The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-30
N NORTHWESTSTATES
Interesting News Notes From
Various Places.
EVERETT SHOWS ENTERPRISE

i emigration Boards in Oregon and
i Washington Organized to Invite De-
sirabIe Imm1gration-wash gton,
A new road has been opened from
f the Sillaquamish at Grand Falls to
4 Canyon creek.
Walla Walla county is advertising
4 for bids for the erection of a house on
4 the county farm.
A regularly organized band of horse
8 and saddle thieves have been operat-
ing in Yakima and Kititas valleys.
The counties that have not bonded
1 debts in Washington are, Cowlitz, Gar
] field, Klikitat, San Juan and What
com.
A log boom in the Snohomish river,
4 containing about 100000 feet Of
logs, has broken and the logs are fast
going to sea.
The saloon men of Blaine have in
mgurated a crusade against minors,
VINO have been in the habit of visit
ing their saloons.
A large number of men are engaged
in rebuilding the Northern Pacific tele-
graph lines between Pasco and Prosser.
! The work will be completed this
\ month.
The shipments of Washington lum-
/ Der to foreign countries increased from
Sc, 600, 900 feet in 1894 to 1870, 900, 900
feet in 1895, with prospects for still
heavier shipments III 1896.
Parties have leased a boom at the
mouth of the Nooksack river, and will
begin work at once to remove the jam
that has made steam navigation and
log driving impractical for the last
four years.
A vigorous fight is predicted between
the stockmen of the Big Bend and the
small farmers for the possession of the
north half of the Big Bend. Some of
the new settlers are trying to take up
land under the desert law, and the
cattle raisers will fight the matter in
the courts.
The local land office at North Yaki-
ma, has an application from the COM
missioner of arid lands for the segrega-
ton of II, $50 acres of land in Yakima
county to be withdrawn under the
Carey act The work of selecting
lands and making preliminary lines for
the canal has been quietly going on
since the existence of the commission,
though advantage has been taken to a
very large extent of previous surveys
made.
The contract for furnishing and
placing the machinery in the flour
mil at Spokane has been concluded,
and the mill will be in operation about
the first of April. 1t will rank as one
of the best equipped mills in the United
States, being one of the very few hav-
ing only the latest improved machinery
throughout. This establishment will
not contain single piece of machinery
Or material of any kind that was ever
in place before in any mill, and every
piece is of the most recent design.
Great interest has been manifested
throughout Washington in the immi-
grafton convention, which has just con-
GUIDED it's session in Seattle. The re-
suit of the convention was the organ
lzation of a permanent state immigra-
ZION association. The plan of organ
ization provides that the organization
shall consist of one member from each
county; that there shall be an executive
committee of seven chosen, who shall
elect president, secretary and treas
urer from their number. @. L. Webb,
Of Seattle, has been elected president
The committee earnestly recommended
that an appropriation of not less than
S25, 900 per annum should be made by
the next legislature, and there seemed
to be no doubt that this recommends
ton would be granted for the question.
Oregon.
Umatilla county has a movement
on foot to stamp out the Russian
thistle.
The Bandon wooden mills have
started up again and are running at
full capacity.
Eighteen million cans we're made
during the past season by an Astoria
can company.
The work on the Lighthouse at Cape
Arago has been abandoned for the
present, owing to rough weather.
A new steamer called Ruth has been
put on the Columbia river by the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation Company.
The amount of revenue to be raised
! or the state this year is sq3, 338,
and the resulting rate is 4 $40 mills.
The machinery has been placed in
the iron works at Ashland and every
thing is now running very nicely with
full force.
Material has arrived at Bandon for
the light and fog-horns at the light
house there. The tow,r fixtures are
how being placed.
The reports from Tillamook come to
the effect that there is one of the
largest runs of steel-head salmon ever
Seen in the Wilson, Trask or other
rivers.
Oregon shows great increase in the
manufacture of butter aud cheese IN
the past ten years. In 1885 the num-
Der of pounds manufactured was 3, 1885,
S23; IN 1895 this was increased to g..
/ S2l,
Although little work has been done
IN the actual construction of the As
torla railroad, the surveying is being
pushed right along, and the prospects
u building the road are now considered
good.
Pendleton's first installment of fiour