Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-02-07
NORTHWESTDREVITIES
Evidence OF Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All tho Cities and Towns of the
Pacific states and Territories
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Washington.
An opera house and dance hall com
bined is TO be erected at Kalama.
Washington has liz members in hel
legislature, while the new state Of
Utah has sixty-three.
A contract has been signed to built
at Everett saw mill with a capacity
OF so, 900 feet day.
The Marysville labor exchange has
started depository, by selling shingles
and laying in stock of groceries.
Washington's lumber product for
1895 was the value of $6, 800, 600 OF
which $4,000, 900 was in shingles.
A carload Of cedar doors has been
ordered from Tacoma for England.
This sample order gives promise Of
many large European shipments The
same firm several months ago shipped
2,700 doors TO Portland, Me.
The state insurance commissioner g
report for the year shows receipts of
$4, 438. 30 and expenditures of 81, 544. so
during 1896; excess Of receipts, $2,-
893.80. The secretary Of state has de.
cided to strictly enforce the provisions
Of the law licensing insurance agents
during the present year.
One point that was we'll brought out
at the immigration convention was
that the state Of Washington is, taken
as a whole, place where farmers to
be successful do not require large hold
ings. Il Is a state where ten acres
will give an industrious man inde-
pendence. Ten acres Of irrigated land
or ten acres Of our best land in West
ern Washington make a fine farm.
While the catching and marketing Of
shrimps has been considerable indus.
try in the waters about San Francisco
for nearly score Of years, it was al
ways thought that shrimps did not en-
ist in Puget sound. Lately, however,
they have been found there in large
numbers, and company has been
formed to catch them and ship them to
Eastern markets. The Sound shrimps
are said to be finer than any yet found
on the Pacific coast.
The increased interest taken in the
proceedings Of the state dairy associa-
tion augurs we'll for the future Dairy
ing is destined TO be the greatest of all
the agricultural interests in the state.
Its possibilities are almost limitless
Then 1t is to be remembered that dairy
ing draws in its train other interests
In fact the dairy is the foundation for
successful mixed farming, and, all
things considered, mixed farming is
the safest and best for ninety-nine out
of every hundrd ranchers in the state.
Experience in hop and wheat-raising
has shown the unwisdom of carrying
all the eggs in one basket.
The biggest logging industry on the
Sound will probably be operated in
Jefferson county this year, by Mr..
Brown. He already has orders for l5,-
900, 900 feet Of timber, and may pos
sibly double that amount before the
summer is over, He is being looked to
by the mill companies for the best logs
that will be fioated into the Sound and
the orders that he has already received
makes it certain that there will be
more logging done in this section dur
ing the coming season than has ever
been known before. In the vicinity of
the two or three camps that Mr.. Brown
proposes to establish, he claims that
there are 400. 1000, 900 feet of fine tim.
Der, ready for the ak, and that it will
furnish profitable logging for twenty
five years. A seasons work, he says,
will hardly make noticeable loss in
the timber thereabouts.