The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-02-06

Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
,,-o,o All the Cities and Towns of the
Pacific States and Territories
Washington.

Pacific States and Territories
Washington.
An opera house and dance hall com.
bined is to be erected at Kalama.
Washington has 112 members in hel
legislature, while the new state OF
Utah has sixty-three.
contract has been signed to build
At Everett saw mill with capacity
Of 3d. 900 feet day.
The Marysville labor exchange has
started a depository, by selling shingles
and laying in stock of groceries.
Washington's lumber product fo1
1895 was the value of Sc, 800, 900 OF
which 81, OOO,000 was in shingles.
A four-story brewery with stone
foundation is to be erected at Tum-
water. Its dimensions will be 28x9O
feet.
An Indian on the North beach cap.
tured fine specimen of the Arctic owl
one day last week. The captain of the
schooner Thayer paid S. for it.
A cheese factory with all the latest
machinery is to be erected at Daven-
port, and is expected to be ready to
commence operations in the spring.
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 s
$4,438. 80 and expenditures of 81, 544. 30
during 1896; excess of receipts, 3d.
S93 so. 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, a place where farmers to
be successful do not require large hold
ings. 1t is a state where ten acres
will give an industrious man indie
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 a score of years, it was al
ways thought that shrimps did not ex-
ist in Puget sound. Lately, however,
they have been found there in large
numbers, and a 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-
ton augurs well 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 it 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 MIR.
Brown. He already has orders for To-
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 foated 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 200, 900, 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.
Oregon.
Last years product Of corn was
S15,S79 bushels.
The official figures of the Harvey
county assessment are LIZA, 9S8.
A freight train numbering fifty cars,
containing wheat, was shipped from
near Pendleton last week.
Junction City is to haze an electric
ght plant the council having granted
I thlrty-years' franchise toT ebert Glow
and his associates.
The two Nestucca valleys are to b
connected by a wagon road, the cour
having favorably passed on recen'
petition to that effect.
The steel-head salmon have been 81
numerous at Coquille this week tina
tne good people there have been quite
willing for Lent to commence.
In case of urgent need of malitii
protection, about 1000 men, including
TWO batteries, can be rendezvoused II
Wenty-four hours, at Portland.
An Oregon man has attained con
SIDERABLE distinction in Philadelphia
W carrying off the prize for growing
tnree tne yellow Danver onions.
Inc broom factory at Bandon turned
oue 5000 broom handles for one ship
ment to San Francisco This industry
ano the wooden mills, which have re
tently resumed operations, have raiset
,ne population Of that town to owe
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