The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-16
NORTHWEST NEWS.

had sherlffs' sale advertised for two
months.
The large log jam in the Coweeman,
In Cowlitz county, was recently broken
with dynamite.
Waitsburg is discussing the matter
of putting in a pumping station during
the dry season.
e. P. Brinnon, pioneer of Jefferson
county, is dead. The town of Brin.
non was named after him.
Snohomish expects to add an import.
ant industry this year to her resources,
namely: beet sugar factory.
The teachers of Walla Walla county
have decided to have permanent or
ganization to hold a monthly meeting
at Walla Walla, Waitsburg, Prescott
and Dixie.
The Whatcom board of trade has
appointed committee to look up site
for the Lynden creamery on Belling-
ham bay where good shipping facili-
ties can be had.
The merchants and ship owners of
San Francisco and Puget sound con-
template telegraph line from Tatoosh
island to Gray's Harbor. This stretch
of country is totally uncovered.
Tacoma exported last year 1910
tons of coal, valued at $780, ,177;
wheat valued at $2,O13, ,939, and 273,-
934 barrels of -four, valued at $672, 1876,
making total of nearly 81, 100000.
The executive committee of the
Northwest Mining Association have
decided to call convention on Febru-
ary %, at Spokane. Invitations will
be extended to the state officials of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana.
The Everett school board has de-
termined to bond the outstanding in
debtedness of the district, and then to
put expenses on cash basis. The
board is not inclined to issue any more
warrants. The problem it has to solve
is to run the school without going in
debt.
The Great Northern contemplates
increasing largely the working forces
at the big shops at Hillyard. It is
proposed to do all the repairing of the
Western division at this town. At
present there are about ninety men in
the shops, this number will be in
creased to about 800.
The Northern Pacific railroad Com
pany have notified the county auditor
that they will work out their property
road tax in this county, instead of pay
ing the cash, as provided by law. This
is an innovation and the probabilities
are that the company will contract
with gang of men to work out their
road taxes in each county.
The salmon pack statistics for the
Columbia river for 1895 show: Spring
pack-Chinook salmon, 437, $40 cases;
total value, I'll 1858. 70; amount paid
for fish, $1,776, SAT. Allowing one
half of the catch to Washington fisher
men makes the amount received by the
fishermen of Washington for spring
salmon delivered to canneries, $685.
27S. so. Fall pack-92, ,086 cases of
silverside; 31,5O0 cases of Chinook;
8, 500 steel head. Total 1877, ,0S6 cases,
valued at $456, 500. go.
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Crawford for the year 1895 shows
many points of interest in the develop
ment of one of Washington's leading
industries. In this document he says:
The sum of $40, 200 was appropriated
by the recent legislature from the fish
commission fund. for the purpose Of
erecting and operating artificial salmon
hatcheries. A hatchery with a capa-
city of turning out 100000 young
salmon annually has been erected on the
Kalama river, a tributary of the Colum-
bia, and is now beng operated. There
are now in this hatchery over 4, 900, 900
young Chinook salmon in various
stages of development. A station for
taking and cycling salmon spawn has
been built on the Chinok river, in Pa
ciflc county. The total amount ex-
pended from the appropriation is
$7,077.
A new numbering enterprise has just
been started at South Boise. The mill
cost $40, 900, and will cut about 4,0O0,-
900 feet this year. The maximum Ca
pacity is 100000 feet per day.
A coal mine has been located about
twenty-five miles from Idaho Falls.
It is superior quality of coal and can
be delivered at that place for $3. so per
ton, one half of the price Of soft coal at
the present time. It is a very light
coal, free from iron and with great
heat. A road is to be constructed to
the mine.
A company has been organized,
which has secured deeds,to gravel bars,
and water rights about the Horseshoe
Bend to Salmon river. 1t is the object
of the company to construct large
cut through the neck of the bend which
will be $4,000 feet long, and by this
means drain 5000 feet of the present
river channel.
A Chicago capitalist is about to
launch on the Snake river veritable
floating mining camp. On the boat
there is good-sized boarding and lodg.
ing house to accommodate $50 miners,
an immense stationary engine and
boilers, together with dredgers and
pumps of all sizes. This mechanical
boat battery will move up and down
Snake river, working the banks fol
gold.
The report of Wells-Fargo & Com.
pany gives the total mineral produc'
ton of Idaho, in 1895, at $7,353, 800
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