Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-06
THE PACIFIC STATES
INTERESTING NEWS NOTES FROM
VARIOUS PLACES.

The Great Northwest Furnishes Some
News of More Than General Inter-
est = Development and Progress In
All Ind dustries- Oregon.
Silverton is working to secure
wooden mill.
Harvey people are going to build
town hall by popular subscription.
Roseburg will use July and 4 fcr
Its annual pioneer reunion this year.
Corvallis eyangelists have laid
foundations for new church and par
sonage buildings.
A subscription paper is in circulation
at Monroe to assist in getting another
Touring mill there.
The Salem small boy is reveling in
the anticipation of three monster allied
shows this summer.
Members of the East Calapoola
Coyote Club, of Douglas county, cap
tured three coyotes last week.
The schooner Mayfiower sailed from
Florence last week with 100, 200 feet
If lumber, and the Danielson with
i50, 900.
An unusually small crop Of lambs is
the report of almost every sheepman in
Gillian county except those who begin
luite early.
+. s. Lack, formerly a newspaper
man of Baker City, recently cleaned up
s75, 600 in Cripple Creek, as the result
of his mining ventures, says the Baker
ity Democrat.
| The ill-starred Stultz Company
have a grudge against Humboldt coun-
asters coming up the coast overlook
them. They want $500 damages from
the county commissioners.
Wool has begun to arrive in the
Pendleton warehouses. The quality is
pronounced as general thing, very
good. The securing mill proposes to
increase its capital stock by $50, 200 at
it's annual meeting, the 9th.
A conductor on the Heppner branch
If the o. r. & N. Co. when in Pendle-
5on reported that of 500 sheep and
lambs which had been shorn few days
ago at Heppner, all the lambs, over
400 in number, had died from cold.
<. Boettcher, the Umatilla sheep
man, expects soon to commence his
summers drive to the East He will
5ake the usual number, about IL, 900,
severe weather and snow in the noun
tains will prevent Mr.. Boettcher from
J starting for some tilae yet.
Mr.. Herriok, of The Dalles, has
everything in readiness to begin can
ning as soon as sufficient quantities OF
fish can be taken. Enough fish are
being caught there to supply the local
market, and to make shipments of fresh
fish, but not enough to justify the
canneries opening.
The Klamath shipping season was
officially opened one day last week,
when the Lottie @. was sighted steam.
ing up the river, toward klamath
Falls. She arrived at the wharf late
in the afternoon and, after giving q
few citizens a ride ON the lake, tied NJ
for the night. She left the next day
! for Brownell, at the southern extrem-
ity of Lower klamath lake.
, Fl. B. Williamson has the contract
. for dismantling the steamer Three
Sisters, and is now engaged in th'
e work. The engine and boiler is sale
to be the best and most economical o
/ the sort on the river. and may, TIN
o company say, be used IN the construc
q tion of a new boat for the upper rive
n service next season. The original cos
g of the Sisters machinery was $4,000
d Mr.. Clark, of Blalock, Gillian
r county, has prepared and will plan
+ thirty acres of sorgum this spring. Il
has a complete manufacturing out6
for making the syrup, which he brough
out last fall from Kansas, where he ha
been for the past few years. He
It making no experiment now, as befor
going east several years ago. he grew
10 sorgum to good advantage on his plac
k at Blalock.
g The big logging outfit, which. in tn
Vt employ of Captain Smith, has bee
Q operating in the vicinity of Corvalli
1t for the past five months, has about com
a pleted its contract for furnishing 1
n 400, 900 feet of balm and white FIR log
e to the Oregon City pulp mills. A
k the logs have been taken down except
Is raft of $4,000 feet now at the islam
le above Corvallis, and another Of 100
ID 900 feet down the river.
u Hardwood logs for the independent
: sawmills are now being cut along tt
willamette above Corvallis. Williai
= = Briscow and John Nixon, of Corvalli
- recently secured contract for the d.
livery at Independence Of 1000 fet
= = of ash and maple, and the first RAJ
I,e went down the river last week. I'll
:. - raft comprised $4,000 feet, and WI
: = taken down without the aid of stean
-. boat. 1t went to pieces several time
"a - but was finally landed in Independent
intact.
Washington.
~ New Whatcom is to have stor
" signal service.
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