Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-05-07

est st-DevelOpment anu Progress IN
All Industries-OregOn.
Silverton is working to secure
woolen mill.
Harney people are going to build
!. town hall by popular subscription.
5 Roseburg will use July and for
1 its annual pioneer reunion this year.
{ Corvallis evangelists 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 Mayfower sailed from
! Florence last week with 12O,O feet
1 of lumber, and the Danielson with
/. 10000.
- An unusually small crop of lambs is
the report of almost every sheepman in
Gillian county, except those who begin
quite early.
F. S. Lack, formerly newspaper
man of Baker City, recently cleaned up
$3.50 in Cripple Creek, as the result
of his mining ventures, says the Baker
City Democrat.
The ill-starred Stultz Company
have grudge against Humboldt coun-
ty, CAL, where one of their recent dis
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 a general thing, very
good. The securing mill proposes to
increase its capital stock by $50, 900 at
its annual meeting, the 9th.
A conductor ON the Heppner branch
of the o. r. 81 N. Co.. when in Pendle-
ton reported that of 500 sheep and
lambs which had been shorn a few days
ago at Heppner, all the lambs, over
u.
e. Boettcher, the Umatilla sheep
man, expects soon to commence his
summers drive to the East He will
take the usual number, about 12, 000
Severe weather and snow in the noun
tains will prevent Mr.. Boettcher from
starting for some time yet.
Mr.. Herrick, of The Dalles, has
everything in readiness to begin can
ming 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 G. was sighted steam.
ing up the river, toward Klamath
Falls. She arrived at the wharf late
in the afternoon and, after giving
few citizens ride ON the lake, tied up
for the night. She left the next day
for Brownell, at the southern extrem-
ity of Lower Klamath lake.
Ii. B. Williamson has the contract
for dismantling the steamer Three
Sisters, and is now engaged in the
work. The engine and boiler is said
TO be the best and most economical of
the sort on the river, and may, the
company say, be used in the construc-
tion of a new boat for the upper river
service next season. The original cost
of the Sisters machinery was $4,000.
Mr.. Clark, of Blalock, Gillian
county, has prepared and will plant
thirty acres of sorgum this spring. He
has a complete manufacturing outfit
for making the syrup, which he brought
out last fall from Kansas, where he has
been for the past few years. He is
making no experiment now, as before
going east several years ago, he grew
sorgum to good advantage on his place
at Blalock.
The big logging outfit, which, in the
employ of Captain Smith, has been
operating in the vicinity of Corvallis
for the past five months, has about con-
pleted its contract for furnishing L.
400, 900 feet of balm and white fir logs
70 the Oregon City pulp mills. ALI
the logs have been taken down except
raft of $4,000 feet now at the island
above Corvallis, and another of 1DO,-
600 feet down the river.
Hardwood logs for the Independence
sawmills are now being cut along the
willamette above Corvallis. William
briscow and John Nixon, of Corvallis,
recently secured contract for the de-
livery at Independence of 100000 feet
OF ash and maple, and the first raft
went down the river last week. The