndicate, the most extensive lumber
dealers in the world.
Sturgeon fishing is now taking the
place of salmon fishing on the Colum
bia and Snake rivers for few months
Nets will be used more this year than
ever. They run from 600 to 900 feet
in length, and the meshes vary in size
from twelve to nineteen inches.
The agricultural college. at Pull
man, now offers short course in agri-
culture. The course includes year Of
twenty -four weeks. Special attention
is paid to agriculture, horticulture,
botany, chemistry, entomology, math-
ematics and languages. The expense
of the course is very slight. Tuition
is free, room rent SIT year, board at
the dormitory averages So. IL month,
and the expenses for books is small.
The state capitol commission has
again rejected all bids for the erection
of the new capitol owing to the pro-
visions in the bids which surround the
payment of the warrants. The build
ing is to be erected from the proceeds
of the sale of 192, 90 acres granted by
congress for public building purposes,
and the warrants so state on their face.
No lands have yet been sold, and the
bidders feared the warrants would not
always bring par.
Idaho.
A mill is to be erected at the Viola
mine in Black Horned district. It is
said that State Treasurer Bunting is
interested in this deal.
A company composed of young Indi-
ans of the Kamiah settlement are
planning to engage in the general
merchandise business at that place.
A hundred head of horses were re-
Gently sold in Jordan valley at $40, or
75 cents per head. This is said to be
the lowest price ever paid for horses
anywhere.
The estimated wheat crop of North
ern Idaho and Eastern Washington is
far short of the average. 1t is estimat-
ed that it will be 100000 bushels.
Last year it was double that amount.
The Irrigation of the Lewiston plats
seems to be assured for the near future.
It is one of the finest tracts of unim-
proved land in the Northwest. Two
thousand, six hundred acres of land