The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-09

the county is 2,63S, one person t
every four square miles.
The stock inspector of Umatill
county reports that there are abou
240, 900 sheep in the county and con
trary to the recent reports are in goot
condition for the winter. The stock
men are better prepared this winte
than last.
The completion of the new waite
works system at Astoria was ceie
brated with pomp and ceremony. TIL
expense of the system was 5000, 900.
The entire salmon pack, spring ant
fall season, for the entire Pacific coast
was 2,034,S77. Of this amount Alask,
furnished 1000; British Columbia
512,877.
A miners convention has been called
for the early part of January, for tn,
purpose of organizing miners associa
ton for Southern Oregon. 1t will b,
held in Grants Pass.
The census enumeration of 1885
compared with that of 1895, shows 9
production of wheat in Oregon ter
years ago to be S,933,71S bushels, and
this year to be 9,019, 1872 bushels.
A wood war is reported at The
Dalles. The price of wood by the com,
petition of the local dealers has been re.
duced to a lower figure than for previ.
GUS winters. An unusual amount OF
wood has been bought up the river dur.
ing the year.
The contract recently made by the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com.
pany, making its line of steamers to
the Orient permanent, insures a great
trade in Oregon's -four with Asia. The
manager Of one of the leading -four
mills OF the state says their -four
trade with Asia has doubled twice
within the past three years, and he is
confident it will be doubled again
within three years. The arrangements
at present are sufficient to handle 4, 600
tons per month, and in two or three
years at farthest, two steamers per
month will be needed, instead of one,
and the possibilities of the trade in ten
years no one can even approximate.
Five thousand rabbits were killed at
a recent drive at Oakly.
Two or possibly three new steamers
will be built on the Kootenai for pas
sage between Boomers Ferry and Lake
Bounds next spring.
A feed and -four mill is to be estab-
lished at Ferndale. Bids for a daily
mail service between that place and
Whatcom has been sent to the postoffice
A Chicago combination has made ap-
plication to the state board of land COM
missioners to have 10000 acres Of
land withdrawn from settlement for
the purpose of retaining it under the
Carey act. Two hundred thousand dol
lars is the estimated cost of the irri-
cation works.
Coal has been found in several
places within the limits of Stevens
also on the east side Of the Co.
lumbia river above Market, where there
is seam of one foot in width and a
depth of eighty feet. Coal is also
found in other parts of the county not
far from the boundary line.
A special agent of the treaurer has
dispersed in payment $50, 900 to the Nez
Perez Indians. 1t is estimated that 343
native Nez Perces have died since the
Fletcher allotment of land was COM
pleted in 1898. The births are re-
corded to the number of ninety-four
These statistics show the destiny of
this favored Indian tribe.
The W. r. L. I. & Co., have COM
pleted their Nutmeg reservoir and now
have substantial dam 200 feet long
and fifty feet high, holding water suf-
dcient to irrigate 1000 acres. Water
is guaranteed by the projectors by May
Is. All the government land in this
tract is taken up, but 900 acres Of
state university land are still open to
The state land timber estimator has
to the land commissioners
that timber will soon be offered for
sale. The timber will probably go to
different lumber firms. They will
have to build about twenty-five miles
of railroad in order to transport the
timber. In all he has estimated no.
297, 900 feet of timber, divided as fol-
lows: white pine, 144,219,000 feet;
yellow pine, %, 791, 900; white fir,
46, 871 900; red fir, 1855, 900: tam
arack, 95, 6O1, 900 and cedar, 47,129,-
900 feet.
Montana.
The fire at the Mure tunnel on the
Northern Pacific is still smoldering. It
will take months to repair the damage
done by the fire.
The manager of the Katy mine is re-
ported to have disposed Of one-third
interest to Springfield, Mass, capital
lists, who will build 500-ton mill and
probably a smelter during the coming
year.
A syndicate of Helena capitalists
which has purchased the right to man
ufacture acetylene, the new illumln.
ant, in Montana, is said to be contem-
Mating the establishment of an acety-